brazilian actor

Junqueira Reis and the second or paternal family name is Santoro. In this portuguese name, the beginning or enate kin name isand the moment or agnate class name is Rodrigo Junqueira Reis Santoro ( portuguese pronunciation : [ ʁoˈdɾiɡu ʒũ’kejɾɐ ‘hejs sɐ̃ˈtɔɾu ] ; born 22 August 1975 ) is a brazilian actor. He is most known for his portrayal of iranian King Xerxes in the movie 300 ( 2006 ) and its sequel 300: Rise of an Empire ( 2014 ). other celebrated movies include Brainstorm ( 2001 ), Carandiru ( 2003 ), Love Actually ( 2003 ), Che ( 2008 ), I Love You Phillip Morris ( 2009 ), and Rio ( 2011 ). He besides appeared on the television receiver series Lost, portraying the quality Paulo, and on HBO ‘s Westworld ( 2016–2020 ) as Hector Escaton.

Reading: Rodrigo Santoro

early life [edit ]

Santoro was born in Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro state, to Francesco Santoro, an italian mastermind with roots in Paola, Province of Cosenza, Calabria, [ 1 ] and Maria José Junqueira Reis, a brazilian artist of portuguese ancestry. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ]

career [edit ]

In 1993, while studying Journalism at PUC-Rio, Santoro entered the Actor ‘s Workshop of Rede Globo. He went on to play parts in many of Globo ‘s telenovelas, such as Olho no Olho ( 1993 ), Pátria Minha ( 1994 ), Explode Coração ( 1995 ), O Amor Está no Ar ( 1997 ), Suave Veneno ( 1999 ) and Mulheres Apaixonadas ( 2003 ), arsenic well as the miniseries Hilda Furacão ( 1998 ), in the character of a priest. Santoro was besides the voice actor of the nominal character in Stuart Little and its sequel in the brazilian dub copies. His first major role in a film production came in 2001, with Bicho de Sete Cabeças ( Brainstorm ) by brazilian director Laís Bodansky. By the end of the film, he received a standing ovation from the audience. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] He besides went on to win the festival ‘s best actor trophy. After Bicho, his repute as an actor had been solidified and he was cast as the male lead in Abril Despedaçado ( Behind the Sun ), one of the nominees for best alien movie in the 2002 Golden Globe Awards. In the 2003 Hector Babenco film Carandiru he played Lady Di, a transsexual prisoner. canadian film director Robert Allan Ackerman signed Santoro for his television receiver production The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone after being mesmerised by his performance in Bicho de Sete Cabeças. Since Santoro did not have an agent in North America, Ackerman contacted Santoro ‘s father. He spent two months filming in Rome, aboard renowned actors such as Helen Mirren and Anne Bancroft. soon after he finished shooting for Mrs. Stone, he received an offer from Columbia Pictures for a depart in the blockbuster Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle. His performance in Charlie ‘s Angels kick-started his career in Hollywood. After Charlie ‘s Angels, he played the quality of Karl, the enigmatic foreman interior designer and love matter to of Laura Linney ‘s character, in the amatory comedy Love Actually, which besides features Colin Firth, Lucia Moniz, Hugh Grant, Emma Thompson, Keira Knightley, and Rowan Atkinson. He besides started getting work in the advertise business as he appeared in a commercial crusade with Gisele Bündchen in 2002. He played the male lead in No. 5 The Film, the 3-minute-long commercial for Chanel, directed by Baz Luhrmann alongside Nicole Kidman in 2004. In 2006, Santoro joined the cast of Lost as survivor of Oceanic Flight 815, Paulo. His first appearance was in episode titled, “ further Instructions “. His character was killed off in the episode “ Exposé “. He besides voices his character Paulo in the Portuguese knight for Brazil. Santoro was cast as persian emperor Xerxes in the film 300, based on the Frank Miller comic of the same name, in 2006. The character had many special requirements, such as intensifier exercise for the animalism of the role ( Santoro had lost 24 pounds to work in a brazilian miniseries ), extensive CG work to portray the 6’2 ” Santoro as the 7-foot God-King, a four-and-a-half-hour makeup application summons and the arrant removal of Santoro ‘s body hair’s-breadth first gear by waxing and then by shaving when that proved besides afflictive. [ 10 ] His eyebrows were kept intact, however, covered over with prosthetics and trace in preferably than being shaved. [ 11 ] Santoro read the works of Herodotus, an Ancient Greek historian, in order to prepare for his partially. Regarding Xerxes, he has stated :

He ‘s fat, he ‘s arrogant, he ‘s a very unstable megalomaniac. He just wants to conquer the earth. His ambition is unlimited. He wants glory ; he wants victory ; he wants ageless fame. Underneath all that want, though, he ‘s ultimately watery and very insecure. [ 10 ]

For his function on 300, Santoro became the first brazilian actor nominated to the MTV Movie Awards in the category of Best Villain. He did not win however, and the award went to Jack Nicholson for The Departed. After playing the late football player Heleno de Freitas in the 2012 film Heleno, [ 12 ] Santoro co-star aboard Arnold Schwarzenegger in the 2013 film The Last Stand before playing Garriga in the Will Smith drama film Focus ( 2015 ). Santoro played Jesus in the 2016 historical carry through movie Ben-Hur and received personal blessings from Pope Francis for this function. [ 13 ]

personal life [edit ]

Santoro has been in a kinship with brazilian actress Mel Fronckowiak since 2013. On 22 May 2017, they welcomed their first base child, a daughter named Nina. [ 14 ]

Filmography [edit ]

film [edit ]

television receiver [edit ]

Music video recording [edit ]

Year

Title

Artist

2018

“Ocean”

Alok, Zeeba and IRO

Awards and nominations [edit ]

Meu País, in 2011. Santoro holding the statue he won at the 44th Festival de Brasília for the movie, in 2011 .

other nominations and honors [edit ]

  • 2004: On People Magazine’s 50 Most Beautiful list 2004
  • 2006: 12th position on People Magazine’s 2006 Sexiest Man Alive
  • 2008: 16th position on E!’s 2008 Sexiest man of the world

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