Ângela Rita Clara de Almeida Pinto ComSE (15 November 1869 – 9 March 1925) was a Portuguese actress of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Ângela Rita Clara de Almeida Pinto was born on 15 November 1869, in the parish of Socorro in Lisbon, the capital of Portugal.

She then went to start her professional career in Porto, returning to Lisbon in 1889 where she had her debut there in October 1889 at the Teatro da Rua dos Condes.

[1][2] In 1903, Pinto joined the D. Maria II National Theatre, where her roles included that of "Goneril" in William Shakespeare's King Lear.

In 1910 she played the male lead in Shakespeare's Hamlet, in which she wore special shoes to increase her height by 3 centimetres.

[5] In 1923, Ângela Pinto was paralyzed on one side of her body after collapsing on the Teatro Politeama stage, where she was acting with the Rey Colaço-Robles Monteiro theatre company.

She was honoured by her colleagues at a benefit performance on 19 November 1923 at the Teatro de São Carlos and, in addition to the revenue from the show, her fellow actors persuaded the government to award her a pension.