Abdias Nascimento
Acting
13
Acting Credits
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, ...
Known For

Ôrí
Self

Fala Mangueira!
Self

Emicida: AmarElo - It's All for Yesterday
Self (archive footage)

O Homem do Sputnik
Chico

Othelo The Great
Self (archive footage)

De Cabral a George Floyd: Onde Arde o Fogo Sagrado da Liberdade
Self

Five Times Favela
(segment "Escola de Samba Alegria de Viver")

Abdias do Nascimento - Memória Negra
Self
Filmography

Othelo The Great
2024
as Self (archive footage)

Negro em Mim
2020
as Self (archive footage)

De Cabral a George Floyd: Onde Arde o Fogo Sagrado da Liberdade
2020
as Self

Emicida: AmarElo - It's All for Yesterday
2020
as Self (archive footage)

Exu Rei - Abdias do Nascimento
2017
as Himself

Abdias do Nascimento - Memória Negra
2008
as Self
CINEMA NOIR
2004

Ôrí
1989
as Self

Abolition
1988
as Himself

Fala Mangueira!
1983
as Self
Tribunal Bertha Lutz
1982

Five Times Favela
1962
as (segment "Escola de Samba Alegria de Viver")

O Homem do Sputnik
1959
as Chico