Igor Rickli Christóforo (born December 14, 1983) is a Brazilian actor.
Biography
Rickli was born in
Ponta Grossa
Ponta Grossa () is a municipality in the state of Paraná, southern Brazil. The estimated population is 355,336 according to official data from the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics and it is the 4th most populous city in Paraná ...
,
Paraná. He is of Italian and Swiss descent. He is openly bisexual.
Career
He started playing theater as a child at the age of six in the church his family attended, and as a teenager he began to produce his own spectacles until at eighteen he decided to become a professional. In the beginning he was taken to live in São Paulo by Ney Alves, current booker of Major Model Brazil to continue his modeling career. On the occasion Igor lived in the house of Ney, in the capital of São Paulo, who saw in the young man a lot of talent for the artistic medium. It was on this occasion that Igor left Ponta Grossa for the first time in search of success in the artistic world.
In 2006, he moved to Rio de Janeiro in search of the dream of becoming an actor and in 2010 he debuts as the protagonist Berger in the HAIR show, the following year he played Mick Deans in Judy Garland, in over the rainbow and Bolivar, in the film
Time and the Wind
''Time and the Wind'' ( pt, O Tempo e o Vento) is a 2013 Brazilian epic drama film based on a series of novels written by the Brazilian author Erico Verissimo. The film was directed by Jayme Monjardim and starring Thiago Lacerda, Marjorie Estia ...
.
In 2013, he makes his television debut in the soap opera
Flor do Caribe, as the villain Alberto Albuquerque. In 2014 he was present in
Alto Astral
''Alto Astral'' (International Title:''Forever and Ever'') is a Brazilian access prime telenovela produced and broadcast by TV Globo. It premiered on November 3, 2014, replacing ''Geração Brasil'' and ended on May 8, 2015 replaced by ''I Love Pa ...
in the role of Mohammed. In March 2016, he signed a contract with
Rede Record to participate in the novel A Terra Prometida.
Filmography
Personal life
He married in 2010 to singer and actress
Aline Wirley
Aline Wirley da Silva (born 18 December 1981) is a Brazilian actress and singer-songwriter. In 2002, she won the talent show ''Popstars'' and joined the Brazilian girl group Rouge until 2005, with which she released four studio albums, ''Rouge'' ...
, a former member of the
Rouge group. Together they have a son, Antônio, born in September 2014.
References
External links
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1983 births
Living people
Male actors from Ponta Grossa
Brazilian people of Italian descent
Brazilian people of Swiss-German descent
Brazilian male film actors
Brazilian male telenovela actors
Brazilian male stage actors
Bisexual male actors
LGBT actors from Brazil
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