José de Abreu

Born in the city of Santa Rita do Passa Quatro, in the state of São Paulo, at the age of fourteen he moved to the state's capital, São Paulo city, working as a lab assistant and office-boy for a law firm.

In 1967, while studying law at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, he began his theatrical career at the Teatro da Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, with the play Morte e Vida Severina by João Cabral de Melo Neto and Chico Buarque.

A year later, he was starring in movies, but his career came to a quick halt because of his political activism. Abreu was arrested during a meeting of the União Nacional dos Estudantes, belonged to the Ação Popular and gave logistical support to the Vanguarda Armada Revolucionária Palmares, a leftist group that fought against the military regime. He also joined the hippie movement during that time, in contrast with his militaristic actions.

Forced into exile in Europe in 1968, he returned in 1974 to live in Pelotas, state of Rio Grande do Sul, his wife's homeland. They both taught at the federal university in that city, but soon moved to Porto Alegre, where he produced musicals and starred in children's plays. With his wife, he produced the first staging of the musical Os Saltimbancos in that state.

Then, after the success of the movie A Intrusa (The Intruder) (1979), filmed in Uruguaiana, Rio Grande do Sul, he started work as an actor in TV Globo's soap-operas.

In 2006 he partnered with director Luiz Arthur Nunes to create Fala, Zé!, a theatrical monologue in which he critically reflects on his generation, crossing biography and fiction.

In 2011 he played Milton in the soap-opera Insensato Coração; in 2012, the character Nilo in Avenida Brasil;^[1] in 2013, the character Ernest in Joia Rara; and in 2015 the villain Gibson Stewart in A Regra do Jogo.

He has five children, with three different partners. His first child, Rodrigo, died in an accident in 1992, at age 21. He also has four grandchildren.^[2] In early 2013, he declared he is bisexual,^[4] then in a few days later he tweeted he is not bi but poly instead.^[5]

On March 8, 2019, he was jokingly proclaimed as "president" of the Federative Republic of Brazil in an act of protest at Galeao Airport near Rio.^[6][7]

He is the great-uncle of actress and screenwriter Maria Bopp, known for being the protagonist of the Fox Premium's TV series Me Chama de Bruna, where she plays the role of famous real-life sex worker Bruna Surfistinha.^[3]

Abreu performed in over 24 movies and 47 television shows, of which most are soap operas.

Television

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Year	Title	Role	Note
1981	Sítio do Picapau Amarelo	Rapunzel's Father	Episode: "Rapunzel"
1984	Sítio do Picapau Amarelo	Barba Azul	Episode: "Barba Azul, o Cara de Coruja"
1987	O Outro	Genésio
1988	Bebê a Bordo	Antônio Barbirotto (Tonhão)
1990	Pantanal	Gustavo
1993	Renascer	Egberto Ramos
	Sonho Meu	Geraldo
1995	História de Amor	Daniel Veloso
1997	A Indomada	Delegate Motinha
1998	Corpo Dourado	Renato
1999	Força de um Desejo	Pereira	Guest star
2000	Vila Madalena	Viriato	Guest star
2001	Porto dos Milagres	Eriberto
2002	Desejos de Mulher	Bruno Vargas[8][9]
2003	A Casa das Sete Mulheres	Onofre Pires
	Malhação	Paulo Viana	Season 10
2004	Senhora do Destino	Josivaldo da Silva
2006	JK	Carlos Frederico Werneck de Lacerda
2007	Desejo Proibido	Francisco Fernandes
2009	Caminho das Índias	Sacerdote Pandit
	Malhação ID	Augusto Livramento	Season 17
2011	Insensato Coração	Milton Castelani[10][11][12]
2012	Avenida Brasil	Nilo Oliveira
2013	Joia Rara	Ernest Hauser
2014	O Rebu	Bernardo Rezende
2015	A Regra do Jogo	Gibson Stewart (DAD)[13]
2018	Segundo Sol	Dorival "Dodô" Falcão[14]
2019	A Dona do Pedaço	Otávio Guedes[15]
2021	Um Lugar ao Sol	Santiago
2022	Mar do Sertão	Coronel Tertúlio[16]
2025	Guerreiros do Sol	Elói

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Film

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Year	Title	Role	Note
1979	A Intrusa	Christian
1987	Anjos do Arrabalde	Soares
2012	My Sweet Orange Tree	Portuga
2013	Time and the Wind	Ricardo Amaral

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