Leonardo Medeiros

Leonardo Medeiros

Born: November 20, 1964
in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Leonardo Wilson de Medeiros (Rio de Janeiro, November 20, 1964) is a Brazilian actor, winner of three best actor awards at the Brasília Festival. Medeiros also accumulates nominations for a Grande Otelo, two Guarani Awards, an ACIE Award, and a Quality Brazil Award. He is known for his work on television and his dramatic roles in independent films.

Movies for Leonardo Medeiros...

Title: The Endless Night
Character: Geraldo Alberto Ramos Fontes
Released: January 25, 2023
Type: TV
When a fire kills 242 people in a nightclub, all that the victims' parents can do is mourn... and fight for justice.
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The Girl Who Killed Her Parents
Title: The Girl Who Killed Her Parents
Character: Manfred von Richthofen
Released: September 24, 2021
Type: Movie
Based on one of the most shocking and gruesome murder cases in Brazil, the film presents Daniel Cravinhos's point of view of the events that led to the death of Marísia and Manfred von Richthofen, his girlfriend’s parents.
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The Boy Who Killed My Parents
Title: The Boy Who Killed My Parents
Character: Manfred von Richthofen
Released: September 24, 2021
Type: Movie
Based on one of the most shocking and gruesome murder cases in Brazil, the film presents de Suzane von Richthofen's point of view of the events that led to the death of her parents.
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Title: Genesis
Character: Zeno
Released: January 19, 2021
Type: TV
The story of the first 2,300 years of humanity and recounts events exclusively from that period. The plot begins by giving us a greater understanding of why we exist and how we turned from perfection to imperfection. The origin of all social and racial problems is there at the beginning of everything, when via one decision a human being who only knew good and enjoyed it so much also chose to know evil.
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Title: Hebe
Character: Assis Chateaubriand
Released: December 13, 2019
Type: TV
Between comings and goings in time, over 8 decades, the story of a poor country girl who fulfills the dream of becoming a great star, always in search of her truth.
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Kardec
Title: Kardec
Character: Rivail / Kardec
Released: May 16, 2019
Type: Movie
The story of Allan Kardec, from his days as an educator to his contribution to the spiritist codification.
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The Patient
Title: The Patient
Character: Dr. Pinheiro Rocha
Released: September 13, 2018
Type: Movie
The true story of Tancredo Neves, the first civilian president of Brazil after a 20-year military dictatorship, and the infamous hospitalization which led to his death before he ever managed to take office.
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O Avental Rosa
Title: O Avental Rosa
Released: August 16, 2018
Type: Movie
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Wherever You Are
Title: Wherever You Are
Character: Waldir
Released: June 16, 2018
Type: Movie
Open City Radio broadcasts the "Wherever You Are" program on a weekly basis, where people try to communicate with missing relatives and friends. Behind the scenes of the program several life stories cross and become.
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Polícia Federal: A Lei é Para Todos - Os Bastidores da Operação Lava Jato
Title: Polícia Federal: A Lei é Para Todos - Os Bastidores da Operação Lava Jato
Character: Marcelo Odebrecht
Released: September 7, 2017
Type: Movie
2013. During Operation Bidone, the Federal Police seized a truck loaded with palm heart, which contained 697 kg of cocaine. The investigation falls on the team assembled by Ivan Romano, based in Curitiba and composed by Beatriz, Júlio and Ítalo. The traffic connections lead them to the dower Alberto Youssef and later to the former Petrobras director Paulo Roberto Costa, who reveals an immense structure involving builders and the government, in order to divert public money. As the investigation progresses, the group led by Ivan is increasingly approaching some of the country's most influential politicians.
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The Dreamseller
Title: The Dreamseller
Character: Roger
Released: December 8, 2016
Type: Movie
A disillusioned psychologist tries to commit suicide until he strikes up a friendship with an unlikely saviour who teaches him a new way of living.
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Histórias de Alice
Title: Histórias de Alice
Released: March 31, 2016
Type: Movie
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Title: Sete Vidas
Character: Lauro
Released: March 9, 2015
Type: TV
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Getulio
Title: Getulio
Character: General Caiado de Castro
Released: May 1, 2014
Type: Movie
The movie depicts the political crisis that led to the suicide of president Getúlio Vargas, in the 19 days that preceded August 24, 1954. The crisis began with the attempted assassination of journalist and politician Carlos Lacerda in August 5, 1954, at rua Toneleros, Rio de Janeiro, in which Major Vaz was assassinated instead. Investigations pointed to Gregório Fortunato, chief of Vargas' personal guard, as the orderer of the frustrated assassination. This incident was one of the most importants in the history of Brazil.
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Title: Helena's Shadow
Character: Fernando de Castro (Nando)
Released: February 3, 2014
Type: TV
Laerte’s obsessive jealousy brings his relationship with Helena to an end on their wedding day. Twenty years later, he meets Luiza, the daughter of his long lost love. The two fall in love and stir up dormant feelings that profoundly affect Helena’s marriage and her relationship with her daughter. Defying everyone, Laerte and Luiza decide to follow their love to the highest bounds, leaving a trail of conflicts and pain along the way.
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Title: O Tempo e o Vento
Character: Bento Amaral
Released: January 1, 2014
Type: TV
It tells the story of two families that are mortal enemies in the fictitious city of Santa Fe, at the end of the 20th century. Its characters who reek of soil, blood, and hard liquor get involved in various events in the small town, where their passions, desires, idealism and envy become intertwined and collide in a poetic and unexpected way.
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Anita e Garibaldi
Title: Anita e Garibaldi
Released: December 6, 2013
Type: Movie
Giuseppe Garibaldi (Gabriel Braga Nunes), 32 years old, commander of the republican rebels that invade Laguna, Santa Catarina, during the Farrapos War (1835 - 1845), finds his soul mate in Anita (Ana Paula Arósio), 18 years old, wife of local shoemaker. Between passion and battles, they will define the course of their lives and influence the course of the revolution.
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Time and the Wind
Title: Time and the Wind
Character: Bento Neto
Released: September 28, 2013
Type: Movie
Based on Érico Verissimo's literary trilogy, The Time and the Wind follows 150 years of the Terra Cambará family and their opponents, the Amaral family. The struggles between the two families begin in the missions and lasts until the end of the 19th century. The film also features the period of formation of the state of Rio Grande do Sul and the dispute of territory between the Portuguese and Spanish crowns.
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A Violent Dose of Anything
Title: A Violent Dose of Anything
Released: September 22, 2013
Type: Movie
Pedro has taken the road and he does not know where he is going. Lucas does not know it either. After meeting at a roadside café, they travel through the Brazilian Savannah seeking for a violent dose of anything.
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Nove Crônicas para um Coração aos Berros
Title: Nove Crônicas para um Coração aos Berros
Character: Leopoldo
Released: October 19, 2012
Type: Movie
In a mosaic of human relationships and day-to-day situations, men and women of different ages feel a pressing need to reinvent themselves. As they cross each other's paths, they all are at a turning point in their lives.
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Simples Mortais
Title: Simples Mortais
Released: November 23, 2011
Type: Movie
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Title: The Life We Lead
Character: Lourenço Luiz Macedo
Released: September 26, 2011
Type: TV
This moving telenovela tells the story of an unconditional love that overcomes life’s unexpected turnarounds. Ana is a promising tennis player who counts on best friend and sister Manuela for support. After a terrible car accident, Ana goes into a deep coma and only emerges from it five years later. Now, she must struggle to recover the life that went on without her and that she no longer recognizes as her own.
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Sunstroke
Title: Sunstroke
Character: Leo
Released: March 26, 2010
Type: Movie
In an empty city, scorched by the sun, the young and old confuse the fever of sunstroke with the delicate birth of passion. Like ghosts, they hover around buildings and endless flatlands in search of the ever elusive love. Inspired by 19th century Russian short stories, the plots weave and unravel together in the improbable city of Brasilia – a distorted mirror-image of the Soviet utopia – located in the heart of the Brazilian desert.
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Title: Tempos Modernos
Character: Ramon Piñon
Released: January 11, 2010
Type: TV
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Budapeste
Title: Budapeste
Character: José Costa
Released: May 14, 2009
Type: Movie
José Costa is a Brazilian ghost writer. Returning from a ghost writers convention his airplane is rerouted to Budapest. His life is also rerouted when he meets Krista and with her help, learns "the only language in the world which, according to the tongue-wagers, the devil respects.
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December
Title: December
Character: Caio
Released: November 21, 2008
Type: Movie
Caio is 40 years old and lives in the Rio de Janeiro's countryside, where he owns a scrap-metal yard. On Christmas' Eve, he goes to the capital to visit his family and friends. Finally he will be able to meet a man he has not seen for a long time: himself.
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Birdwatchers
Title: Birdwatchers
Character: Moreira
Released: August 31, 2008
Type: Movie
Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, the present. When a young Guarani-Kaiowá woman commits suicide, Nádio leads his community to form a protest camp on the borders of a local farm that sits on their ancestral burial ground.
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Nossa Vida Não Cabe Num Opala
Title: Nossa Vida Não Cabe Num Opala
Character: Monk Castilho
Released: August 15, 2008
Type: Movie
The father of a family of lower middle class of São Paulo dies. But he did not realize this and starts to watch the reactions of his children and the collapse of the fragile family structure. Based on a novel of Mário Bortolotto.
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Title: A Favorita
Character: Elias Barreto Filho
Released: June 2, 2008
Type: TV
Donatela and Flora, two friends who became rivals. One of them committed a homicide and pretends to be innocent. There are two versions for the same story. Who, after all, is telling the truth? Donatela or Flora?
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Body
Title: Body
Character: Artur
Released: August 28, 2007
Type: Movie
São Paulo, today. Bones are found in an anonymous grave and sent to the morgue. The coroner Artur deals with actresses and extremists. A body gets preserved for more than thirty years. An identity is searched...
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5 Frações de uma Quase História
Title: 5 Frações de uma Quase História
Character: Carlos
Released: July 4, 2007
Type: Movie
An obsessive photographer crazy for female feet; a man that projects himself on situations he sees on TV; a simple public officer that receives a proposal from a corrupt Judge; a slaughter in a marriage crisis and a broken heart secretary that dreams to get married. These five characters will have their lives changed from a hot weekend.
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Not by Chance
Title: Not by Chance
Character: Ênio
Released: June 7, 2007
Type: Movie
Enio is a middle-aged man who lives in solitude after a failed relationship. Pedro, 30, dates Teresa, who is moving to her home. He inherited a carpentry from his father and a taste for the pool. When a traffic accident crosses the parallel trajectories of the two, the imponderable imposes itself and the uncontrol begins.
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A Vida ao Lado
Title: A Vida ao Lado
Released: May 6, 2006
Type: Movie
Cecília is in love with her neighbor Ana, but Ana is trying to seduce Alberto. She ignores that he is about to commit suicide. In a day full of surprises, the three neighbors share the same experience: love.
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In Evil Hour
Title: In Evil Hour
Character: Alcaide
Released: February 2, 2006
Type: Movie
The old servant and chronicler Dom Sabas tells how his desolate South American town is the scene of a ruthless power struggle. The landowning Assis family, reduced to a widow and son, tries to hold out against the young, despotic mayor. No less effective then actions are anonymous rumors and accusations, which often stir the inhabitants' moves.
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What Is It Worth?
Title: What Is It Worth?
Character: Amigo
Released: May 20, 2005
Type: Movie
Free adaptation of Machado de Assis's short story "Pai Contra Mãe", having some of Nireu Cavalcanti's 18th Century chronicles as inspiration, the film traces parallels between life in during the slavery period and in modern Brazil.
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Playing in the Dark
Title: Playing in the Dark
Character: Tiago
Released: November 25, 2004
Type: Movie
A revolutionary, fighting against dictatorship in Brazil, is wounded in a gun-fight with the police, and is isolated in another man's apartment, where he meets a young woman who will change his life.
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Wherever You Are (Short)
Title: Wherever You Are (Short)
Character: Waldir
Released: December 1, 2003
Type: Movie
Waldir and Lucia find themselves when they were looking for someone else.
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To the Left of the Father
Title: To the Left of the Father
Character: Pedro, the elder brother
Released: October 29, 2001
Type: Movie
The story of André, the rebel runaway son from a dominant Lebanese-Brazilian family who returns to the nest after a few years.
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Title: Os Maias
Character: Taveira
Released: January 9, 2001
Type: TV
Pedro da Maia, meets a beautiful woman called Maria Monforte with whom he gets married despite his father's objection. The marriage produces a son, Carlos Eduardo, and a daughter. Some time later, Maria Monforte falls in love with Tancredo and runs away to Italy with him, taking her daughter along. When Pedro finds out, he goes with his son to his father's house where he commits suicide. Carlos stays at his grandfather's house and is educated by him. Carlos, becomes a doctor and opens his own office. Later he meets a gorgeous woman, Maria Eduarda. The two fall in love and have dozens of nights together. Eventually Carlos finds out later that Maria lied to him about her past and he starts fearing the worst. In the end, Carlos finds out that Maria is his sister. He informs her that they are siblings and that they cannot live like this anymore. Carlos, to forget his tragedies, goes for a trip around the world.
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Title: A Muralha
Character: Leonel Olinto
Released: January 4, 2000
Type: TV
A hundred years after Europeans set foot in the New World, Brazil still remains largely unexplored. The Conquest recounts the saga of the earliest adventurers who wandered through these unknown lands. Jesuit priests, adventurers seeking gold, slaves and indigenous tribes were entangled in unceasing battles, at a time when laws were made by the sharp edge of a sword.
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Title: Meu Pé de Laranja Lima
Character: Demétrio
Released: December 7, 1998
Type: TV