Leonor Silveira

Leonor da Silveira Moreno e Lemos Gomes is a Portuguese film actress, known simply as Leonor Silveira. She became known through her long partnership with director Manoel de Oliveira, starting with The Cannibals in 1988. Leonor Silveira appears nude in A Divina Comedia, released in 1991. She was born on October 28, 1970, in Lisbon, Portugal. After that first film, she went on to act in most of the movies Oliveira made. That steady work with one director became the defining thread of her screen career. She remains closely tied to his body of work in Portuguese cinema.