Joaquim de Almeida

Joaquim de Almeida (actually Joaquim António Portugal Baptista de Almeida ) ( born March 15, 1957 in Lisbon, Portugal ) is a Portuguese- American actor.

Life

Joaquim de Almeida left at the age of 18 years, his homeland and lived for two years in Vienna. After his marriage to the aspiring pianist Maria Cecilia de Almeida in 1977 he moved to New York. He worked there as a waiter and bartender first. There discovered de Almeida acting for himself and gave his debut in 1982 in The Mercenaries. De Almeida works mainly with in Portuguese, Spanish and French language films. Among his most famous Hollywood films include The cartel with Harrison Ford and Willem Dafoe and Desperado, where he is seen on the side of Antonio Banderas and Salma Hayek.

He also starred in the series Miami Vice in the ninth episode (Bought and paid for ) the second season of the Bolivian General 's son and Playboy rapist Nico Arroyo.

Joaquim de Almeida received the 1992 Best Actor Award at Cannes Cairo for Retrato de Família and 1997 Globo de Ouro in Portugal. For his role as a Mexican drug lord in the third season of the television series 24, he was together with the other actors of the series in the category Best Acting Ensemble nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award in 2005.

He also is active as a voice actor and producer of the Portuguese film. He is therefore also often referred to as Latino Phil Hartmann.

Since 8 October 2005 Joaquim de Almeida has the American citizenship.

He is fluent in Portuguese, Spanish, English, French, Italian and German.

Filmography

  • 2003: fuggiasco, Il
  • 2004: 24 ( TV Series, Season 3 )
  • 2004: Yo puta
  • 2004: The West Wing ( TV Series, Season 5, Episode 12)
  • 2005: To Tiro no Escuro
  • 2006: Moscow Zero
  • 2006: Fear you not! - The Life of Pope John Paul II ( Have No Fear: The Life Of Pope John Paul II )
  • 2006: The Celestine Prophecy ( Celestine Prophecy The )
  • 2007: Kill Bobby Z
  • 2007: Call Girl
  • 2008: The Burning Plain
  • 2008: The Lovebirds
  • 2008: Che - Guerrilla
  • 2011: Fast & Furious Five
  • 2011: Revenge
  • 2012: Missing ( TV series)
  • 2013: Portugal, mon amour
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