Leonardo Medeiros
Birthday: Born in 1964-11-20 in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Deathday: Alive
Leonardo Wilson de Medeiros (Rio de Janeiro, November 20, 1964) is a Brazilian actor, winner of three best actor awards at the Brasília Festival. Medeiros also accumulates nominations for a Grande Otelo, two Guarani Awards, an ACIE Award, and a Quality Brazil Award. He is known for his work on television and his dramatic roles in independent films.
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Meu Pé de Laranja Lima
Character: Demétrio
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Os Maias
Character: Taveira
Pedro da Maia, meets a beautiful woman called Maria Monforte with whom he gets married despite his father's objection. The marriage produces a son, Carlos Eduardo, and a daughter. Some time later, Maria Monforte falls in love with Tancredo and runs away to Italy with him, taking her daughter along. When Pedro finds out, he goes with his son to his father's house where he commits suicide. Carlos stays at his grandfather's house and is educated by him. Carlos, becomes a doctor and opens his own of...
Em Família
Character: Fernando de Castro (Nando)
Laerte’s obsessive jealousy brings his relationship with Helena to an end on their wedding day. Twenty years later, he meets Luiza, the daughter of his long lost love. The two fall in love and stir up dormant feelings that profoundly affect Helena’s marriage and her relationship with her daughter. Defying everyone, Laerte and Luiza decide to follow their love to the highest bounds, leaving a trail of conflicts and pain along the way....
A Favorita
Character: Elias Barreto Filho
Donatela and Flora, two friends who became rivals. One of them committed a homicide and pretends to be innocent. There are two versions for the same story. Who, after all, is telling the truth? Donatela or Flora?...
Tempos Modernos
Character: Ramon Piñon
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A Vida da Gente
Character: Lourenço Luiz Macedo
This moving telenovela tells the story of an unconditional love that overcomes life’s unexpected turnarounds. Ana is a promising tennis player who counts on best friend and sister Manuela for support. After a terrible car accident, Ana goes into a deep coma and only emerges from it five years later. Now, she must struggle to recover the life that went on without her and that she no longer recognizes as her own....
Sete Vidas
Character: Lauro
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A Muralha
Character: Leonel Olinto
A hundred years after Europeans set foot in the New World, Brazil still remains largely unexplored. The Conquest recounts the saga of the earliest adventurers who wandered through these unknown lands. Jesuit priests, adventurers seeking gold, slaves and indigenous tribes were entangled in unceasing battles, at a time when laws were made by the sharp edge of a sword....
O Tempo e o Vento
Character: Bento Amaral
It tells the story of two families that are mortal enemies in the fictitious city of Santa Fe, at the end of the 20th century. Its characters who reek of soil, blood, and hard liquor get involved in various events in the small town, where their passions, desires, idealism and envy become intertwined and collide in a poetic and unexpected way....
Hebe
Character: Assis Chateaubriand
Between comings and goings in time, over 8 decades, the story of a poor country girl who fulfills the dream of becoming a great star, always in search of her truth....
Todo Dia a Mesma Noite
Character: Geraldo Alberto Ramos Fontes
When a fire kills 242 people in a nightclub, all that the victims' parents can do is mourn... and fight for justice....
A Rainha da Pérsia
Character: Hamã
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Gênesis
Character: Zeno
The story of the first 2,300 years of humanity and recounts events exclusively from that period. The plot begins by giving us a greater understanding of why we exist and how we turned from perfection to imperfection. The origin of all social and racial problems is there at the beginning of everything, when via one decision a human being who only knew good and enjoyed it so much also chose to know evil....
A Menina que Matou os Pais: A Série
Character: Manfred von Richthofen
Discover Suzane von Richthofen and Daniel Cravinhos’ versions of their relationship, their motives and the shocking crime that took place on the night of October 31st 2002. Based on the proceedings of the trial, the story transits from narrative to the testimonies given at court, and further still, interviews with the cast, the Director and the criminologist and script writer....
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The Boy Who Killed My Parents
Character: Manfred von Richthofen
Based on one of the most shocking and gruesome murder cases in Brazil, the film presents de Suzane von Richthofen's point of view of the events that led to the death of her parents....
Budapeste
Character: José Costa
José Costa is a Brazilian ghost writer. Returning from a ghost writers convention his airplane is rerouted to Budapest. His life is also rerouted when he meets Krista and with her help, learns "the only language in the world which, according to the tongue-wagers, the devil respects....
To the Left of the Father
Character: Pedro, the elder brother
The story of André, the rebel runaway son from a dominant Lebanese-Brazilian family who returns to the nest after a few years....
December
Character: Caio
Caio is 40 years old and lives in the Rio de Janeiro's countryside, where he owns a scrap-metal yard. On Christmas' Eve, he goes to the capital to visit his family and friends. Finally he will be able to meet a man he has not seen for a long time: himself....
Not by Chance
Character: Ênio
Enio is a middle-aged man who lives in solitude after a failed relationship. Pedro, 30, dates Teresa, who is moving to her home. He inherited a carpentry from his father and a taste for the pool. When a traffic accident crosses the parallel trajectories of the two, the imponderable imposes itself and the uncontrol begins....
Playing in the Dark
Character: Tiago
A revolutionary, fighting against dictatorship in Brazil, is wounded in a gun-fight with the police, and is isolated in another man's apartment, where he meets a young woman who will change his life....
Nove Crônicas para um Coração aos Berros
Character: Leopoldo
In a mosaic of human relationships and day-to-day situations, men and women of different ages feel a pressing need to reinvent themselves. As they cross each other's paths, they all are at a turning point in their lives....
Anita & Garibaldi
Character:
Giuseppe Garibaldi (Gabriel Braga Nunes), 32 years old, commander of the republican rebels that invade Laguna, Santa Catarina, during the Farrapos War (1835 - 1845), finds his soul mate in Anita (Ana Paula Arósio), 18 years old, wife of local shoemaker. Between passion and battles, they will define the course of their lives and influence the course of the revolution....
In Evil Hour
Character: Alcaide
The old servant and chronicler Dom Sabas tells how his desolate South American town is the scene of a ruthless power struggle. The landowning Assis family, reduced to a widow and son, tries to hold out against the young, despotic mayor. No less effective then actions are anonymous rumors and accusations, which often stir the inhabitants' moves....
Body
Character: Artur
São Paulo, today. Bones are found in an anonymous grave and sent to the morgue. The coroner Artur deals with actresses and extremists. A body gets preserved for more than thirty years. An identity is searched......
Getulio
Character: General Caiado de Castro
The movie depicts the political crisis that led to the suicide of president Getúlio Vargas, in the 19 days that preceded August 24, 1954. The crisis began with the attempted assassination of journalist and politician Carlos Lacerda in August 5, 1954, at rua Toneleros, Rio de Janeiro, in which Major Vaz was assassinated instead. Investigations pointed to Gregório Fortunato, chief of Vargas' personal guard, as the orderer of the frustrated assassination. This incident was one of the most important...
A Violent Dose of Anything
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Pedro has taken the road and he does not know where he is going. Lucas does not know it either. After meeting at a roadside café, they travel through the Brazilian Savannah seeking for a violent dose of anything....
Nossa Vida Não Cabe Num Opala
Character: Monk Castilho
The father of a family of lower middle class of São Paulo dies. But he did not realize this and starts to watch the reactions of his children and the collapse of the fragile family structure. Based on a novel of Mário Bortolotto....
What Is It Worth?
Character: Amigo
Free adaptation of Machado de Assis's short story "Pai Contra Mãe", having some of Nireu Cavalcanti's 18th Century chronicles as inspiration, the film traces parallels between life in during the slavery period and in modern Brazil....
A Vida ao Lado
Character:
Cecília is in love with her neighbor Ana, but Ana is trying to seduce Alberto. She ignores that he is about to commit suicide. In a day full of surprises, the three neighbors share the same experience: love....
Histórias de Alice
Character:
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The Dreamseller
Character: Roger
A disillusioned psychologist tries to commit suicide until he strikes up a friendship with an unlikely saviour who teaches him a new way of living....
Sunstroke
Character: Leo
In an empty city, scorched by the sun, the young and old confuse the fever of sunstroke with the delicate birth of passion. Like ghosts, they hover around buildings and endless flatlands in search of the ever elusive love. Inspired by 19th century Russian short stories, the plots weave and unravel together in the improbable city of Brasilia – a distorted mirror-image of the Soviet utopia – located in the heart of the Brazilian desert....
Birdwatchers
Character: Moreira
Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, the present. When a young Guarani-Kaiowá woman commits suicide, Nádio leads his community to form a protest camp on the borders of a local farm that sits on their ancestral burial ground....
Polícia Federal: A Lei é Para Todos - Os Bastidores da Operação Lava Jato
Character: Marcelo Odebrecht
2013. During Operation Bidone, the Federal Police seized a truck loaded with palm heart, which contained 697 kg of cocaine. The investigation falls on the team assembled by Ivan Romano, based in Curitiba and composed by Beatriz, Júlio and Ítalo. The traffic connections lead them to the dower Alberto Youssef and later to the former Petrobras director Paulo Roberto Costa, who reveals an immense structure involving builders and the government, in order to divert public money. As the investigation p...
Time and the Wind
Character: Bento Neto
Based on Érico Verissimo's literary trilogy, Time and the Wind follows 150 years of the Terra Cambará family and their opponents, the Amaral family. The struggles between the two families begin in the missions and lasts until the end of the 19th century. The film also features the period of formation of the state of Rio Grande do Sul and the dispute of territory between the Portuguese and Spanish crowns....
The Patient
Character: Dr. Pinheiro Rocha
The true story of Tancredo Neves, the first civilian president of Brazil after a 20-year military dictatorship, and the infamous hospitalization which led to his death before he ever managed to take office....
O Avental Rosa
Character:
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Wherever You Are
Character: Waldir
Open City Radio broadcasts the "Wherever You Are" program on a weekly basis, where people try to communicate with missing relatives and friends. Behind the scenes of the program several life stories cross and become....
Wherever You Are (Short)
Character: Waldir
Waldir and Lucia find themselves when they were looking for someone else....
Kardec
Character: Rivail / Kardec
The story of Allan Kardec, from his days as an educator to his contribution to the spiritist codification....
The Girl Who Killed Her Parents
Character: Manfred von Richthofen
Based on one of the most shocking and gruesome murder cases in Brazil, the film presents Daniel Cravinhos's point of view of the events that led to the death of Marísia and Manfred von Richthofen, his girlfriend’s parents....
Entre Nós
Character: Mathias
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