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Catarina Furtado

Catarina Furtado is a TV host, actress, writer and documentary filmmaker from Portugal.
She is a tireless advocate for the rights of women and girls and has been a UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador since 2000. She holds the Commendation of the Order of Merit in Portugal, and was invited to become an MDG Champion by the UN Secretary-General in 2010.
In 2012, she founded the NGO “Corações Com Coroa,” which she still presides over today.
As a UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador, she regularly visits developing countries, meeting with local leaders, organizations, and the press and hearing the stories of local people. She talks at international conferences and media events, and is co-author of six series of the TV documentary “Principes do Nada”, where she tells real stories of people living in challenging situations around the world.
Catarina Furtado is the face of many Portuguese and international Campaigns about gender equality, human rights and development, and has written three books on related topics.

Diogo Infante Diogo Infante is one of Portugal’s best-loved television personalities and celebrities. He graduated from Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema. He has been developing his work as an actor in theatre, cinema, and television. He staged several shows and has recently made his directorial debut.
He was the Artistic Director of Teatro Municipal Maria Matos and then Teatro Nacional D. Maria II. In December 2017, he became the Artistic Director of Teatro da Trindade INATEL.
In 2012, at the invitation of Festival das Artes, he read, in the gardens of Quinta das Lágrimas in Coimbra, the epic poem of Álvaro de Campos “Ode Marítima”, which would eventually culminate in a show, directed by Natália Luiza and accompanied by guitar by João Gil. With “Ode Marítima”, he was on an international tour, passing through Seul, Tokio, Washington D.C, New York, Johanesburgo and Madrid.
He directed and co-starred in “Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf?” by Edward Albee, in 2017, and in “God of Carnage” by Yasmina Reza, in 2018, both at the stage of Teatro da Trindade. A highlight should also be given to his latest works as a protagonist in “Richard III” by William Shakespeare and “Love is so simple” by Noël Coward, the latter on stage until the 26th of June at Sala Carmen Dolores.