Joaquim de Almeida Movies and Career Information

Joaquim António Portugal Baptista de Almeida, CavIH (Portuguese pronunciation: [ʒuɐˈkĩ dɨ aɫˈmɐjdɐ]; born 15 March 1957) is a Portuguese actor. He has worked in Europe, Argentina, Mexico, the United States and Brazil in many film and stage productions. Joaquim de Almeida was born in Lisbon, on 15 March, 1957, 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. After doing some theater, Almeida started his film career in 1982 appearing in The Soldier. His first significant role came in a 1983 movie, the The Honorary Consul, where he starred alongside Michael Caine, Richard Gere and Bob Hoskins, being his first appearance in a American film. It was some years later that he made