Milhem Cortaz

Milhem Cortaz (born December 6, 1971) is a Brazilian actor.

Career

Cortaz' first role came on the 2000 film ''Mater Dei'', written by Diogo Mainardi, where he portrayed a security guard. On 2002, he premiered on the television with a minor character on Rede Globo's unsuccessful telenovela ''Desejos de Mulher''. On the following year, he started gaining some notoriety after starring on the critically acclaimed Hector Babenco film '' Carandiru'', about the massacre on the prison of the same name.

On 2005, Cortaz starred on Rede Record's telenovela ''Essas Mulheres'' and acted on the controversial independent film ''A Concepção'', in which he appears fully naked a considerable number of times. On the following year, he acted on Record's successful telenovela ''Cidadão Brasileiro'' and on the American-Brazilian film ''Journey to the End of the Night''.

It was not until José Padilha's 2007 film ''Elite Squad'', in which he portrays a corrupt police officer, that he gained notoriety of the major public. In 2009 he starred as Cazé on Record's ''Chamas da Vida'' and played the deceased father of former Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in Fábio Barreto's '' Lula, o filho do Brasil''.

Filmography

Film

*2018 - '' Canastra Suja''
*2016 - ''Vidas Partidas''
*2016 - ''Malasartes e o Duelo com a Morte''
*2016 - ''Aurora''
*2016 - ''Altas Expectativas''
*2016 - ''Mundo Cão''
*2016 - ''Mais Forte que o Mundo''
*2016 - '' The Ten Commandments: The Movie''
*2015 - ''Sangue Azul''
*2014 - ''Trinta''
*2014 - ''Entreturnos''
*2014 - '' Alemão''
*2013 - ''O Lobo atrás da Porta''
*2012 - ''Boca'' as Osmar
*2011 - ''Assalto ao Banco Central'' as Barão
*2010 - '' Elite Squad: The Enemy Within'' as Fábio
*2009 - '' Lula, o filho do Brasil'' as Aristides
*2009 - ''Se Nada Mais Der Certo'' as Sibele
*2008 - ''Dangkou'' as Not Dead
*2008 - ''Nossa Vida Não Cabe Num Opala'' as Lupa
*2008 - '' Encarnação do Demônio'' as Padre Eugênio
*2008 - ''Road Movie''
*2007 - ''O Magnata'' as Lúcio Flávio
*2007 - ''Nome Próprio'' as Locador
*2007 - ''Elite Squad'' as Fábio
*2007 - ''Não Por Acaso'' as Paiva
*2007 - ''Querô'' as Sr. Edgar
*2007 - ''Meu Mundo em Perigo'' as Fito
*2006 - ''O Cheiro do Ralo'' as plumber
*2006 - ''Journey to the End of the Night'' as Rodrigo
*2005 - ''A Concepção'' as Lino
*2005 - ''Cafundó'' as Plague trooper
*2005 - ''De Glauber Para Jirges'' as Glauber
*2004 - ''Cabra-Cega'' as the man who leads the break into the apartment
*2004 - ''Nina'' as Carlão
*2003 - ''Garrincha - Estrela Solitária''
*2003 - '' Carandiru'' as Peixeira
*2003 - ''Garotas do ABC'' as Alemão
*2000 - ''Através da Janela'' as Raí's friend
*2000 - ''Mater Dei'' as security guard
*1999 - '' Por Trás do Pano'' as Puck

Television

*2018: ''O Sétimo Guardião'' as Delegate Joubert Machado
*2018: '' Rua Augusta'' as Raul
*2016: ''A Terra Prometida'' as Caleb
*2015: ''Os Dez Mandamentos'' as Bomani, Caleb
*2009: '' Poder Paralelo'' as Nina's husband
*2008: ''Chamas da Vida'' as Cazé
*2007: ''Bicho do Mato'' as Paulo
*2007: ''Vidas Opostas'' as Sextavado
*2006: ''Cidadão Brasileiro'' as Américo Pereira
*2005: ''Essas Mulheres'' as Lobato
*2004: '' A Diarista'' as Osvaldo (episode "Aquele do Supermercado")
*2003: ''Carga Pesada'' (episode "Companheiros")
*2002: ''Desejos de Mulher'' as Xavier

External links

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1972 births
Living people
Male actors from São Paulo
Brazilian people of Arab descent
Brazilian people of Italian descent
Brazilian male film actors
Brazilian male television actors
20th-century Brazilian male actors
21st-century Brazilian male actors

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