
Mauro Soares is an awarded Portuguese actor. Having started his career in theater during his Integrated Masters in Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, he starred in films such as António One Two Three (IFFR 2017), Sol Alegria (IFFR 2018), Bela Mandil (Viennale 2018) and Half a Light-Year (IDFA 2021), having produced the latter. Mauro co-wrote and starred in Rain Hums a Lullaby to Pain (IFFR 2020), Life Lasts Two Days (FIDMarseille 2022) which he also produced, is a Berlinale Talents Acting Studio alumnus of 2019, part of the cast of The Portuguese Woman (Berlinale 2019) and 1st Assistant Director in The Kegelstatt Trio (Berlinale 2022).

Foreign Desert
2020 · as Gustavo

Antonio One Two Three
2019 · as António

Latin Blood – The Ballad of Ney Matogrosso
2025 · as João Ricardo

Greice
2024 · as Afonso / Funcionário do Consulado

Rain Hums a Lullaby to Pain
2020

Sol Alegria
2018 · as Son

Life Lasts Two Days
2022

The Portuguese Woman
2019 · as Cavaleiro Jovem

Bela Mandil
2019

Half a Light-Year
2021

The Useless
2019

Human Flowers of Flesh
2023 · as Mauro

Fuck the Polis
2025

Um Momento de Clareza em Meio ao Caos das Coisas
2021 · as Self

The Kegelstatt Trio
2022 · as Self

Hello My First Love, Over and Out
2018