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Yahoo
6 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Veteran Independent Talent Agent Sara Puro-Steele Joins Portugal's Hit Management As Managing Director
EXCLUSIVE: Portuguese-based talent agency Hit Management has hired Sara Puro-Steele in the newly created role of Managing Director. Puro-Steele joins Hit Management after 17 years at the London-based Independent Talent Group. Puro-Steele is a dual Spanish-British national and fluent in Spanish, Portuguese, and English. She has represented actors such as Ariane Labed (September Says), Olga Kurylenko (Thunderbolts*), Jonas Nay (Deutschland 83), and Phil Dunster (Ted Lasso). More from Deadline 'The White Lotus' Season 3's Tayme Thapthimthong Signs With Artist International Group Richard Linklater's 'Nouvelle Vague' Draws Raft Of International Buyers For Goodfellas - Cannes Shaboozey Defends Megan Moroney After "Hateful Comments" Following AMA's Side-Eye: "Let's Not Twist The Message" Hit Management was co-founded by João Louro in 2011. The Lisbon-based company represents actors across film and television. Some of their clients include Afonso Pimentel, Inês Pires Tavares, Ricardo Pereira, Leonor Silveira, Simão Cayatte, and Laura Dutra. Hit Management also operates alongside its sister PR and advertising agency, mais que uma. Discussing the move, Puro-Steele said she has 'always had a passion for European talent.' 'The exceptional work of my clients in their home countries is precisely what makes them so attractive for international projects casting in the UK and the US,' she said. 'I'm excited by the opportunity to help guide HIT Management into its next chapter, expanding our reach and continuing to champion emerging and established creatives on the international stage.' Recently relocating from London to Lisbon, the company has said Puro-Steele's remit will be to oversee the agency's strategic growth ambitions, particularly its goal of elevating Portuguese and Iberian Peninsula talent on the global stage. Joao Louro, CEO, HIT Management, added: 'Sara's experience aligns perfectly with our mission to expand the global visibility of Portuguese talent. Her leadership will be instrumental as we work to position Portugal—and the wider Iberian region—as a rising hub in global entertainment.' Best of Deadline 'Hacks' Season 4 Release Schedule: When Do New Episodes Come Out? Everything We Know About 'Hacks' Season 4 So Far 'The Last Of Us': Differences Between HBO Series & Video Game Across Seasons 1 And 2
Vogue
16-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Vogue
Patsy Ferran Is Riding High
She's also been the Blanche DuBois to Paul Mescal's Stanley Kowalski in Rebecca Frecknall's revival of A Streetcar Named Desire, and turned up in the latest installment of Charlie Brooker's Black Mirror, playing an AI assistant in one of the anthology series' more emotional, meditative episodes. The Spanish-British actor says she felt apprehensive going into Streetcar's recent stint at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (before that, it had been a hit in the West End). 'We were taking one of the most-loved American plays of all time to New York as a bunch of Brits with quite an unconventional take on it,' she recalls. 'I was truly anticipating potential rejection from an American audience. I knew about going to New York for a year and a half, so I had a year and a half to mentally prepare for a panning.' Eventually, however, Ferran let herself see the experience 'as an experiment.' She explains: 'I thought, Let's just offer something with an open mind and an open heart and see what happens—and if they don't like it, that's totally okay! Cut to preview one, and the New York audience was so vocally generous.' The six-week run quickly sold out as reviewers raved about Ferran's revelatory take on the Southern belle. 'I remember after that first show, we were all staring at each other, wide-eyed on stage, thinking, Oh my God, I think they're loving this!' Ferran goes on. 'Being an actor is a strange thing, because you are presenting yourself as part of the art—you're collectively telling a story, but you're so personally involved. When something doesn't work, I can't help but take it a little personally. It's your face, your body, brain, and soul that's part of the story.' Streetcar is an intense play on its own, but to exit the stage door every night and be confronted with high-octane New York City, too, made the period perhaps the most feverish six weeks of her life. 'Thankfully, my body is very obedient when I have a job to do—and when the writing is so good, and your company of actors are so talented and generous, the job is easier... and dare I say it, fun,' Ferran says. 'But I couldn't have done another show [afterward]! I needed to lie down and not move.'
