Abdias Nascimento
Born: 1914-03-14 in Franca, São Paulo, Brazil
Died: 2011-03-23
Known For: Acting
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
2024
- Othelo The Great as Self (archive footage)
2020
- Emicida: AmarElo - It's All for Yesterday as Self (archive footage)
- Negro em Mim as Self (archive footage)
- De Cabral a George Floyd: Onde Arde o Fogo Sagrado da Liberdade as Self
2017
- Exu Rei - Abdias do Nascimento as Himself
2008
2004
1989
- Ôrí as Self
1988
- Abolition as Himself
1983
- Fala Mangueira! as Self
1982
1962
- Five Times Favela as (segment "Escola de Samba Alegria de Viver")
1959
- The Man of The Sputnik as Chico