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Date of Birth

15 March 1957, Lisbon, Portugal

Birth Name

Joaquim António Portugal Baptista de Almeida

Nickname

Quim

Height

5' 8" (1.73 m)

Mini Biography

Joaquim de Almeida is one of the most appraised Portuguese actors, well known in the world of the international cinema. He traveled the world working in Europe, Argentina, Mexico, United States and in Brazil in many movies and stage productions.

Won best actor award in the Cairo film festival for his performance in Retrato de Família (1992) ("Family Portrait"). Became known to the world with performance in movies such as, Good Morning, Babylon (1987), The Honorary Consul (1983) (aka "Beyond the Limit") and The Soldier (1982). He also worked in several New York City Shakespeare productions, such as, "Blood Wedding", "What Would Jeanne Moreau Do", in the "WPA Theatre" and "The Count of Mount Cristo".

In 1998 he won the Portuguese Golden Globe for the movie Tentação (1997). However Joaquim does not place the money above a good script, "In the past year, I had a proposal to make a film with Sylvester Stallone and gave up when I had the contract practically signed".

IMDb Mini Biography By: Geoffray Ramos

Mini Biography

Joaquim de Almeida left Portugal when he was 18 years old because he wanted to pursue art studies, and the Lisbon Conservatory was temporarily closed after the 1974 democratic revolution. He lived in Vienna, Austria, working in various jobs including gardening.

He married a pianist, Maria Cecilia de Almeida, and they moved to New York City in 1977 when she received an American grant for music studies. He again worked in various jobs, such as waiter and bartender, to support his own studies in the Actors Studio.

Divorced from Maria, he has lived with Brazilian singer Carmo Risques since the early 1990s. In the late 1990s he started a rodízio grill restaurant named O Porcão in the docks district of Lisbon, and renamed it Xurrascão do Tejo in 2004. He lived in New York for several years, and in 2004 moved to his own house in Santa Monica, California. In 2005 he applied for American citizenship.

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Spouse

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Maria do Carmo Gaivão de Tavares Risques Pereira	(? - ?) (divorced) 1 child
Maria Cecília	(? - ?) (divorced) 1 child

Trivia

Besides Portuguese, speaks five languages fluently: English, French, Italian, Spanish and German.

Frequently works with Maria de Medeiros.

Father of a son, Lourenço, born 1992, (with Maria Cecília) and a daughter, Ana Gaivão Risques Baptista de Almeida, born 2002 (with Maria do Carmo Gaivão de Tavares Risques Pereira).

Became a U.S. citizen on October 28, 2005.

Son of João Baptista de Almeida and wife Maria Sara Portugal. They were both graduated in pharmacy and Technical Directors of J.A.B.A. Laboratories. Has five older siblings: Jorge André, Isabel Maria, Ana Maria, José António and João. His paternal grandfather José António Baptista de Almeida (b. Lagos, 1887, d. Lisbon, 1950), was also a pharmaceutical (diplomed by the Pharmacy School of Lisbon in 1909) and the founder of J.A.B.A Laboratories.

His mother, Maria Sara, died on March 22th 2007, at the age of 82.

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