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Hana Sofia Lopes

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Hana Sofia Lopes
Born
Luxembourg
Alma mater
OccupationActress
Years active2011–present

Hana Sofia Lopes (born 5 March)[1] is a Luxembourgish Portuguese actress born in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.

Since completing her training at the Conservatoire National Supérieur d’Art Dramatique in Paris, she has appeared in over 60 productions in theater, film, and television across Europe and North America.[2]

Her collaborations include work with, among others, Oscar nominees Sandra Hüller, Brendan Gleeson and Juliette Lewis, as well as renowned French cinema icons Maïwenn and Irène Jacob. She has also worked with Black Flag frontman Henry Rollins, Bruce McDonald and The Crown director Christian Schwochow. Her first film role was alongside fellow Luxembourgish actress Vicky Krieps, marking the start of her journey in film.[3]

She is fluent in French, German, Luxembourgish, Portuguese, Spanish, English, and Italian.[4]

Biography

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Hana Sofia was born and raised in Luxembourg, to Portuguese parents.[5]

After high school at the Athénée de Luxembourg, she studied at the Lisbon Theatre and Film School,[6] from which she graduated in 2012. As part of the Erasmus Programme, she performed a one-year university exchange at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in Madrid (RESAD), Spain in 2011.[7]

She then studied at the Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique, France's National Drama Academy in Paris,[8] in the classes of Daniel Mesguich, Sandy Ouvrier and French choreographer Caroline Marcadé, among others.

During a performance of the Marriage of Figaro[8] at the Paris Drama Academy in 2014, film director Marco Serafini sees her performance on stage and decides to cast her in the leading female role in Toy Gun, a feature film that he is then developing.[9] In this film, she plays the leading female role alongside John Hannah, Anthony LaPaglia and Julian Sands.[10] Her performance in this film has landed her a Best Actress nomination at the Luxembourg Film awards, the Lëtzebuerger Filmpräis, in 2018.[11]

In 2017, she made an appearance in the German TV series Bad Banks directed by German director Christian Schwochow.[12] The series was broadcast on Arte and German broadcaster Zdf. This show marks Hana's first performance in a German-language project.[13]

Subsequently, she played a Spanish anarchist in the Belgian-Spanish film Escapada directed by Sarah Hirtt. Spanish actors Sergi López and María León are also part of the cast.[14]

In 2017 she was part of the cast of Arthur Miller's The Crucible,[15] directed by the English director Douglas Rintoul. The premiere took place at Queen's Theater, Hornchurch in London.[16] In 2018, she played the lead role in the French play Intranquillités, based on the Book of Disquiet by Portuguese author Fernando Pessoa, staged in Luxembourg.

In 2018 she starred alongside Juliette Lewis and Henry Rollins in the Canadian film Dreamland, directed by Bruce McDonald.[17]

Meanwhile, she has also built a career in Portugal. Her roles in the prime time TV series Mar Salgado (2015) and Coração d'Ouro (2016), co-produced by TV Globo and viewed daily by nearly 2 million viewers,[18] have made her well known to audiences in Portugal.[19] In 2017, she played queen Elizabeth of Aragon, the queen of Portugal in the historical series Ministério do Tempo broadcast on RTP.[20]

Since 2020 she has been part of various plays in major theatres all over Europe: Hedda Gabler in French at the Grand Theatre de Luxembourg, Medea in English at the Grand Theatre de Luxembourg, The lost beginning in Portuguese at the São João National Theatre in Porto.[21] Furthermore, since was on a two-year tour through France with the theatre play Habiter le temps with french actors Irene Jacob, Jérôme Kircher directed by Michel Didym.[22] This play was performed in multiple major French theatres: théâtre des Célestins in Lyon, théâtre Anthéa in Antibes, Châteauvallon-Liberté in Toulon, Opera-Théâtre in Metz, among others.

She plays the role of Maria in the second season of Capitani, streaming globally on Netflix from the summer of 2022.

Between 2020 and 2024 Hana Sofia established herself as a versatile and prominent actress on the European stage, performing in a dozen productions at prestigious venues such as the Grand Théâtre de la Ville de Luxembourg and the São João National Theatre Porto.[23] Notably, she performed in Medea by Euripides (in English) and Hedda Gabler by Ibsen (in French), directed by Marja-Leena Junker.[24]

In 2023 Luxembourgish director Frank Hoffmann, also the artistic director of the Recklinghausen Theatre Festival, created a tailor-made role for her in his adaptation of The Iceman Cometh by Eugene O’Neill at the Théâtre National du Luxembourg. The production was a resounding success with audiences and will be revived twice between the 2023 and 2025 seasons. [25]

The success of these productions showcases her talent and ability to captivate both on stage and on screen.

Her latest feature film, Kanaval, directed by Canadian-Haitian filmmaker Henri Pardo, marks her rising international presence. Selected for the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2023, the film won the Amplified Voices Award and received an Honorable Mention for Best Canadian Film, along with four nominations at the Canadian Screen Awards.[26]

In 2024 Hana Sofia Lopes was a member of the international jury at the CinEast Film Festival, alongside Smoke Sauna Sisterhood director Anna Hints. The jury was chaired by the German-Romanian Oscar nominated director Alexander Nanau. The jury awarded the Grand Prix to the Lithuanian film Toxic, directed by Saulė Bliuvaitė, recognizing its poignant portrayal of adolescent challenges and the strength of its performances.[27][28]

In 2024 Hana Sofia reached a new milestone in her career by being chosen by ZDF, Germany's leading television network, to star as Sofia Moreno in the thriller Escape from Lisbon, alongside German Star Hans Sigl.[29] Set to be released in 2025, this performance further solidifies her status as one of the most prominent talents of her generation.[30]

She speaks French, German, English, Portuguese, Luxembourgish, Spanish and Italian.[1]

Filmography

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Film

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Screen

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References

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  1. ^ a b "Hana Sofia Lopes". IMDb. Retrieved 4 January 2019.
  2. ^ "Ist Hana Sofia Lopes Luxemburgs neues Vorzeigegesicht?". Luxemburger Wort (in German). 11 November 2024. Retrieved 11 November 2024.
  3. ^ "Hana Sofia Lopes | Actress". IMDb. Retrieved 11 November 2024.
  4. ^ "Luxemburger Schauspielerin spielt Hauptrolle in ZDF-Thriller". Luxemburger Wort (in German). 11 November 2024. Retrieved 11 November 2024.
  5. ^ "Hana Sofia Lopes: do Luxemburgo para uma telenovela da SIC". BOM DIA Luxemburgo (in Portuguese). 22 October 2015. Retrieved 4 January 2019.
  6. ^ "A condutora da sua própria vida". Wort.lu (in Portuguese). 28 December 2018. Archived from the original on 31 December 2018. Retrieved 4 January 2019.
  7. ^ "Relatório de Atividades da Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema" (PDF). www.estc.ipl.pt. Retrieved 4 January 2019.
  8. ^ a b "De la folle journée à la nuit des corps Légendes de la forêt viennoise – Programme 2013–2014 – CNSAD – Présentations publiques". cnsad.fr. Archived from the original on 31 December 2018. Retrieved 4 January 2019.
  9. ^ Alexandra Parachini. "Flingues et jolie fille au Kirchberg". Le Quotidien (in French). Retrieved 4 January 2019.
  10. ^ Toy Gun, retrieved 4 January 2019
  11. ^ "Film Fund Luxembourg – Lëtzebuerger Filmpräis 2018". Film Fund Luxembourg (in German). Retrieved 4 January 2019.
  12. ^ Bad Banks, retrieved 4 January 2019
  13. ^ "Hulu Takes U.S. Rights to German Series 'Bad Banks'". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 4 January 2019.
  14. ^ "Hana Sofia Lopes | ArtemisProductions". www.artemisproductions.com. Retrieved 4 January 2019.
  15. ^ "#59 THE CRUCIBLE". www.theatres.lu. Retrieved 4 January 2019.
  16. ^ Rintoul, Douglas (14 February 2017). "The Crucible: the perfect play for our post-truth times". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 4 January 2019.
  17. ^ Dreamland, retrieved 4 January 2019
  18. ^ Soldado, David (8 September 2015). "Estreia de "Coração d' Ouro" atinge perto de um milhão e 600 mil telespetadores". A Televisão (in European Portuguese). Retrieved 4 January 2019.
  19. ^ L'essentiel. "Une Luxembourgeoise dans une telenovela". L'essentiel. Retrieved 4 January 2019.
  20. ^ Ministério do Tempo, retrieved 4 January 2019
  21. ^ "O Começo Perdido: Mixtape #1". Teatro Nacional São João (in Portuguese). Retrieved 30 November 2022.
  22. ^ "Habiter le temps – La saison – Saison 22–23 – opéra-théâtre – metz". opera.eurometropolemetz.eu (in French). Retrieved 30 November 2022.
  23. ^ "O Começo Perdido: Mixtape #1". Teatro Nacional São João (in Portuguese). 16 December 2021. Retrieved 11 November 2024.
  24. ^ Magazine, Femmes (6 May 2022). "Un destin tragique". Femmes Magazine (in French). Retrieved 11 November 2024.
  25. ^ "Luxemburgs Gesellschaft an den Pranger gestellt". Luxemburger Wort (in German). 11 November 2024. Retrieved 11 November 2024.
  26. ^ "Kanaval". TIFF. Retrieved 11 November 2024.
  27. ^ "CinEast 2024 – Festival du Film d'Europe Centrale et Orientale – Luxembourg". www.cineast.lu (in Czech). 16 September 2023. Retrieved 12 November 2024.
  28. ^ "Toxic di Saulė Bliuvaitė si aggiudica il Gran Premio e il Premio della Critica a CinÉast". Cineuropa – il meglio del cinema europeo (in Italian). 21 October 2024. Retrieved 12 November 2024.
  29. ^ "Flucht aus Lissabon – ndF: neue deutsche Filmgesellschaft". www.ndf.de (in German). Retrieved 11 November 2024.
  30. ^ Blickpunkt:Film, Jochen Müller. "Hans Sigl für Thriller „Flucht aus Lissabon" vor der Kamera". www.blickpunktfilm.de (in German). Retrieved 11 November 2024.
  31. ^ Teleboy. "Gute Zeiten, schlechte Zeiten – RTL – 26. November 2019, 19:40". Teleboy (in German). Retrieved 2 December 2019.
  32. ^ "#33 DEALING WITH CLAIR". www.theatres.lu. Retrieved 2 December 2019.
  33. ^ C.R.I.S, Association. "Habiter le temps - Rasmus Lindberg, - mise en scène Michel Didym, - theatre-contemporain.net". www.theatre-contemporain.net (in French). Retrieved 29 December 2020.
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