Abdias Nascimento
Actor
Biography
Abdias do Nascimento (March 14, 1914 – May 23, 2011) was a prominent African Brazilian scholar, writer, visual artist, politician, poet, actor, playwright, and Pan-African activist, who created the Black Experimental Theater (1944) and the Black Arts Museum (1950), organized the National Convention of Brazilian Blacks (1946), the First Congress of Brazilian Blacks (1950), and the Third Congress of Black Culture in the Americas (1982). Professor Emeritus, State University of New York at Buffalo, he was the first Afro-Brazilian member of Congress to champion black people's human and civil rights in the National Legislature, where in 1983 he presented the first Brazilian proposals for affirmative action legislation.
Filmography
The Man of The Sputnik
as Chico 1959
Five Times Favela
as (segment "Escola de Samba Alegria de Viver") 1962
Abolition
as Himself 1988
Ôrí
as Self 1989
Exu Rei - Abdias do Nascimento
as Himself 2017
Othelo The Great
as Self (archive footage) 2024
Negro em Mim
as Self (archive footage) 2020
CINEMA NOIR
2004
Abdias do Nascimento - Memória Negra
as Self 2008
Fala Mangueira!
as Self 1983
De Cabral a George Floyd: Onde Arde o Fogo Sagrado da Liberdade
as Self 2020