ACTOR

Joaquim de Almeida

1957 - Today

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Joaquim António Portugal Baptista de Almeida (Portuguese pronunciation: [ʒwaˈkĩ ɐ̃ˈtɔnju puɾtuˈɣaɫ bapˈtiʃtɐ dɨ aɫˈmɐjðɐ]) (born 15 March 1957) is a Portuguese actor. He started his film career playing a role in 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 the 2011 film Fast Five, a role he reprised in 2023's Fast X. Fluent in several languages, de Almeida has worked in several countries in Europe and the Americas, in many film and stage productions, winning some international awards in films like Retrato de Família, Adão e Eva and O Xangô de Baker Street. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Joaquim de Almeida is the 1,650th most popular actor (down from 1,406th in 2019), the 186th most popular biography from Portugal (down from 167th in 2019) and the most popular Portuguese Actor.

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Joaquim de Almeida ranks 1,650 out of 13,578. Before him are Haluk Bilginer, Louis Jouvet, Martin Lawrence, George Arliss, Timothy Spall, and Ken Kercheval. After him are Lina Romay, Fess Parker, Xander Berkeley, Cheng Pei-pei, Rhys Ifans, and Marie-France Pisier.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1957, Joaquim de Almeida ranks 97. Before him are Mikhail Kasyanov, Ahmet Kaya, Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Paweł Pawlikowski, Tony Martin, and Timothy Spall. After him are Ikuo Takahara, Lucélia Santos, Esmail Ghaani, Víctor Muñoz, Włodzimierz Smolarek, and Mikhail Pletnev.

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In Portugal

Among people born in Portugal, Joaquim de Almeida ranks 186 out of 633. Before him are Filipa Moniz Perestrelo (1455), Gaspar Corte-Real (1450), Ferdinand the Holy Prince (1402), Paulo Futre (1966), Duarte, Duke of Guimarães (1515), and Paulo Sousa (1970). After him are Francisco de Sá de Miranda (1491), Tomé Pires (1468), Gaius Appuleius Diocles (104), Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo (1930), Vasco Gonçalves (1921), and Félix Mourinho (1938).

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Among ACTORS In Portugal

Among actors born in Portugal, Joaquim de Almeida ranks 1. After him are Maria de Medeiros (1965), Madalena Iglésias (1939), Sara Martins (1977), Aure Atika (1970), Louis Ferreira (1966), Daniela Melchior (1996), Catarina Furtado (1972), Alba Baptista (1997), Filomena Cautela (1984), and Sílvia Alberto (1981).

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