Fábio Assunção Pinto (born 10 August 1971) is a Brazilian actor. In 2011, he was nominated for the International Emmy Award for Best Actor for his role in the miniseries '' Dalva e Herivelto: uma Canção de Amor''.

Early life

Born in

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. He took piano lessons for two and a half years, after classical guitar, folk, singing and choir in his childhood. When he was only 15 years old, knowing how to play guitar and piano, he even started a band called ''Delta T'', but the dream ended up lacking money and time to practice. Fábio started university and went to study advertising, until one day he saw an announcement of a theater course at the ''Fundação das Artes'' in

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, which he decided to do. That was the beginning of a brilliant career. A week after taking his resume to

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and being chosen for a test, he was already recording '' Meu Bem, Meu Mal'', his first soap opera. Subsequently, several other works followed, becoming one of Gilberto Braga's favorite actors.

Personal life

Assunção is a Spiritist. In 2017 after new drug problems, he received support from

for treatment of addiction in

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. In the same year, he joined the Workers' Party.

Filmography

Television

References

External links

* 1971 births Living people Male actors from São Paulo Brazilian people of Portuguese descent Brazilian male film actors Brazilian male television actors Brazilian spiritualists Workers' Party (Brazil) politicians 20th-century Brazilian male actors 21st-century Brazilian male actors {{Brazil-actor-stub