Paula Guedes

Daughter of a great stage and television actor, João Guedes, she started as a ballet dancer, than dedicated herself to amateur athletics in a popular club of her region, Leixões Futebol Club - javelin thrower, hurdles, voleyball and boat sailing. At 12 years old she had her first taste of the comedy stage, in the play "Pluft, the Little Ghost" by Alda Rodrigues at Teatro Experimental do Porto. Her charismatic beauty and athletic body were used for a number of characters by several directors, never type cast but in small parts only, of which emerges her portrayal of Rita Portugal in "O Bobo", by José Álvaro Morais. She knew more success on the theatrical stage, though, in amateur groups, both in darma and popular comedy. She was in the first play by the famous Grupo 4, a courageous trial of independent theatre when Portugal was still under government censorship.