title: Leonor Baldaque
text: # Leonor Baldaque
  
  Leonor Bessa-Luís Alves Baldaque is a Portuguese actress and writer who was born in 1977 in Porto and currently lives in Paris. She regularly starred on films directed by veteran Manoel de Oliveira. She is granddaughter of Award-winning writer Agustina Bessa-Luís. Leonor was one of the European Shooting Stars nominated by the European Film Promotion.
  
  In January 2012, Gallimard published her first novel "Vita (La Vie Légère)". In 2020, Verdier published her second novel "Piero Solitude".
  
  ## Filmography
  
  * 2009 The Portuguese Nun - Julie de Hauranne
  * 2007 The Enigma Christopher Columbus - Sílvia (1957–60)
  * 2006 Belle toujours - Jovem Prostituta
  * 2005 A Conquista de Faro (short) - Claudina/Donna Brites
  * 2005 Magic Mirror - Vicenta/Abril
  * 2005 Maquette (short) - Leonor
  * 2004 The Fifth Empire - Choir (voice)
  * 2002 The Uncertainty Principle - Camila
  * 2001 Porto of My Childhood - Ela
  * 2001 Le Temps (short) - voice
  * 2001 I'm Going Home - Sylvia
  * 2000 Supercolla (short) - Sinderella
  * 1998 Anxiety - Fisalina
  