Abdias Nascimento
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- March 14, 1914
- Died
- March 23, 2011
- Birthplace
- Franca, São Paulo, Brazil
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
Othelo The Great 2024
as Self (archive footage)
Emicida: AmarElo - It's All for Yesterday 2020
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
Exu Rei - Abdias do Nascimento 2017
as Himself
Abdias do Nascimento - Memória Negra 2008
as Self
- CINEMA NOIR
CINEMA NOIR 2004
Actor
Ôrí 1989
as Self
Abolition 1988
as Himself
Fala Mangueira! 1983
as Self
- Tribunal Bertha Lutz
Tribunal Bertha Lutz 1982
Actor
Five Times Favela 1962
as (segment "Escola de Samba Alegria de Viver")
The Man of the Sputnik 1959
as Chico
Credits from TMDB.