Nuno Roque

Nuno Roque is a Portuguese singer-songwriter, actor, film director and visual artist.

Child Star
His mother was a singer and a music-hall performer. He made his stage debut at Coliseu do Porto (Oporto Coliseum) at the age of three and began a successful career as a child singer. Throughout his early years, Nuno won several singing competitions and released his first album Brincar a Brincar in 1995. His main collaborator was producer Tony Lemos, a founding member of Eurodance Portuguese band Santamaria. Roque's repertoire was known for employing a variety of musical styles, most notably Pop.

Stage
In his teens, he suspended his musical career to study theatre and film in Portugal (at the Academia Contemporanea do Espectaculo - Escola de Artes), Brazil (where he was a student of Oscar-nominee Fabio Barreto at Casa Das Artes De Laranjeiras in Rio de Janeiro) and France, where he graduated from the famous École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq in Paris, studying physical theatre and other major dramatic territories, such as Melodrama, Mime, Tragedy, Commedia dell'arte, Clowning and Buffoon.

Roque's theatre credits include amongst others the first Portuguese production of "The Laramie Project" directed by Diogo Infante in 2005 playing Matthew Shepard's killer Aaron McKinney, and "C'était Marie-Antoinette" in 2009, in which he appeared with actress Natacha Régnier.

In 2011, his performance in Irina Brook's "Peter Pan" at Théâtre de Paris was widely praised.

In 2009, he appeared in Theâtre du Chatelet Opera production of "The Magic Flute" by Mozart and in Opéra National de Montpellier's production of "Dido and Aeneas", playing The Queen of Witches. In France, he has also worked as a mime and a singer in opera productions at Le Corum, Opéra National de Montpellier and Opéra de Marseille.

Discography

 * 1995 : Brincar a Brincar' '(Portugal)
 * 1997 : Eu, o Cao e o Gato (Portugal)