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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 24. Chapters: Adelaide Joao, Ana Cristina Oliveira, Ana Moreira, Antonio Silva, Antonio Vilar, Beatriz Costa, Carlos Macedo, Carloto Cotta, Diogo Doria, Edgar Morais, Eunice Munoz, Fernando Luis, Henrique Viana, Isabel de Castro, Isabel Ruth, Joao Costa Menezes, Joao Salaviza, Joao Villaret, Joaquim de Almeida, Jose Fidalgo, Jose Raposo, Leonor Baldaque, Leonor Maia, Leonor Silveira, List of Portuguese film actors, Lucia Moniz, Luis Filipe Rocha, Luis Miguel Cintra, Manuela Couto, Maria Barroso, Maria de Medeiros, Maria Matos, Mario Barroso, Nicolau Breyner, Patricia Tavares, Paulo Pires, Rafael Morais, Raul Solnado, Ribeirinho, Ricardo Trepa, Rita Blanco, Sam the Kid, Simone de Oliveira, Soraia Chaves, Teresa Madruga, Tony D'Algy, Vasco Santana, Virgilio Teixeira (actor), Vitor Norte. Excerpt: Joaquim Antonio Portugal Baptista de Almeida (Portuguese pronunciation: born 15 March 1957) is a Portuguese-American actor. 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 Felix 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. Being fluent in several languages, 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 Familia, Adao e Eva and O Xango de Baker Street. His other well-known films include The Honorary Consul (1983), Only You (1994), La Cucaracha (1998), One Man's Hero (1999), Behind Enemy Lines (2001), Whore (2004), The Death and Life of Bobby Z (2007), Che: Part Two (2008) and The Burning Plain (2008). Joaquim de Almeida was born in Lisbon, on 15 March 1957, son of Joao 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. After doing some theater, Almeida started his film career in 1982 appearing in The Soldier. His first significant role came in a 1983 film, The Honorary Consul, where he
