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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Miguel Veloso

Miguel Veloso (b.1986) is a Portuguese soccer player.

His father Antonio Veloso was also a professional footballer, he played for Benfica and the Portuguese national football team.

Miguel began his career, like his father, at Benfica. However, at the age of 14, he moved to the city rivals Sporting Lisbon. After four years in the youth teams of the club, Sporting Lisbon loaned him in the season 2005/06 to CD Olivais e Moscavide. After a good season there, he was inducted into the Sporting first team. In July 2010 he moved to Genoa in exchange with Alberto Zapater. After his impressive performances at the European Championships, Veloso signed, in early July 2012, a four-year contract with Dynamo Kiev.

Miguel Veloso was first nominated for a match with the Portuguese national team in August 2007. He made his debut on 13 October 2007 against Azerbaijan, and stood in the Portuguese squad at Euro 2008 and 2012, and at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.

Rui Porto Nunes

Rui Porto Nunes (b.1986) is a Portuguese actor and DJ. Born in Portalegre, at the age of 19 he switched the cycling passion for the passion of acting and headed to the TV screen, where he had already roles of rebel, vampire and barber. Rui was the main character in the TV series “Lua Vermelha” and Dancing’ Days.

Rui Porto Nunes is also a DJ and plays sets in several clubs from north to south. He is also heard in voice-overs for films and advertising spots.

 

 

 

Joao Sousa

Joao Sousa (b.1989) is a Portuguese professional tennis player. On September 10, 2012 Joao rose to number 107 in the singles ranking, making him for the first time, the Portuguese number 1, a position the he currently holds. On 15th October 2012, Joao Sousa managed to enter the Top 100 singles ranking in 99th position, becoming the fourth Portuguese to enter the Top 100 ranking. In September 23, he got his higher singles ranking in the 77th position.

On 29th September 2013, Joao Sousa claimed his first ATP World Tour title at the Malaysian Open, defeating fifth seed Julien Benneteau 2-6, 7-5, 6-4 in Kuala Lumpur.

It is coached by former tennis player Francisco Roig.

 

 

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".