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Débora Falabella

Cast · Known for Brazil Avenue, The Clone, Her Own Destiny

Débora Lima Falabella (Belo Horizonte, February 22, 1979) is a Brazilian actress, director and producer. She has won several awards as an actress, including a Grande Otelo, an APCA Award, an ACIE Award, four Quality Brazil Awards and a Kikito from the Gramado Festival, in addition to being nominated for four Guarani Awards. She is known for The Clone (2001), Lisbela and the Prisoner (2003) and Brazil Avenue (2012)

Scott Brazil

Producer · Director · Known for Hill Street Blues, Nash Bridges, The Shield

Danny Brazil

R.L. Brazil

Pedro Henrique

Born and raised in Brazil, Pedro Henrique is an actor, singer, dancer, and voice actor best known for his work in the FX's The Bear (2022), and ABC's The Rookie: Feds (2023). Having dubbed big Disney titles, such as The Good Dinosaur (2015) and more than 30 movies and shows in English and Portuguese, he continues to inspire his 2 million followers across his social platforms.

Cleo Rocos

Born in Brazil to an English mother and Greek father, Cleo Rocos shot to fame in the 1980s with the BBC series The Kenny Everett Television Show. Her glamorous and curvaceous figure was often used to comic effect and she proved the perfect foil to Kenny, appearing alongside him in the science quiz series Brainstorm, playing a white-coated lab assistant in 1988 and his film Bloodbath at the House of Death in 1984. Since Everett's death from AIDS in 1995, Rocos has published her memoir about working with him, Bananas Forever - Kenny and Me and appeared in several celebrity reality TV productions. She is also a producer, travel journalist, radio DJ, presenter and a businesswoman, launching her own premium brand of tequila called AquaRiva in 2012, made from 100% 'Weber Azul' agave

Renan Pacheco

Renan Pacheo was born in Brazil, and got his career started in Paris, France. He's known mostly for being a French actor and director.

Luis Seki Chi

Born and raised in both Brazil and Japan by his Chinese father and Japanese mother, he has traveled and lived worldwide. Moved to Vancouver in the 80s, worked in various management level careers and trade industries while part-time stunting, acting and background performing. Dedicating to the film industry at age 50 full time.

Gisela Chípe

Gisela Chipe is an Ecuadorian-American actress born in Brazil.

Arturo Luís Soria

Arturo Luís Soria is an actor/writer with family roots in Brazil, Italy, Ecuador, and the Dominican Republic. His solo play, Ni Mi Madre, received the Luso-American Scholarship at the DisQuiet International Literary Program in Lisbon, Portugal where he studied under the notable Portuguese-American writer Katherine Vaz. It also had successful runs at Yale Cabaret in 2018 and at Ken Davenport’s inaugural Rave Theatre Festival in the summer of 2019 in NYC, for which he received an Outstanding Performance recognition. Arturo is currently performing on Broadway in The Inheritance by Matthew Lopez and directed by Stephen Daldry and Justin Martin. Other notable credits include: Tano in the World Premiere of Hit the Wall at Steppenwolf Garage Theatre and off-Broadway at the Barrow Street Theatre. (Hilton Als of The New Yorker likened him to “a young Al Pacino” for his portrayal.) Regionally, he has performed at The Kennedy Center, Yale Rep, The Guthrie Theater, Dallas Theater Center, Victory Gardens Theater, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Milwaukee Rep, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Studio Theatre, and many others. Arturo holds a BFA from The Theatre School at DePaul University and and MFA from the Yale School of Drama.

Vanessa Zanardi

Vanessa Zanardi was born in Londrina, Parana, Brazil. She is an actor known for "Os Desafinados", "Charles Manson", among others. She lived in Rio de Janeiro for 7 years studying and practicing her talent. While in Rio de Janeiro she studied in two Universities, one for Cinema and another for Theater.

Ailín Salas

Cast · Known for Wild Horse Nine

Ailín Salas (born July 14, 1993 in Aracaju, Brazil) is a Brazilian-born Argentine actress.

Thomas Kuc

Thomas Kuc is an actor known for playing as Hudson in Game Shakers (2015). Born in Brazil at October 10, 2002. Thom is is a humor boy. He is multilingual, able to speak Polish, Mandarin, Portuguese, Spanish and English. He stars alongside Benjamin Flores Jr. in Game Shakers (2015). He was born in Brazil and moved to California. His older sister Alma is a gymnast for the Polish National Olympic Team.

Antonio Pinto

Composer · Known for City of God

Antonio Pinto was born in Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil. He is known for his work on Colateral (2004), Cidade de Deus (2002) and A Hospedeira (2013). Son of famed cartoonist Ziraldo, brother of film and stage director Daniela Thomas, brother of film director Fabrizia Alves Pinto, first cousin of film actor Fernando Alves Pinto.

Ken Kaneko

Japanese-Brazilian actor and visual artist. Kaneko was born in Yokohama in 1935 and moved to Brazil in 1960.

Sthefany Brito

Cast · Known for Começar de Novo

Brito was born Sthefany Fernandes de Brito in São Paulo, Brazil, on 19 June 1987. She has studied theater since 1995, and she made some commercials for toys and children's products. She got her first television role in 1999 when she was cast in the Brazilian version of Chiquititas, in the role of Hannelore.

Walter Clark

Creator · Known for Fantástico

Walter Clark was born on July 14, 1936 in São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil as Walter Clark Bueno. He was a producer and writer, known for Amor Bandido (1978), A Estrela Sobe (1974) and Bye Bye Brasil (1980). He was married to Fernanda Bruni and Ilka Soares. He died on March 24, 1997 in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Thalissa Teixeira

Cast · Known for Supergirl

Thalissa Teixeira is a British-Brazilian actress and filmmaker. Teixeira was born in Bradford, West Yorkshire; her mother is British and her father from Salvador in Brazil. She spent her childhood in Vitória, Espírito Santo in Brazil before returning to England with her mother at the age of 8 to live in Chalfont St Peter, Buckinghamshire where she joined a local theatre group called Through the Wardrobe. She went on to train at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama, graduating in 2014. She began her career in theatre, earning an Ian Charleson Award nomination, before breaking out in the miniseries Trigonometry. She was named a 2021 Screen International Star of Tomorrow.

Rosie Cavaliero

Cast · Known for Inside No. 9

British actress Rosie Cavaliero used her versatility to become one of the busiest performers in the television industry. Born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,she relocated with her family to England as a child. She made her first screen appearance in the drama "Medics" (ITV, 1990-95). She spent the 1990s making guest appearances on television, most notably in a mutli-episdoe role on "Cold Feet" (ITV, 1997-2003). The numerous appearances finally paid off when she was cast as one of the leads in the sitcom "Eyes Down" (BBC, 2003-04). The show lasted only two seasons but it gave Cavaliero a calling card. The actress went on to star in the comedies "Feel the Force" (BBC, 2006) and "Jam and Jerusalem" (BBC, 2006-09), and appeared with Claire Foy in the miniseries "Little Dorrit" (BBC, 2008). She joined an all-star cast, including Mia Wasikowska and Michael Fassbener, in a critically acclaimed production of "Jane Eyre" (BBC, 2011), playing Grace Poole. She continued racking up credits, starring in the crime drama "Prey" (ITV, 2014-15), as Detective Sergeant Susan Reinhart, and landing recurring roles on "Hunderby" (Sky Atlantic, 2012-15) and "Unforgotten" (ITV, 2015- ). She mixed in a comedic role, playing opposite John Cleese and Alison Steadman in "Hold the Sunset" (BBC, 2018- ). She later joined Sheridan Smith for the drama "Cleaning Up" (ITV, 2019- ), before taking a role that gave her larger exposure in the United States. Cavaliero was cast as housekeeper Elizabeth Cordingley in "Gentleman Jack" (BBC/HBO, 2019- ). The series, starring Suranne Jones, 19th Century British landowner Anne Lister, who chronicled her life, including her lesbian romances, in a coded diary.

Tamara Taxman

Tamara de Braga Taxman (born February 24, 1947) is an American actress, singer, presenter, and writer who lives in Brazil. She is the daughter of an American father from Rock Island, United States, and a Brazilian mother from Varginha, Minas Gerais.

Michele Nordin

Michele Nordin (born October 2, 1980 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) is a Brazilian American actress. Description above from the Wikipedia article Michele Nordin, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia. ​

Adriana Lima

Adriana Lima (born June 12, 1981, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil) is a Brazilian model. She was a Victoria's Secret Angel from 1999 to 2018, becoming their longest-running model and named "the most valuable Victoria's Secret Angel" in 2017. She is also known as a spokesmodel for Maybelline cosmetics since 2003, and for her Super Bowl and Kia Motors commercials. At age 15, Lima won Ford's "Supermodel of Brazil" competition, and took second place the following year in the Ford "Supermodel of the World" competition before signing with Elite Model Management in New York City. Since 2005, Lima has ranked in the top five of Forbes' lists of the 20 highest-earning models in the world, and in 2006 ranked No.99 on the Forbes Celebrity 100. Since 2014, Lima has been the world's second highest-paid model. Lima made her acting debut alongside Mickey Rourke and Forest Whitaker in The Follow (2001), a short film in BMW's series The Hire, opposite Clive Owen and directed by Wong Kar-wai. She also appeared with her fellow Angels in a guest spot playing herself in the CBS comedy series How I Met Your Mother in November 2007, in the episode "The Yips". She also played herself, along with fellow Victoria's Secret Angels, in the 2013 series The Crazy Ones alongside Robin Williams and Sarah Michelle Gellar. In 2008, Lima appeared on the American television series Ugly Betty, where she played herself and made friends with the series' title character, Betty Suarez. In 2018, Lima made a cameo appearance as herself in the film Ocean's 8. Description above from the Wikipedia article Adriana Lima, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Nabiyah Be

Cast · Known for Black Panther

Nabiyah Be was born on August 15, 1992 in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. She is an actress, known for Black Panther (2018), Daisy Jones & The Six (2023) and White Wedding (2021).

Norman Garwood

Production Design · Known for Entrapment, Misery, The Princess Bride

Norman Garwood (8 January 1946 – 13 April 2019) was an English art director, and production designer. Garwood was nominated for three Academy Awards for "Best Art Direction" for the films Brazil (1985) by Terry Gilliam; Glory (1989) by Edward Zwick; and Hook (1991) by Steven Spielberg. In 1985, he won a BAFTA Award for Best Production Design and an Evening Standard British Film Award for his work on the film Brazil (1985). He was known for his use of elaborate design in film.[