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Brazilian Hollywood: Brazilian Actors in American Movies

Brazilian Hollywood: Brazilian Actors in American Movies

posted on September 5, 2013

In recent years, Hollywood has been taking a greater interest in Brazilian-born talent. While none of the Brazilian actors or actresses have seen their US careers take off yet, their presence on the big screens is pretty consistent. One actor and one actress stand out from the crowd.

Rodrigo Santoro

Perhaps best known in Brazil for the soap operas he’s done, as well as films like Brainstorm (Bicho de 7 Cabeças) and Behind the Sun (Abril Despedaçado). Outside of Brazil, he’s been in films such as Love Actually, 300 (and the upcoming sequel), the Che films and he even had a part in the last Arnold Schwarzenegger film, The Last Stand.

Alice Braga

Niece of Brazilian bombshell Sonia Braga, Alice has acted in Brazilian films like City of God (Cidade de Deus), Lower City (Cidade Baixa) and Drained (O Cheiro do Ralo), among others. These days, she’s shifting her focus to Hollywood and has acted alongside Will Smith in I Am Legend, Julianne Moore in Blindness, and Anthony Hopkins in The Rite. Soon, she’ll be appearing in the new sci-fi flick Elysium staring Matt Damon, and alongside fellow Brazilian actor Wagner Moura.

Keep an eye out for both of them in the cinemas!

PS: Rodrigo Santoro was also in an advert with Nicole Kidman. Did you recognize him?

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About Adam Lee

Adam is a writer and a researcher who has studied Brazilian culture for over a decade and created several Brazil-themed blogs going back to 2008. Having taught himself Portuguese, he put it to practical use by spending three years doing Brazil on a budget (and living in favelas), from Rio de Janeiro to the Amazon.

He now resides in Lisbon, Portugal, developing a startup and dreaming about having a beachside B&B in the Northeast of Brazil.

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  1. Tim Cohen

    July 29, 2016 at 10:38 am

    Hate to break this to you but Alice Braga is an actress and not an actor.

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    • Luciana Lage

      August 1, 2016 at 2:57 pm

      LOL Of course she is 🙂 In Portuguese, when we have a situation like this with one masculine noun and one feminine, we use the masculine plural to talk about the group. This is what happened here, a literal translation that did not work so well in English. The funny thing is that the article was written by an American who was living in Brazil at the time. I guess we can say that he was truly immersed in the Portuguese language 🙂

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    • Teo Fonseca

      April 3, 2021 at 8:32 pm

      Hate to break it to you, but Latin language doesn’t work the same as English..oops!

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    • Michael Cohan

      December 14, 2021 at 6:55 pm

      Moron its basically the same in ENGLISH as well. “Actor” is the work, the art, and can and is used for the artist whether male or female.

      Reply

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