Leonardo Villar

Leonardo Villar ( born July 25, 1924 in Piracicaba, São Paulo) is a Brazilian actor.

Leonardo Villar was born in 1924 when Leonardo Motta. He began his career in 1950 as a theater actor and made ​​his film debut in 1962 in Anselmo Duarte's fifty levels to justice. Villar played the lead role of farmers Zé de Burro. The film won so far the only Brazilian film the Palme d'Or at the International Film Festival of Cannes 1962. He was also nominated in 1963 as the first South American film for an Oscar in the category Best Foreign Language Film. After further films in 1965 he went to watch TV. From 1972, he was with Rede Globo under contract. In 2001, he returned after almost 20 years of absence on the theater stage and played back in 2007 after a seven year break in Never again longing for the first time starring in a movie.