Name
Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1954-06-25 (72 years old)
Place of Birth
Umbuzeiro, Paraíba, Brazil
Biography
Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos is a Brazilian actor and director whose career spans film, television, theater, and circus. He gained international recognition for his performance as physician Drauzio Varella in Hector Babenco’s acclaimed Carandiru (2003), for which he received an acting award at the Cartagena International Film Festival. He made his feature-film debut as the legendary Brazilian outlaw Lampião in Perfumed Ball (O Baile Perfumado, 1996), and subsequently worked with acclaimed directors including Walter Salles and Andrucha Waddington.
A prominent figure in Brazilian theater and circus, Vasconcelos is also known for creating the iconic clown character Xuxu, whom he has performed since 1978. His television credits include A Pedra do Reino and Queridos Amigos. He studied performing arts in Denmark and at Brazil’s National Circus School.
Known For
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A Lebanese photographer living in Brazil in the '30s manages to film the band of Lampião,...
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Afro-Brazilian poet and politician, the legendary Carlos Marighella. Driven to fight again...
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Brazilian badlands, April 1910. Tonho is ordered by his father to avenge the death of his ...
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Marcela’s world becomes strange and unfamiliar after her sister Rina dies. She feels los...
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A true story that comically depicts the relationship between an ordinary woman and her thr...
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Biographical film of Sister Dulce, who, in life, was called the “Good Angel of Bahia”,...
- 2003 Carandiru as Doutor (Physician)
- 2005 Dry Movie as Jurandir
- 2001 Behind the Sun as Salustiano
- 2000 Me, You, Them as Ciro
- 1997 Perfumed Ball as Lampião
- 2010 The Midday Sun as Artur
- 2008 O Natal do Menino Imperador as Zampano
- 2002 How to Die in Cinema as Papagaio
- 2013 Fragma as Homem 1 Mais Velho
- 2013 Time and the Wind as Maneco
- 1998 Midnight as João
- 2014 Irmã Dulce as Dom Eugênio Sales
- 2013 The Inventor of Dreams as Timóteo
- 2013 Acalanto as Chico
- 2007 Romance do Vaqueiro Voador as Vaqueiro Voador
- 2009 O Homem Mau Dorme Bem as Caburé
- 2021 Marighella as Branco
- 2024 Son of Ox as Pai
- 2007 Mutum as Aristeu
- 2018 A Family Submerged as Titán
- 2020 Under the Heavens as Vilmar
- 2025 Luiz Gonzaga - Tyrant League
- Soon Chofre
- 2021 Menino Azul as Anselmo
- Soon Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos Não Está Neste Filme
- 2026 Heart of Darkness
- 2004 Sousândrade - O Guesa Errante as Sousândrade
- 1982 Closes
- 2024 A Arte de Morrer ou Marta Diptero Braquícero
- Soon Time, Knifed as Juvenal
- 2026 Viver é Melhor Que Sonhar as Belchior
- Soon The Bottled Captain as Capitão
- 2007 Stone of the Kingdom ( 4 episodes ) as Arésio
- 2023 Cangaço Novo ( 8 episodes ) as Deocleciano
- 2016 Above Justice ( 20 episodes ) as Euclydes Menezes
- 2008 Queridos Amigos ( 25 episodes ) as Ivan
- 2015 Time After Time ( 161 episodes ) as Bento Silvino / Bento Ventura
- 2011 The Life We Lead ( 137 episodes ) as Renato Nogueira Martins
- 2013 Caribbean Flower ( 159 episodes ) as Donato Silva
- 2005 Carandiru: The Series ( 10 episodes ) as Drauzio Varella
- 2002 Pastores da Noite ( 4 episodes ) as Pé de Vento
- 2019 Aruanas ( 10 episodes ) as Miguel Kiriakos
- 2014 O Tempo e o Vento ( 3 episodes ) as Manoel Terra (Maneco Terra)
- 2023 Marighella ( 4 episodes ) as Branco
- 2025 Guerreiros do Sol ( 45 episodes ) as Bosco
- 2000 Brava Gente ( 1 episode ) as Pé de Vento
- 2004 Her Own Destiny ( 2 episodes ) as Sebastião
- 2019 Sweet Diva ( 1 episode ) as Miroel Matheus
- 2019 A Mother's Love ( 125 episodes ) as Januário Silva
- 2014 Now Generation ( 155 episodes ) as Frederico Yanes (Fred)
- 2003 Cena Aberta ( 4 episodes ) as Simão
- 2003 Cena Aberta ( 1 episode )
- 2026 Alucinação ( 4 episodes ) as Belchior
