Carmen Santos | |
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Santos in Sangue Mineiro
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Born |
Vila Flor, Portugal |
8 June 1904
Died | 24 September 1952 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
(aged 48)
Other names | Maria do Carmo Santos Gonçalves |
Occupation | Director, Producer, Screenwriter, Actress |
Years active | 1919-1952 (film) |
Carmen Santos (1904–1952) was a Portuguese-born Brazilian actress and film producer. Santos began acting at the age of fifteen, and started producing films from 1930 onwards with Blood of Minas Gerais. She founded her own film studio Brasil Vita Filmes in Rio de Janeiro. Santos directed the 1948 film Minas Conspiracy, in which she also starred.