Alba Baptista

Acting

Alba Baptista

Born

1997-07-10 (29)

Place of birth

Lisbon, Portugal

Known for

Acting

Credits

33 titles

Alba Baptista (born 10 July 1997) is a Portuguese film and television actress. She is best known for her role as Ava Silva in the Netflix fantasy-action series Warrior Nun.

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 12 titles

Mother Mary poster
5.7

Long-buried wounds rise to the surface when iconic pop star Mother Mary reunites with her estranged best friend and former costume designer Sam Anselm on the eve of her comeback performance.

Mother Mary

2026

Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris poster
7.3

A 1950s London cleaning lady falls in love with an haute couture dress by Christian Dior and decides to gamble everything for the sake of this folly.

Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris

2022

Fatima poster
7.2

In 1917, outside the parish of Fátima, Portugal, a 10-year-old girl and her two younger cousins witness multiple visitations of the Virgin Mary, who tells them that only prayer and suffering will bring an end to World War I. As secularist government officials and Church leaders try to force the children to recant their story, word of the sighting spreads across the country, inspiring religious pilgrims to flock to the site in hopes of witnessing a miracle..

Fatima

2020

Amelia’s Children poster
6.0

When Edward’s search for his biological family leads him and his girlfriend Ryley to a magnificent villa high in the mountains of Northern Portugal, he is full of excitement at meeting his long-lost mother and twin brother. Finally, he will discover who he is and where he comes from. But nothing is as it seems, and Edward will soon learn that he is linked to them by a monstrous secret.

Amelia’s Children

2024

Borderline poster
5.7

After escaping from a mental hospital, a violent sociopath named Paul begins a dangerous rampage targeting Sofia, a world-famous pop star. Obsessed with her, he takes Sofia hostage in her own home, acting under the delusional belief that they are getting married. Paul is desperate to prove his devotion, leading to a tense and unpredictable situation.

Borderline

2025

The Child poster
4.4

The story takes place near Lisbon, in the mid-16th century. Bela, an adopted young man, tries to find his place in a family that is free, but trapped in a world where each shadow allows imperfections to shine through.

The Child

2022

Flite poster
6.2

In the semi submerged London of 2053, the reigning hoverboard world champion finds herself imprisoned in a luxury high-rise apartment by her controlling manager. The kindness of a stranger allows her to take flight in a daring and precarious escape - but all does not go as planned. Can bleeding-edge new memory extraction technology help save her from certain death?

Flite

2023

Dulcineia poster
5.4

Follows Hugo as he takes a gap year and returns to Porto to regain balance with his family, but he attends a concert by Luís Stockman, who plays a theme that Hugo has been writing in his head for years.

Dulcineia

2023

Change poster
9.4

I was somewhere between the beggining and the end of life. After winter became spring, and summer became fall, and fall winter again. I always knew change would be constant.

Change

2020

Nothing Ever Happened poster
3.2

António is a farmer who leaves his land to go to the city where his son Jorge lives. However, unlike a perfect portrait, the patriarch finds a life of lies, a broken marriage and Pedro, a grandson with dangerous attitudes. It all translates into a life of broken dreams.

Nothing Ever Happened

2022

Field of Blood poster
NR

The character of a novel gains life to torment the author, revisiting and reliving the story of a crime.

Field of Blood

2022

O Outro Lado de Patrick poster
NR

A behind the scenes look at Gonçalo Waddington's new film, Patrick, visiting the shooting locations and interviewing the main protagonists.

O Outro Lado de Patrick

2020

2010s · 11 titles

No artwork available
NR

(within the project URB) CIDADE is a TV series that takes place in the diverse, urbanistically chaotic and multicultural periphery of Lisbon. Each episode has for landscape and dramatic background the everyday-life in the social housing neighborhoods and shanty towns of Lisbon. It explores the infinite possibilities of narratives and characters generated by the daily confrontation of the normal life of the city with several layers of cultural heritages and lifestyles, brought by different waves of migration. A network of interconnected characters, families and ties makes the narrative to evolve and illustrates the cultural, artistic, social and economic explosion that we are about to live in here.

Cidade

2017

Adelaide poster
4.4

In the most anticipated interview of the year, sisters Adelaide, Carolina and Julia Paixão come together with their mother Anita - to recount the events that led to one of the most controversial crimes ever committed in Portugal.

Adelaide

2018

Miami poster
5.0

A teenage girl's dream of becoming famous turns into a dangerous obsession.

Miami

2015

Summerfest poster
NR

A young couple is having fun at a summer music festival when, suddenly, in the middle of the night, the young woman disappears.

Summerfest

2018

Floating poster
1.7

On a pleasant full moon evening, a group of friends is playing cards on a terrace overlooking the beach. In the distance, on the open sea, somewhere between eroticism and violence, two young women float over the triteness of their conversations and the absurdity of their actions.

Floating

2019

Magnetick Pathways poster
10.0

During a night of humiliation, Raymond lives an inner revolt and a kaleidoscopic journey in a country that is about to collapse.

Magnetick Pathways

2019

Blood Lines poster
4.0

Threatened by a fascist plot, the Portuguese government recruits several "special people" to stop the coup.

Blood Lines

2018

Equinox poster
NR

I think I'll remember you, everything, but I'm not sure.

Equinox

2018

Tudo o Que Imagino poster
9.0

End of adolescence, end of school, the last summer before joining the working world for a group of friends from the neighbourhood of Alcoitão, "BDA".

Tudo o Que Imagino

2017

Patrick poster
5.6

Patrick, 20-years-old, lives in Paris with his older boyfriend. He runs a teenage pornography website, which results in a prison sentence following a raid at a party. Mário, 8-years-old, was kidnapped 12 years ago in Portugal. Patrick and Mário are the same person with two conflicting identities: a life in Paris filled with parties, drugs, and promiscuity and a new rural life in Portugal, where he feels obliged to reconnect with a broken family.

Patrick

2019

Forbidden Images poster
NR

David envisions an unusual project, he tries to recreate the love between two women that can only meet through the Polaroid pictures he takes of them.

Forbidden Images

2019

Undated · 3 titles

Series credits

Jardins Proibidos poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Jardins Proibidos

2014

Warrior Nun poster
7.9

After waking up in a morgue, an orphaned teen discovers she now possesses superpowers as the chosen Halo-Bearer for a secret sect of demon-hunting nuns.

Warrior Nun

2020

Madre Paula poster
4.5

The story of the forbidden romance between Paula, a nun of the Convent of Odivelas, and King D. João V. A love without limits, which takes place in the eighteenth century, and made the King ignore common sense and take the nun as a lover, a confidant, and a counselor. Based on the historical novel by Patrícia Muller.

Madre Paula

2017

A Criação poster
7.0

A fable with people and furrys about the creative industry and the commercial arts.

A Criação

2017

Filha da Lei poster
6.7

Filha da Lei, a criminal series on a Chief Inspector, Isabel Garcia, and the investigation of the most important police case in Portugal in the last 20 years. Garcia is faced with the greatest challenge of her career when she is assigned to lead the Investigation of the violent serial murders that devastate the city. Samuel Lopes, Trainee Inspector with a degree in Criminal Psychology, joins the Garcia Brigade where he will have to earn his place and the respect of the most experienced inspectors. The interaction with the Trainee Inspector helps Garcia to better understand his daughter Sara, a 16-year-old teenager who was married to the implacable journalist Jaime.

Filha da Lei

2017

Jogo Duplo poster
6.2

Between the mysterious Orient, the paradisiacal peninsula of Troia, the urbanity of Setúbal and the placid splendor of Alcácer do Sal, "Jogo Duplo" is a telenovela that will confront dysfunctional families, impossible loves and cultural differences, reflecting on the human condition in all its opposites.

Jogo Duplo

2017

Behind the camera