Known For: Portuguese actor (born 1957)
Category: Actors
Occupation: television actor, film actor, voice actor, actor
Country: Portugal
City: Lisbon
Date of Birth: Friday, 15 March 1957
Language English
Joaquim António Portugal Baptista de Almeida is a Portuguese actor. He started his film career playing a role in the 1982 action film The Soldier, and later achieved recognition for playing Andrea Bonanno in the 1987 Italian film Good Morning, Babylon. He achieved international fame with his portrayals of Félix Cortez in the 1994 thriller Clear and Present Danger and Bucho in the 1995 action thriller Desperado. Several years later, he became popular for playing Ramon Salazar on the Fox thriller drama series 24, between 2003 and 2004, and Hernan Reyes in the 2011 film Fast Five, a role he reprised in 2023's Fast X.
| BirthPlace | Lisbon |
| Education | Q1542213 |
| Awards | Q20860283, Q1483763 |
| Wikipedia | Joaquim_de_Almeida |
De Almeida was born in Lisbon, Portugal, as the son of João Baptista de Almeida and Maria Sara Portugal. At the age of 18, after attending a theater course at the Lisbon Conservatory (School of Theatre and Cinema) for two years, he left Portugal to continue his studies after the Conservatory was temporarily closed following the 1974 democratic revolution. He spent a year in Vienna, moving again, in 1976, to New York City where he studied at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute, a school for the performing arts.
