Personal Info
Birth date
1976-11-30 (48 Years)
Gender
Female
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Amadora, Portugal
Also known as
-Carla Chambel
Biography
Carla Chambel was born on November 30, 1976 in Amadora, Portugal. She is known for her work on Porque Odeias o teu Irmão? (2020), Quarta Divisão (2013) and Se Eu Fosse Ladrão... Roubava (2013)
Filmography
Nunca Digas Adeus
NYR
Overview:
Vera de Almeida Barreto highlights her choices as a woman dedicated to family, sacrificing herself to support her husband's career and raise their three children. Upon discovering Lourenço's affair with lawyer Daniela Lopes (Rita Salema), a younger woman, Vera reevaluates her life, questioning her role as a woman and facing a lack of support from her children in this challenging situation. The plot becomes even more complex when Vera falls in love with a younger man, challenging societal norms and exposing the double standards surrounding age differences in relationships.Sweet Strawberries
5.4
Overview:
When the school year starts at Barra Secondary school, a big artistic contest is launched to find the new talents of tomorrow. All students are excited, but a string of mysterious disappearances preceded by cyberbullying will disturb this cheerful excitement and divide the students. Everyone has something to hide, so everyone could be the next one to disappear...Naked City
6
Overview:
Showing reality like it is... What happens when a promising and smart young woman is suddenly called upon to lead he most sophisticated police force in the country. To Ana Belmonte, this is the promotion of her lifetime, to the Criminal Police, this is a shake-up in their deep-seated hierarchy. This young inspector will be confronted with crimes that are tough to crack, where everyone is a suspect and leads can lead to the most unexpected places. But she’ll also have to face the jealousy and anger within her own department, where there are as many allies as there are enemies, and she’s a woman in a men’s world. Having been promoted by her former stepfather and national director Alberto Machado, Ana is going to permanently change the lives of those around her, whether they like it or not.Lucia of Fatima
7.5
Overview:
Lucia of Fatima takes us back to the beginning of 20th century, allowing us to trace the whole journey of the girl behind the religious figure. During her childhood, the Fatima prophet was arrested, submitted to cruel interrogations, taken away from her family and denied the right to her own identity. Lucia resisted it all and kept her story alive. She was the guardian of the secret.Pedro e Inês
NYR
Overview:
Pedro e Inês is a Portuguese television series first aired on RTP1 in 2005, based on the story of Peter I of Portugal and Inês de Castro.O Último Tesouro
6
Overview:
The discovery of a dagger from the XIX century, with the localization of a great treasure, involves Pedro, a university history professor in the greatest adventure of all time.The Delta Project
NYR
Overview:
Violeta is a young girl in transition from adolescence to adulthood. Suffering for years from a deep depression, she lives with her father, who spends most of his time locked in the attic of their house, in a small village. One night, Violeta has an unusually vivid dream about her father, where he says goodbye to her, whispering the cryptic word "LIRA". That morning, Violeta wakes up to the tragic news that her father was at hospital in a coma, after having jumped off a cliff. Violeta becomes obsessed with finding out what is behind her father's alleged suicide attempt, and the meaning of "LIRA". As she gets deeper and deeper into the Dream World, Violeta will find clues to what happened to her father, uncover ruthless government experiments, develop unimaginable psychic abilities, and come face to face with a mysterious and deadly dimension called the ‘Ether’.Welcome to Beirais
7
Overview:
Diogo Almada is a successful account manager at a telecommunications company who is struggling with serious stress and anxiety issues due to the constant state of pressure he lives in. His situation becomes worse when he suffers a stroke which puts him in hospital. There, doctors tell him that if he doesn't slow down things could become much worse for him in the future. He also meets the owner of a vegetables and herbs greenery in Beirais, a small village in the midlands, who is looking to sell it. Diogo then decides to buy him out and risk it as a farmer himself. He wants his girlfriend Teresa to come along with him, but she refuses to leave Lisbon due to her career and also because she doesn't want to give up her city comforts. But Diogo decides to move to Beirais anyway, where he is faced with an entirely different reality from what he’s used to.Fatima
7.223
Overview:
In 1917, outside the parish of Fátima, Portugal, a 10-year-old girl and her two younger cousins witness multiple visitations of the Virgin Mary, who tells them that only prayer and suffering will bring an end to World War I. As secularist government officials and Church leaders try to force the children to recant their story, word of the sighting spreads across the country, inspiring religious pilgrims to flock to the site in hopes of witnessing a miracle..Gigola
3.5
Overview:
George, a charismatic and adventurous young woman, born from an old, catholic family, falls in love, in her teens, with a female teacher named Sybil. Devastated by her lover's eventual suicide, some years later, George embarks on an exciting and reckless journey to the depths of Pigalle's nightlife, circa 1960. After an encounter with a very wealthy, still attractive, but older woman, Odete, who offers her money and gifts in return for sexual favours, George becomes Gigola, a kind of gigolo for women only.If I Were a Thief... I'd Steal
5.4
Overview:
1920s. Vitalino, a small farmer from São Vicente sees his father die of the epidemic which decimated the country. Some years later, of all the brothers, Vitalino is the strongest and takes his father’s place in the house. But the village is too small for his aspirations and he decides to head to Brazil, leaving his sisters in charge of the household. In parallel with Vitalino’s story, If I Were a Thief… I’d Steal portrays the world of Paulo Rocha rummaging through his films and ghosts over the years.The Heart's Root
5.7
Overview:
Set in the Lisbon during the festivities of Saint Anthony, the patron saint of lovers and the old town. The story is about Cato, a nationalist politician who is charismatic and unscrupulous. He obsessively pursues Silvia, a mystical and mysterious young transvestite whom he meets at the festival. When Silvia runs into Vicente, a policeman who arrests transvestites and threatens them, Silvia must look towards blackmail to save herself. Compromising photos of Cato start to emerge among opposition parties and he must do all in his power to save his political career.Amadeo
6.6
Overview:
Amadeo: a mysteriously restless and indefatigable man as if always sensing brevity of the time he had left. An artist out of definition, whose painting questions the painting itself, indomitable, scandalous and misunderstood. For being «Infinitely» according Almada, is someone who never had the time within him. How many lives are there in Amadeo de Souza Cardoso’s brief life?Bad
5.7
Overview:
Concerns an Irish woman, Cathy (Pauline Cadell), who dearly loves her Portuguese lawyer husband, Pedro (Rui Morisson); however, unbeknownst to her, he engages in one tryst after another. Cathy soon finds herself trying to help a young delinquent get off heroin, while the youth's desperate mother joins a weird religious cult. In other segments, an elderly man is nearly driven mad with grief at the loss of his granddaughter in a train station, while a down-and-out jeweler ushers the young girl to a hotel room.Camarate
7.375
Overview:
In 1980, a small plane carrying the Prime Minister, the Defense Minister and six others crashed during takeoff in Camarate, Portugal, killing all on board. The police investigation decided it was an accident caused by pilot error. But controversy raged for twenty years, and the Parliament investigated it no less than six times. Finally, in 2000, in response to a suit by the families of the survivors, the High Court had to decide whether to open a criminal investigation, or close the case forever.The Mystery of Sintra
5.4
Overview:
Summer of 1870. Two writers, Eça de Queiroz and Ramalho Ortigão, decide to write a four-handed whodunit for the daily "Diário de Notícias". Could it be that the story they wrote as fiction is based on a real case? This question fuels the conflict between the two writers and drives them to a nearly fatal duel. Lisbon is in commotion. One crime follows another in a story in which love is stronger than tradition. Everything happens at frenzied pace, as in a game.Quarta Divisão
5.6
Overview:
The film tells the story of Martin, a child of nine years, who one day disappears from private school where he studied. Police mounted a major search operation across the city to find him. All hypotheses are possible: What happened?Quando o Diabo Reza
NYR
Overview:
On one side, a bunch of crooks. On the other, two sisters. Nothing unites them except an idea: to relieve the bank account of an old man, who happens to be the sisters' father. The crooks devise a plan to gain his trust and swindle him. The sisters make plans for the last years of their father's life without neglecting the small detail of the inheritance. Each one in their own way, they all dream of the possibilities that the old man's money could bring them. But this one will not be easy prey.Acting
2025IT´S CHICO TIME! as Patrícia
2024The Waning Sky as Ana
2023Sweet Strawberries (2 Episodes) as Marlene Gomes
2023Lucia of Fatima (3 Episodes) as Irmã Teresa Hall
2023Insanely in Love as Mãe
2023The Delta Project (8 Episodes) as Isabel
2023Amadeo as Sarah Affonso
2022Quando o Diabo Reza as Ester
2021Irregular as Cristina
2020Fronteira as Benilde
2020Why Do You Hate Your Brother? as Unknown
2020Fatima as Olímpia
2020Terra Nova (13 Episodes) as Joana
2018Acts of Cinema as Unknown
2018Horizontes as Susana
2017Exodus as Maria
2017Water Mirror (327 Episodes) as Eunice Gomes
2017Zeus as Quitéria
2016Mulheres Assim (1 Episode) as Médica
2015Will for Revenge (296 Episodes) as Dália
2013If I Were a Thief... I'd Steal as Unknown
2013Welcome to Beirais (13 Episodes) as Marina Marques de Jesus
2013Quarta Divisão as Helena Tavares
2012Operation Autumn as Iva Delgado
2012Crowned Maria as Maria Coroada
2011Maternidade (1 Episode) as Unknown
2011O Último Tesouro (13 Episodes) as Carla
2010Gigola as Joelle
2010Naked City (13 Episodes) as Bárbara
2010O Dez as Rita (segment "O Barbeiro")
2010Optical Illusions as Anita
2008Amália as Celeste Rodrigues, Amália' sister
2007Resistirei (197 Episodes) as Júlia Mascarenhas
2007Trial as Mariana
2007The Mystery of Sintra as Countess (voice)
2007Dinner in Lisbon as Teresa
200620.13: Purgatory as Esperança
2006Quando os Lobos Uivam (13 Episodes) as Rosa
200698 Octanas as Maria
2005Pedro e Inês (13 Episodes) as Isabel
2005Adriana as Maria
2005Até Amanhã, Camaradas (6 Episodes) as Lisete
2005João Semana (13 Episodes) as Francisquinha
2004Andre Valente as Rapariga da Caixa
2002Jogo da Glória as Lurdes
2001Nunca Digas Adeus (182 Episodes) as Unknown
2001Camarate as Defendant
2000Super Pai (1 Episode) as Mariana
2000The Heart's Root as Unknown
2000Bad as Jeweller's girl
2000Crescei e Multiplicai-vos as Unknown