Diogo Infante
Diogo Infante ( born May 28, 1967 in Lisbon ) is a Portuguese actor.
Career
Infante attended drama and theater courses before he made his stage debut in the role of Edmund in a production of William Shakespeare's King Lear. In 1992 he celebrated his feature film debut with a supporting role in Ana Luísa Guimarães ' award-winning drama Nuvem.
A wide audience he was for his work in the popular Portuguese television series A Banqueira do Povo (1993 ) is known, then further appearances in the series Na Paz dos Anjos (1994) and Molho Tudo ao e Fé em Deus (1995 ) followed.
The main role of Jorge Luís Filipe Rocha's historical drama in fire signs (1995 ) earned him his first nomination for the Portuguese media award Globo de Ouro. This he first won in 1997 for the fantastic comedy Mortinho por Chegar a Casa (1996, R: George Sluizer / Carlos da Silva ), in which he is seen as a Portuguese immigrant who returns to his homeland after his accidental death in the Netherlands. He received two more times the price for the feature film Pesadelo Cor de Rosa (1999, R: Fernando Fragata ) and the television series A Jóia de África ( 2004).
His English and French procured Infante roles in international co-productions, including the German television film Two Girls in Mallorca - The Hottest Night of the Year (2000, R: Dror Zahavi ) and Roselyne Bosch's science fiction thriller Animal ( 2005).