Actress Gina Santos died this Thursday at the age of 86, at Casa do Artista, in Lisbon, the institution announced.
Gina Santos was part of the Theater Group directed by Manuela Porto, having represented Chekhov and Lorca, according to information available on the official page of Artistas Unidos, a company with which she worked on several projects, in addition to being part of the cast of several films by Jorge Silva Melo, how Passage or Halfway e Nobody Twice.
In 1950, Gina Santos joined the Amélia Rey-Colaço/Robles Monteiro Company, which managed the Teatro Nacional D. Maria II, in Lisbon, where she remained until 1966, and performed plays by Marcelino Mesquita, Alejandro Casona, Lope de Vega , Shakespeare, Almeida Garrett, Miguel Mihura, Arthur Miller, Carlos Selvagem, Georges Bernanos, Robert Thomas and Victorien Sardou.
The actress was part of the cast of Teatro do Povo, in 1955, in the play Rei Learby Shakespeare, performed by Francisco Ribeiro, known as Ribeirinho.
At the Teatro da Cornucópia, where he visited in 1975, he performed Petit Bourgeoisby Máximo Gorki, directed by Jorge Silva Melo.
Under the direction of Jorge Silva Melo, from Artistas Unidos, Gina Santos was part of I Can’t Postpone My Hearta poetry and music recital, in which the Phydellius Choir and the Amadeus Ensemble also collaborated, presented in the Senate room of the Assembly of the Republic, on April 29, 2004, as part of the celebrations of the 30th anniversary of the Carnation Revolution.