Eduardo Viana

Eduardo Viana was born in Lisbon on 3 May 1955. He studied classical singing, and in 1985 he joined the chorus of the Teatro Nacional de São Carlos, Portugal's national opera house in Lisbon. According to Portuguese Wikipedia he took part in every season there from 1985, so that opera remained a constant in his working life alongside his career as an actor.

Viana's acting career spanned theatre, film and television. On screen he appeared in Manoel de Oliveira's film "Francisca" (1981) and in a long run of RTP productions in the early 1980s, among them "Gervásio não vai ao ginásio" (1981), "Vila Faia" (1982), "Origens" (1983), "Chuva na Areia" (1984) and "Palavras Cruzadas" (1986).

In the 1990s he became a familiar face in Portuguese television drama. He was part of the regular cast of the RTP serials "Desencontros" (1994 to 1995), as Pinguinhas, "Primeiro Amor" (1995 to 1996), as Júlio, and "Filhos do Vento" (1996 to 1997), as Osório. In 1998 he had a leading role as Ferrand d'Almeida in "A Hora da Liberdade", SIC's dramatisation of the Carnation Revolution, and in 1999 he joined the regular cast of the SIC comedy "Capitão Roby". He also appeared in "Polícias", "Esquadra de Polícia", "A Lenda da Garça", "Médico de Família" and "Jornalistas".

In the 2000s he played Marcelo in the TVI telenovela "Anjo Selvagem" (2001 to 2002) and Raul Pinto in "Sentimentos" (2009 to 2010), and made guest or supporting appearances in "Super Pai", "Inspector Max", "Floribella", "Chiquititas", "Casos da Vida", "Morangos com Açúcar", "Liberdade 21", the miniseries "Conexão", "Laços de Sangue", "Doce Tentação" and "O Bairro". His farewell to television was the SIC telenovela "Sol de Inverno" in 2013.

Viana was also a producer of classical music theatre. He staged several Offenbach operettas sung and acted in Portuguese, and productions of music by the Portuguese composers Leal Moreira, Marcos Portugal and Augusto Machado, and by Massenet, Ibert and Ravel.

Eduardo Viana was married to the Portuguese actress Arminda Taveira. He kept his private life largely out of the public eye.

Eduardo Viana died on Saturday 17 October 2026, aged 71. A family source told Correio da Manhã that he had fallen ill suddenly and died within a short time. The place of death was not reported. News of his death was published on 18 October 2026 by Correio da Manhã and picked up by other Portuguese outlets, including A Televisão and Dioguinho. Funeral arrangements had not been announced at the time of the first reports.

Over more than 30 years Viana appeared in dozens of Portuguese television productions, from the earliest RTP telenovelas of the 1980s to the SIC and TVI fiction boom of the 2000s, and was remembered by the Portuguese press as a face the wider public knew well from television. His long service in the chorus of the Teatro Nacional de São Carlos from 1985 and his productions of operetta and Portuguese classical repertoire made him part of Lisbon's musical life as well as its screen culture.