Maria do Céu Ribeiro is an actress. She completed the acting course at the Academia Contemporânea do Espectáculo (ACE), Porto, in 1993. She started her professional career in 1994 with William Shakespeare’s “The Tempest”, directed by Silviu Purcărete, at Teatro Nacional S. João. She is one of the founders of the theatre company As Boas Raparigas, and she featured in the plays it presented, such as Javier Tomeo’s “Historias Mínimas”, Alberto Moravia’s “Paradise”, Plato’s “Phaedo”, and Howard Barker’s “Dead Hands”, “Deep Wives/Shallow Animals” and “Und”, all directed by Rogério de Carvalho, among many others. She has been teaching voice/oral expression at ACE since 1998.