Luiz Fernando Guimarães (born November 28, 1949, in

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) is a Brazilian

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. At the beginning of the 1980s, he participated in the Asdrubal Trouxe o Trombone, a group of actors from Rio de Janeiro who wrote, produced, and performed their plays. Regina Casé, Evandro Mesquita, Patrícia Travassos, among others, were his mates at Asdrubal. Luiz Fernando and the Asdrubal were very popular and successful. During the 2000s, he became famous country-wide performing TV ads to a government bank. He is famous for his role in

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