Lino Schmidek Machado Facioli (born 29 July 2000) is a Brazilian-British actor. He is best known for portraying Lord Robin Arryn in ''

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'' and Naples in ''

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''.

Biography

Facioli was born in

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. He is of Austrian, Portuguese, Italian and German descent. Lino's maternal grandfather, Werner Robert Schmidek, was born in

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, and emigrated to

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in 1960. He moved to the United Kingdom with his family when he was 4 years old.

Career

He showed an interest in an acting career at age 7 when he was enrolled in a theater school in London. In 2010, he began his career with appearances in short metrages and television series. His first professional work was in the British short film ''Awfully Deep'' in 2010 from director Daniel Florêncio. In the same year, he joined the cast of ''

'', acting as the son of actor

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. He played the troublesome Robin Arryn, Lord of a noble family in the series ''

''. In 2014, he starred the Brazilian film ''

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'', working alongside the Brazilian actors

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and

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. In 2019 he starred in the British teen comedy Netflix series ''

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''.

Filmography

Film

Television

References

External links

* * Living people 2000 births 21st-century Brazilian male actors 21st-century British male actors Brazilian people of Austrian descent Brazilian people of Italian descent Brazilian people of Portuguese descent Brazilian people of German descent Brazilian male child actors Brazilian male film actors Brazilian expatriates in the United Kingdom British actors of Latin American descent British male child actors British male film actors Male actors from São Paulo (state) Male actors from London People from Ribeirão Preto {{Brazil-actor-stub