Michel Ray de Carvalho (born in

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, Buckinghamshire, on 21 July 1944) is a British financier, former Olympic skier and luger, and former child actor in films such as '' The Brave One'', ''

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'', and ''

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'' (under the name Michel Ray).

Early life

De Carvalho's father was a Brazilian diplomat and his mother was British. He appeared in several films as a child and teenager, including the 1962 epic film ''Lawrence of Arabia'' (where he played the character Farraj), ''

The Divided Heart ''The Divided Heart'' is a 1954 British black-and-white drama film directed by Charles Crichton and starring Cornell Borchers, Yvonne Mitchell and Armin Dahlen. The film is based on a true story of a child, whose father was a member of Slove ...

'' in 1954 and '' The Brave One'' in 1956 where he plays a young Mexican boy who tries to rescue his pet bull from being killed by a champion

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. He quit acting to attend

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, which he later described as "just about the most stupid decision" he ever made. Nevertheless, de Carvalho graduated from Harvard and then earned an MBA degree from the same university. De Carvalho represented Great Britain at the

1968 Winter Olympics The 1968 Winter Olympics, officially known as the X Olympic Winter Games (french: Les Xes Jeux olympiques d'hiver), were a winter multi-sport event held from 6 to 18 February 1968 in Grenoble, France. Thirty-seven countries participated. Frenchm ...

in skiing, and luge at the

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and

1976 Winter Olympics The 1976 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XII Olympic Winter Games (german: XII. Olympische Winterspiele, french: XIIes Jeux olympiques d'hiver) and commonly known as Innsbruck 1976 ( bar, Innschbruck 1976, label= Austro-Bavarian), was a ...

. In May 2013 he was named President of British Skeleton.

Career

De Carvalho was the vice-chairman of investment banking at Citigroup, where he chaired

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in the EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) region, a post to which he was appointed in November 2009. He worked previously at HBS, Credit Suisse and

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. On 23 April 2015 he became the Executive Director at

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N.V., but remains active as board member or director of several other business ventures. In 2018 Carvalho was appointed chairman of CapGen.

Personal life

He married

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heiress

Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken (born 30 June 1954) is a Dutch billionaire businesswoman, and the owner of a 25% controlling interest in the world's second-largest brewer, Heineken N.V. She is the richest person in the Netherlands, with a net wo ...

in 1983. In 2002 Charlene inherited a fortune of 3

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($4.8bn) upon the death of her father,

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. They have five children (two sons and three daughters, including twins, born between 1984 and 1991).

Partial filmography

* ''

'' (1954) - Toni * '' The Brave One'' (1956) - Leonardo * ''

'' (1957) - Kip Mayfield * ''

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'' (1957) - David Gordon * ''

The Space Children ''The Space Children'' is a 1958 independently made American science-fiction film, produced by William Alland, directed by Jack Arnold, and starring Michel Ray, Jackie Coogan, Russell Johnson, Johnny Crawford, Johnny Washbrook and Richard Shan ...

'' (1958) - Bud Brewster * ''

'' (1962) - Farraj

References

Bibliography

* Holmstrom, John. ''The Moving Picture Boy: An International Encyclopaedia from 1895 to 1995'', Norwich, Michael Russell, 1996, p. 248. {{DEFAULTSORT:de Carvalho, Michel Living people 1944 births Olympic lugers of Great Britain British male lugers British people of Brazilian descent Alpine skiers at the 1968 Winter Olympics Lugers at the 1972 Winter Olympics Lugers at the 1976 Winter Olympics British male alpine skiers Olympic alpine skiers of Great Britain N M Rothschild & Sons people Harvard Business School alumni