Joaquim De Almeida

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Joaquim António Portugal Baptista de Almeida CvIH (born 15 March 1957) is a Portuguese-American actor who began acting in theatres from 1982 to 1988. He received accolades for his role in the 1987 Italian film Good Morning, Babylon, which was directed by Andrea Bonanno.

In the 1995 action thriller Desperado, he gained international fame for his portrayals of Félix Cortez.

Ramon Salazar on Fox's thriller drama series 24, 2003-2004, and Hernan Reyes in the 2011 film Fast Five, many years later. Almeida has worked in various countries in Europe and the United States, winning several international awards in films including Retrato de Famlia, Ado e Eva, and O Xangô de Baker Street, as a fluent speaker in several languages.

His other well-known films include The Honorary Consul (1983), Only You (1994), La Cucaracha (1999), One Man's Hero (1999), Behind Enemy Lines (2000), Bobby Z (2007), The Burning Plain (2008), and The Gilded Cage (2013).

Early life and education

Almeida was born in Só Sebasti, Portugal, on March 15, 1957, the son of Joo Baptista de Almeida and Maria Sara Portugal. After attending a drama 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 before heading to New York City, where he studied at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute, a school for the performing arts.

Personal life

Almeida has two children, a son Lourenço Gonçalves Baptista de Almeida (born 1993) and a daughter Ana de Tavares Risques Pereira together with his partner Maria Risques Pereira.

In 1992, he was given a Knighthood of the Order of Prince Henry for his contributions to the arts.

Almeida is fluent in six languages; Portuguese (his mother tongue); English, French, Italian, Spanish, and German.

He became a naturalized US citizen in 2005.

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Career

Almeida started his film career in 1982, appearing in The Soldier. He made his first appearance in The Honorary Consult, a 1983 film. He appeared in television series such as Miami Vice and then made his debut four years later when he appeared in Good Morning Babylon, a film directed by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani that opened the Cannes Film Festival in 1987. Almeida continued his acting career in many countries, including Portugal, England, Spain, France, Italy, Brazil, Argentina, and Germany, where he appeared in numerous films.

In the Tom Clancy thriller, Filix Cortez, a former Cuban military intelligence officer, starred Harrison Ford, Willem Dafoe, and Anne Archer, co-starring Harrison Ford. The film debuted at number one in the box office and grossing $20.5 million in the United States.

Danger, who was selected for two Academy Awards, was a huge success and was nominated for two Academy Awards. Almeida appeared in the romantic comedy Only You, in which he portrays a suave Italian businessman named Giovanni. Norman Jewison, the film director and producer, said, "I interviewed many actors for the role." I encountered one Italian actor in Los Angeles, as well as in New York and Rome. "I wanted to meet several other Italian actors in Italy." However, not all of the country's actors appeared for "the clichéd Italian gigolo, the guy that women from the Midwest never meet" when the production moved from Pittsburgh to Italy last fall. Jewison recalled: "Howard Feuer, the casting director, said, 'Joaquim's not that tall." He's not that handsome. Rossano Brazzi is not here,' says the narrator.' 'But listen to his voice,' I said.' There's a machoness. Especially if he lowers it, whispers, leans across the table, and pours another glass of wine. He can be particularly personal with his words."

In 1995, Almeida appeared in the Robert Rodriguez's action thriller Desperado with Antonio Banderas and Salma Hayek. This film is the sequel to Rodriguez's independent film El Mariachi and the second in the Mexico Trilogy. Joaquim de Almeida portrays Bucho, the main villain, but also a casually bloodthirsty drug kingpin who rules a seedy Mexican border town. Following Juliá's death in 1994, Almeida replaced Ral Juliá as Bucho. Desperado was kicked out of competition at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival. In his next film, Ado e Eva, the 1995 Portuguese drama in which he appeared in the major female character role rival Francisco, he received a Portuguese Golden Globe for Best Actor.

He appeared in the miniseries Nostromo in 1997 and starred in the Lus Galv's drama Elles (Women) for women. In the Jack Perez drama La Cucaracha (1998), he co-starred Eric Roberts. The film premiered at the Austin Film Festival, where it received the Feature Film Award.

Almeida appeared in the Brazilian comedy O Xangô de Baker Street, where he plays legendary British detective Sherlock Holmes. The film is based on a book written in 1995 by celebrated Brazilian author/actor/entrepreneur Jô Soares about a case involving Sherlock Holmes and his faithful friend Doctor Watson, who are invited to Brazil by Brazil's Emperor Pedro II to find the thief of a costless Stradivarius owned by his lover. Almeida's outstanding portrayal of the legendary fictional character earned him another Portuguese Golden Globe for best actor, his third, and he was nominated for the best actor award in Cinema Brazil. Admiral Juan Miguel Piquet, the head of NATO's naval forces, appeared in the film Behind Enemy Lines in 2001, starring Owen Wilson and Gene Hackman. The film, which is based on the Mrkonji Grad incident, is based on the life of an American naval flight officer who was shot down over Bosnia and finds a massacre during the Bosnian war.

He starred Daryl Hannah and Denise Richards in Yo Puta, a gritty docu-style prostitution book based on a bestseller book by Spaniard Isabel Pisano that chronicles a girl's gradual descent into the sex industry in 2004.

Ramon Salazar, the ruthless leader of a drug cartel that is put into — and later broke out of—prison by Jack Bauer, was among the cast of 24. In the Antonio Cuadri's El corazón de la tierra, a heady romance with a social conscience, Joaquim de Almeida limns a brutal foreman named Baxter.

Michael, a Spanish-born photo journalist, appeared in La Cucina, a film about several main plotlines in which couples, relatives, and acquaintances spent a night of cooking and befriending for a night of cooking and befriending.

He appeared in Che: Part Two, a biographical film about Ernesto Guevara, the Argentine doctor-turned-global revolutionary. René Barrientos, a former Bolivian politician who served as Vice President in 1964 and then President from 1969 to 1969, was Almeida's President René Barrientos, a former Bolivian politician who served as its Vice President in 1964 and 1969.

Almeida appeared in The Burning Plains later this year as Nick Martinez, a local man who appeared alongside Charlize Theron and Kim Basinger. He appeared on several of his appearances in the cartoon, except in one in which Ron Perlman plays the villain in one line.

Almeida was cast in the 2011 action film Fast Five starring Justin Lin and co-starring Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, and Dwayne Johnson on July 16. During the first midnight showings presenting the best ever opening for a Universal title and The Fast and Furious franchise, the film earned $3.8 million in receipts. Fast Five became the highest-grossing film of 2011 for 15 days before being replaced on May 30.

Almeida appeared in The Gilded Cage, Our Brand is in Risk, The Hitman's Bodyguard, and Downsizing between 2013 and 2020.

Don Epifanio Vargas, the drug kingpin in the USA Network crime drama Queen of the South, starred Almeida starting in 2016 and starring Alice Braga. He received Imagen Awards nominations for his portrayal of Don Epifanio in both 2017 and 2018, and after the actor was killed by Braga's plot in the last episode of Season Two, Almeida appeared in both 2017 and 2018. In 2021, the program celebrated its 5th season.

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