Gero Camilo (born Paulo Rogério da Silva on December 18, 1970) is a Brazilian actor, dramatist, singer-songwriter and poet. A descendant of

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, and

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, he was born in

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, Ceará from parents of

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. He was a militant of

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in Ceará, where he started to act in amateur theater when he was 19 years old. In 1994, he entered the School of Dramatic Art of

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, acting on university productions, and concluded the course four years later. In March 2022, he was cast as Didi, a character created and originally played by

Renato Aragão Antônio Renato Aragão (born January 13, 1935), nicknamed Didi, is a Brazilian comedian actor, producer, filmmaker, TV presenter, singer and writer. He is best known as Didi, because of his leading role in the television series ''Os Trapalhões ...

, in the upcoming film '' Mussum: O Filmis'', about the comedian who died in 1994.

Selected filmography

;Films * '' Brainstorm'' (2000) * '' Behind the Sun'' (2001) * ''

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'' (2001) * '' City of God'' (2002) * ''

Madame Satã Madame Satã was the artistic name of João Francisco dos Santos (1900–1976), a drag performer and capoeirista from Brazil. Biography He was born into a family of ex- slaves in the state of Pernambuco, Brazil. Having been convicted of mu ...

'' (2002) * '' Carandiru'' (2003) * '' Man on Fire'' (2004) * ''

Assalto ao Banco Central ''Federal Bank Heist'' ( pt, Assalto ao Banco Central) is a 2011 Brazilian thriller film directed and produced by Marcos Paulo Simões, starring Milhem Cortaz, Hermila Guedes, Eriberto Leão and Lima Duarte. It is based on the 2005 Banco Central b ...

'' (2011) * '' I'd Receive the Worst News from Your Beautiful Lips'' (2011) * ''

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'' (2012) * '' Mussum: O Filmis'' (2022) ;Telenovelas, series and miniseries

Discography

* '' Canções de Invento'' (2008) * '' Megatamainho'' (2014)

References

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