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City of God
2002
In the poverty-stricken favelas of Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s, two young men choose different paths. Rocket is a budding photographer who documents the increasing drug-related violence of his neighborhood, while José “Zé” Pequeno is an ambitious drug dealer diving into a dangerous life of crime.
Elisa Tolomelli
Executive Producer · Known for City of God
Executive producer of numerous Brazilian films, including two major international hits – Central Station (Central do Brasil), directed by Walter Salles, and City of God (Cidade de Deus), directed by Fernando Meirelles. Elisa also has experience in other stages of production across film and television, including screenwriting, directing, and distribution. As commercial director of the RioFilme distributor, she oversaw the release of over 30 films, among them Foreign Land (Terra Estrangeira), by Walter Salles, and The Boy Maluquinho (O Menino Maluquinho), by Helvécio Ratton. Thirty years ago, the filmmaker founded EH! Filmes, where she established herself as one of the country's leading film producers, producing her own films and co-producing works with partner companies.
Donald Ranvaud
Producer · Known for City of God
Donald Ranvaud (5 December 1953 - 5 September 2016) was a British film producer and film journalist. Ranvaud had producing roles on a number of Oscar-nominated films including The Constant Gardener (2005), City of God (2002), Central Station (1998) and Farewell My Concubine (1993). He is now best known for his work in the Latin American film industry, especially in Brazil and Bolivia. Description above from the Wikipedia article Donald Ranvaud, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Phellipe Haagensen
Cast · Known for City of God
Phellipe Haagensen Cerqueira (born 26 June 1984 in Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian actor best known for his role of Bené in the 2002 film, City of God (Cidade de Deus). He is the younger brother of actor Jonathan Haagensen.
Alice Braga
Cast · Known for I Am Legend, Dark Matter, Elysium
Alice Braga Moraes (born 15 April 1983) is a Brazilian actress and producer. She has appeared in several Brazilian films, starring as Angélica in the acclaimed City of God (2002), as Karinna in Lower City (2005), and as Dolores in Only God Knows (2006). Braga came to international prominence after appearing opposite Will Smith in I Am Legend (2007), and has since become a familiar face in Hollywood, having appeared in films such as Predators (2010), The Rite (2011), Elysium (2013), The Shack (2017), Soul (2020), and The Suicide Squad (2021). She portrayed the starring role of Teresa Mendoza in the crime drama-thriller television series Queen of the South (2016–2021).
Alexandre Rodrigues
Cast · Known for City of God
Alexandre Rodrigues (Rio de Janeiro, May 21, 1983) is a Brazilian actor. He is most famous for playing the part of Buscapé, the narrator and protagonist in the 2002 film City of God.
Daniel Rezende
Editor · Known for City of God
Daniel Rezende (São Paulo, May 5, 1975) is a Brazilian filmmaker, editor and director. He gained prominence in 2002 when he edited the acclaimed film City of God, for which he was nominated for an Oscar for best editing and won the BAFTA for best editing.
Darlan Cunha
Cast · Known for City of God
Darlan Cunha Christovam (Rio de Janeiro, July 26, 1988) is a Brazilian actor. He became known for playing Filé in the internationally acclaimed film City of God and Laranjinha in City of Men.
Leandro Firmino
Cast · Known for City of God
Leandro Firmino da Hora (Rio de Janeiro, June 24, 1978) is a Brazilian actor best known for playing the role of Zé Pequeno in the Brazilian film City of God.
Seu Jorge
Cast · Known for City of God
Seu Jorge (born June 8, 1970) is a Brazilian musician, singer/songwriter and actor. Born Jorge Mário da Silva, he was raised in a favela in the city of Belford Roxo in the Baixada Fluminense region of Rio de Janeiro state. He is considered by his fans a renewer of Brazilian pop samba. Seu Jorge cites samba school, and American soul singer Stevie Wonder as major musical influences. Seu Jorge has gained exposure through his work as an actor and soundtrack composer. He appeared in the critically acclaimed film City of God as Mané Galinha, and then played Pelé Dos Santos in Wes Anderson's The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, for which he provided much of the soundtrack in the form of Portuguese language cover versions of David Bowie classics.
Roberta Rodrigues
Cast · Known for City of God
Roberta de Souza Rodrigues (Rio de Janeiro, October 20, 1982) is a Brazilian actress and singer. She began her career in the 2000s in theater works of the group Nós do Morro until she became known worldwide for playing the character Berenice, in the film City of God.
Babu Santana
Alexandre da Silva Santana (born December 10, 1979), known professionally as Babu Santana, is a Brazilian actor. Born in Vidigal, Rio de Janeiro, Santana acted in plays at school since his 12 years and joined the theater group "Nós do Morro" when he was 17. His first roles in films were in 2002 when he acted in "City of God" and "Something in the Air". He's the winner of two Grande Otelos, the greatest award of Brazilian cinema and a former participant in reality TV show Big Brother Brasil.
Matheus Nachtergaele
Cast · Known for City of God
Matheus Nachtergaele OMC (São Paulo, January 3, 1968) is a Brazilian actor, director and author. Nachtergaele has won several awards, including five APCA Awards, three Grande Otelo Awards, two Guarani Awards and three Quality Brasil Awards. He showed his talent in many roles, both in cinema and television. Best known for City of God, Central Station and A Dog's Will.
Tim Blake Nelson
Cast · Known for The Lowdown, Captain America: Brave New World, The Incredible Hulk
Timothy Blake Nelson (born May 11, 1964) is an American actor and playwright. Described as a "modern character actor, his roles include Delmar O'Donnell in O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000), Gideon in Minority Report (2002), Doctor Steve Pendanski in Holes (2003), Doctor Jonathan Jacobo in Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (2004), Danny Dalton Jr. in Syriana (2005), Samuel Sterns in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Richard Schell in Lincoln (2012), the titular character of The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018), and Henry McCarty in Old Henry (2021). He portrayed Wade Tillman / Looking Glass in the HBO limited series Watchmen (2019), for which he received a Critics' Choice Television Awards nomination for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series in 2020. Nelson's directorial credits include Eye of God (1997), which was nominated for the Sundance Grand Jury Prize and an Independent Spirit Award; O (2001), a modern-day adaptation of Othello; and the Holocaust drama The Grey Zone (2001). Eye of God and The Grey Zone were both adapted from Nelson's own plays. Nelson has also co-directed music videos for Billy Woods and Kenny Segal, including "Babylon by Bus" and "Soft Landing." He also co-directed the music video for Armand Hammer feat. Pink Siifu's "Trauma Mic." Nelson recently published his debut novel, City of Blows (2023), an epic group portrait of four men grappling for control of a script in a radically changing Hollywood. Description above from the Wikipedia article Tim Blake Nelson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Modela Kurzet
Modela Kurzet was born Deaf to Deaf parents, Family emigrated to Canada in 1983 and settled in Toronto . Modela was first role student movie " Children of a Lesser God " 1986 and " Bridge to Silence " 1989 . She then took acting classes at the New School of Drama, and later took further training as an actor at Granton Institute of Technology. Her working life has been focused almost entirely on an acting career , both in film and on videotape, often working on projects related to Deafness. In 1986 she acted as anecdotist or spokeswoman, for the Canadian Hearing Society's production of the video Deaf Communication. Modela served as youth leader and instructor for the Signs of Summer Program directed by Michele Pinet for A Show of Hands Theatre Company. In 2000 she was lead actor in the videotape Interacting with the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, directed by Larry Fugate for the Los Angeles Police Department to be used as a visual aid in Its training program. The Toronto Association of the Deaf and City of Los Angeles awarded Modela a certificate of appreciation and thanks for her valuable efforts and support.
Lisa Montell
Cast · Known for Matinee Theater
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Lisa Janti is known as Lisa Montell as a Hollywood actress of the 1950-60s, and then shifted her career to one of advocacy and service to various disadvantaged groups and to her adopted religion, the Bahá'í Faith. Lisa Janti, known as Lisa Montell as a Hollywood actress of the 1950-60s, was born Irena Ludmila Vladimirovna Augustynowic of Russian-Polish ancestry, and her family fled to Poland before World War II. On arrival in New York they changed their last name to Montwill so she grew up Irene Montwill. They lived in New York and Janti attended the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts. After becoming involved in English-speaking theatre she was noticed by Hollywood producer Dick Welding who offered her a part in Daughter of the Sun God, filmed in Peru c. 1953 with actor William Holmes. Shortly afterwards her father died and the family chose to follow the opportunity Hollywood was giving her with her career. Her first role may have been in 1954 in the TV series The Public Defender, based on the film of the same name. On television she was on the Cheyenne show episode "Border Showdown" (Showdown in Paso Also) of 1955 and the 1956 Jane Wyman's Fireside Theater episode "A Time to live" and the Sugarfoot show episode "Guns for Big Bear" in 1958. In 1962 she was in Combat! episode "A Day in June". Janti was known as the "Starlet of many faces" probably portraying more diverse ethnic roles though she was Polish including Polynesian, Native American, Mexican, Burmese, French, Italian, Spanish, east Indian and Persian – roles with dubious cultural and sexist stereotypes. Among the productions Janti was cast in are She Gods of Shark Reef, Ten Thousand Bedrooms, Pearl of the South Pacific, Jump Into Hell, The Lone Ranger and the Lost City of Gold, and World Without End.
Wallace Smith
Wallace Smith got his Broadway break playing the lead role of Simba in “Disney’s Lion King”, almost immediately afterward landing roles in “Ragtime” and “American Idiot”. From there he jumped to the role of Judas in the Broadway revival of “Godspell”. Before landing the role of Apollo Creed’s manager in Broadway’s “Rocky: The Musical”, Wallace debuted in “White Noise” (Chicago), “The Last Goodbye” (San Diego’s Old Globe), and “Pippin” (Kansas City Rep) and more. Smith is (currently) playing “Hercules Mulligan/James Madison” in the Broadway company of HAMILTON after performing the role in the original Chicago Company (2016). A triple threat, Wallace is also a singer/songwriter/recording artist, with two albums on iTunes ‘Intersections’ & ‘smithsoniAM’.
Claire Gordon
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Claire Gordon or Clare Gordon (was born 1941) in the City of Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, UK. Her father was a doctor, and her mother a make-up artist, who worked for Max Factor. Gordon is a British actress known for leading and cameo roles in many British movies, mainly in the 1960's and 1970's. She also worked with most television and comedy stars of this period. She made her West End theatre debut on a motor bike in The Darling Buds of May and then created the role of Peggy Evans in Neil Simon's Come Blow Your Horn. She later made theatrical history as the first actress to appear naked on stage in The Three Musketeers, playing Lady De Winter. The New Statesman wrote, "watch out for the bath scene; it's a breakthrough." Most recently, she played the Fairy Godmother in Cinderella at the Princes Theatre, Hunstanton and is currently working on her memoirs. She was married to the roue William Donaldson and later divorced. Description above from the Wikipedia article Claire Gordon, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Amanda Plummer
Cast · Known for Pulp Fiction, The Hotel New Hampshire, Hercules
Amanda Michael Plummer (born March 23, 1957) is an American actress. Plummer was born in New York City, New York, the daughter of actors Tammy Grimes and Christopher Plummer. Plummer attended Middlebury College in Vermont and acting classes at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York. Early in life, her interest was in riding and tending to horses on the East Coast and in Ireland. Plummer began appearing in small to mid size roles in television and films in the early 1980s. Her first successes came from her stage work. She made her Broadway debut as Josephine in the 1981 revival of A Taste of Honey. She won a Tony Award nomination and Theatre World Award for her portrayal. The following year, she won a Tony Award for Featured Actress and a Drama Desk Award for her portrayal of Sister Agnes in the play Agnes of God. Following her successes on the stage, Plummer began appearing in major roles on television and in film. One of her most recognized appearances was on L.A. Law as Alice Hackett, a developmentally disabled girlfriend of Benny Stulwitz, played by Larry Drake, for which she received an Emmy Award nomination. Two other well-known roles were Yolanda (a.k.a. "Honey Bunny") in Pulp Fiction and Rose in So I Married An Axe Murderer. Her film roles have been described as "spooky, kooky, half-mad characters."
Alex Gibney
Cast · Director · Known for Dirty Money, Independent Lens, Musk
Philip Alexander Gibney (/ˈɡɪbni/; born October 23, 1953; New York City) is an American documentary film director and producer. In 2010, Esquire magazine said Gibney "is becoming the most important documentarian of our time." Gibney's works as director include The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley, Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief (winner of three Emmys in 2015), We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks, Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God (the winner of three 2013 primetime Emmy awards), Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (nominated in 2005 for Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature); Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer (short-listed in 2011 for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature), Casino Jack and the United States of Money, and Taxi to the Dark Side (winner of the 2007 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature), focusing on a taxi driver in Afghanistan who was tortured and killed at Bagram Air Force Base in 2002. In 2019, he released his documentary Citizen K, about Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Russian billionaire exile Mikhail Khodorkovsky.
Jaime Aymerich
Jaime Aymerich Bio His TV credits include Golden Globes nominated 'Weeds', Primetime Emmy nominated 'Workaholics', and Amazon Prime's hit Emmy-nominated series 'Bosch'. Born and raised in Mexico City, Jaime is a graduate of the Academy of Dramatic Arts (Mexico). Jaime's acting skills and personal dynamics have been evident since childhood. On a day off from school, he took off without thinking and visited Televisa San Angel, Mexico's largest TV station, and asked for a job as an actor, which he got straight away. He went on to receive several television roles in the early 1990s and made a name for himself. He then pursued his acting career in theatre, earning many awards from the Dramatic Arts Center in Mexico. On stage, he starred in plays like "El Tintero" (The Inkman), "El Fin" (The End), "Quiero Vivir" (I Want to Live), and many others. Jaime further developed his acting career in sketch-comedy theatre in Mexico, receiving more awards from the Comedians' House. He moved to Los Angeles to pursue his acting career and soon landed roles both in film and television. Jaime's first critically praised television performance was of his portrayal of a young Mexican Character "Daniel" in an American Soap Opera Acapulco Bay, a Televisa-Fox production. Jaime made his film debut in A Beautiful Secret sharing the screen with Golden Globe and Academy Award winner Katy Jurado. This film earned 11 prizes in several international festivals, marking a new level of success for Mexican cinematography. For the next few years, his work would range from the Showtime series Fat Actress with Kirstie Alley to portraying a Mexican President in the action drama The Last Ship by Michael Bay. Some of his TV credits include East Los High and Prime Time Glick with Martin Short. He recently shot How to Be a Latin Lover with Salma Hayek and Raquel Welsh. Widely known within the Latin community, he stars in many Telenovelas like Amar de Nuevo, Historias de la Virgen Morena, La llamada, and El Poeta del Pueblo for Univision. Jaime is in the number one show of NBC / Telemundo - "Betty en New York" where he portrays the role of Charlie. He performed as Jorge in "The Laundromat" directed by the Oscar winner Steven Soderberg; where he acts with Meryl Streep, Gary Oldman, and Antonio Banderas. He portrayed the character of "Satan" in the series "The Daughter of God" written by successful writer Enrique Torres. Jaime shot in Cancun the TV project where he was giving life to "Pato" in the Jeff Valdez show for HBO "The Garcias". Jaime has done many animated series and movies giving his voice to different characters in projects like Bojack Horseman, Beverly Hills Chihuahua, Astroboy, Early Man, Little Rooster's Egg-cellent Adventure, etc. He started his career as an Executive Producer with the Emmy Winner Netflix Show "Julie and The Phantoms" and is a partner of Aymerich Entertainment making Movies and TV Series in Hollywood and Latin America. Jaime Aymerich stars in the movie "Lo que Diga el Corazon" the story of a father who dedicates his entire life to his autistic son, but suddenly faces an enormous challenge. Jaime is currently filming the movie “Una Pareja de 4”, a comedy of affairs with a positive message to couples.
Miles Fothergill
Miles Fothergill (born 25 June 1948) is a British actor, best known for his roles in science fiction television. He played SV7 in the Doctor Who serial The Robots of Death and also appeared in Blake's 7 episode "The Web". Also for BBC Television he appeared in The Olympian Way (Pebble Mill, 1981) and the Francis Durbridge series Breakaway (1980).[1] On stage he replaced Jeremy Irons as Judas in the original production of Godspell at the Wyndhams Theatre, London and played Rocky in the late-1970s in The Rocky Horror Show during its original run at the Kings Road Theatre in Chelsea. He was chosen to be the first male presenter and newsreader for Satellite Television in the mid-1980s, which was the forerunner to Sky TV. After many years in the City as a Media Trainer, he now lives in Spain.
Ana Serradilla
Cast · Known for Don't Leave the Kids Alone
Ana Isabel Serradilla Garcia, known simply as Ana Serradilla in the art world, is an actress born in the city of M xico, on August 9, 1978. Because of its beautiful image and great presence gave start to his career in television, doing business and being part of the Mexican campaign "live drug-free". While he was studying graphic design at the Universidad Intercontinental, she was invited by the school of TV azteca in 1998, to hone his skills as an actress, therefore only it could be part of higher education for five months. Very diligent to his acting classes at the mentioned school of dramatic art, Ana nor could follow studies at all, because soon become student was discovered and was selected for the lead role in the production of "Chiquititas", a production of Azteca and Telefe in Argentina. Then do the telenovela in the Argentina capital, Ana returns to his country where again takes up his acting classes at the CEFAC, on this occasion their teachers would be H ctor Mendoza and Raul Quintanilla. Again selected to participate in the Mexican soap opera "Life in the mirror", he shared his time recording sets and classes. In this production, Ana gives life to Paulita, partner of actor Diego Luna. After time, would have a special series performance "Bewitch me", Mexican version of the remembered series Bewitched American, played by the late Elizabeth Montgomery. Would be the actress protagonist in the series "Lo que callamos las mujeres" and "Moment of decision" some time later. Ana Serradilla also had some shares on the big screen, and made his debut with the short film Tomas Farkas the Goblin of the clock in 1999, subsequently awarded and recognized as best short film at the Film Festival in Milan. He received a nomination for female revelation in the goddesses of silver, for his first leading role in the feature film a rare world. Between September 2003 and March 2004 becomes member of the cast of the telenovela "Mirada de mujer, the return", in the role of Carolina and sharing credits with Ang lica Aragon cr, Ari Telch, Evangelina Elizondo and Mauricio Ochman, among others. Several other projects led her to participate in 2006 on "Champions" in the role of Isabel Chaparro. That same year he appears in the film Cansada de besar sapos, where she plays a girl tired of men, became staying in "Hombreriega". This production was one of the best contemporary comedies made in M xico. A year after working in film directed and which also acts Gael Garcia Bernal "D deficit" and for 2008 it participates in the series "Desperate housewives" version in Spanish of "Desesperate Housewives" in the role of Gabriela Solis. His most recent work has been in the series of TV Azteca of 2010 titled "Drowning", playing the role of Lucia Santos.
Peter Friedman
Cast · Known for Succession, Love & Other Drugs
Peter Friedman (born April 24, 1949) is an American stage, screen, and television actor. Born in New York City, Friedman graduated from Hofstra University before making his Broadway debut in The Great God Brown in 1972. Additional theatre credits include The Visit (1973), Piaf and A Soldier's Play (both 1981), The Heidi Chronicles (1989), Ragtime (1998), and Twelve Angry Men (2004). He has been nominated for the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Musical, Outstanding Actor in a Play, and Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play. On television, Friedman starred as patriarch George Silver in Brooklyn Bridge, has made numerous guest appearances in such series as Miami Vice, Law & Order, NYPD Blue, Without a Trace, Ghost Whisperer, and Damages, and had a featured role in Perfect Murder, Perfect Town: JonBenét and the City of Boulder. Friedman's many feature film credits include Prince of the City, Daniel, The Seventh Sign, Single White Female, I'm Not Rappaport, I Shot Andy Warhol, Safe, Freedomland, The Savages, and I'm Not There. Friedman married actress Joan Allen in 1990. The couple divorced in 2002. They have one daughter, Sadie, born in March 1994.