Isabel Abreu

About Isabel Abreu

Maria Isabel de Abreu Correia Pereira, known only as Isabel Abreu, is a Portuguese actress who was born in Arronches, Portalegre district, Portugal, on March 3rd, 1978.

She is the eldest daughter of Carlos Correia Pereira and Maria Isabel Marouço Ponte de Abreu, both doctors, and sister of Carlos António de Abreu Correia Pereira. She is married, since 2001, with the Portuguese film director, Tiago Guedes, who both are parents of two children: a boy, named Tiago Abreu Guedes de Carvalho, and a girl, named Maria Pereira Guedes de Carvalho.

She was the author of the staging and presentation of the play "O Crime de Arronches" in the village of Arronches.
In 2010, Isabel participated in the play "Blackbird", by David Harrower, and staged by her husband, Tiago Guedes, at the Teatro Nacional São João (TNSJ), located in the portuguese city of Porto.

In 2011, at the Portuguese Author Awards Gala, the Portuguese Society of Authors and Radio and Television of Portugal (RTP), she was nominated and voted for the Best Actress award. Then, she won and received the same award.

"O Coro dos Amantes" is a short film also directed by Tiago Guedes, and performed by Isabel Abreu and Gonçalo Waddington, which premiered in October 2015.
She also participated in the play "Três Dedos Abaixo do Joelho", staged by Tiago Rodrigues, where she collaborated again with Gonçalo Waddington.

In 2016, she played the villain's role "Narcisa Severo" in the Portuguese telenovela "Rainha das Flores", previously broadcast on the third portuguese generalist TV channel, SIC.

In May 2017, Isabel was nominated to the Portuguese Golden Globe Awards in the category of Best Actress of Theatre, and she won as well as received that award at the same gala of the Portuguese Golden Globes, for her role in "Um Diário de Preces", built from many texts written by Flannery O'Connor and staged by Miguel Loureiro at the Centro Cultural de Belém (CCB), in Lisbon, in the Autumn 2016, and where she read and interpreted those texts of the female American writer through conversations with God, in a way to understand the world.