Biography

Clara D'Ovar was born on November 4, 1925 in Rua Padre Ferrer 1, Ovar, Portugal. She was an actress and producer, known for Le pas de trois (1964), Merci Natercia! (1960) and The Season for Love (1961). She died on June 30, 2002 in Quinta de S. Miguel, Ovar, Portugal.

In the early 1950s, Clara d'Ovar opened a small restaurant in Paris called Lisboa, renamed Le Fado / Uma Casa Portuguesa, where she sang the national song, Fado, and had other invited fadistas. This venture proved to be successful for years.

After the failure of Merci Natercia! (1960), that was shown in Portugal and Brazil in a version edited by herself a couple of years later, Clara d'Ovar worked as producer in two other Portuguese-French co-productions that did not materialize: La Barque Sur l'Ocean, directed by Maurice Clavel, and Cartas da Religiosa Portuguesa, directed by António Lopes Ribeiro.

Worked in Paris with her brother Zeni d'Ovar since the 1950s, who was also a fado singer and an admirer and friend of Amália Rodrigues to whom he dedicated a book of poems he wrote.