Gonçalo Waddington is a Portuguese actor, theater and film director, playwright, and screenwriter born in Lisbon in 1977. He studied theater and performance at Drama School in Cascais from 1994 to 1997. Prior to completing his studies, he made his television debut in 1996 in the TV show Polícias, a police precinct series.
Waddington's film debut came in 2006 with Marco Martins's Alice, and he also played a part in Martins's 2016 movie, Saint George. His short film Nameless premiered at the 2010 edition of the Las Palmas de Gran Canaria International Film Festival, while Immaculate premiered at the 2013 edition of the IndieLisboa film festival.
As a playwright, Waddington's debut was Albertine, The Celestial Continent, based on Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time, which he also directed and starred in alongside his longtime companion, Carla Maciel. He co-created the play MacBain with Carla Maciel, from a text written specifically for the two actors by Dutch playwright Gerardjan Rijnders. It premiered in October 2013 at the Teatro Maria Matos in Lisbon.
Waddington wrote and directed the first part of a tetralogy called Our Favorite Sport, subtitled Present, which premiered in the Alkantara and FITEI festivals and was published as a book in the same year. The second part, subtitled Distant Future, premiered in 2017 at the Teatro Municipal São Luiz in Lisbon.
Gonçalo has appeared in films such as Blood Curse and Noise, directed by Frederico Serra and Tiago Guedes, and also directed by Tiago Guedes in a 2016 production of Henrik Ibsen's The Wild Duck at the Teatro Nacional D. Maria II. He has also directed and starred in a production of Ibsen's Rosmersholm at the Centro Cultural de Belém, first in February 2011 and then on a nationwide tour.
In addition to his film and theater work, Waddington has appeared in TV miniseries such as Noite Sangrenta and has directed and starred in a production of Ibsen's Rosmersholm at the Centro Cultural de Belém.
