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Joaquim António Portugal Baptista de Almeida (born 15 March 1957) is a Portuguese actor. Almeida began his acting career in theatre during the 1980s, he started his film career appearing on the 1982 action film '' The Soldier'', and later achieved recognition for playing Andrea Bonanno in the 1987 Italian film ''
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''. He achieved international fame with his portrayals of Félix Cortez in the 1994 thriller ''
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'' and Bucho in the 1995 action thriller ''
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''. Several years later, he became popular for playing Ramon Salazar on the
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''. Fluent in several languages, Almeida has worked in several countries in
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and the
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, in many film and stage productions, winning some international awards in films like ''Retrato de Família'', ''
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'' and ''O Xangô de Baker Street''. His other well-known films include ''
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'' (1983), '' Only You'' (1994), ''
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'' (1998), ''
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'' (1999), '' Behind Enemy Lines'' (2001), ''
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'' (2004), ''
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'' (2007), '' Che: Part Two'' (2008), ''
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'' (2008), and '' The Gilded Cage'' (2013).


Early life and education

Almeida was born on 15 March 1957 in
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,
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, the son of João Baptista de Almeida and Maria Sara Portugal. At the age of eighteen, after attending a theater course at the Lisbon Conservatory (
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) for two years, he left Portugal to continue his studies after the Conservatory was temporarily closed following the 1974 democratic revolution. He spent a year in
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, moving again, in 1976, to New York City where he studied at the
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, a school for the performing arts.


Career


1980s

After his beginning in theater, Almeida started his film career in 1982 appearing in '' The Soldier''. His first significant role came in a 1983 film, ''
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''. He made appearances in TV series such as ''
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'', and made his breakthrough four years later when he appeared in ''
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'', a film directed by
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that opened the
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in 1987. Being fluent in six languages, Almeida continued his acting career in several countries such as Portugal, England, Spain, France, Italy, Brazil, Argentina, and Germany, working in numerous films.


1990s

In 1994, Almeida played Félix Cortez, a former colonel of Cuban military intelligence in the Tom Clancy thriller, ''
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'', co-starring
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,
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and
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. The film debuted at number one in the box office, earning a reported $20.5 million in the United States. ''Clear and Present Danger'' was a great success and was nominated for two
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s. Later in 1994, Almeida starred in the romantic comedy '' Only You'', in which he plays a suave Italian businessman named Giovanni. According to ''
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'', the film director and producer
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said: "I interviewed many actors for the role.... There was one Italian actor, fairly prominent, that I met in L.A. and again in New York and in Rome. And I wanted to meet several other Italian actors in Italy." When the production moved from
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to Italy last fall, however, none of the country's actors seemed right for what Jewison called "the clichéd Italian gigolo, the guy that women from the Midwest always meet." After the interview with Almeida, Jewison recalled: "Howard Feuer, the casting director, said, 'Joaquim's not that tall. He's not that handsome. He's no Rossano Brazzi here.' I said, 'But listen to his voice.' There's a machoness. Especially when he lowers it, whispers, leans across the table and pours you another glass of wine. He can be extremely intimate with his voice." In 1995, Almeida appeared with
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in the
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's
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thriller ''
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''. This film is the
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to Rodriguez's independent film ''
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'' and the second entry in the ''
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''. Joaquim de Almeida portrays the main villain Bucho, a wealthy but casually bloodthirsty drug kingpin, who rules a seedy Mexican border town. Almeida replaced
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as Bucho, following Juliá's death in 1994. ''Desperado'' was screened out of competition at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival. He won a Portuguese Golden Globe for Best Actor in his next film, the 1995 Portuguese
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''Adão e Eva'' (''Adam and Eve''), where he played the main female character career rival Francisco. In 1997 he appeared in the miniseries ''
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'' and starred in the Luís Galvão Teles' drama ''Elles'' (''Women''). The following year, he co-starred with
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in the Jack Perez thriller ''
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'' (1998). The film premiered at the Austin Film Festival where it won the Feature Film Award.


2000s

In 2001, Almeida starred in the Brazilian comedy '' O Xangô de Baker Street'', where he plays the legendary British detective
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about a case involving Sherlock Holmes and his loyal friend
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, who are invited to Brazil by its Emperor, Pedro II, to find the thief of a priceless Stradivarius owned by his lover. Almeida's outstanding portrayal of the iconic fictional character earned him another Portuguese Golden Globe for best actor, his third, and was nominated for Cinema Brazil Grand Prize award for best actor. In 2001, he had a supporting role in the
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'' Behind Enemy Lines'' as Admiral Juan Miguel Piquet, the commander of
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's naval forces, starring alongside
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and
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. The film, based on the
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, is centered on the story of an American naval flight officer, played by Owen Wilson, who was shot down over Bosnia, who ends up uncovering a massacre during the Bosnian conflict. In 2004, he starred with
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in '' Yo Puta'', a gritty docu-style prostitution tale — in which interviews with real-life prostitutes are interspersed – that is based on a bestselling book by Spaniard Isabel Pisano that tracks the slow descent of a girl into the sex business. That same year, he joined the cast of '' 24'' as Ramon Salazar, the ruthless leader of a drug cartel who is put into—and later broken out of—prison by
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. In 2007, Joaquim de Almeida limns a brutal foreman named Baxter, in the Antonio Cuadri's ''El corazón de la tierra'', a heady romance with a social conscience. Later in 2004, Almeida portrayed a Spanish-born photo journalist named Michael in the romantic
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'' La Cucina'', a film about several mostly separated storylines in which couples, friends and associates meet for a night of cooking and befriending. In 2008, he starred in '' Che: Part Two'', a
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about the Argentine doctor-turned-international revolutionary
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. Almeida played President René Barrientos, a former Bolivian politician who served as his country's
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in 1964 and as its
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from 1964 to 1969. Later that year, Almeida appeared in ''
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'' as local man named Nick Martinez, starring alongside
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and
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. He also provided his voice for the animated show ''
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'' as the voice of the villain
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, and reprised his role in all of his appearances in the show except one in which
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voices the character for one line.


2010s

On 16 July 2010, Almeida was confirmed for the role of antagonist Hernan Reyes in the 2011
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''
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'' directed by
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and co-starring
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,
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and
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. The film took $3.8 million in receipts during launch midnight showings marking the best ever opening for a
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title and ''The Fast and The Furious'' franchise. ''Fast Five'' became the highest-grossing film of 2011 for 15 days before being replaced on 30 May 2011. Between 2013 and 2020, Almeida starred in '' The Gilded Cage, Our Brand is Crisis,
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,'' and '' Downsizing.'' Beginning in 2016, Almeida starred for two seasons as the drug kingpin Don Epifanio Vargas in the
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crime drama ''Queen of the South'', opposite
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. He garnered Imagen Awards nominations as Best Actor in both 2017 and 2018 for his portrayal of Don Epifanio, and after the character was killed by Braga's character in the last episode of Season Two, Almeida also appeared during Season Three. The show wrapped up its 5th season in 2021.


Selected filmography


Films


Television series


Personal life

Almeida has two children, a son Lourenço Gonçalves Baptista de Almeida from Cecília Gonçalves (born 1993) and a daughter Ana de Tavares Risques Baptista de Almeida, with his partner Maria Risques Pereira. He was awarded a Knighthood of the
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in 1992 for his contributions to the arts. Almeida is fluent in six languages; Portuguese (his mother tongue), English, French, Italian, Spanish and German. In 2005, he became a
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.


Awards and nominations


References


External links

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