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Rodrigo Junqueira dos Reis (born August 22, 1975 in Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), to an Italian father and a Brazilian mother is a Brazilian actor.

Biography

From the Prince Charming, Rodrigo Santoro has more than the pretty face. The life of Globo’s actor is worthy of fairy tales. Poor boy tries luck in Rio de Janeiro, works on TV, gets famous and becomes first great Brazilian star since Sônia Braga to have a possibility of success in Hollywood. Invited to star blockbusters like Charlie's Angels 2: Full Throttle or artistic movies like Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone and comedies like Love Actually, soon Santoro it will stop to impress only the Brazilian public to also conquer the American, the French, the English, the Canadian...

It is obvious that, nowadays, the world can seem vast and inviting. But around ten years ago, Santoro’s world was resumed to the historical streets and the mountain climate of Petrópolis, in Rio de Janeiro state, where he was born and spent most of childhood. Of his Italian father, he inherited the hot blood, the ability to prepare pasta and the stunning almond-shaped eyes. Of his mother, painter and sculptor, came other characteristics that would help him in the future career: sensitivity and passion for the arts.

Early life and career

Santoro showed interest for the stage since his childhood. At home, he organized puppet theater for the family on holidays, like Christmas and Easter. In Colégio Aplicação, where he studied, with help of a Portuguese professor, he adapted TV movies to what they used to call “litero-musical session (to have an idea, Rodrigo, today all serious, at that time amused himself staging teen-trash as Private Resort). In stage, he had an incredible magnetism and it’s from this time his first girlfriend, at 14 years old. Santoro usually says that, after her, he had only two others serious passions despite gossip magazines always placing him aside to some beauty.

As it usually happens to suburban young people, by the time of his 17th birthday, Santoro started to notice that the axle of its life if had dislocated to Rio De Janeiro. His journeys down the mountain were every time more frequent: to surf with friends, to study for the “vestibular” (Brazilian equivalent of SATs) or to practise his dramatical verve in the Globo School of Actors. Working with these three activities the body, mind and spirit, it was only matter of time until Santoro was noticed by some network watcher.

Santoro started college studying Publicity/Advertising in the Pontifical University Catholic and soon obtained its first role on TV, a small part in the supernatural soap opera Olho no Olho. At this time, he still lived in a students dorm - from where he had run away after almost being shot by a lost bullet in its first apartment, in front for a “favela” in Copacabana. Things started to get better in 1994, when he got his first part in Prime Time, with the Pátria Minha soap opera. The show, however, was rejected by the public and shortened after scandals with the protagonist, the actress Vera Fischer. With the money he got from Pátria Minha, he rented his own apartment, in Leblon, where he can still be seen training daily in the beach.
Starting in soap operas
In 1996, its magnificent body of 1m90 and 87kg already attracted the eyes of little girls, what ended up guaranteeing the main male role on the six o’clock soap O Amor Está no Ar. The project, involving a loving triangle intergeneration and extra-terrestrials, only brought him trouble: due to the filming schedule, he had to leave college and the final result of the story was not good at all. To compensate the loss of artistic ambition of O Amor está no Ar, Santoro participated, in the same year and for free, of praised short Depois do Escuro.

Two years later, Santoro hit the screens, the media that would give him more prizes and homages. He had a small part in Como Ser Solteiro, that ended up being overcasted by his better and very more excellent performance, in Globo’s miniseries Hilda Furacão. It was there that Santoro, in the part of the tormented Friar Malthus, showed for the first time that he could be a serious actor, instead of only a pretty face.Rodrigo still thinks that this was one of the most difficult experiences of its life, due to the dramatical load of the character. He went through this phase with an actress that also had to prove herself more than a beautiful face in the business: Ana Paula Arósio.

Some said that the two were dating, but Santoro was already spending much more time with the beautiful Luana Piovani, that he met in the play Os Três Mosqueteiros, also played by his friends Thierry Figueira, Pedro Vasconcelos and Marcelo Faria. Their relationship lasted more than two years.

In 1999, the actor started flirting with Hollywood when invited to be the voice of the little mouse protagonist of Stuart Little, huge success that had a sequel in 2002 (also voiced by Santoro). Still in 1999, Santoro had a role in the soap Suave Veneno, another public failure, and a small part in O Trapalhão e a Luz Azul, well-succeeded comedy by Renato Aragão, Brazilian comedian.
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