Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos
- Acting
- June 25, 1954 · 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
Filmography
- Viver é Melhor Que Sonhar · Belchior
- The Bottled Captain · Capitão
- Time, Knifed · Juvenal
- Heart of Darkness
- Alucinação · Belchior
- Luiz Gonzaga - Tyrant League
- Guerreiros do Sol · Bosco
- A Arte de Morrer ou Marta Diptero Braquícero
- Son of Ox · Pai
- Cangaço Novo · Deocleciano
- Marighella · Branco
- Aluísio, the Silence and the Sea · Director
- Menino Azul · Anselmo
- Marighella · Branco
- Under the Heavens · Vilmar
- A Mother's Love · Januário Silva
- Aruanas · Miguel Kiriakos
- Sweet Diva · Miroel Matheus
- A Family Submerged · Titán
- Above Justice · Euclydes Menezes
- O País do Cinema · Self
- Time After Time · Bento Silvino / Bento Ventura
- Irmã Dulce · Dom Eugênio Sales
- Now Generation · Frederico Yanes (Fred)
- O Tempo e o Vento · Manoel Terra (Maneco Terra)
- Fragma · Homem 1 Mais Velho
- The Inventor of Dreams · Timóteo
- Time and the Wind · Maneco
- Acalanto · Chico
- Caribbean Flower · Donato Silva
- The Life We Lead · Renato Nogueira Martins
- The Midday Sun · Artur
- O Homem Mau Dorme Bem · Caburé
- O Natal do Menino Imperador · Zampano
- Queridos Amigos · Ivan
- Mutum · Aristeu
- Stone of the Kingdom · Arésio
- Romance do Vaqueiro Voador · Vaqueiro Voador
- Carandiru: The Series · Drauzio Varella
- Dry Movie · Jurandir
- Sousândrade - O Guesa Errante · Sousândrade
- Her Own Destiny · Sebastião
- Cena Aberta · Simão
- Carandiru · Doutor (Physician)
- Pastores da Noite · Pé de Vento
- How to Die in Cinema · Papagaio
- Behind the Sun · Salustiano
- Brava Gente · Pé de Vento
- Me, You, Them · Ciro
- Midnight · João
- Perfumed Ball · Lampião
- Closes
- Chofre
- Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos Não Está Neste Filme