Beatriz da Conceição, born in Milharado, in Mafra, daughter of a miller father, arrived in Lisbon with her mother, in 1912, at the age of 4, in search of a better life. With the beginning of the First World War, in 1914, her mother worked as a seamstress at Casão Militar, and, shortly afterwards, went to Figueiró dos Vinhos, where Beatriz allegedly served as a model for the painter José Malhoa, in an oil painting. where it featured braids, a bow and guipure collar. In that location, the mother met her first stepfather, Manuel Jorge, a native of Casal de São Simão and a soldier from Infantry Regiment No. 15, with the wedding taking place in Tomar, where the regiment was based. At the age of 6, he went to Tomar, where he remained until he was 12. Due to a new separation, he came to Lisbon in 1920, in a washerwoman's cart, spending the first night with his mother on a bench on Avenida da Liberdade, then going to live in Costa of the Castle. Beatriz worked as a gatherer, maid and embroiderer. She learned to read and write on her own at the age of 13. In 1924 he went on a 'tour' to Brazil (with businessman António de Macedo having to falsify documents to be able to transport such a young chorister...). Beatriz quickly made herself noticed in such a way that, when the company staged, in São Paulo, the play “As Máscaras”, in homage to the Brazilian writer Menotti Del Picchia, she was one of the performers. And, when she returned to Portugal in 1925, it was as an actress that she appeared in the magazine “Ditosa Pátria”, on T. Trindade. He then performed some operettas and zarzuelas, but it was in the magazine that he shined best: “Fox-Trot”, premiered at T. Joaquim de Almeida, “Olarila” (T. Maria Vitória) and, in 1927, “Revista de Lisboa” (Salão Foz) and, above all, “Sete e Meio” (T. Apolo) where he appears for the first time with 'Louise Brooks' hair that would become a trademark. Meanwhile, in 1926, she accepted a small role (as a cabaret client) in Rino Lupo's film “The Devil in Lisbon”. The tape was never truly completed, although a first production was shown, for guests, in 1928. This is how Beatriz Costa debuted in cinema.
Remember here one of the most iconic images of our Beatriz Costa, in Portuguese Cinema, Canção de Lisboa, directed by José Cottinelli Telmo.