Actor · Photographer · Writer
Miguel
Coias
Film · Television · Stage · Voice
RADA · AADA · New York Conservatory
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Film · Television · Stage · Voice
RADA · AADA · New York Conservatory
"To be great, be whole; Exclude nothing, exaggerate nothing that is not you. Be whole in everything. Put all you are Into the smallest thing you do." — Fernando Pessoa
Represented by Maude Kaplan Management
[email protected] · (212) 873-4303
Miguel Coias is a New York City-based actor working in the US and internationally in film, television, and voice. Recent credits include The White House Plumbers on HBO.
Originally from Lisbon, Portugal, his young life was shaped by the sea, mountains, sports, and an immersion in world cinema. It was through American films and classic movies that he perfected his English and found his path to acting.
Miguel studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and New York Conservatory for Dramatic Arts in New York City. In addition to Portuguese and English, he speaks Spanish, French, and Italian.
His strength and versatility as an actor stem from a sincere desire to study human nature and an intuitive understanding of the psyches and movement languages that drive each character. His studies, travels, and projects have taken him to France, Spain, Morocco, Tunisia, Holland, Germany, New Orleans, and California in pursuit of this body of work.
Formed through an embodied process informed by his work with acting teacher Julia Carey — drawn dynamically from the people he's known on the streets of New York and the world — his characters carry the weight of lived experience.
Shakespeare Summer School · Acting, Movement, Voice, Stage Combat, Period Dance
Julia Carey (Character Process · Camera Process) · John Tyrrell (Acting) · Voice, Improv, Scene Study
Acting, Speech, Vocal Production, Williamson Technique, Dance, Singing
Street photography is the art of finding the extraordinary within the ordinary — a tradition carried forward by the giants who shaped it. The unflinching humanity of Dorothea Lange and Gordon Parks, the quiet poetry of Vivian Maier and Saul Leiter, the geometric precision of Henri Cartier-Bresson, the raw energy of Garry Winogrand and Diane Arbus — these are the eyes that taught us how to see.
The epic social conscience of Sebastião Salgado and Jim Nachtwey, the lyrical color of Joel Meyerowitz and Steve McCurry, the democratic intimacy of Robert Frank, the luminous landscapes of Ansel Adams, the tender complexity of Dawoud Bey — together they form a lineage of bearing witness.
These images are an extension of that tradition — an attempt to find meaning in the fleeting, the overlooked, the human.
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For representation enquiries, please contact Maude Kaplan Management at (212) 873-4303
