Ana Vilaça

Ana Vilaça was born in Porto in 1991 and trained as an actress in Portugal and London. From 2007 to 2010, she studied at the ACE Arts School in Porto before completing a degree in Acting at the Academy of Live and Recorded Arts (ALRA) in London. After returning to Portugal, she made her film debut in 2015 with the short film Marasmo, and has since worked primarily in film and television. An actress and writer, she co-produced and starred in Pedro Cabeleira’s short film By Flávio, which was selected for the Berlinale in 2022 and won the Sophia Award for Best Fiction Short Film in 2023. In 2025, she made her feature-film debut in a leading role as Laura in Pedro Cabeleira’s Entroncamento, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival before screening nationally at LEFFEST. The film went on to receive the Best Director award at the Caminhos do Cinema Português festival.