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Born in June 1983, in Lisbon. Only daughter of parents involved in audiovisual production. She is one of the most talented Portuguese actresses. He has a long and brilliant career in television, cinema and theater, only interrupted by a few sabbatical years in Macau. Margarida Vila-Nova was a guest on Geração 80, by Francisco Pedro Balsemão, in one of the most listened to episodes in 2025. Remember it here
Born in June 1983, in Lisbon. Only daughter of parents involved in audiovisual production. She is one of the most talented Portuguese actresses. He has a long and brilliant career in television, cinema and theater, only interrupted by a few sabbatical years in Macau. There, she interrupted her career as an actress to dedicate herself to “Excel sheets” in a Portuguese grocery store that she opened, with Portuguese products, but which she doesn’t miss.
“I wanted to take a break from my life there. I had already played the rich, the poor, the good, the bad, the villain, the heroine, I was exhausted professionally”, she says. She grew up with a demanding mother and surrounded by adults: “I think I was spoiled a lot, but because I grew up surrounded by a lot of love, but I had a relatively harsh upbringing. I have a much harder time imposing limits and limits on my children than my parents put on me”, she admits.
For his children, he only asks that they grow up in “a world in which there is equality, respect, empathy, solidarity. “I want my children to have admiration not only for their mother, but also for all women.” I want them to respect their wife, their girlfriend, the daughters they have, with all the respect and with all the education that any human being, regardless of their sex, deserves to be treated”, he appeals in this conversation with Francisco Pedro Balsemão.
Free and dreamy, the 80s in Portugal were marked by the consolidation of democracy and an opening to the world driven by membership of the EEC. These were years of great creativity, the impact of which still lasts today. Despite the mustaches, the wads and the perms, did the 80s give the world the best harvest ever? In this podcast, we give voice to a series of Portuguese people born in that brilliant decade, in a return to the future guided by Francisco Pedro Balsemão, born in 1980.
