Alexandra Lencastre

Acting

Alexandra Lencastre

Born

1965-09-26 (61)

Place of birth

Lisbon, Portugal

Known for

Acting

Credits

75 titles

Alexandra Lencastre was born in Lisbon, in 1965. She's one of the most talented and most popular Portuguese actresses. As a Philosophy student, became interested in the experience of a theatre group from the University. She left Philosophy and began her acting studies at the Theater School (Conservatório), in Lisbon. It was with the play 'Frei Luís de Sousa', directed by Jorge Listopad, that her acting career really began, winning an award for best revelation. Since then, she worked with some of the main directors of the Portuguese theater, including Carlos Avilez, João Lourenço and José Wallenstein. She began working in television, on the Portuguese version of 'Sesame Street'. Later, in tel…

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 4 titles

The Courtyard of Memories poster
5.4

Vanessa inherits an old Portuguese Revue theatre after the death of a distant aunt. Her agent, Tozé Leal, tries to convince her to sell it, but she decides to restore it to its former glory with the help of her friends Joana and Ribeiro. But her dream will not be easy to achieve: Armando, the owner of a neighbouring theatre, will do everything he can to stop Vanessa.

The Courtyard of Memories

2025

Match poster
NR

Artur is an actor in decline preparing for an audition that will determine his career. Throughout the process, he finds an escape in his fleeting relationships on Tinder.

Match

2025

Live and Let Live poster
7.0

The world is not enough to cover all the misfortunes that afflict Lucas. An orphan, a loner and a troublemaker, Lucas is a moving target for all sorts of misfortunes. But things are never so bad that they can't get worse: Lucas loses his job and is about to be evicted from his home. When all seems lost, he receives a phone call from a childhood friend asking for his help. He has to entertain two influencers for a weekend in a luxurious mansion. It is in this veritable technological trap, guarded by a mysterious Englishman, that Lucas will discover unexpected secrets about his past and, more importantly, it is there that he will discover love. Danger, suspense and cocktail recipes! Romance, eroticism (to die for) and impossible snooker shots! Secret weapons, fast cars and scooter races! LIVE AND LET GO is a romantic action comedy with a licence to kill... with laughter!

Live and Let Live

2024

Auto da Casa poster
NR

A theatre having national as part of its name, at the top of a square, reflecting a country’s history. But which one? This is a voyage through the various narratives about D. Maria II National Theatre, forged through the intentions of the several regimes that intended to convey their own ideologies within the theatre’s mission. This is also the story of those who fought against it, opposed the institution and became part of it. How can one become heir of these stories, even if never having set foot inside.

Auto da Casa

2026

2010s · 7 titles

2 Minutos poster
NR

Two people have a date in the evening.

2 Minutos

2016

Coração no Escuro - Um Roubo de um Roubo em 11 Quadros poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Coração no Escuro - Um Roubo de um Roubo em 11 Quadros

2011

Gesto poster
6.5

Antonio is 18 years old and is profoundly deaf. He wants to study cinema outside Portugal and become a director. And make movies for everyone, deaf and listeners. This is your dream that, like all dreams, has a price: to question himself and the community to which he belongs. At the same time, she lives her first love with Irina, a deaf young woman who doesn't understand why he wants to leave school and his country so much. For the first time in his life, Anthony's world is falling apart. But it may be worth losing the world to conquer the universe where deaf and hearing listen in the same gesture.

Gesto

2011

Disquiet poster
5.5

Lisbon, today. In a room of a house at Douradores Street, a man invents dreams and theorizes about them. The essence of the dreams itself becomes physical, palpable, visible. The text itself materializes in its musicality. And, in front of our eyes, this music can be felt with the ears, brain and heart. It spreads itself in the street where the man lives, in the city that he loves above all and over the entire world.

Disquiet

2010

O Leão da Estrela poster
6.1

The story revolves around Anastácio, a supporter of Leões de Alcochete and Mr. Barata, a supporter of Inferno Futebol Clube. One day, the two teams face each other. Which team will win?

O Leão da Estrela

2015

Parque Mayer poster
5.1

Parque Mayer was the park off all the emotions and amusements in the 1930' s. Under the dictatorship of Oliveira Salazar and his police, many people came to have fun in its theaters attending the portuguese kind of play called 'revista'. A writer called Mario Pintor (paintor) is writing a play in which a new actress (Deolinda) will star as the main role, while an already famous actor named Eduardo tries to seduce this recent arrival.

Parque Mayer

2018

Quero-te Tanto! poster
5.2

A romance comedy about a nonconformist couple of young parents who, looking for a solution to their fragile financial situation, is involved in an innocent and crazy scheme.

Quero-te Tanto!

2019

2000s · 11 titles

The Dancer Upstairs poster
6.1

A police detective in a South American country is dedicated to hunting down a revolutionary guerilla leader.

The Dancer Upstairs

2002

Trial poster
4.6

In 1970, a man is tortured and murdered by the regime's secret police. Now nearly 40 years later, his friend, who had also been tortured, recognizes the man he deems responsible for the murder of his friend. Along with three old friends and the victim's daughter, they kidnap the man and take him to an isolated house. Once there, the concepts of justice and revenge begin to mix dangerously in a private trial with irreversible consequences.

Trial

2007

A Mulher que Acreditava Ser Presidente dos EUA poster
5.5

Alexandra Lencastre plays a woman who believes she is President of the U.S.A.

A Mulher que Acreditava Ser Presidente dos EUA

2003

Outside poster
6.0

Laura works as a newscaster and José Maria as a stockbroker, and while they live in the same housing complex, their lives never cross directly. Nevertheless, he watches her from a distance, seeing all her movements without her knowledge. But their lives finally meet when he is invited onto her news program. From there, a romance begins which coincides with the desire of two beings who finally find a reason to seek love once again.

Outside

2004

The Immortals poster
6.8

Every year, four ex-soldiers who call themselves "Os Imortais" ("The Immortals"), get together with four women to celebrate their war deeds and remember the old days, back in the war. On the summer of 1985, tired of their monotonous lives, they decide to rob a bank. Joaquim Malarranha, a chief inspector from the local police force who is about to retire, crosses their path and chooses to spend his last days of duty trying to solve the robbery. But as he carries on with his investigation, he discovers more than he could have ever imagined...

The Immortals

2003

Um Passeio no Parque poster
10.0

Things are going well to a married couple, they have two sons, and things are going well in their respective jobs, Until the husband betrays her wife with another woman, and their son becomes seriously hill.

Um Passeio no Parque

2000

O Capacete Dourado poster
5.6

The darkness of night, a barely lit place, motorbikes flirting with danger: a group of teenagers at a crossroads playing chicken with unaware passing cars. Jota (Eduardo Frazão) stands out from this group, unclassifiable; his destiny has no straight lines save those on the asphalt. Jota lives in permanent conflict with everything and everybody in his small town. No room for stillness. And then comes Margarida (Ana Moreira). Jota has no inside, Margarida has no outside. In spite of, or because of, that, they meet. What can they do? They can just ride, they can get away with it even if its all messed up. Love is to be lived.

O Capacete Dourado

2007

O Delfim poster
6.0

A wealthy landowner, "The Dauphin," enjoys a decadent life of hunting, drinking, and womanizing. He oversees his estate, the Laguna, with his barren wife, his one-armed manservant, and his treasured guard dog. When a sportsman (the film’s narrator) comes to the estate for his annual duck-hunting excursion, he discovers the body of the landowner’s wife floating in the lagoon and the manservant dead on his master’s bed. The Dauphin and his dog are nowhere to be found except for the mysterious barking sounds heard over the lagoon.

O Delfim

2002

Twist of Fate poster
6.5

Carlos is a famous journalist at the age of 55. His wife, Ada, is the opposite of her husband, a woman with a very active social life, and she is happy and seductive. One day, Carlos accidentally opens a text message on Ada’s cellular telephone. A new world reveals itself before his eyes when he discovers that his wife is seeing another man. With the help of his friend with whom he goes to live, Carlos discovers a universe of virtual lovers and electronic adultery.

Twist of Fate

2009

Corruption poster
3.7

A crime drama based on the life of a woman who lived for years with a man that was the head of a corruption network in the Portuguese football world.

Corruption

2007

A Falha poster
7.2

Twenty-five years after leaving school, a group of former students decide to organise a reunion. But, contrary to expectations, these "old boys" realise that time has accentuated their differences. The atmosphere is tense, the conversation taut and the old grudges resurface in no time.

A Falha

2002

1990s · 13 titles

The Mutants poster
7.7

Three homeless teenage rejects struggle to survive together. Of them, Andreia is pregnant, while Pedro and Ricardo hustle, steal and are exploited by a pornographer.

The Mutants

1998

To the Bitter End poster
9.0

Jorge is a DJ at a Lisbon nightclub. But the club owner, Queirós, who is also involved in diamond traffic, is obsessive over a woman, Cláudia, who betrayed him before. When she unexpectedly returns to Portugal and to the club, Jorge immediately understands Queirós's obsession over her. For her, Jorge also gets involved in diamond traffic and is slowly dragged into a world of passion, violence and betrayal.

To the Bitter End

1991

No artwork available
9.0

Maria Gouveia is a character with a secret past, which she intends to hide at all costs. In her eagerness to hide that past, she commits a homicide, witnessed by a man whose existence she is unaware of. That man is the lawyer Óscar Summavielle, who manages to become her defense lawyer and, constructing an alibi for her, proves in court that she is innocent, although he knows she is guilty. Marta and Óscar are led into a game of passion that will take them beyond all conventions...

Vertigem

1992

Eternidade poster
8.0

Returning to his homeland after many years away, Juvenal, an agricultural engineer with liberal ideas, finds himself caught up in the social unrest on the island of Madeira that preceded the 1974 revolution, which is condemned by his brother Álvaro, an embroidery manufacturer and staunch conservative. Exposed to the romantic schemes devised by Álvaro, Juvenal vigorously defends the exploited workers and is reunited with Elisabeth, the great love of his youth. Wounded while taking part in a popular demonstration that is violently suppressed by the police, he is sentenced to exile on the island of Sal. Elisabeth decides to accompany him, announcing that she is expecting his child... eternity!

Eternidade

1992

Xavier poster
6.9

Xavier returns to Lisbon after a military stint, determined to lead a meaningful life, only to find his world closing in on him.

Xavier

1991

Poor George poster
5.0

One night Jorge will meet with a Japanese industrialist, who will allow him to abandon his teaching position and resume his chemical work. However, when he gets home he finds a person there.

Poor George

1993

Traffic poster
5.7

Young Jesus is taken on a vacation by his parents (Rita Blanco, Adriano Luz) to a deserted beach resort. They accidentally fall into overnight wealth after Jesus digs in the sand, uncovering a large drug stash. Others characters intersecting here include an alcoholic actress, a philandering banker, a general trafficking in arms, priests who close their church and head north as hitchhikers, politicians who watch an all-girl production of Julius Caesar, and beggars who recite a children's story in a huge heap of trash.

Traffic

1998

The End of the World poster
6.8

In the quietness of rural life, small disputes about the right to use a rivulet may take the proportion of a life-and-death matter..

The End of the World

1993

Lovely Child poster
7.1

Maria is a sweet child. She hasn’t father and doesn’t like her mother. She has a boyfriend, A bandit who would like to change his class.

Lovely Child

1990

No artwork available
7.0

Miguel is what is commonly known as a Don Juan. He seduces women and afterwards takes them to take a picture next to Torre de Belém. Or so it was until he met Bárbara.

Requiem for a Daffodil

1992

Cold Land poster
4.0

In the forties, in a little settlement lost amidst the mountains of Trás-os-Montes, Leonardo tries to survive by buying and selling marten and fox furs, dreaming of the day he’ll close a big deal.

Cold Land

1992

End of Conservation poster
5.5

A satirical and delirious short which sums up the obsessions of João César Monteiro: film-making and… young women.

End of Conservation

1990

Three Palm Trees poster
6.2

Lisbon, on a winter day in 1994, between six and fourteen o'clock. A forty-year-old woman despairs in the last eight hours preceding the birth of her first child.

Three Palm Trees

1994

Series credits

Alta Definição poster
7.2

In Alta Definição, Daniel Oliveira interviews one guest every week with an intimate approach.

Alta Definição

2009

A Única Mulher poster
6.4

No synopsis available yet.

A Única Mulher

2015

Timeless Love poster
6.7

Catarina embarks on a dangerous journey to find who made her mother vanish. The Torres family seems to be the obvious suspect, but within them there's Vasco, the love of Catarina's life. Two opposed sides connected by love.

Timeless Love

2023

Destinos Cruzados poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Destinos Cruzados

2013

Anjo Meu poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Anjo Meu

2011

Fascínios poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Fascínios

2007

A Protegida poster
8.2

In the heart of the Alentejo countryside, Mariana and José Diogo are two children whose backgrounds could not be more different: she is the fruit of a loving relationship; he's an orphan. She has a safe haven in her family to run to when she gets hurt; he can only run to her.

A Protegida

2025

Tempo de Viver poster
NR

Fátima and Laurinda are mother and daughter and the only thing they have in common is their blood ties. While Fátima suffers a series of misfortunes because of her daughter, Laurinda seeks to ascend socially at any cost through a millionaire marriage with the Martins de Mello heir. Meanwhile, Raquel, the widow of Fatima's brother, returns to Portugal to confront the Martins de Mello family, whom she judges guilty of her husband's death in the 9/11. Parallel to intrigues, rivalries, secrets, blackmail and betrayals, the arrival of a great mystery haunts everyone's lives forever: The enigmatic Tubarão.

Tempo de Viver

2006

Cacau poster
5.7

Cacau is an engaging saga of family secrets, clandestine loves and sacrifices, all sweetened by the irresistible taste of chocolate and the magic of cocoa plantations.

Cacau

2024

For You poster
5.0

In the parish of Rio Meandro, two villages are at war over the construction of a dam that will submerge one of them: either Aldeia Velha or Aldeia Nova.

For You

2022

A Banqueira do Povo poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

A Banqueira do Povo

1993

Ana e os Sete poster
6.7

No synopsis available yet.

Ana e os Sete

2002

No One Like You poster
3.7

A story with multiple plotlines, portraying the 24 hours of life in the beautiful city of Lisbon. It begins with three significant events: a wedding that is about to be cancelled, a crime, and the disappearance of a child. This plot centers on the lives of three sisters.

No One Like You

2005

I Give You My Life poster
7.5

When their adopted son Nico is diagnosed with leukemia and needs a bone marrow transplant, Alice and Tomás are driven into a desperate search for a compatible donor, while concealing the truth about his adoption. With no match within the family, they are forced to locate Nico’s biological father, leading them to Cris, an unsuspecting mechanic whose life is upended by the revelation. As Cris forms a bond with Nico and becomes his only hope for survival, tensions escalate between the biological and adoptive parents. Old secrets resurface, and an unexpected love emerges between Alice and Cris, putting custody, loyalty, and the very definition of family to the test.

I Give You My Life

2026

Riscos poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Riscos

1997

Festival da Canção poster
NR

Festival da Canção or Festival RTP da Canção is the name given to the national festival, produced and broadcast by Rádio e Televisão de Portugal to choose the Portuguese entry for the Eurovision Song Contest.

Festival da Canção

1964

Neighbors Forever poster
7.5

The daily life of the residents of the "Terraços do Glamour" condominium, on the outskirts of Lisbon, highlights their problems with defective apartments and spoiled facilities due to the developer's false promises.

Neighbors Forever

2025

I Get That a Lot poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

I Get That a Lot

2013

Não Há Duas Sem Três poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Não Há Duas Sem Três

1997

Não És Homem, Não És Nada poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Não És Homem, Não És Nada

1999

Ninguém Como Tu poster
NR

Luíza Albuquerque sees her life collapse after her daughter runs away from the altar. Shortly after, in an increasingly stifling relationship, she receives a fatal sentence: she has only one year to live, and no amount of money in the world, which she has accumulated – not always in the best way – will be able to save her. Faced with this revelation, she decides to be happy in the short time she has left, even if it means ruining the lives of her sisters and her own daughter.

Ninguém Como Tu

2025

Dança com as Estrelas poster
NR

The Portuguese version of the American "Dancing with the Stars" where, each week, celebrities perform dance routines from the classical ballroom dances to latin rhythms and will be judged by a panel of jurors and voted by the public until one of them conquers the Mirrorball Trophy.

Dança com as Estrelas

2013

Equador poster
6.7

It is 1905 and Luis Bernardo Valença, a thirty-seven-year-old bachelor and owner of a small shipping company, is revelling in Lisbon's luxurious high society. But his life is turned upside down when King Dom Carlos invites him to become governor of Portugal's smallest colony, the island of São Tomé e Principe.

Equador

2008

Irresistível poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Irresistível

2020

Parabéns poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Parabéns

1992

A Mulher do Sr. Ministro poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

A Mulher do Sr. Ministro

1994

A Mulher do Sr. Ministro poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

A Mulher do Sr. Ministro

1994

Tudo ao Molho e Fé em Deus poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Tudo ao Molho e Fé em Deus

1995

As Lições do Tonecas poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

As Lições do Tonecas

1996

Aquela Cativa que me tem Cativo poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Aquela Cativa que me tem Cativo

1995

Perdoa-me poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Perdoa-me

1994

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

A la minuta

1994

Zona+ poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Zona+

1994

Marco Paulo poster
8.3

No synopsis available yet.

Marco Paulo

2023

A Herdeira poster
4.2

The story of a girl created by the gypsy community but who in fact is heiress of a great empire. The woman who robbed her in the past now sees her future threatened. The return of the Heiress unleashes struggles of power and affections and a love to withstand anything.

A Herdeira

2017