Milhem Cortaz
| Milhem Cortaz | |
|---|---|
 Milhem Cortaz in 2009 | |
| Born |
December 6, 1972 São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil |
| Occupation | Actor |
Milhem Cortaz (born December 6, 1972) is a Brazilian actor of film, stage and television.
Cortaz' first role came on the 2000 film Mater Dei, written by Diogo Mainardi, 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 Hector 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, o filho do Brasil.
Filmography
- 2014: Alemão
- 2012: Boca as Osmar
- 2011: Assalto ao Banco Central as Barão
- 2010: Elite Squad: The Enemy Within as Fábio
- 2009: Lula, o filho do Brasil as Aristides
- 2009: Se Nada Mais Der Certo as Sibele
- 2008: Dangkou as Not Dead
- 2008: Nossa Vida Não Cabe Num Opala as Lupa
- 2008: Encarnação do Demônio as Padre Eugênio
- 2008: Road Movie
- 2007: O Magnata as Lúcio Flávio
- 2007: Nome Próprio as Locador
- 2007: Elite Squad as Fábio
- 2007: Não Por Acaso as Paiva
- 2007: Querô as Sr. Edgar
- 2007: Meu Mundo em Perigo as Fito
- 2006: O Cheiro do Ralo as plumber
- 2006: Journey to the End of the Night as Rodrigo
- 2005: A Concepção as Lino
- 2005: Cafundó as Plague trooper
- 2005: De Glauber Para Jirges as Glauber
- 2004: Cabra-Cega as the man who leads the break into the apartment
- 2004: Nina as Carlão
- 2003: Garrincha - Estrela Solitária
- 2003: Carandiru as Peixeira
- 2003: Garotas do ABC as Alemão
- 2000: Através da Janela as Raí's friend
- 2000: Mater Dei as security guard
- 1999: Por Trás do Pano as Puck
TV work
- 2009: Poder Paralelo as Nina's husband
- 2008: Chamas da Vida as Cazé
- 2007: Bicho do Mato as Paulo
- 2007: Vidas Opostas as Sextavado
- 2006: Cidadão Brasileiro as Américo Pereira
- 2005: Essas Mulheres as Lobato
- 2004: A Diarista as Osvaldo (episode "Aquele do Supermercado")
- 2003: Carga Pesada (episode "Companheiros")
- 2002: Desejos de Mulher as Xavier