Lio

Acting

Lio

Born

1962-06-17 (64)

Place of birth

Mangualde, Portugal

Known for

Acting

Credits

87 titles

Vanda Maria Ribeiro Furtado Tavares de Vasconcelos (born 17 June 1962), known professionally as Lio, is a Portuguese-Belgian singer and actress who was a pop icon in France and Belgium during the 1980s. In 2024 she began serving as a judge on Drag Race Belgium. Vanda Maria Ribeiro Furtado Tavares de Vasconcelos was born on 17 June 1962 in Mangualde, Portugal. When her father was called up to fight in the Portuguese Army, the family moved to Mozambique. Her parents divorced and, in 1968, Vanda moved with her mother and new stepfather to Brussels, Belgium, where her sister, actress Helena Noguerra, was born. In her teens she was determined to become a singer, and she was encouraged by singer-…

Known for

Quotidien poster
4.9

Quotidien (nicknamed "The French Show with the Good Lighting" abroad) is a French daily infotainment television program broadcast in the early evening on TMC since September 12, 2016. The show is hosted by Yann Barthès and produced by Bangumi. It consists of segments and reports produced by the team of commentators and journalists surrounding Yann Barthès and features daily guests including newsmakers, intellectuals, politicians, and French and international celebrities.

Quotidien

2016

Sacrée soirée poster
5.7

No synopsis available yet.

Sacrée soirée

1987

Champs-Elysées poster
6.8

No synopsis available yet.

Champs-Elysées

1982

Vivement dimanche poster
3.6

No synopsis available yet.

Vivement dimanche

1998

Midi Première poster
9.0

Midi Première is a French variety show presented by Danièle Gilbert, directed by Jacques Pierre and broadcast from January 6, 1975 until January 1, 1982 on TF1. The program was generally broadcast between 12:15 p.m. and 12:55 p.m., then giving way to the 1:00 p.m. TV news. However, the broadcast schedule could change, depending on the guests, and the setting where the recording of the program was shot. Certain performances by artists who have become cult like the one where Ringo jostles with a demonstrator in interpretation (1977), that of Dalida with the title There is always a song with the soundtrack that does not start, twice, at the right speed (1978), Claude François and his Clodettes, who, in the provinces, are unable to join "the set" in order to interpret his song, the latter being taken by the crowd of delirious fans (summer 1977) . The group Supertramp performed there with the title "Dreamer" on March 8, 1975.

Midi Première

1975

Le monde est à vous poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Le monde est à vous

1987

Film credits

2020s · 14 titles

Taratata fête le Zénith 1984 poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Taratata fête le Zénith 1984

2026

Belgomania, toute la Belgique qu'on aime ! poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Belgomania, toute la Belgique qu'on aime !

2024

Une journée avec Jacques Brel poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Une journée avec Jacques Brel

2023

The Demons of Dorothy poster
5.2

Dorothy’s a film director and a bit of a loser. One night, after a few beers, she lets loose on her script when a call from her producer kills her buzz: enough with the queer comedies, it’s time to start making mainstream films. To avoid sinking to the deepest depths of despair, Dorothy seeks comfort in her favorite TV show "Romy the Vampire Slayer". Unfortunately, her own demons show up.

The Demons of Dorothy

2022

L'Âge d'or de la pub poster
6.5

55 years ago, on October 1 1968, the first brand advertising spot appeared on the French television screen. Over the next three decades, thousands of creative little films would seduce and build our collective memory. Kitschy or cult spots, humor, slogans, music, stars, gimmicks, grand spectacle or sex appeal: during its golden age, how did advertising convince? Thierry Ardisson has brought together almost 400 advertising clips to relive the era of the conquest of minds and wallets.

L'Âge d'or de la pub

2023

Années 80, les brunes comptent plus pour des prunes ! poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Années 80, les brunes comptent plus pour des prunes !

2024

The Law of Karma poster
NR

Camilla is a karmic astrologer. She believes in past lives and reincarnation, but her karma keeps her away from Jean... until a revelation changes the course of events.

The Law of Karma

2026

Lio poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Lio

2025

Elle m'a sauvée poster
7.7

Threatened and beaten by her ex-husband for many months, Julie Douib, 34, mother of two young children, had gone to file a complaint many times. On March 3, 2019, Julie was shot by her ex-partner in L'île Rousse in Haute-Corse. On the night of 16 to 17 April 2018, after several years of domestic violence, Laura Rapp finally found the courage to file a complaint: her spouse tried to strangle her in front of their two-year-old daughter. After a year of pre-trial detention for attempted homicide, her ex-spouse is released pending trial.

Elle m'a sauvée

2022

La Génération des Enfants du rock poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

La Génération des Enfants du rock

2024

Nos Voix Pour Toutes 2024 poster
10.0

A charity event with renowned french artists brought together for the first time to offer the public new interpretations of the most emblematic titles linked to women's rights.

Nos Voix Pour Toutes 2024

2024

Et Dieu créa Barbie poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Et Dieu créa Barbie

2023

Nos Voix Pour Toutes 2025 poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Nos Voix Pour Toutes 2025

2025

Les Scandaleuses poster
8.5

Béatrice Dalle, Lio, Brigitte Fontaine, Corinne Masiero, Aïssa Maïga, Virginie Despentes, Maria Schneider, Gisèle Halimi, Juliette Gréco, and Adèle Haenel—these women lived on their own terms, defying conventions and embracing lives often deemed "scandalous." Labeled frivolous, hysterical, or simply too free and too loud, they faced criticism yet used controversy as a force for change, challenging norms and advancing women's rights. This documentary retraces seventy years of their bold and unconventional journeys, telling the story of the fearless women who shaped history and fought for a more equal world.

Les Scandaleuses

2024

2010s · 14 titles

Stars 80 - Triomphe poster
5.8

No synopsis available yet.

Stars 80 - Triomphe

2017

Stars 80, la suite poster
4.5

Vincent and Antoine, tired of the tours, decide to go on holiday with all the troop of Stars 80.

Stars 80, la suite

2017

The Music According to Tom Jobim poster
7.0

Half a century ago, Brazilian composer and musician Antonio Carlos "Tom" Jobim (1927-1994) introduced bossa nova to a worldwide audience with "The Girl from Ipanema." This relaxed, cool, sensuous music blended jazz and samba. After recording an album of songs by his friend Jobim, Frank Sinatra is reported to have said, "I haven't sung so quietly since I had laryngitis." Naturally, "The Girl from Ipanema" and Frank Sinatra are featured in this musical collage of countless seamlessly edited excerpts of concert footage that cover decades of events all over the world: from Rio de Janeiro to Lisbon, Paris, Copenhagen, Jerusalem, Tokyo, Montreal, New York and back to Rio.

The Music According to Tom Jobim

2012

Le Temps du silence poster
1.8

Manuel passes 18 months at Buchenwald before his return to Paris. He wonders even before his arrival who will have the patience and passion to listen to his narrative. He chooses silence.

Le Temps du silence

2011

Kids of Töday poster
5.0

The first documentary about France's post punk and cold wave scene in the late 1970s and early 1980s. During an art show at agnès b. gallery in 2008, Jean-François Sanz has gathered some exceptional material that brings to light, through archival footage and about thirty interviews to the main players, the pop culture heritage of that moment.

Kids of Töday

2012

À dix minutes de nulle part poster
5.9

The Stievenart family decides to spend their vacation far away and puts an ad on the internet. The Mailon family responds by offering to exchange homes. But the Stievenart family has an environmentally friendly house, while the Mailons consume a lot of energy.

À dix minutes de nulle part

2011

Les années 80, le grand concert poster
5.7

No synopsis available yet.

Les années 80, le grand concert

2018

Images of Women of the Social Corset poster
NR

A man asks himself about the image of women who are offered for his gaze. A documentary about the image of women in fashion, film, and life.

Images of Women of the Social Corset

2011

Stars 80 poster
5.7

Die-hard fans of the 1980s, Vincent and Antoine run a company that supplies doubles of faded stars throughout the whole of France. What starts out as a promising business venture ends up as a calamity when Vincent and Antoine have over forty engagements booked but no one to attend them. They then have a brainwave. Why not get in touch with the real stars of the 1980s and persuade them to make a comeback? Why make do with an imitation when you can have the real McCoy?

Stars 80

2012

Love Like Poison poster
5.6

Anna, a young teenager, comes home from her Catholic boarding school for the holidays and discovers her father has left. Her mother is devastated and confined in the company of the local priest, who is also a childhood friend. Anna clings to her beloved grandfather. She also grows close to Pierre, a free-spirited teenager who cares little about God. Anna is preparing for her confirmation, but her budding desire for Pierre shakes her faith. She longs to give herself over, body and soul... but doesn't know if it is to God, or something else?

Love Like Poison

2010

Stars 80, le concert au Stade de France poster
7.3

No synopsis available yet.

Stars 80, le concert au Stade de France

2015

Henri poster
6.4

The meeting of two lonely, marginal souls. There is Henri, a man in his 50s, limp, resigned, somewhat alcoholic. And Rosette, a woman who dreams of love, sexuality, normality

Henri

2013

Belgian Disaster poster
4.0

Three misfits live peaceful lives of idleness and resourcefulness until the day a scam more lucrative than any other comes their way. At the same time, their wives are all threatened with dismissal. Panic ensues. The three men dread imagining their future lives, with their wives nagging them day and night and no peace and quiet. How far will our heroes go to preserve their modest happiness or to finally—perhaps—achieve a better life?

Belgian Disaster

2015

RFM Party 80 La tournée Best of à Bercy poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

RFM Party 80 La tournée Best of à Bercy

2012

2000s · 12 titles

The Last Mistress poster
5.8

Secrets, rumors and betrayals surround the upcoming marriage between a young dissolute man and virtuous woman of the French aristocracy.

The Last Mistress

2007

Mariages! poster
5.2

A wedding is an opportunity for three couples of different generations to question commitment and the strength of love.

Mariages!

2004

Carnage poster
5.5

After a bull is killed in a bullfight, its body parts are transported across Spain, France, Italy and Belgium. The bull's parts fall into the wide variety of people, including: an Italian actress selling the bones in a supermarket promotion, a Spanish woman who dines on its steaks, a little girl in France who imagines a world where animals are much larger than humans, and a taxidermist whose wife is simultaneously giving birth to quintuplets.

Carnage

2002

Invisible poster
4.6

A budding electronica artist gives up his shot at stardom to pursue a woman from a telephone dating network.

Invisible

2005

The Evening Dress poster
5.8

Like many of her classmates, 12 year old tomboy Juliette has a crush on Mrs. Solenska, a teacher distinguished by stylish attire and an uninhibited, provocative classroom demeanor. Juliette's fascination turns into all-consuming obsession, forcing revelations from both the girl and her teacher.

The Evening Dress

2009

Rien dans les poches poster
4.3

25 years of the life of Marie, a Parisian party girl, first teenager leaving her mother at 17, then short star of the song, and finally mother of a teenage girl, Esther, who flees as she fled her mother.

Rien dans les poches

2008

No artwork available
10.0

Two men, fifty years young, seduce younger women at the Cannes Film Festival and are quite successful as long as there are no youngsters among them.

Les Vacances de Noël

2005

A Parting Shot poster
5.4

A rebellious teenager and a "border-line" young nurse will learn to tame each other and get a fresh start in life...

A Parting Shot

2007

Bulles de Vian poster
5.0

"Vian Bubbles" - On June 23, 2009, fifty years to the day after the death of Boris Vian, a supernatural phenomenon crosses all of France: in the streets, one sings everywhere his songs and one expresses oneself only in the language of the poet. In Paris, Antoine de Caunes wakes up to discover the strange "vianic" epidemic, which also affects radio waves and the small screen. A boss of channel proposes to him to organize, for the same evening, a show dedicated to the songs of Boris Vian. Jean-Pierre Marielle tells us the story of this phenomenon, as supernatural as inexplicable. A tribute in songs to the glowing cast.

Bulles de Vian

2009

Le Prince de ce monde poster
5.0

Abbé Donato believed he could live a quiet little life, far from all temptation, in the village of Sainte-Urulle, well placed in the race for the title of asshole of the civilized world. For temptation is something he would do well to be wary of, he who, beneath his cassock, hides a body made for the pleasures of love. Pleasures that the Baroness de Bailleux, a young nymphomaniac aristocrat, has nevertheless decided to introduce him to. Having fallen under her spell, the clergyman discovers that she is also the muse of a Satanist priest who officiates in a neighboring town, Canon Debruges, and, incidentally, the mistress of a psychiatrist who is a member of the Gilles de Rais fan club. Having become the baroness and the canon's plaything, the abbot enters a downward spiral that will take him to the limits of morality and even madness.

Le Prince de ce monde

2008

No artwork available
10.0

Vazquez, 60, owns a small French publishing house. His mother, a Spanish refugee, raised him in the memory of a father, hero of the resistance under Franquism. His daughter Lauriane, 30, has a complicated love life, but still lives with her father.

C'est la vie, camarade!

2005

Bonjour la France poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Bonjour la France

2004

1990s · 11 titles

Love After Love poster
5.5

Lola is an independent woman, a professional writer with 2 men on a string. Both men are married with children. When the men, and Lola, face having to make choices, Lola's comfortable life becomes less appealing.

Love After Love

1992

The Dead Mother poster
6.2

Ismael breaks into the house of a fine art restorer and shoots the homeowner dead, leaving her daughter orphaned and traumatized for life. Years later, Ismael is working in a bar where he sees the daughter again. Paranoid that she has recognised him and will report him, he kidnaps her and holds her hostage, demanding that her hospital pay a ransom for her release. As he spends more time with her, a strange bond develops that causes him to delay the ransom request or fulfil his threats of throwing her in front of a train. But he can’t delay forever…

The Dead Mother

1993

Dirty Like an Angel poster
4.9

Georges Deblache, a despondent middle-aged cop, falls for his partner's wife.

Dirty Like an Angel

1991

Nobody Loves Me poster
4.3

Several lives intersect when a middle-aged woman is left by her husband, and she decides to trek him down with the help of her equally troubled sister.

Nobody Loves Me

1994

Drôle de Noël pour Jérémy poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Drôle de Noël pour Jérémy

1995

God, My Mother's Lover and the Butcher's Son poster
5.3

The mother of three children seems to become romantically involved with the man playing Don Juan in the same local countryside theatre where she is acting. The children decide to try to poison the man who is threatening their family life. The real life and the stage roles get intertwined...

God, My Mother's Lover and the Butcher's Son

1995

Christmas at Bunny's poster
7.0

Santa Claus is depressed and refuses to give away gifts as he usually does. Bugs Bunny is charged with finding him and cheering him up back into his job, including showing him some of his own old cartoons.

Christmas at Bunny's

1997

Les nuls, l'émission avec Lio poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Les nuls, l'émission avec Lio

1991

No artwork available
7.0

Pierre and his wife Anne had a good thing going together, until their son Nicolas was born. Anne traveled with him on all his long truck journeys, and they had frequent and passionate sex. For quite a few years now, Anne has stayed at home to take care of their boy, who is a sickly, weedy little fellow. Pierre is frustrated. Anne is frustrated too but has her almost incestuous feeling for her son to torment her. Even little Nicolas is frustrated, in part due to the knowledge that his father feels that the sacrifice he and his mother made in raising him hasn't been worth the effort. He too has some release in the form of a good relationship with his gigantic dog. When the seething passions of these four discontented mammals reach a crisis point, the result (in this film) is exceedingly ironic.

Sans un cri

1992

No artwork available
9.0

Film centred around a mother, Françoise, who is HIV positive and her young daughter Ana.

La niña de tus sueños

1995

Jealousy poster
3.7

Pierre is a womanizing photographer, with a slight mean streak. For whatever reason, Camille, an artist in her own right, finds him entrancing and easily succumbs to his devious efforts to get her into bed. Soon she is trying to hold him to her with her oh-so submissive love, and he is playing some games with her head by pretending (usually) to have been playing around with others. Eventually, he encounters another woman who is not so sticky and tells her to buzz off. When they meet some time later, it becomes clear that the relationship meant different things to each of them.

Jealousy

1991

1980s · 5 titles

Series credits

Quotidien poster
4.9

Quotidien (nicknamed "The French Show with the Good Lighting" abroad) is a French daily infotainment television program broadcast in the early evening on TMC since September 12, 2016. The show is hosted by Yann Barthès and produced by Bangumi. It consists of segments and reports produced by the team of commentators and journalists surrounding Yann Barthès and features daily guests including newsmakers, intellectuals, politicians, and French and international celebrities.

Quotidien

2016

Sacrée soirée poster
5.7

No synopsis available yet.

Sacrée soirée

1987

Champs-Elysées poster
6.8

No synopsis available yet.

Champs-Elysées

1982

Champs-Elysées poster
6.8

No synopsis available yet.

Champs-Elysées

1982

Vivement dimanche poster
3.6

No synopsis available yet.

Vivement dimanche

1998

Midi Première poster
9.0

Midi Première is a French variety show presented by Danièle Gilbert, directed by Jacques Pierre and broadcast from January 6, 1975 until January 1, 1982 on TF1. The program was generally broadcast between 12:15 p.m. and 12:55 p.m., then giving way to the 1:00 p.m. TV news. However, the broadcast schedule could change, depending on the guests, and the setting where the recording of the program was shot. Certain performances by artists who have become cult like the one where Ringo jostles with a demonstrator in interpretation (1977), that of Dalida with the title There is always a song with the soundtrack that does not start, twice, at the right speed (1978), Claude François and his Clodettes, who, in the provinces, are unable to join "the set" in order to interpret his song, the latter being taken by the crowd of delirious fans (summer 1977) . The group Supertramp performed there with the title "Dreamer" on March 8, 1975.

Midi Première

1975

Le monde est à vous poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Le monde est à vous

1987

Numéro un poster
7.5

A French variety show.

Numéro un

1975

Fan School poster
7.2

Host Jacques Martin invites different talented children from various backgrounds to showcase their beautiful voices. The participants entertain and wow the audience with their lovely performances.

Fan School

1977

C à vous poster
6.1

Every day live on FRANCE 5, Anne-Élisabeth Lemoine and her team receive those who make the news. In the second part, the program welcomes, around a meal prepared by a qualified chef, artists in promotion.

C à vous

2009

Le Grand Échiquier poster
8.0

Le Grand Échiquier is a French variety television program created and presented by Jacques Chancel. It aired at 8:30 pm on the first channel of the ORTF from January 12, 1972 to July 12, 1972, then on the second color channel of the ORTF from September 1972 to December 1974, and finally on Antenne 2 from January 1975 to December 21, 1989. The program returned to France 2 on December 20, 2018 and is hosted by Anne-Sophie Lapix.

Le Grand Échiquier

1972

La Chance aux chansons poster
6.5

No synopsis available yet.

La Chance aux chansons

1984

Nulle part ailleurs poster
6.1

No synopsis available yet.

Nulle part ailleurs

1987

Star Academy poster
5.7

Star Academy is a French reality television show produced by the Dutch company Endemol. It consists of a contest of young singers. It spawned an equally successful show in Quebec called Star Académie. It is broadcast on TF1. At the end of each season, selected contestants would go on tour around France, Morocco, Switzerland, Belgium, Tunisia, and other French-speaking countries.

Star Academy

2001

Danse avec les stars poster
6.5

No synopsis available yet.

Danse avec les stars

2011

Les Nuls, l'émission poster
8.6

No synopsis available yet.

Les Nuls, l'émission

1990

Mask Singer poster
5.8

Twelve celebrities are masked under spectacular costumes, with their identity hidden. They compete by singing their own versions of songs, and the judges and audience must guess who is behind each mask!

Mask Singer

2019

From Rock Star to Killer poster
7.7

In 2003, rock singer Bertrand Cantat killed his partner, actress Marie Trintignant. This documentary revisits the case that divided a nation.

From Rock Star to Killer

2025

No artwork available
NR

The program combines comedy, celebrity, musical guests, and human-interest stories.

Amanda

2016

The Traveller poster
7.0

Hunting down killers to help bereaved families get justice is more than just a job; it’s a duty for Thomas Bareski, a retired, hotshot police detective eager to reopen unsolved murder cases in a mission to find the culprits.

The Traveller

2019

La Méthode Cauet poster
5.6

No synopsis available yet.

La Méthode Cauet

2003

The Voice Belgique poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Voice Belgique

2011

La Boîte à secrets poster
7.0

La Boîte à secrets: confidences, emotion and entertainment. Faustine Bollaert takes over the helm of this new show on France 3. She will receive 3 guests who will relive their greatest personal and professional secrets.

La Boîte à secrets

2019

Il était une fois Champs-Élysées poster
6.5

No synopsis available yet.

Il était une fois Champs-Élysées

2022

"Couch" by Lena Situations poster
NR

On her iconic pink couch, Lena Situations welcomes artists, creators, and personalities from all over the world for genuine, funny, and inspiring conversations.

"Couch" by Lena Situations

2025

Collaricocoshow poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Collaricocoshow

1987

Lost Signs poster
7.0

A strange geometric shape in a field becomes the key to a young woman's dark family past.

Lost Signs

2007

Drag Race Belgium poster
4.7

For the first time in its herstory, Belgium is welcoming the most glamorous drag competition. Hosted by the great French-Canadian diva, Rita Baga, Drag Race Belgique will demonstrate the immense talent and creativity of its drag scene. So be prepared for their audacity and authenticity!

Drag Race Belgium

2023

Drag Race Belgium poster
4.7

For the first time in its herstory, Belgium is welcoming the most glamorous drag competition. Hosted by the great French-Canadian diva, Rita Baga, Drag Race Belgique will demonstrate the immense talent and creativity of its drag scene. So be prepared for their audacity and authenticity!

Drag Race Belgium

2023

Tiger Lily, 4 femmes dans la vie poster
NR

In the late 60s, Rita, Rachel, Muriel, and Stéphane formed a rock band called Tiger Lily. Two decades later, after long having put away their guitars, the women look back at their lives.

Tiger Lily, 4 femmes dans la vie

2013

Colette, une femme libre poster
9.0

Colette, une femme libre is a two-part French biographical TV film directed in 2003 by Nadine Trintignant and broadcast on January 25 and February 1, 2004 on RTBF, then on April 26 and April 27, 2004 on France 2. A biography of French writer Colette, it was also the last role for Marie Trintignant, who was killed by her partner Bertrand Cantat shortly before the end of filming at the end of July 2003.

Colette, une femme libre

2004