Portuguese Actress, born in Cape Verde.

Cleo DIÁRA is an actress.

She is known for "O Riso e a Faca" - "Le Rire et le couteau" (2025), "O Vento Assobiando nas Gruas", de Jeanne Waltz (2023), "O Jardineiro do Convento/A Jardineira do Convento" (2023), "Vermelho Monet" (2022).

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Elite Lisbonne
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She won the Interpretation Award for the film "O Riso e a Faca (Le Rire et le couteau)" by Pedro Pinho, selected in a Certain Regard (Cannes 2025). This is the first time that a Portuguese production has won this prize.

The actress strongly expressed her gratitude to the jury and the Cannes Film Festival for this award and wanted to recall that she is "an immigrant in Portugal, at a time when immigrants are not welcome. " She added: "In general, I want all the black girls and women of the periphery to never forget that utopia is the last step before the possibility of reality," reports Sidney Cadot-Sambosi (special envoy, Africiné Magazine, Dakar).