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Virgílio Manuel da Costa Castelo (born February 26, 1953) is a Portuguese actor, director, television presenter and fiction writer.

Biography

He is the son of António Castelo and his wife Lucília (da Costa), Catholic Goans; a rather poor family. This meant that Virgílio had to work various jobs before his artistic career. He attended the Industrial School, a course he did not complete, and began working at just 14 years old as a clerk in the Ministry of Finance. At 20, he emigrated to France, working on the expansion of Orly airport and then as a receptionist in a refined Parisian hotel.

He returned to Portugal in 1975, beginning his career as an actor. In 1978 he returned to France, this time to study acting, graduating from the University of Strasbourg with a scholarship from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. He is one of the founders of the Adoque Theatre Group. In theatre he has worked in musicals, children's theatre, comedy and drama. For 3 years he presented a television program called "Isto só vídeo". Between 1993 and 1999 he directed actors and was head of the NBP (National Theatre Association).

Between 1992 and 1994 he presented the program Isto Só Vídeo on RTP1. He returned to presenting in 2007, the talk show Ainda Bem que Apareceste, on the same channel.

After moving to public television where he participated in the RTP1 and Band co-production, Paixões Proibidas, he headed the cast of the remake of Vila Faia. In 2009 he joined SIC to work as a consultant for national fiction, where he also participated in the telenovela "Podia Acabar o Mundo", and later in "Lua Vermelha", "A Família Mata" and "Laços de Sangue". Also in 2009 he was directed by Joaquim Leitão in A Esperança Está Onde Menos se Espera. In 2011 he left SIC and joined the exclusive actors team of TVI.

In 2015, she returned to RTP at the invitation of Nuno Artur Silva, where she began managing the fiction department. In 2020, he will star in the film Terra Nova, a drama inspired by the book O Lugre, by Bernardo Santareno.

Personal life

He married twice, to Maria de Fátima de Melo Custódio, with whom he has a daughter, Tâmara de Melo Castelo (born July 8, 1984), and from whom he divorced in 1987, and to actress Alexandra Lencastre, whom he married in 1993 and divorced in 1995, without descendants.

Filmography

Television

Cinema

• Lerpar (1975)
• Passagem ou a Meio Caminho (1980)
• A Vida É Bela?! (1982)
• Ritual dos Pequenos Vampiros (1983)
• Crónica dos Bons Malandros (1984)
• Os Abismos da Meia-Noite (1984)
• Vidas (1984)
• O Sapato de Cetim (1985)
• Saudades Para Dona Genciana (1986)
• Uma Rapariga No Verão (1986)
• A Morgadinha dos Canaviais (1989) as Henrique de Souselas
• O Bobo (1987)
• Vertigem (1991)
• Entre Mortos e Vivos (1992)
• Camarate (2001)
• Corrupção (2007), as Vice-Presidente do Clube
• Um Amor de Perdição (2008), as João da Cruz
• A Esperança Está Onde Menos Se Espera (2009), as Francisco Figueiredo
• Duas Mulheres (2009), as Paulo Amorim
• A Bela e o Paparazzo (2010), as Gonçalo
• O Fim da Inocência (2017), as Fernando
• Terra Nova (2020), as Captain Silva
• O Ego de Egas (2020), as Sobral Cid
• Abandonados (2023), as Resende's Corner