Milhem Cortaz
{{Short description|Brazilian actor (born 1971)}}
{{BLP sources|date=June 2019}}
{{Portuguese name|Avance|Cortas}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Milhem Cortaz
| image = Milhem Cortaz.jpg
| caption = Cortaz in 2009
| birth_name = Milhem Avance Cortas
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=y|1971|12|6}}
| birth_place = São Paulo, Brazil
| occupation = Actor
| years_active = 1983–present
| spouse = {{marriage|Ziza Brisola|1999}}
| children = 1
}}
Milhem Cortaz (born 6 December 1971) is a Brazilian actor.
Career
Cortaz' first role came on the 2000 film Mater Dei, written by {{ill|Diogo Mainardi|pt}}, where he portrayed a security guard. On 2002, he premiered on the television with a minor character on Rede Globo's unsuccessful telenovela Desejos de Mulher. On the following year, he started gaining some notoriety after starring on the critically acclaimed Héctor Babenco film Carandiru, about the massacre on the prison of the same name.
On 2005, Cortaz starred on Rede Record's telenovela Essas Mulheres and acted on the controversial independent film A Concepção, in which he appears fully naked a considerable number of times. On the following year, he acted on Record's successful telenovela Cidadão Brasileiro and on the American-Brazilian film Journey to the End of the Night.
It was not until José Padilha's 2007 film Elite Squad, in which he portrays a corrupt police officer, that he gained notoriety of the major public. In 2009 he starred as Cazé on Record's Chamas da Vida and played the deceased father of former Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in Fábio Barreto's Lula, Son of Brazil.
Filmography
=Film=
| class="wikitable" style="font-size: 90%;"
!Year !Title !Role !Notes | ||
| 1999
|Puck | | ||
| rowspan="2" |2000
|Security guard | | ||
| {{ill|Através da Janela|cy | pt}}
|Raí's friend | | |
| rowspan="3" |2003
|{{ill|Garotas do ABC|cy | pt}}
|Alemão | | |
| Carandiru
|Peixeira | | ||
| {{ill|Garrincha - Estrela Solitária|pt}}
| | | ||
| rowspan="2" |2004
|Nina |Carlão | | ||
| {{ill|Cabra-Cega|pt|Cabra-cega (filme)}}
|The man who leads the break into the apartment | | ||
| rowspan="3" |2005
|Glauber | | ||
| Cafundó
|Plague trooper | | ||
| {{ill|A Concepção|cy | pt}}
|Lino | | |
| rowspan="2" |2006
|Journey to the End of the Night |Rodrigo | | ||
| Drained
|Plumber | | ||
| rowspan="6" |2007
|Fito | | ||
| Querô
|Sr. Edgar | | ||
| {{ill|Not by Chance (film)|cy|Não Por Acaso|es|Not by Chance|id|Não por Acaso|pt|Não por Acaso|lt=Not by Chance}} ({{lang|pt|Não por Acaso}})
|Paiva | | ||
| Elite Squad
|Fábio | | ||
| Nome Próprio
|Locador | | ||
| {{ill|O Magnata|cy | pt}}
|Lúcio Flávio | | |
| rowspan="4" |2008
|Road Movie (short) | | | ||
| Embodiment of Evil
|Padre Eugênio | | ||
| {{ill|Nossa Vida Não Cabe Num Opala|cy | pt}}
|Lupa | | |
| Dangkou
|Not Dead | | ||
| rowspan="2" |2009
|Sibele | | ||
| Lula, Son of Brazil
|Aristides | | ||
| 2010
|Elite Squad: The Enemy Within |Fábio | | ||
| 2011
|Barão | | ||
| 2012
|Boca |Osmar | | ||
| 2013
| A Wolf at the Door ({{lang|pt|O Lobo atrás da Porta}}) | | | ||
| rowspan="3" |2014
|Branco | | ||
| Entreturnos
| | | ||
| {{ill|Trinta|pt|Trinta (filme)}}
| | | ||
| 2015
| ''Blue Blood ({{lang|pt|Sangue Azul}}) | | | ||
| rowspan="7" |2016
|The Ten Commandments: The Movie | | | ||
| Stronger than the World ({{lang|pt|Mais Forte que o Mundo}})
| | | ||
| {{ill|Mundo Cão|cy | pt|Mundo Cão (2016)}}
| | | |
| {{ill|Altas Expectativas|pt}}
| | | ||
| Aurora
| | | ||
| {{ill|Vidas Partidas|cy | fr | pt}}
| | |
| Canastra Suja
|Celso | | ||
| 2017
| {{ill|Malasartes e o Duelo com a Morte|cy | pt}}
| | |
=Television=
References
{{reflist}}
External links
- {{IMDb name|id=1141101}}
{{Authority control}}
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Category:Male actors from São Paulo
Category:Brazilian people of Arab descent
Category:Brazilian people of Italian descent
Category:Brazilian male film actors
Category:Brazilian male television actors
Category:20th-century Brazilian male actors
Category:21st-century Brazilian male actors
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