Acting

Joaquim de Almeida

Born March 15, 1957 · São Sebastião da Pedreira, Lisbon, Portugal (age 69)

Joaquim António Portugal Baptista de Almeida (born March 15, 1957) is a Portuguese actor. He began his acting during the 1980s, appearing on the 1982 action movie The Soldier. He achieved international fame with his portrayals of Félix Cortez in the 1995 Tom Clancy's thriller Clear and Present Danger, drug kingpin Bucho in the 1995 action thriller film Desperado, Ramon Salazar on the Fox thriller…

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MovieActionCrime

Over many missions and against impossible odds, Dom Toretto and his family have outsmarted, out-nerved and outdriven every foe in their path. Now, they confront the most lethal opponent they've ever faced: A terrifying threat emerging from the shadows of the past who's fueled by blood revenge, and who is determined to shatter this family and destroy everything—and everyone—that Dom loves, forever.

Road House

Road House · 2024

MovieActionThriller

Ex-UFC fighter Dalton takes a job as a bouncer at a Florida Keys roadhouse, only to discover that this paradise is not all it seems.

Hungry

MovieThrillerHorror

A group of holidaymakers must fight for their lives against a rampaging hippo on the loose after becoming lost in the Louisiana swamplands.

The Hitman's Bodyguard

The Hitman's Bodyguard · 2017

The Hitman's Bodyguard

MovieActionComedy

The world’s top bodyguard gets a new client, a hitman who must testify at the International Court of Justice. They must put their differences aside and work together to make it to the trial on time.

Clear and Present Danger

Clear and Present Danger · 1994

Clear and Present Danger

MovieActionDrama

Agent Jack Ryan becomes acting Deputy Director of Intelligence for the CIA when Admiral Greer is diagnosed with cancer. When an American businessman, and friend of the president, is murdered on his yacht, Ryan starts discovering links between the man and drug dealers. As former CIA agent John Clark is sent to Colombia to kill drug cartel kingpins in retaliation, Ryan must fight through multiple cover-ups to figure out what happened and who's responsible.

Desperado

Desperado · 1995

MovieThrillerAction

El Mariachi plunges headfirst into the dark border underworld when he follows a trail of blood to the last of the infamous Mexican drug lords, Bucho, for an action-packed, bullet-riddled showdown. With the help of his friend and a beautiful bookstore owner, El Mariachi tracks Bucho, takes on his army of desperados, and leaves his own trail of blood.

Downsizing

Downsizing · 2017

MovieDramaScience Fiction

A kindly occupational therapist undergoes a new procedure to be shrunken to four inches tall so that he and his wife can help save the planet and afford a nice lifestyle at the same time.

Missing

Missing · 2023

MovieDramaMystery

When her mother disappears while on vacation in Colombia with her new boyfriend, June’s search for answers is hindered by international red tape. Stuck thousands of miles away in Los Angeles, June creatively uses all the latest technology at her fingertips to try and find her before it’s too late. But as she digs deeper, her digital sleuthing raises more questions than answers... and when June unravels secrets about her mom, she discovers that she never really knew her at all.

Filmography

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MovieActionCrime

Over many missions and against impossible odds, Dom Toretto and his family have outsmarted, out-nerved and outdriven every foe in their path. Now, they confront the most lethal opponent they've ever faced: A terrifying threat emerging from the shadows of the past who's fueled by blood revenge, and who is determined to shatter this family and destroy everything—and everyone—that Dom loves, forever.

Hernan Reyes

Road House

Road House · 2024

MovieActionThriller

Ex-UFC fighter Dalton takes a job as a bouncer at a Florida Keys roadhouse, only to discover that this paradise is not all it seems.

Sheriff

Hungry

MovieThrillerHorror

A group of holidaymakers must fight for their lives against a rampaging hippo on the loose after becoming lost in the Louisiana swamplands.

Walker

The Hitman's Bodyguard

The Hitman's Bodyguard · 2017

The Hitman's Bodyguard

MovieActionComedy

The world’s top bodyguard gets a new client, a hitman who must testify at the International Court of Justice. They must put their differences aside and work together to make it to the trial on time.

Foucher

Clear and Present Danger

Clear and Present Danger · 1994

Clear and Present Danger

MovieActionDrama

Agent Jack Ryan becomes acting Deputy Director of Intelligence for the CIA when Admiral Greer is diagnosed with cancer. When an American businessman, and friend of the president, is murdered on his yacht, Ryan starts discovering links between the man and drug dealers. As former CIA agent John Clark is sent to Colombia to kill drug cartel kingpins in retaliation, Ryan must fight through multiple cover-ups to figure out what happened and who's responsible.

Col. Felix V. Cortez

Desperado

Desperado · 1995

MovieThrillerAction

El Mariachi plunges headfirst into the dark border underworld when he follows a trail of blood to the last of the infamous Mexican drug lords, Bucho, for an action-packed, bullet-riddled showdown. With the help of his friend and a beautiful bookstore owner, El Mariachi tracks Bucho, takes on his army of desperados, and leaves his own trail of blood.

Bucho

Downsizing

Downsizing · 2017

MovieDramaScience Fiction

A kindly occupational therapist undergoes a new procedure to be shrunken to four inches tall so that he and his wife can help save the planet and afford a nice lifestyle at the same time.

Conference Director Dr. Pereira

Missing

Missing · 2023

MovieDramaMystery

When her mother disappears while on vacation in Colombia with her new boyfriend, June’s search for answers is hindered by international red tape. Stuck thousands of miles away in Los Angeles, June creatively uses all the latest technology at her fingertips to try and find her before it’s too late. But as she digs deeper, her digital sleuthing raises more questions than answers... and when June unravels secrets about her mom, she discovers that she never really knew her at all.

Javi

Behind Enemy Lines

Behind Enemy Lines · 2001

Behind Enemy Lines

MovieActionDrama

While flying a routine reconnaissance mission over Bosnia, fighter pilot Lt. Chris Burnett photographs something he wasn't supposed to see and gets shot down behind enemy lines, where he must outrun an army led by a ruthless Serbian general. With time running out and a deadly tracker on his trail, Burnett's commanding officer, Admiral Reigart, decides to risk his career and launch a renegade rescue mission to save his life.

Admiral Juan-Miguel Piquet, Commander of NATO Naval Command

Only You

Only You · 1994

MovieRomanceComedy

Two childhood paranormal incidents have convinced schoolteacher Faith Corvatch that her true love is a guy named 'Damon Bradley', but she has yet to meet him. Preparing to marry podiatrist Dwayne in ten days, Faith receives a phone call from Dwayne's old classmate Damon Bradley, who is on his way to Venice. She impulsively decides to fly to Italy with the hope of finally encountering the man of her dreams. Accompanying her on the trip is her sister-in-law and best friend Kate, who has just left her husband, Faith's brother Larry.

Giovanni

Che: Part Two

Che: Part Two · 2008

MovieDramaHistory

Seven years after his triumph in Cuba, Che winds up in Bolivia, where he tries to ignite the same revolutionary fires as before.

President René Barrientos

The Honorary Consul

The Honorary Consul · 1983

The Honorary Consul

MovieActionDrama

Set in a small politically unstable Latin American country, the story follows the half English and half Latino Dr. Eduardo Plarr, who left his home to find a better life. Along the way he meets an array of people, including British Consul Charley Fortnum, a representative in Latin America who is trying to keep Revolution from occurring. He is also a remorseful alcoholic. Another person the doctor meets is Clara, whom he immediately falls in love with, but there is a problem: Clara is Charley's wife.

Leon

Our Brand Is Crisis · 2015

Our Brand Is Crisis

MovieComedyDrama

Based on the documentary "Our Brand Is Crisis", this feature focuses on the use of American political campaign strategies in South America.

Castillo

Priceless Beauty

Priceless Beauty · 1988

Priceless Beauty

MovieFantasyDrama

A rock-star who stopped singing after the death of his brother finds a female genie in a vase. She tries to help him live again.

Jimmy

The Burning Plain

The Burning Plain · 2008

The Burning Plain

MovieDramaRomance

A trailer is burning in the middle of a plain. The bodies of two adulterous lovers are found. Scenes from both families, before and after the dramatic events, suggest an unusual connection between them. But what is their secret?

Nick Martinez

Tentação

Tentação · 1997

MovieDramaRomance

Father António is a priest by vocation, committed and generous, dear people of Vila Daires a quiet village of the north. But Father António is also a man, and Vila Daires is not as peaceful as it seems. The good intentions of the Father will not be sufficient to halt the worsening of the conflict. And when your fate intersects with Lena, the "black sheep" of the village, Father will also be forced to confront his own demons. Especially with those who never even thought that could exist.

Father António

The Palace

The Palace · 2023

MovieComedyDrama

A comedy set on New Year’s Eve 1999 in a luxurious hotel in the Swiss Alps where the lives of various guests and those who work for them intersect.

Dr. Lima

The Celestine Prophecy

The Celestine Prophecy · 2006

The Celestine Prophecy

MovieRomanceDrama

A spiritual adventure film chronicling the discovery of ancient scrolls in the rainforests of Peru. The prophecy and its nine key insights predict a worldwide awakening, arising within all religious traditions, that moves humanity toward a deeper experience of spirituality.

Father Sanchez

Fatima

In 1917, outside the parish of Fátima, Portugal, a 10-year-old girl and her two younger cousins witness multiple visitations of the Virgin Mary, who tells them that only prayer and suffering will bring an end to World War I. As secularist government officials and Church leaders try to force the children to recant their story, word of the sighting spreads across the country, inspiring religious pilgrims to flock to the site in hopes of witnessing a miracle..

Father Ferreira

The Death and Life of Bobby Z

The Death and Life of Bobby Z · 2007

The Death and Life of Bobby Z

MovieDramaAction

A DEA agent provides former Marine Tim Kearney with a way out of his prison sentence: impersonate Bobby Z, a recently deceased drug dealer, in a hostage switch with a crime lord. When the negotiations go awry, Kearney flees, with Z's son in tow.

Don Huertero

The Life

The Life · 2004

An anthropology student exploring the nature of prostitution is drawn deeper into that profession than she ever expected.

Pierre

Fátima

Fátima · 1997

MovieDramaRomance

1917, a beautiful apparition of Our Lady forever alters the lives of three children: Lucinda, Jacita and Francisco who lived in Villa Fatima in Portugal.

Avelino de Almeida, journalist

Rouge Brésil

Rouge Brésil · 2014

MovieDramaHistory

Adaptation of the Jean-Christophe Ruffin novel

João da Silva

The Legion

The Legion · 2020

MovieAdventureHistory

Noreno, a half-Roman, is entrusted with the mission of crossing the snowy mountains of Armenia, swarming with Parthian patrols, to seek help for his slowly dying men.

Paetus

The Mentalist

The Mentalist · 2008

SeriesCrimeDrama

Patrick Jane, a former celebrity psychic medium, uses his razor sharp skills of observation and expertise at "reading" people to solve serious crimes with the California Bureau of Investigation.

Gabriel Porchetto

Bones

SeriesCrimeDrama

Dr. Temperance Brennan and her colleagues at the Jeffersonian's Medico-Legal Lab assist Special Agent Seeley Booth with murder investigations when the remains are so badly decomposed, burned or destroyed that the standard identification methods are useless.

Raphael Valenza

The West Wing

The West Wing · 1999

The West Wing provides a glimpse into presidential politics in the nation's capital as it tells the stories of the members of a fictional presidential administration. These interesting characters have humor and dedication that touches the heart while the politics that they discuss touch on everyday life.

Carlos Carrio

SeriesAction & AdventureDrama

Counterterrorism agent Jack Bauer fights the bad guys of the world, a day at a time. With each week's episode unfolding in real-time, "24" covers a single day in the life of Bauer each season.

Ramon Salazar

CSI: Miami

CSI: Miami · 2002

SeriesDramaMystery

The show follows Crime Scene Investigators working for the Miami-Dade Police Department as they use physical evidence, similar to their Las Vegas counterparts, to solve grisly murders. The series mixes deduction, gritty subject matter, and character-driven drama in the same vein as the original series in the CSI franchise, except that the Miami CSIs are cops first, scientists second.

Joseph Trevi

Elementary

Elementary · 2012

SeriesDramaMystery

A modern-day drama about a crime-solving duo that cracks the NYPD's most impossible cases. Following his fall from grace in London and a stint in rehab, eccentric Sherlock escapes to Manhattan where his wealthy father forces him to live with his worst nightmare - a sober companion, Dr. Watson.

Cal Medina

Once Upon a Time

Once Upon a Time · 2011

Once Upon a Time

SeriesDramaSci-Fi & Fantasy

There is a town in Maine where every story book character you've ever known is trapped between two worlds, victims of a powerful curse. Only one knows the truth and only one can break the spell.

King Xavier

Miami Vice

Miami Vice · 1984

SeriesCrimeDrama

The story of the Miami Police Department's vice squad and its efforts to end drug trafficking and prostitution, centered on the unlikely partnership of Sonny Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs - who first meet when Tubbs is undercover in a drug cartel.

Roberto 'Nico' Arroyo

Archer

SeriesComedyAction & Adventure

Smart-mouthed superspy Sterling Archer and his dysfunctional team of secret agents turn dangerous missions into messy misadventures around the globe.

Román Calzado (voice)

Revenge

Revenge · 2011

SeriesDramaMystery

When Emily Thorne moves to the Hamptons, everyone wonders about the new girl, but she knows everything about them, including what they did to her family. Years ago, they took everything from her. Now, one by one, she's going to make them pay.

Salvador Grobet

Parenthood

Parenthood · 2010

The trials and tribulations of the very large, colorful and imperfect Braverman family.

Matthew Biscali

Shōgun

Shōgun · 2024

SeriesDramaWar & Politics

In Japan in the year 1600, at the dawn of a century-defining civil war, Lord Yoshii Toranaga is fighting for his life as his enemies on the Council of Regents unite against him, when a mysterious European ship is found marooned in a nearby fishing village.

Domingo

The Batman

The Batman · 2004

SeriesAnimationSci-Fi & Fantasy

A young billionaire Bruce Wayne fights crime and evil as the mysterious vigilante, The Batman.

Bane (voice)

Queen of the South

Queen of the South · 2016

Queen of the South

SeriesCrimeDrama

Teresa flees Mexico after her drug-runner boyfriend is murdered. Settling in Dallas, she looks to become the country's reigning drug smuggler and to avenge her lover's murder.

Epifanio

Revolution

Revolution · 2012

SeriesSci-Fi & FantasyDrama

One day, electricity just stopped working and the world was suddenly thrust back into the dark ages. Now, 15 years later, a young woman's life is dramatically changed when a local militia arrives and kills her father, who mysteriously—and unbeknownst to her—had something to do with the blackout. An unlikely group sets out off on a daring journey to find answers about the past in the hopes of reclaiming the future.

Luis Nunez

Warrior Nun

Warrior Nun · 2020

SeriesAction & AdventureDrama

After waking up in a morgue, an orphaned teen discovers she now possesses superpowers as the chosen Halo-Bearer for a secret sect of demon-hunting nuns.

Cardinal Duretti

Santa Bárbara

Santa Bárbara · 2015

Marcelo Vidal

Turn of the Tide

Turn of the Tide · 2023

Turn of the Tide

When a boat loaded with cocaine sinks off his home island, Eduardo sees a risky but exciting opportunity to make money and fulfill impossible dreams.

João Canto Moniz

Missing

Missing · 2012

SeriesMysteryAction & Adventure

Becca Winstone learns that her son, Michael, disappears while studying abroad, and it's a race against time when she travels to Europe to track him down. A surprising turn of events reveals just how far one mother will go to protect her family. Exotic locations and thrilling twists will keep you riveted in "Missing."

Antoine Lussier

Wanted

An elite multi-agency taskforce tracks down Los Angeles's 100 most wanted fugitives as they struggle to balance their work and personal lives.

Manuel Valenza

Training Day

Training Day · 2017

SeriesCrimeDrama

Fifteen years after the events of the feature film, Kyle Craig is assigned to go undercover in an elite squad of the LAPD as Detective Frank Rourke’s trainee to spy on him and report on his off-book methods. As Frank starts teaching his principled trainee the way of the streets, they form an uneasy alliance that will change the course of both their lives irrevocably.

Menjivar

Aruanas

Aruanas · 2019

SeriesAction & AdventureDrama

Three friends leading a nonprofit organisation investigate environmental crimes in the Amazon involving a major mining company.

Robert Johnson

Crusoe

SeriesDramaAction & Adventure

Crusoe is a television adventure drama based loosely on the novel Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe. The series' 13 episodes aired on NBC during the first half of the 2008–2009 television season. It follows the adventures of Robinson Crusoe: a man who has been shipwrecked on an island for six years and is desperate to return home to his wife and children. His lone companion is Friday, a native whom Crusoe rescued and taught English.

Santos Santana

Dead Man's Walk

Dead Man's Walk · 1996

Dead Man's Walk

The final chapter of Larry McMurty's popular and critically acclaimed mini-series, 'Lonesome Dove', recounting the thrilling first adventure of Gus McCrae and Woodrow Call. Great Cast!

Major Laroche