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I Give You My Life
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
José Condessa
Cristiano "Cris"
54 eps
Mafalda Marafusta
Alice Menezes
54 eps
João Jesus
Tomás Menezes
54 eps
Joana de Verona
Sara Mota
54 eps
Alexandra Lencastre
Maria da Luz
54 eps
Diogo Infante
Vítor
54 eps
Ana Guiomar
Amália
54 eps
Diogo Amaral
David
54 eps
João Lagarto
Domingos Ferraz
54 eps
Sofia Grillo
Conceição "São"
54 eps
Guilherme Filipe
Afonso
54 eps
Susana Arrais
Simone Laia
54 eps
Fernando Rodrigues
Nelson Mota
54 eps
João Arrais
Bruno Jesus
54 eps
Rodrigo Trindade
Carlos
54 eps
Lucas Dutra
André
54 eps
Beatriz Costa
Melanie Santos
54 eps
Leonor Oliveira
Leonor Oliveira
54 eps
Salvador Biernat
Nicolau "Nico" Menezes
54 eps
António Aldeia
Mecânico
54 eps
Juana Pereira da Silva
Vanda
54 eps
Joana Lisboa
Olga
54 eps
Teresa Côrte-Real
Inácia
54 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How I Give You My Life actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
I Give You My Life reads strongest on Emotional Weight, Humour and Tension.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
The story
What it's about
When their adopted son Nico is diagnosed with leukemia and needs a bone marrow transplant, Alice and Tomás are driven into a desperate search for a compatible donor, while concealing the truth about his adoption. With no match within the family, they are forced to locate Nico’s biological father, leading them to Cris, an unsuspecting mechanic whose life is upended by the revelation. As Cris forms a bond with Nico and becomes his only hope for survival, tensions escalate between the biological and adoptive parents. Old secrets resurface, and an unexpected love emerges between Alice and Cris, putting custody, loyalty, and the very definition of family to the test.
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
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