João Miguel (actor)
João Miguel Serrano Leonelli is a Brazilian actor, screenwriter and director. He has appeared in more than twenty films since 2004.
Biography
João Miguel was born in Salvador, Bahia. He is the son of the politician Domingos Leonelli and the artist Magali Serrano.Career
He began his acting career at the age of 9 on television, in Nonato Freire's " The Web". At the age of 13 or 14, he debuted as the main character in the play A Viagem de um Barquinho, directed by Petinha Barreto and with the participation of Leninha Barreto. Later he worked in the circus and, along with street children, performed in schools, public hospitals and favelas of Salvador and the interior of Bahia. At 17, he went to Rio de Janeiro and trained as an actor in the Casa de Arte das Laranjeiras, where he met Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos, actor and director of Group Piolim. He then went to João Pessoa, where he perfected his circus art with Luiz Carlos, and then traveled in Brazil and elsewhere in the world following the piece "O Vau da Sarapalha".He performed in the solo piece Bishop, the story of the Sergipean artist Arthur Bispo do Rosário, which he staged for years in several Brazilian cities. Director Marcelo Gomes invited him to star in the film Cinema, Aspirinas e Urubus, from which he won many awards, including at the Cannes Film Festival. The actor himself considers it one of the best movies he has ever done.
Miguel has appeared in more than 20 feature films and several television specials, including a telenovela, Cordel Encantado. He has been called "one of the most talented and versatile actors of his generation". His presence in four of the first six films presented in the Rede Globo 50th anniversary retrospective series , led some to call it, jokingly, the "João Miguel Festival".
Filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 2008 | Casos e Acasos | ||
| 2011/2015 | Força-Tarefa | Carlos Henrique | 2015 was a shortened, re-airing special of the third season of the series. |
| 2014 | A Teia | Jorge Macedo/Carlos | |
| 2015 | Felizes para Sempre? | Hugo Drummond | |
| 2016 | 3% | Ezequiel | |
| 2018 | Assédio | Odair José Miranda |