Abdias Nascimento
March 14, 1914 (110 years old) in Franca, São Paulo, Brazil
Abdias do Nascimento (March 14, 1914 – May 23, 2011) was a prominent African Brazilian scholar, writer, visual artist, politician, poet, actor, playwright, and Pan-African activist, who created the Black Experimental Theater (1944) and the Black Arts Museum (1950), organized the National Convention of Brazilian Blacks (1946), the First Congress of Brazilian Blacks (1950), and the Third Congress of Black Culture in the Americas (1982). Professor Emeritus, State University of New York at Buffalo, he was the first Afro-Brazilian member of Congress to champion black people's human and civil rights in the National Legislature, where in 1983 he presented the first Brazilian proposals for affirmative action legislation.
Known For
Credits
- 2024 · Othelo The Great as Ele Mesmo (Imagem de Arquivo)
- 2020 · Emicida: AmarElo - It's All for Yesterday as Self (archive footage)
- 2020 · Negro em Mim as Self (archive footage)
- 2020 · De Cabral a George Floyd: Onde Arde o Fogo Sagrado da Liberdade as Self
- 2017 · Exu Rei - Abdias do Nascimento as Himself
- 2008 · Abdias do Nascimento - Memória Negra as Self
- 2004 · CINEMA NOIR as
- 1989 · Ôrí as Self
- 1988 · Abolition as Himself
- 1983 · Fala Mangueira! as Self
- 1962 · Cinco Vezes Favela as (segment "Escola de Samba Alegria de Viver")
- 1959 · The Man of The Sputnik as Chico