Ruben Alves

Ruben Alves (b.1980) is a French-Portuguese actor and movie director.

Ruben Alves (n.1980) é um actor e realizador de cinema franco-português.

Joaquim d'Almeida

Joaquim d'Almeida (b.1957) was born in Lisbon, son of João Baptista de Almeida and Maria Sara Portugal.

At the age of eighteen, after attending the theater course at the Lisbon Conservatory (School of Theatre and Cinema) for two years, he left Portugal to continue his studies after the Conservatory was temporarily closed following the 1974 democratic revolution. He spent a year in Vienna, moving again, in 1976, to New York City where he studied at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute, a school for the performing arts frequented by famous actors such as Robert De Niro, Al Pacino and Angelina Jolie.

He began his acting doing some theater. During the 1980s, he started his film career appearing on the 1982 action film The Soldier, and later achieved recognition for playing Andrea Bonanno in the 1987 Italian film Good Morning, Babylon. He achieved international fame with his portrayals of Félix Cortez in the 1994 thriller Clear and Present Danger and Bucho in the 1995 action thriller Desperado. Several years later, he became popular for playing Ramon Salazar on the Fox thriller drama series 24, between 2003 and 2004, and Hernan Reyes in 2011 street racing film Fast Five.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Afonso Pimentel

Afonso Pimentel (b.1982) is a Portuguese actor.

He debuted with fourteen years featuring Luis Filipe Rocha’s film, “Adeus Pai” (1996), which earned him the Best Young Actor Award at the International Festival of Moscow (1997). Since then he played roles in several TV series in Portuguese television.

In 2003 was directed by Joao Lourenco in the Teatro Aberto, in “Demonios Menores” by Bruce Graham, working with the same director in “The Life of Galileo” by Bertolt Brecht. In 2006, he also participated in the play “Pedras Rolantes” by Pedro Ribeiro, in a staging of Antonio Pires.

Afonso received the “Globo de Ouro” (Golden Globe) for Best Actor, in the movie “Coisa Ruim” (2005) movie of Tiago Guedes and Frederico Serra. His participation is consolidated his film career, placing him as one of the actors in the winning list of Shooting Stars by the European Film Promotion on that year, receiving from the hands of Judi Dench and Cate Blanchett the Studio Hamburg Shooting Stars Award. His last appearance on film is in 2006 with “20.13” of Joaquim Leitão. During 2008 and 2009 he worked as a director for television, on producers like Plural Entertainment, CBV and Endemol. And returns to television as an actor in the novel “Espírito Indomavel” (2010).

He is back to the cinema in the film “Mistérios de Lisboa” directed by the Chilean-French Raul Ruiz. In 2011, Afonso is the director of the mini-series "O Amor é um Sonho".