Igor Sampaio

Acting

Igor Sampaio

Born — Died

1944-12-29 — 2021-09-03

Place of birth

Ponta Delgada, Açores, Portugal

Known for

Acting

Credits

50 titles

Known for

Film credits

2010s · 2 titles

2000s · 7 titles

April Captains poster
6.6

Story of the 1974 coup that overthrew the right-wing Portuguese dictatorship--which continued the fascist policies of long-time dictator Antonio Salazar--and of two young army captains who were involved in it.

April Captains

2000

A Bomba poster
5.8

A group of innocent hostages is left to their own deaths facing a clockwork bomb, while the whole country watches them on the TV.

A Bomba

2002

A Bomba poster
5.8

A group of innocent hostages is left to their own deaths facing a clockwork bomb, while the whole country watches them on the TV.

A Bomba

2002

A Noiva poster
9.0

A portuguese officer, supposedly dead in a mine explosion, is captured by the african guerrilla in Guiné (former portuguese colony) while his beloved wife Laura remain inconsolable in Portugal trying to believe that Jorge is still alive. Meanwhile an old Laura friend, a lieutenant, tries to convince Laura that Jorge is dead. Eduardo has always been a secret Laura lover. The romance between them is however darkened with the phantom shadow of Jorge hanging over them..

A Noiva

2000

Maria e as Outras poster
4.2

Maria, an executive from Oporto, lives in the search of the right man for her. On the other hand, her two friends, Joana, a doctor that has fallen in love to a co-worker, and Isilda, a hairdresser with an open hart and an adventurous spirit, seem to be happy with their lives. One day though, everything changes. Maria is forced to take care of her father, victim of a brain accident. During these days of turbulence, Maria thinks she has found the perfect man, a mysterious Star, an habitué of chat channels on the Internet. The three friends find out that cense of humour can be the key for a happy life. Internet, romance, a bachelor party; marriage, dates and some adventures are Loving Maria. A film where love shows himself with the most different looks. Love arrives when you don't expect it and goes away when you think it is safe. It can even appear in the light of a mobile computer.

Maria e as Outras

2004

A Man is not a Cat poster
10.0

A woman gets into a fight with her boyfriend, concerning her lack of humanism. Leaving him abruptly at the Santa Apolónia Station, she strikes a conversation with an interesting homeless man whom she decides to take home to just to show her boyfriend that she cares.

A Man is not a Cat

2001

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

Series credits

Strawberries with Sugar poster
6.3

Across several generations, groups of young Portuguese people navigate school life and summer holidays while dealing with friendships, first loves, rivalries, family conflicts and decisions that shape their future. Each season introduces new protagonists, schools and challenges, exploring themes related to adolescence, identity, responsibility and belonging. Sport, music, dance and other forms of expression accompany their journeys of growing up, marked by dreams, choices and ever-changing relationships.

Strawberries with Sugar

2003

Floribella poster
7.4

No synopsis available yet.

Floribella

2006

Water Mirror poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Water Mirror

2017

Blood Ties poster
6.0

Laços de Sangue is a Portuguese telenovela which broadcast on SIC from September 2010 to October 2011. It is a co-production between SIC and Brazilian Rede Globo. The show also broadcast in several Latin American countries, including Uruguay, Brazil, Bolivia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Dominican Republic, Costa Rica, and Nicaragua. It won the 2011 Emmy for Best Telenovela.

Blood Ties

2010

Rebelde Way poster
6.3

Four seemingly unrelated stories come together in a setting ripe for adventure, romance, heartbreak, and mystery: Prestige International School, a prestigious boarding school where students receive an excellent education, preparing them for a bright future. The school also offers a scholarship programme for young people from low-income backgrounds. However, few students ever manage to graduate from the school.

Rebelde Way

2008

Queridas Feras poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Queridas Feras

2003

Dancin' Days poster
NR

Dancin' Days is a Portuguese soap opera which began airing on SIC in June 2012.

Dancin' Days

2012

Santa Bárbara poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Santa Bárbara

2015

Anjo Selvagem poster
6.8

No synopsis available yet.

Anjo Selvagem

2001

Mulheres poster
6.2

The stories of seven women, whose destinies intersect. Seven Lisbon couples live different moments in their relationships. Everyone has problems to solve. The challenges that each couple face are different - some more serious, others more common and predictable... and some purely selfish.

Mulheres

2014

Perfect Heart poster
NR

Leonor and Pedro, are young, in love and from different social classes. She is the daughter of a wealthy man. He is from a modest working class family. They experience an intense but dramatically short love affair. When Pedro discovers Leonor’s father’s secret – that he sexually abused a maid – he is the victim of a hit and run accident, leaving him in a deep coma for 5 years. He later awakens to find out that his girlfriend, who was told he had died in the accident, moved on with her life and married someone else, after several years of grieving.

Perfect Heart

2009

Deixa-me Amar poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Deixa-me Amar

2007

Fascínios poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Fascínios

2007

Saber Amar poster
5.5

No synopsis available yet.

Saber Amar

2003

Welcome to Beirais poster
7.0

Diogo Almada is a successful account manager at a telecommunications company who is struggling with serious stress and anxiety issues due to the constant state of pressure he lives in. His situation becomes worse when he suffers a stroke which puts him in hospital. There, doctors tell him that if he doesn't slow down things could become much worse for him in the future. He also meets the owner of a vegetables and herbs greenery in Beirais, a small village in the midlands, who is looking to sell it. Diogo then decides to buy him out and risk it as a farmer himself. He wants his girlfriend Teresa to come along with him, but she refuses to leave Lisbon due to her career and also because she doesn't want to give up her city comforts. But Diogo decides to move to Beirais anyway, where he is faced with an entirely different reality from what he’s used to.

Welcome to Beirais

2013

Tell Me How It Happened poster
8.7

Television drama series which has been broadcast on RTP1 of Rádio e Televisão de Portugal from 2007 to 2011 and since 2019. It recounts the experiences of a middle-class family, the Lopes (Portuguese: Os Lopes), during the last years of the Estado Novo. In February 2019, RTP announced that the series, after eight years shelved, would be renewed, with the storyline moving firmly into the 1980s. The first episode of the sixth season was broadcast on 7 December 2019 with the Lopes entering 1984.

Tell Me How It Happened

2007

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Os Lobos

1998

O Jogo poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

O Jogo

2004

A Banqueira do Povo poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

A Banqueira do Povo

1993

Vidas de Sal poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Vidas de Sal

1996

Tu e Eu poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Tu e Eu

2006

Nunca Digas Adeus poster
8.0

Vera de Almeida Barreto highlights her choices as a woman dedicated to family, sacrificing herself to support her husband's career and raise their three children. Upon discovering Lourenço's affair with lawyer Daniela Lopes (Rita Salema), a younger woman, Vera reevaluates her life, questioning her role as a woman and facing a lack of support from her children in this challenging situation. The plot becomes even more complex when Vera falls in love with a younger man, challenging societal norms and exposing the double standards surrounding age differences in relationships.

Nunca Digas Adeus

2001

I Love It poster
NR

“I Love It” tells the story of Beatriz, a free-spirited young woman with a passion for music. She lives far from her family, as the current economic crisis has forced her parents to emigrate to Angola. She shares a home with Leila, a young Angolan woman who has recently arrived in Portugal to study Fashion Design and dreams of becoming a top stylist. Although their friendship is still new, it has grown stronger through their separation from their families and a shared bond that brings them together.

I Love It

2013

Desencontros poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Desencontros

1995

Super Pai poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Super Pai

2000

Mundo Meu poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Mundo Meu

2005

The Mata's Family poster
NR

A family by force... Paulo and Susana have been together for a few years now and decide to take the next step in their relationship by moving in together. But, as they're signing the deed to the house, her father, who was supposed to bring the check, ends up delivering the bad news that there is no money for the house, thus ending this young couple’s dream. However, Artur doesn’t want to come off as a bad parent, so he offers his attic to them so that they can start their life together. So, Paulo’s dream turns into an absolute nightmare, as their life as a couple is, in fact, shared with seven other people who are all very different from them and will start controlling their every move in a permanently tense environment. The Mata family, as it turns out, is all insane, the only exception being Susana. And even her will have a hard time convincing the rest of the family to accept and welcome their new member.

The Mata's Family

2011

O Teu Olhar poster
5.3

No synopsis available yet.

O Teu Olhar

2003

Father by Chance poster
NR

An unlikely love with a happy ending... At age 40, Miguel is at the top of his career as a plastic surgeon, having reached the fame and fortune he worked so hard for. He’s a hopeless bachelor, never committing to any real relationship. This is not just by choice, his situation is a result of never having met his parents and being raised in a children’s home. But, overnight, a simple phone call will change his life entirely, making him recall a point in his life that he’d rather forget. His best friend from the institution was just killed in a car crash along with his wife, but left written instructions behind stating that, if something should happen to him, Miguel should be given custody of his three children, 12-year-old Simão, 8-year-old Jaime and 6-year-old Beatriz. Initially, Miguel will try to dismiss himself from any responsibility but, after meeting the kids, he realizes that he has no choice but to bring them home.

Father by Chance

2009

Ana e os Sete poster
6.7

No synopsis available yet.

Ana e os Sete

2002

Todo o Tempo do Mundo poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Todo o Tempo do Mundo

1999

Old Friends poster
NR

Freedom is a state of mind... Carlos, José and Matias are three old friends who have known each other since childhood. José lives with his daughter, his son in law and his nine-year-old grandson Pedro. Being a grandfather is his only true source of happiness. Carlos is retired and spends most of his days tinkering. Matias, on the other hand, is a widower and lives alone and abandoned, as his son is living abroad. Each of them has a strong and contentious character of their own, but they are all joined by a deep friendship. When José is sent to a retirement home, Carlos and Matias set a plan to bust him out. They sneak into the retirement home and take him away from that depressing environment in which he was discarded. They know that they can’t come back home, so they decide to spend a while in Matias’ house up north. But, in the middle of their escape, they find José’s grandson snuck in there. Pedro doesn't want to leave his grandpa and insists on accompanying them in their journey.

Old Friends

2011

21st Avenue poster
6.0

Raul Vasconcelos and Helena Brito founded a partnership over 20 years ago and has over a hundred lawyers in its service. Raul has an ego as big as the world and it was that self-assuredness that made him notorious in the courtroom. Besides being an astute lawyer, he’s a hopeless playboy who with age developed the tendency to say and do whatever he feels like. His trouble is that he’s constantly abusing that privilege. Helena is a confident woman, albeit more discreet and concerned about the firm's public perception, constantly considering how her actions might negatively affect the partnership and its bottom line. Her personality led her to take over managing the firm, taking care of all bureaucratic affairs. Other lawyers stand out in the firm, as is the case of Pedro Pimentel, who just made senior partner. He’s impeccably put together and has a smile that wins over most women, but behind this agreeable façade of his there’s a person with a lust for power and fame.

21st Avenue

2008

Médico de Família poster
7.5

No synopsis available yet.

Médico de Família

1998

Uma Casa em Fanicos poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Uma Casa em Fanicos

1998

Keeping Up Appearances poster
10.0

A snobbish housewife is determined to climb the social ladder, in spite of her family's working class connections and the constant chagrin of her long suffering husband. Portuguese remake of the British classic Keeping Up Appearances.

Keeping Up Appearances

2000

Um Sarilho Chamado Marina poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Um Sarilho Chamado Marina

1998

Camilo Em Sarilhos poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Camilo Em Sarilhos

2005

Camilo Em Sarilhos poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Camilo Em Sarilhos

2005

Ballet Rose poster
8.0

When the Portuguese police began to investigate, in 1967, an illegal prostitution network, they ended up stumbling upon a huge secret that could shake the foundations of the republican regime: a select group of prostitutes who organized parties with teenage girls to secretly satisfy the sexual desires of bankers, politicians, ministers, aristocrats and powerful businessmen: the Ballet Rose Case.

Ballet Rose

1998