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- Milton Lopes won the Best Actor Award with his first participation in a feature film, the award wining The Dauphin. He was born in Cape Verde Islands and grew up in Portugal where he worked as an actor in various TV Series, Theatre Shows and Feature Films. He recently played John "The Savage" in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World for BBC Radio 4. The four languages that he speaks allows him to work in the UK, Portugal, France, Brazil, Mexico and Angola. He made is debut appearance in a British film in Bonobo, the first feature film of the award winning director Matthew Hammett Knott. He works as well as circus aerialist, having performed in the Paralympic Opening Ceremonies. worked with Extraordinary Bodies (UK), Strange Fruit (Australia), Circo Crescer e Viver (Brazil), Fura Dels Baus ( Spain) and Graeae Theatre Company (UK). His singing voice got him the lead role Macheath in Bertolt Brecht's The Threepenny Opera, a co-production by Graeae, New Wolsey Theatre, Nottingham Playhouse, West Yorkshire Playhouse and Birmingham Rep. His physicality allowed him to be part of the cast of the immersive physical theatre show Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare, directed by Pia Furtado and produced by The Theory of Everything in Peckham Multistorey Carpark in London. He is part of the London cast of Exhibit B by Brett Bailey.
- Robinho is a Brazilian professional footballer.
Born in the Brazilian city of Sao Vicente. At the age of six he began training at the football academy of the Beira Mar club. At the age of eight, Robinho ended up in the Santos F.C. academy.
In 1999, at 15 years of age, Robinho was picked by Brazil legend Pelé as his heir apparent and, in 2002, went on to lead Santos F.C. to their first Campeonato Brasileiro title since Pelé himself played for the club. Since then, he has won a second title with Santos and two more with Spanish club Real Madrid. He won the Italian Serie A title in his first season at A.C. Milan. Robinho has won one Copa América title and two FIFA Confederations Cups with the Brazil National Football Team, and played at two FIFA World Cups. - Actress
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Cesária Évora was born on 27 August 1941 in Mindelo, São Vicente, Cape Verde, Portugal [now Cape Verde]. She was an actress and composer, known for Great Expectations (1998), Underground (1995) and Sorority Row (2009). She died on 17 December 2011 in Mindelo, São Vicente, Cape Verde.- Writer
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Ivani Ribeiro, Cleide Freitas' pseudonym, began her professional life at the age of 16, at 'Rádio Educadora de São Paulo', singing folk and sambas songs, some of them of her own writing. Her shows were successful, and she experienced being a radio actress.
In the early 1940s, she met her future husband, writer and award-winning announcer Dárcio Alves Ferreira, and together they transferred to 'Rádio Bandeirantes', where she would begin adapting plays, poems, and lyrics for various shows. Hired by the newly opened Tupi TV, she wrote the series 'Eternos Apaixonados' (The Eternal Lovers). Years later, in 1963, she would write her first daily telenovela, Corações em Conflito (1963), an adaptation of one of her own successful stories presented on the radio.
In the late 1960s, she moved to Excelsior TV where she would stand out as the author of the 7:30 p.m. telenovela's time-slot, which led to writing another 13 consecutive popular series, including A Deusa Vencida (1965), that would launch actress Regina Duarte's career. In the next decade, she returned to Tupi TV and released the classics Secrets of Sand (1973), A Barba-Azul (1974), A Viagem (1975), and O Profeta (1977).
in 1982, she debuted at Rede Globo (the second largest network in the world), where her career reached new heights. In November of that year, Final Feliz (1982) would premier, and it would be her only original script for the network. The following years, she would offer old hit stories in new versions, starting with A Gata Comeu (1985), a remake of A Barba-Azul (1974).
She died in 1995, 20 days after her husband's passing, with whom she was married for 53 years.- Max Fercondini was born on 1 September 1985 in São Vicente, São Paulo, Brazil. He is an actor, known for Pages of Life (2006), Ciranda de Pedra (2008) and Seven Sins (2007).
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Caetano Bonucci was born in 1913 in Mindelo, São Vicente, Cabo Verde. He was a director and production designer, known for A Morgadinha dos Canaviais (1949). He died in 1953 in Porto, Portugal.- Alice Miranda was born in 1931 in São Vicente, São Paulo, Brazil. She is an actress, known for Com o Diabo no Corpo (1952) and Modelo 19 (1952).
- Wlamir Marques was born on 16 July 1936 in São Vicente, São Paulo, Brazil.
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José Miguel Wisnik was born on 27 October 1948 in São Vicente, São Paulo, Brazil. He is a composer and writer, known for Terra Estrangeira (1995), Window of the Soul (2001) and Happy Accidents (2000).- Marinês was born on 16 November 1936 in São Vicente Ferrer, Pernambuco, Brazil. She was an actress, known for Rico Ri à Toa (1957) and Viva São João! (2002). She died on 14 May 2007 in Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil.