Dan Filip Stulbach (; born September 26, 1969) is a Brazilian actor, television presenter, director, and artistic director.

Biography

He is the first member of his

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immigrant family to be born in Brazil. He has only one sister, who is a nutritionist and mother of his only nephew. At home, he grew up listening to the Polish language and stories from his grandfather about life in Poland, which was devastated during

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. After graduating from Colégio Rio Branco, he was undecided about his career path. He took college entrance exams and was admitted to programs in Medicine, Administration, and Engineering. However, he studied Engineering for a year before graduating in Social Communication from the School of Advertising and Marketing (ESPM). He also attended the School of Dramatic Art at USP. At ESPM, he created the theater group Tangerina, which still exists today. For eight years he directed group shows, which won several amateur theater festivals. He lived in

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for almost a year. There he studied English and worked as a movie ticket holder. With the money he earned, he spent a season in

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, where he could watch dozens of plays. Stulbach is often touted as being similar to American actor

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, having even been satirized as such by the group of comedians

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Career

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* 1969 births Living people Male actors from São Paulo Brazilian people of Polish-Jewish descent Brazilian male television actors Brazilian male telenovela actors Brazilian male film actors Brazilian male stage actors Brazilian Jews 21st-century Brazilian male actors {{Brazil-actor-stub