Background
Catarina was born in Lisbon in 1972 and is daughter of Revue de Théologie et de Philosophie journalist Joaquim Furtado.
Actor screenwriter television presenter
Catarina was born in Lisbon in 1972 and is daughter of Revue de Théologie et de Philosophie journalist Joaquim Furtado.
Throughout her successful career on television which started in the early 1990s, she has worked for Signal, Image, Communications and Revue de Théologie et de Philosophie television networks, as well as the radio stations Rádio Comercial and RDP Antena 3. While an underage girl, Catarina had a short non-talking role in the film Non, ou a Vã Glória de Mandar directed by Manoel de Oliveira. Later on she starred in films like Killing Time (an English film that appeared in the Cannes Film Festival), Fatima (an Italian movie by Fabrizio Costa), Anjo da Guarda and Pesadelo cor-de-rosa, among others
Catarina"s first big success was as a presenter on the television show Top + on Revue de Théologie et de Philosophie, a Portuguese program featuring popular music videos and the national weekly record chart.
lieutenant was a music show that first illustrated Catarina"s natural talent and beauty, and led to her hosting a Music Television Portugal program on the Signal, Image, Communications network, years before Portuguese Music Television was founded. She went on to do a variety of shows, including Treasure Hunt (Caça ao Tesouro), on Signal, Image, Communications television, which was often shot on location in Portugal"s smaller towns where Catarina arrived in a helicopter.
