BIOGRAPHY/FILMOGRAPHY OF THE ACTORS

Paulo Miklos

“Owner of an excellent voice, of peculiar pitch… Miklos takes all the risks involved in the song, getting into those contradictory feelings no one wants to embrace, extracting from them special songs… his performance ranges between total tenderness, anti-romanticism and density.”

These are some attributes with which Paulo Miklos is used to be saluted by the critics and the audience.

Titãs’ main performer, his trajectory is mixed with the Brazilian cultural movement. Involved in the musical scene since he was 12, Paulo plays the guitar, the piano, the flute and the sax. When everyone discovered performance, Miklos took part already of an experimental project called Aguilar e a Banda Performática.

In the 80’s, Brazil enjoyed a great local rock boom, beleaguered by very high-quality bands, among them, Titãs, one of the most important groups of the last two decades.

In 84, his voice marked the band’s debut, with their first great hit, “Sonífera Ilha”. From then on, and among the eight members of the band, he was in charge of leading many of Titãs’ potential hits.

So much time together lead the band to take some breaks and its members to develop solo projects.

In 94, Miklos released his first solo CD, with an acoustic profile and strong influence of the popular Brazilian song. Produced and arranged by the artist, the CD “Paulo Miklos” won the 8th Sharp Music Award for Best New Artist.

In 2001, Miklos releases his second solo CD, “Vou Ser Feliz e Já Volto” (“I’ll Be Happy and Will Come Back Soon”), released by Abril Music.

Beside his musical career, Paulo Miklos accepts an invitation from director Beto Brant and takes his first role in the movies as Anísio, one of the central characters in the film “The Trespasser”.

For his outstanding performance, Miklos took the Best New Actor Award at the 31st Brasilia Film Festival, the most important local festival in Brazil.

“Miklos, in his first role in the movies, is simply genius. The scene where Anísio comes to the office to bring up a little money to produce his ‘bro’ Sabotage’s CD, for example, is anthological ”, says filmmaker Walter Salles (“central station”).

Whoever accompanies Miklos’ trajectory in the last two decades as performer, composer, musician or singer is not surprised by this new talent. His musical performances were always visceral.

“… Miklos achieved one of his greatest works, bringing together a lot of attitude, competence and quality” (Jornal da Tarde).

Now Miklos is preparing himself for new flights. Invited by the director Suzana Amaral (“The Hour of the Star”, Silver Bear Winner in Berlin 86) to incorporate the main character of her new feature film, the great new actor announces: “I was stricken by the acting virus”.

Filmography

- “O Invasor” (“The Trespasser”), by Beto Brant

Marco Ricca

Marco Ricca has acted in more than ten feature films, including the Academy Award Nominated “Four Days in September”, by Bruno Barreto, where he plays one of the activists who kidnapped the American ambassador during the Brazilian dictatorship in the 60’s. Other important films where he worked in are the recent “Até que a vida nos separe”, by José Zaragoza, “Tiradentes”, by Oswaldo Caldeira.

This year the actor will be seen in three feature films, where he will be the leading character: “Amor à Vista”, by Luiz Villaça (“Por trás do Pano”), “Rua seis sem número”, by João Batista de Andrade and “Caso Morel”, by Sheila Quental (Feital), and “Chatô, o Rei do Brasil”, where he will play the lead role of the king of communications in Brazil in the 40’s Assis Chateaubriand.

Also a producer and director, Ricca took to stage more than 15 stage plays, through his own company, where he acted and directed.

Among the works he starred in are “Mais Perto” (“Closer”), directed by Hector Babenco, “Bakunin”, directed by Wal Folly, “Hamlet”, directed by Ulisses Cruz, “A Gaivota” (“The Seagull”), written by Tchecov and directed by Francisco Medeiros, “Dois perdidos numa noite suja”, written by Plinio Marcos and directed by Emilio di Biasi.

As a director, Ricca chose contemporary texts such as “West”, by Sam Shepard and “Shopping and Fucking”, by Mark Havenrill.

Ricca has an extensive career in television, having acted in many soap operas, miniseries and special projects.

He is currently directing the play “O Senhor das Flores” (“The Lord of the Flowers”) and acting in a soap opera to open September 2002.

Filmography

Highlights:
- “O Que é Isso, Companheiro?” (“Four Days in September”), by Bruno Barreto
- “Até que a vida nos separe”, by José Zaragoza
- “Tiradentes”, by Oswaldo Caldeira
- “O Invasor” (“The Trespasser”), by Beto Brant
To be released:
- “Rua seis sem número”, by João Batista de Andrade
- “Amor à Vista”, by Luis Villaça
- “Caso Morel”, by Sheila Kental
- “Chatô, o Rei do Brasil”, by Guilherme Fontes

Malu Mader

One of the most requested actresses in her generation, Malu Mader has a long career in television, begun in 1983 in “Eu Prometo”, a soap opera written by the late master of the genre, Janete Clair.

Since then, she has worked in nine soap operas, four miniseries and six special projects. Many of them great successes in Brazilian television, written by the most talented professionals in the industry.

Among the soap operas, Mader worked in “Tititi”, by Cassiano Gabus Mendes, “Top Model”, by Antonio Calmon, starring “O Dono do Mundo” and “Força do Desejo”, both by Gilberto Braga, all of which achieving great audience numbers and enjoying many international sales.

In the late 80’s and the 90’s, Mader was upped as a first-level star, working in many high profile miniseries – among them the Globo TV hits “Anos Dourados” (“Golden Years”, 1987), “Anos Rebeldes” (“Rebel Years”, 1992), both by writer Gilberto Braga, and “A Justiceira” (“The Vindicator”, 1996), where she played the title character.

As Globo TV decided to invest in special projects, written by top names in modern television, Malu was one of the first names to be thought of. Since 94, she acted in six of those projects, including the successes “Comedia da Vida Privada”, by Guel Arraes, “A Vida Como Ela É” (adapted from the work of Nelson Rodrigues), by Daniel Filho.

Malu has worked in cinema since 1985, when she worked with director Luiz Fernando Carvalho (“To the Left of the Father”) in the short-film “A Espera” (“The Wait”).

In the same year she starred the teenage hit “Rock Estrela”, by Lael Rodrigues, and continued to make some of the best films of the 80’s in Brazil – “Feliz Ano Velho” (“Happy Old Year”, 1986), by Roberto Gervitz, and “Dedé Mamata” (1987), by Rodolfo Brandão.

Recently, she worked in the films “Mauá, the Emperor and the King” (1998), by Sérgio Rezende, and “Bellini and the Sphinx” (2000), by Roberto Santucci. “The Trespasser” is her sixth feature film.

- “A Espera”, by Luis Fernando Carvalho (“To the left of the father”)/ Maurício Farias – 1985
- “Rock Estrela”, by Lael Rodrigues – 1985
- “Feliz Ano Velho”, by Roberto Gervitz - 1986
- “Dedé Mamata”, by Rodolfo Brandão – 1987
- “Mauá, o Imperador e o Rei” (“Mauá, the Emperor and the King”), by Sergio Rezende – 1998
- “Bellini e a Esfinge” (“Bellini and the Sphinx”), by Roberto Santucci – 2000
- “O Invasor” (“The Trespasser”), by Beto Brant - 2001

Alexandre Borges

Alexandre Borges is one of the most active actors in Brazilian movies today.

His ten feature film career includes international successful features such as “Bossa Nova” (1999), by Bruno Barreto, released in the US by Sony Classics, “A Fit of Rage” (1999), screened at the Panorama Section in Berlin and Walter Salles’ first feature, “Foreign Land” (1995).

Borges also played key roles in “Traição” (1997), produced by boutique production house Conspiração Filmes, in “Amor & Cia.” (1998), by Helvécio Ratton (The Nutty Nutty Boy), in “Até que a vida nos separe”, by José Zaragoza and “Mil e uma”, by Suzana Moraes.

Alexandre Borges began his career in 1985 on stage, and has acted in six productions since then, including the “Hamlet” version “Ham-Let” by revolutionary director José Celso M. Corrêa in 92. Together with his wife, the actress Julia Lemmertz (“The Three Marias”, “A Fit of Rage”), he produced two plays. One of them is “Eu Sei que Vou Te Amar” (“I Know I’ll Love You”), by Arnaldo Jabor, whose homonymous film won the Palme D’Or for Best Actress in 1986. Starred by Borges and Lemmertz, the play stayed on stage for three seasons (94, 96 and 98).

In television, Borges made six soap-operas, three miniseries – including the arty production “Engraçadinha”, based on the work by dramaturge Nelson Rodrigues – and the successful 1999 series “Mulher” (“Woman”).

- “Mil e uma”, by Suzana Moraes – 1994
- “Terra estrangeira” (“Foreign Land”), by Walter Salles – 1995
- “Traição”, by Arthur Fontes, Cláudio Torres and José Henrique Fonseca - 1997
- “Amor & Cia.”, by Helvécio Ratton – 1998
- “Até que a vida nos separe”, by José Zaragoza – 1998
- “Um Copo de Cólera” (“A Fit of Rage”), by Aluísio Abranches – 1998
- “Bossa Nova”, by Bruno Barreto – 1999
- “O Invasor” (“The Trespasser”), by Beto Brant - 2001

Mariana Ximenes

Born in 1981, Mariana debuted in television in 1999, when she gained national recognition starring the 6pm soap by TV Globo “Andando nas Nuvens” as the innocent-turned-vamp character Celi.

In 2000, for another remarkable character in TV, Bionda, in the teenage soap “Uga Uga” by young talent writer Carlos Lombardi, Ximenes earned the Best Actress at the “Kid’s Choice Awards” granted by Nickelodeon.

At the same year, she debuted on stage playing “The Tattooed Rose”, by Tenessee Wiliams, and on film, appearing in “Days of Nietzsche in Turin” by experimental filmmaker Júlio Bressane.

One year later she would be acting in two high-profile film projects: “The Trespasser”, by Beto Brant, and “The Man of the Year”, by José Henrique Fonseca. She would also participate in the box-office

Mariana is currently shooting her fourth feature, “Gaijin 2”, the sequel on the Japanese immigration to Brazil, by Tizuka Yamazaki.

Filmography

- “Dias de Nietzsche em Turim” (“Days of Nietxsche in Turin”), by Júlio Bressane – 2000
- “O Homem do Ano” (“The Man of the Year”), by José Henrique Fonseca - 2001
- “O Invasor” (“ The Trespasser”), by Beto Brant - 2001
- “Gaijin 2”, by Tizuka Yamazaki - 2002

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