Marcílio Henrique Tavares Gonçalves
(born 28 August 1991
), better known as Ricky Tavares, is a Brazilian actor and model.
Life and career
Tavares was born in Brasília,
and moved to Rio de Janeiro with his family during childhood.
His siblings
Juliana Xavier and Dharck Tavares are also actors. His cousin
Tiago Santiago is a
telenovela
A telenovela is a type of a television serial drama or soap opera produced primarily in Latin America. The word combines ''tele'' (for "television") and ''novela'' (meaning "novel"). Similar Drama (film and television), drama genres around the w ...
author and director.
Tavares studied at the drama school
O Tablado.
He began his artistic career in the theater, at age 16, playing the hunter Gaston in the play ''
Beauty and the Beast
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Villeneuve's lengthy version was abridged, rewritten, and publish ...
''. Still in the theater, he was in ''Pintando o Sete'' and ''
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
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''.
His first television appearance was in 2009 in the telenovela ''Promessas de Amor'' on
RecordTV
Record (stylized in uppercase; ), formerly known as Rede Record and RecordTV, is a Brazilian free-to-air television network. It is currently the second largest commercial TV station in Brazil, and the 28th largest in the 2012 world ranking. In ...
with the character Aurélio Pitini (Pit). In the same year, he played the character Rodrigo in
TV Globo
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's ''Malhação ID''.
In 2013, the actor played his first leading role in the miniseries ''
José do Egito''.
Tavares joined the cast of several other soap operas, as well as ''
Vidas em Jogo'', ''
A Terra Prometida'',
''Jesus'', ''
Gênesis'', among others. The artist also appears in the
Netflix original
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series ''Maldivas''.
For seven years, Tavares was in a relationship with actress
Marcela Barrozo
Marcela de Sousa Barrozo (born Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, January 21, 1992) is a Brazilian theatre and screen actress.
TV career
* 2002 - '' Sabor da Paixão'' .... Madona
* 2003 - '' Chocolate com Pimenta'' .... Estela Albuquerque
* 2004 - '' ...
. The couple broke up in 2019.
Filmography
Television
Film
Internet
Theater
References
External links
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Living people
Male actors from Brasília
Brazilian male television actors
Brazilian male telenovela actors
Brazilian male stage actors
Brazilian male models
Brazilian male child actors
1991 births