Maeve Jinkings

In this Portuguese name, the first or maternal family name is Jinkings and the second or paternal family name is Melo Silva.

Maeve Jinkings
Jinkings in 2016
Born	(1976-08-04) 4 August 1976 (age 48) Brasília, Federal District, Brazil
Occupation	Actress
Years active	2001–present
Website	maevejinkings.com

Maeve Jinkings Melo Silva (born 4 August 1976) is a Brazilian actress.

Early life

Jinkings was born in Brasilia, Brazil's capital, the daughter of a merchant and a photojournalist. At the age of five she moved with her mother to Belém, Pará, where she grew up and graduated in Social Communication. When she was 22, she went to São Paulo to study drama at the CPT (Centro de Pesquisa Teatral -Center for Theater Research) headed by director Antunes Filho.^[1] She was also approved at EAD – Escola de Arte Dramática (School of Dramatic Arts) of the University of São Paulo.

She is of African-Brazilian and Scottish descent, with some English ancestry from her maternal grandfather.^[2]

Career

Jinkings' first experience in cinema was in the 2007 feature film Falsa Loura by Carlos Reichenbach. In 2009 she made a short film, Passageira S8º, in Recife. Her breakout was in 2011, with Neighbouring Sounds, directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho.^[3] She would work with Mendonça Filho again in Aquarius.^[4] With the 2012 production Amor Plástico e Barulho, she won the Best Actress Award in the 46th Festival de Brasília and the Brazilian Film Festival of Toronto. Jinkings also worked as a casting associate in the films Sem Coração and Big Jato.

Her debut on television was in 2015, in the Rede Globo telenovela A Regra do Jogo.^[5]

Filmography

Cinema

Year	Title	Role	Note
2001	Dias	Dublê de Patrícia	Short film
2007	Falsa Loura	Ligia
2011	Passageira S8º		Short film
2013	Boa Sorte Meu Amor	Juliana
2013	Era Uma Vez Eu, Verônica	Paciente
2013	O Som ao Redor	Bia
2014	Estátua!	Isabel	Short film
2014	Loja de Répteis	Cláudia	Short film
2015	Amor, Plástico e Barulho	Jaqueline
2016	Boi Neon	Galega
2016	Aquarius	Ana Paula
2017	Açúcar	Bethânia
2017	Coiote	Esposa de André
2017	Mato Seco em Chamas
2017	Terra Treme		Short film
2018	Guaxuma		Short film
2022	Charcoal (Carvão)	Irene
2023	Toll (Pedágio)	Suellen

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2015–16	A Regra do Jogo	Domingas Moraes
2017	Cidade Proibida	Madame	Episódio: "3"
2018	Lama dos Dias		Participação

References

1. "Maeve Jinkings questiona a situação da mulher dentro e fora da tela". O Globo (in Brazilian Portuguese). 15 November 2015. Retrieved 26 November 2017.
2. "Maeve Jinkings declara sua paixão pelo Recife". 28 October 2013.
3. "Ao redor de Maeve Jinkings – Papo de Cinema". www.papodecinema.com.br (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 26 November 2017.
4. "RFI CONVIDA – Maeve Jinkings: "Brasil hoje vive perversão maquiada de legitimidade"". RFI (in Brazilian Portuguese). 1 October 2016. Retrieved 26 November 2017.
5. Pernambuco, Diario de (30 August 2015). "Maeve Jinkings comenta personagem em A Regra do Jogo: Viverá muitos conflitos em uma relação abusiva". Diário de Pernambuco (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 26 November 2017.

External links

• Official site
• Maeve Jinkings at IMDb