
Mauro Soares
Biography
Mauro Soares is an awarded Portuguese actor. Having started his career in theater during his Integrated Masters in Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, he starred in films such as António One Two Three (IFFR 2017), Sol Alegria (IFFR 2018), Bela Mandil (Viennale 2018) and Half a Light-Year (IDFA 2021), having produced the latter. Mauro co-wrote and starred in Rain Hums a Lullaby to Pain (IFFR 2020), Life Lasts Two Days (FIDMarseille 2022) which he also produced, is a Berlinale Talents Acting Studio alumnus of 2019, part of the cast of The Portuguese Woman (Berlinale 2019) and 1st Assistant Director in The Kegelstatt Trio (Berlinale 2022).
Top Filmography

Latin Blood – The Ballad of Ney Matogrosso
2025 // MOVIE

Sol Alegria
2018 // MOVIE

The Portuguese Woman
2019 // MOVIE

Antonio One Two Three
2019 // MOVIE

Rain Hums a Lullaby to Pain
2020 // MOVIE

Greice
2024 // MOVIE

Human Flowers of Flesh
2023 // MOVIE

Half a Light-Year
2021 // MOVIE

The Kegelstatt Trio
2022 // MOVIE

Life Lasts Two Days
2022 // MOVIE

Hello My First Love, Over and Out
2018 // MOVIE

Bela Mandil
2019 // MOVIE

The Useless
2019 // MOVIE

Foreign Desert
2020 // MOVIE

Um Momento de Clareza em Meio ao Caos das Coisas
2021 // MOVIE