Raquel Maria

Biography

Raquel Maria Cabrita dos Santos, known as Raquel Maria, was a Portuguese stage and screen actress born on May 18, 1946. She began her artistic training at the Cooperative of Portuguese Engravers in Lisbon, learning drawing, engraving, and serigraphy outside working hours. Her breakthrough role came with the play John Gabriel Borkman by Henrik Ibsen, which won several awards and was later televised.