Afonso Pimentel

José Afonso Dias Pimentel (born Lisbon, August 4, 1982), better known as Afonso Pimentel, is a Portuguese actor and director.

Career

Pimentel made his debut at age 14 in Luís Filipe Rocha's feature film, Adeus, Pai (1996), which earned him the Best Young Actor Award at the Moscow International Film Festival and a Golden Globe nomination in 1997.

In 2003, he was directed by João Lourenço at the Teatro Aberto in Bruce Graham's Lesser Demons, working with the same director on Bertolt Brecht's Life of Galileo. In 2006, he also participated in Pedro Ribeiro's play Rolling Stones, directed by António Pires.

He received the Portuguese Golden Globe Award for Best Actor for his performance in Coisa Ruim (2005), a film by Tiago Guedes and Frederico Serra. He was named on the European Film Promotion's Shooting Stars list that year, receiving the Studio Hamburg Shooting Stars Award from Judi Dench and Cate Blanchett. During 2008 and 2009 he worked as a television director for production companies Plural Entertainment, CBV and Endemol.

Among his works as an actor are Mistérios de Lisboa (2010) by Raul Ruiz, Linhas de Wellington (2012) by Valeria Sarmiento, Bairro (2013), for which he was nominated for the Sophia Award from the Portuguese Film Academy for Best Supporting Actor, and Os Gatos Não Têm Vertigens (2014) by António-Pedro Vasconcelos.

As a director, he won the Sophia Award for Best Short Fiction Film with Encontradouro, a film that represented Portugal at Les Nuits en Or, the French Film Academy's Les Nuits en Or festival, and in 2016, also at the invitation of Les Nuits en Or, he made the short film 2 Minutos with Beatriz Batarda and Alexandra Lencastre, being credited with directing, screenwriting, editing, and cinematography.

Personal life

Pimentel has two children with Liliana Leitão.

Cinema

As actor

• Adeus Pai (1996), of Luís Filipe Rocha
• A Falha (2000), of João Mário Grilo
• A Bomba (2002), of Leonel Vieira
• Kiss Me (2004), of António da Cunha Telles
• Ao Fundo do Tunel (2006), of João Pupo Correia, short film
• Coisa Ruim (2006), of Tiago Guedes and Frederico Serra
• Draft (2008), of José Luís Freitas, short film
• Idade da Estupidez (2010), of Vítor Guerreiro and Afonso Pimentel
• Mistérios de Lisboa (2010), of Raul Ruiz
• A Cova (2011), of Luís Alves, short film
• Respira (2011), of Phillip Rylatt e Telmo Vicente, short film
• Vultos (2011), of Margarida Correia and João Francisco Fialho, short film
• Linhas de Wellington (2012), of Valeria Sarmiento
• Bairro (2013), of Jorge Cardoso, Lourenço de Mello, José Manuel Fernandes, Ricardo Inácio
• Os Gatos Não Têm Vertigens (2014), of António-Pedro Vasconcelos
• 20,13 (2016), de Joaquim Leitão
• Tu (2016), of Hugo Pinto, short film
• Uma Vida à Espera (2016), of Sérgio Graciano
• Gelo (2016), of Luís Galvão Teles and Gonçalo Galvão Teles
• Perdidos (2017), of Sérgio Graciano
• A Escritora (2020), of Hugo Pinto, short film
• Pê (2022), of Margarida Vila-Nova, short film

As director

• Sem Rasto (2007), video
• Idade da Estupidez (2010), video
• Sala Branca (2010), video
• Pó (2011), short film
• Desligado (2011), short film
• Encontradouro (2014), short film
• 2 Minutos (2016), short film

Television

As actor

As director

• 2008-2009 - Olhos nos Olhos, novel
• 2008-2009 - Feitiço de Amor, novel
• 2009 - Deixa que te Leve, novel
• 2009-2010 - Morangos com Açúcar, novel
• 2011 - O Amor é um Sonho, miniseries
• 2012 - Agora Aguenta, telefilm
• 2012 - Jogos Cruéis, telefilm
• 2012 - Noiva Precisa-se, telefilm
• 2013 - Sabores e Sentidos, telefilm

Streaming

Awards