André Marques (born September 24, 1979) is a Brazilian actor, TV host and entertainer.
As an actor, his first important role on TV was the high school student ''Mocotó'' in the
soap opera
A soap opera (also called a daytime drama or soap) is a genre of a long-running radio or television Serial (radio and television), serial, frequently characterized by melodrama, ensemble casts, and sentimentality. The term ''soap opera'' originat ...
''
Malhação
''Malhação'' (, ''Young Hearts'' in English) is a Brazilian soap-opera that aired on TV Globo from 4 March 1995 to 3 April 2020. The series is targeted at a teenage audience. Each season runs for about a year with cast members changing every ...
''.
He hosted the TV show ''
Video Show'' at
Globo TV.
In July 2009, it was confirmed he had been contaminated by
swine flu
Swine influenza is an infection caused by any of several types of swine influenza viruses. Swine influenza virus (SIV) or swine-origin influenza virus (S-OIV) refers to any strain of the influenza family of viruses that is endemic in pigs. As ...
during a trip to
Argentina
Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic, is a country in the southern half of South America. It covers an area of , making it the List of South American countries by area, second-largest country in South America after Brazil, the fourt ...
.
André Marques was probably the first Brazilian
celebrity
Celebrity is a condition of fame and broad public recognition of a person or group due to the attention given to them by mass media. The word is also used to refer to famous individuals. A person may attain celebrity status by having great w ...
contaminated in the
2009 global outbreak.
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Living people
1979 births
Brazilian male television actors
Brazilian male telenovela actors
Brazilian television presenters
Male actors from Rio de Janeiro (city)
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