Rodrigo Santoro Filmography

Born:: August 22, 1975 in Petropolis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Occupation:: Actor
Birth name:: Rodrigo Junqueira Reis dos Santos
Biography:: Brazilian-born actor Rodrigo Santoro discovered his interest in performing, like a lot of actors, while he was still a teenager. He would sometimes travel from his suburban home to nearby Rio de Janeiro for auditions, though his efforts wouldn't pay off until he'd already moved to the city. He was...Read More

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I Love You Phillip Morris

Actors: Jim Carrey, Ewan McGregor, Leslie Mann, Rodrigo Santoro

Synopsis: A lovesick prison inmate (Jim Carrey) goes to great lengths to reconnect with his old cellmate, Phillip Morris (Ewan McGregor), in this prison-breakout black comedy from first-time helmers Glenn Ficarra and John Requa, the screenwriters of Bad Santa. Leslie Mann co-stars in the Europacorp Read More

1/1/09
Redbelt

Actors: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Emily Mortimer, Alice Braga, Tim Allen, Joe Mantegna

Synopsis: Tim Allen and Chiwetel Ejiofor star in writer/director David Mamet's martial arts drama concerning a jujitsu master who becomes corrupted by the glitz and glamour of Hollywood. When a respected jujitsu master (Ejiofor) eschews a lucrative prizefighting career in favor of opening a self-defense Read More

5/2/08
Guerrilla

Actors: Benicio Del Toro, Demián Bichir, Santiago Cabrera, Jorge Minguez, Edgar Ramirez

Synopsis: Nearly forty years after Che Guevara's execution in Bolivia, director Steven Soderbergh retraces the life of the iconic Cuban revolutionary across the span of two feature-length films - The Argentine and Guerilla. The Argentine opens on November 26, 1956, as Fidel Castro (Demian Bichir) sails into Read More

1/1/08
Black Oasis

Actors: Rose McGowan, Rodrigo Santoro

Synopsis: Priscilla, Queen of the Desert writer/director Stephan Elliot examines the curious life and gruesome death of B-movie icon Susan Cabot, a favorite of producer Roger Corman and the star of such features as Machine Gun Kelly and The Wasp Woman. Inspired by writer John H. Richardson's article in Read More

1/1/08
Lion's Den

Actors: Martina Gusman, Eli Medeiros, Rodrigo Santoro, Laura Garcia, Leonardo Sauma

Synopsis: Writer/director Pablo Trapero crafts this tender tale of an incarcerated woman who gives birth to a baby boy, struggling to raise her son behind bars as she comes to the bleak realization that he is the only one who matters to her anymore. It all started when a pregnant Julia woke up in her Read More

2008
Out of Tune

Actors: Rodrigo Santoro, Cláudia Abreu, Selton Mello, Alessandra Negrini, Angelo Paes Leme

Synopsis: Brazilian filmmaker Walter Lima Jr. looks back on the turmoil of the 1960's as well as the glories of the bossa nova boom in this musical period drama. Dico (Selton Mello) is a filmmaker who obsessively chronicles the career of his close friends in the group Os Desafinados, a bossa Read More

2008
Not by Chance

Actors: Rodrigo Santoro, Leonardo Medeiros, Leticia Sabatella, Rita Batata, Branca Messina

Synopsis: Their lives forever changed after the car crash that no amount of preparedness could have prevented, two men living in Sao Paulo, Brazil discover that they are at the mercy of a city that never forgives. In the flash of an instant, Enios and Pedro find their lives turned upside down. Now, as they Read More

2008
300

Actors: Gerard Butler, Lena Headey, Dominic West, David Wenham, Vincent Regan

Synopsis: Sin City author Frank Miller's sweeping take on the historic Battle of Thermopylae comes to the screen courtesy of Dawn of the Dead director Zack Snyder. Gerard Butler stars as Spartan King Leonidas and Lena Headey plays Queen Gorgo. The massive army of the Persian Empire is sweeping across the Read More

3/9/07
Lost: Season 03

Actors: Matthew Fox, Evangeline Lilly, Terry O'Quinn, Josh Holloway, Jorge Garcia

2006
A Dona da História

Actors: Marieta Severo

2004
Love Actually

Actors: Alan Rickman, Bill Nighy, Colin Firth, Emma Thompson, Hugh Grant, Laura Linney, Liam Neeson, Martine McCutcheon, Keira Knightley, Rowan Atkinson, Andrew Lincoln

Synopsis: All of London is in love -- or longing to be -- in Four Weddings and a Funeral writer Richard Curtis' first directorial effort. Billed as "the ultimate romantic comedy," Love Actually involves more than a dozen main characters, each weaving his or her way into another's heart over the course of Read More

11/7/03
Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle

Actors: Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore, Lucy Liu, John Forsythe, Bernie Mac, Demi Moore, Luke Wilson

Synopsis: The three most glamorous and butt-kicking private detectives in the business are back and ready to take on bad guys in this sequel to the 2000 blockbuster screen adaptation of the once-popular television series. Dylan (Drew Barrymore), Natalie (Cameron Diaz), and Alex (Lucy Liu) are once again Read More

6/27/03
Carandiru

Actors: Caio Blat, Luis Carlos Vasconcelos, Milhem Cortaz, Milton Goncalves, Ivan de Almeida, Ailton Graca, Maria Luiza Mendonca, Rodrigo Santoro

Synopsis: Brazilian filmmaker Hector Babenco directs the confrontational drama Carandiru, based on the best-selling novel by Dr. Drauzio Varella. The episodic story is set in Sao Paulo's House of Detention (referred to as Carandiru), one of Latin America's largest prison systems. The doctor (Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos Read More

4/11/03
The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone

Actors: Helen Mirren, Olivier Martinez, Anne Bancroft, Brian Dennehy, Roger Allam

Synopsis: Tennessee Williams' 1958 novella The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone was first filmed in 1961, with Vivien Leigh as the middle-aged title character and Warren Beatty as the callow gigolo with whom she falls in love. Since the "shocking" aspects of a May-December romance in which the woman is December Read More

2003
Behind The Sun

Actors: José Dumont, Rodrigo Santoro, Rita Assemany, Luis Carlos Vasconcelos, Ravi Ramos Lacerda

Synopsis: A young man is forced to choose between family tradition and his own dreams and desires in this drama from Brazilian filmmaker Walter Salles. In 1910 in a remote farming community, two families, the Breveses and the Ferreiras, both of whom earn their living growing sugar cane, have been squabbling Read More

12/12/01
Bicho de 7 Cabeças

Actors: Rodrigo Santoro, Othon Bastos, Cassia Kiss, Jairo Matos, Caco Ciocler

Synopsis: Lais Bodanzky makes her directorial debut with this harrowing expose of an archaic Brazilian mental hospital, based on a memoir by noted activist Austregesilo Carrano. The film revolves around Neto (Rodrigo Santoro), an average Brazilian teenager who likes to skateboard, rock-and-roll, drink beer Read More

2001