Marco Ricca

Marco Ricca

Born: November 28, 1962
in São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Marco Antonio Ricca (São Paulo, November 28, 1962) is a Brazilian actor and filmmaker. Marco was born in São Paulo in 1962. His television debut was in 1993, in Rede Globo's soap opera Renascer, playing the character José Augusto. The following year he transferred to SBT, where he acted in the soap opera Éramos Seis. In 1995, he made a quick stint in the teledramaturgy of Rede Bandeirantes, participating in the telenovela A Idade da Loba. He then returned to SBT to star in the telenovela Razão de Viver.

Movies for Marco Ricca...

De Pai pra Filho
Title: De Pai pra Filho
Character: Machado
Released: August 8, 2024
Type: Movie
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Title: Justiça 2
Released: April 11, 2024
Type: TV
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Title: The Adventures of José & Durval
Character: Mário
Released: August 18, 2023
Type: TV
Two brothers develop great musical talent as children, using this craft to support their family. The release of their first hit takes them beyond the limits of Brazilian country music, and into the biggest concert venues in São Paulo.
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The Club of Angels
Title: The Club of Angels
Character: Pedro
Released: November 3, 2022
Type: Movie
Over the years, the monthly meetings of the Stew Club – a fraternity that has gathered seven long-time friends for decades – has gone from rituals of power to melancholic failure assemblies. The end would be its only worthy fate. Until a mysterious cook appears, and starts serving them magnificent feasts. The bonds of friendship are back, gluttony as a celebration of life. But there is a catch: after each dinner, a member of the brotherhood is found dead the next morning.
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Predestinado: Arigó e o Espírito do Dr. Fritz
Title: Predestinado: Arigó e o Espírito do Dr. Fritz
Character: Juiz Barros
Released: September 1, 2022
Type: Movie
José Pedro de Freitas, better known as Zé Arigó, was a simple man who lived with his wife Arlete in Congonhas, Minas Gerais. During the 1950s, a time when Spiritism was not as well known and respected in the country, Arigó became a symbol of hope through his surgeries and spiritual cures. Based on a true story, Arigó, with the help of the spirit of Dr. Fritz, performed numerous spiritual surgeries on people from Brazil and the world.
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Paterno
Title: Paterno
Character: Sérgio
Released: June 14, 2022
Type: Movie
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Title: In Your Place
Character: Breno
Released: November 8, 2021
Type: TV
Christian and Renato are identical twins who have opposite lives: Christian grew up in an orphanage and is underemployed, struggling to survive. Renato was adopted by a rich family and had everything that money can buy. When they meet again as adults, a tragedy happens: Renato is murdered and identified as Christian who, in turn, takes the place of his brother. However, to this end, he must leave behind his identity and his great love.
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Orgulho Além da Tela
Title: Orgulho Além da Tela
Character: Self
Released: October 11, 2021
Type: Movie
From archive images and testimonials of Rede Globo media group's talent and audience, the documentary traces the chronology of the representation of LGBTQIA+ characters in Brazilian soap operas.
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Title: Hebe
Character: Lélio Ravagnani
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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The Nightshifter
Title: The Nightshifter
Character: Jaime
Released: October 10, 2019
Type: Movie
Stênio, the nightshifter of a morgue, has the ability to communicate with the cadavers that are brought to him every night.
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Lamento
Title: Lamento
Character: Elder
Released: October 5, 2019
Type: Movie
We are at all times making decisions that define who we are and what we face in our day to day. Elder manages the hotel inherited from his father throughout his life. In his hands the hotel went from a luxury resort to a hotel on the verge of bankruptcy. He is the portrait of a people whose life was easy but at the height of his fifties he faces the consequences of a life of excess with an erratic and cyclical addiction to alcohol and cocaine. Unsuccessful in his professional life, this failure is repeated in his social life with a marriage in ruins and with no prospect of improvement. At the limit of his emotional balance, Elder puts everything at risk when facing his demons and the consequences of their decisions. A story that finds its peer in every family nucleus of the Brazilian middle class.
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Hebe
Title: Hebe
Character: Lélio
Released: September 26, 2019
Type: Movie
Hebe Camargo is one of the most emblematic entertainments in Brazil. At her 60s, she went on to control her own career and, despite the criticism, the dreadful husband and the powerful and sexist bosses, she revealed herself to the public as an extraordinary woman, capable of overcoming any personal or professional crisis.
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Title: Orphans of a Nation
Character: Elias Faiek
Released: April 2, 2019
Type: TV
Laila is a Syrian victim of a bombing who agrees to marry a powerful sheikh in exchange for money to save her little brother's life. However, plans change due to the tragic death of the child. Laila and her family flee to start a new life in distant lands. Abandoned and enraged, the sheikh sends Jamil, his right-hand man, in search of the bride, but could not imagine he would fail to obey his command and fall madly in love with her. This forbidden love will be tested when the sheikh's daughter decides to take revenge after her father's mysterious death. From Emmy winners Thelma Guedes and Duca Rachid, ‘Orphans of a Nation’ tells a beautiful love story in the current context of refugees from around the world.
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Florianópolis Dream
Title: Florianópolis Dream
Released: November 15, 2018
Type: Movie
A recently separated Argentinian man and woman, with their two teenage children, go on a family holiday to Florianópolis, Brazil, where they become delightfully and problematically involved with the family from whom they rent a house.
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Rend Your Heart
Title: Rend Your Heart
Character: Custódio (Manguari)
Released: October 15, 2018
Type: Movie
40 years after fighting for what he thought was new and revolutionary, a former anonymous militant against the now fallen Brazilian dictatorship is accused of being conservative, antiquated and anachronistic by his own son.
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The City of Pirates
Title: The City of Pirates
Character: Azevedo
Released: August 17, 2018
Type: Movie
A film director faces a complex situation in the production of his new film: Laerte, the protagonist of the story, begins to renegade her former characters, the Pirates of the Tietê. Lost in this situation and determined to be faithful to his whims after seeing the approach of death, the director decides to tell his drama mixing his persona with the story, creating a chaotic labyrinth between fiction and real life.
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Liquid Truth
Title: Liquid Truth
Character: Davi
Released: October 19, 2017
Type: Movie
Rubens is a carefree, charismatic swimming instructor who finds himself accused of displaying inappropriate affection toward one of his students by the boy's mother. Other parents and colleagues are only too eager to condemn him.
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Bio
Title: Bio
Released: August 24, 2017
Type: Movie
The film tells the story of a man who was born in 1959 and died in 2070, told by people who knew him and somehow contributed to his trajectory.
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Title: The Orient Expedition: Família Schürmann
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: April 25, 2017
Type: TV
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Title: Dark Days
Character: Delegado Amaral
Released: April 17, 2017
Type: TV
In 1970, with the conflicts in Brazil due to political repression from the military dictatorship as a background, the inquisitive student Alice and the idealistic doctor Renato fall deeply in love. Their worlds are joined by passion, but they are kept apart for many years by family feuds and a country facing a turmoil that affects lives and dreams.
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Two Irenes
Title: Two Irenes
Character: Tonico
Released: February 12, 2017
Type: Movie
In the shimmering heat of Brazil, 13-year-old Irene discovers a dark secret her father's been hiding: he has another family and even another daughter with the same name.
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Canastra Suja
Title: Canastra Suja
Character: Batista
Released: October 9, 2016
Type: Movie
Batista and Maria form a couple who, apparently, are very happy in their marriage. However, the truth is that appearances deceive and much; in the background, Batista, an inveterate alcoholic and Maria, who has an affair with her eldest daughter's boyfriend, Emilia, represents a family on the edge of the ruins.
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Title: Above Justice
Released: August 22, 2016
Type: TV
In this realistic and touching series told in an innovative format, seemingly independent plots intertwine to show how justice can sometimes be a personal matter.
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Title: Liberdade, Liberdade
Character: Manoel Henriques (Mão de Luva)
Released: April 11, 2016
Type: TV
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Title: Escolinha do Professor Raimundo: Nova Geração
Character: Pedro Pedreira
Released: December 13, 2015
Type: TV
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Chatô, The King of Brazil
Title: Chatô, The King of Brazil
Character: Assis Chateaubriand (Chatô)
Released: November 19, 2015
Type: Movie
The true story of Assis Chateaubriand, the first magnate of communications in Brazil. Due to his influence during the late 1930s up to the early 1960s, he has come to be called 'the Brazilian Citizen Kane'.
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O Fim e os Meios
Title: O Fim e os Meios
Character: Hugo
Released: September 24, 2015
Type: Movie
Paulo (Pedro Brício), a publicist of Rio de Janeiro, moves to Brasília (capital of Brazil) to be the manager of the public image of a senator who wants reelection. Paulo is accompanied by his wife, Cris (Cintia Rosa), a journalist with whom he has a small daughter. But their relationship is not moved by love, they are only together for the girl, the result of an unwanted pregnancy.
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Title: Boogie Oogie
Character: Fernando Veiga Azevedo Fraga
Released: August 4, 2014
Type: TV
In the swing of the 70s, two women fight for the love of the same man without knowing their fates were already intertwined.
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Title: Sweet Mother
Character: Silvio de Souza
Released: January 30, 2014
Type: TV
Picucha may seem old-fashioned, but she has modern ideas and a great sense of humor. At 85 years old, she pushes the limits of her age and does everything she can for her family and friends. Sweet Mother illustrates the everyday life of the elderly with clarity and levity, and shows that youth actually starts at 80. In the role that earned her the 2013 International Emmy® Awards for Best Actress, Fernanda Montenegro adds another success to her list of characters, which includes an Oscar nomination for the film Central Station.
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Trinta
Title: Trinta
Character: Braulio
Released: October 18, 2013
Type: Movie
Biopic about the late Joãozinho Trinta, a self-taught classical dancer who turned Rio's Carnival into an international phenomenon in the 1970s and '80s by directing parades for samba schools and putting focus on costumes and decor.
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Os Amigos
Title: Os Amigos
Character: Théo
Released: August 21, 2013
Type: Movie
Théo goes to the funeral of his childhood best friend. Then, memories return.
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Title: Tangled Hearts
Character: Wilson Rabello
Released: April 29, 2013
Type: TV
Follows the story of six young individuals who work hard to achieve their dreams and also dream of loving someone special and being loved as well. Amora, Bento and Fabio were raised at an orphanage at Capo Verde by Gilson and his wife, Selma. They each took their own path in life when Amora was adopted by actress Barbara Ellen, Fabio with a broke family in the countryside and Bento grew up to become a florist in a cooperative with Gilson, Selma and Giane, a childhood friend Who secretly has a crush on him. Amora becomes a famous model and media personality and socialite Who is brattish and vain, and Malú, her adoptive sister is a responsible, simple and down to earth University student who is unloved by Barbara Ellen who considers her a mistake.
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Sweet Mother
Title: Sweet Mother
Character: Silvio de Souza
Released: December 27, 2012
Type: Movie
Picucha may seem old-fashioned, but she has modern ideas and a great sense of humor. As the matriarch of a big family, she is involved in the daily lives of her children, grandchildren and other relatives. Undeterred by the typical problems of old age, she uses her many years of experience to solve problems in the best way possible.
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Title: The Illusionist
Character: Samir Hayalla
Released: July 12, 2011
Type: TV
The illusionist is mysterious, captivating and mesmerizes all those around him. But is he really a swindler or a man with extraordinary powers? This fascinating telenovela tells the story of seductive Herculano Quintanilha, who exerts significant influence over his great love Amanda, the Hayalla family and his friends. These and other enigmas can be found in The Illusionist, a telenovela where seduction is the great secret.
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Title: Ti Ti Ti
Character: Higino Oliveira (Gino)
Released: July 19, 2010
Type: TV
Brazilian telenovela based on the 1985 telenovela of the same name.
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Black Box
Title: Black Box
Character: Ricardo III
Released: December 1, 2009
Type: Movie
After running away from home in his youth, Túlio has grown adrift from his family. 40 years later he has to come home one last time to bury his parents and his brother and claim what now is his.
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Verônica
Title: Verônica
Character: Paulo
Released: February 6, 2009
Type: Movie
When a teacher takes one of her students to his home in the slum, she discovers that drug traffickers have killed the child's parents and are looking for the boy.
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The Milky Way
Title: The Milky Way
Character: Heitor
Released: November 2, 2007
Type: Movie
A modern love story set in Sao Paulo about Heitor, a writer and literature professor, and Julia, a theatre student turned veterinarian. A fight over the telephone propels Heitor into a journey through the chaotic city streets to reconcile with Julia. Their personal history unfolds against the backdrop of the city and its people in a series of events representing the struggle between poetry and science.
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Title: Paraíso Tropical
Character: Gustavo Martelli
Released: March 5, 2007
Type: TV
The search for a successor provokes the beginning of a clash between two young and talented executives of his group: Daniel Bastos, a lad of simple origins and excellent character, who is not only handsome and charming, but also intelligent and skilled, and Olavo Novaes, an ambitious and unscrupulous man who is ready to fight for the position, at any cost. To fight against Olavo‘s treacherous plans, Daniel will have the help of the sweet and sensitive Paula, a young lady raised as an only child who founds, on the eve of her mother‘s death, that she is adopted and has a family. What Paula does not know is that she has an identical twin sister, the wicked Taís, who is as ambitious and unscrupulous as the man who becomes her main ally, Olavo Novaes. Antenor, for his part, decides on having an heir when he meets the headstrong and honest Lúcia, a woman who will make this cold businessman find true love is and a real reason to live.
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Canta Maria
Title: Canta Maria
Character: Filipe
Released: November 1, 2006
Type: Movie
After her parents were killed by a troupe of soldiers in search of Lampião, an outlaw living in Northeastern Brazil, Maria marries Filipe, a horse whisperer. But his nephew Coriolano soon develops an attraction for Maria, while a jealous Filipe decides to break his marriage and sends Maria away.
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Sonhos e Desejos
Title: Sonhos e Desejos
Released: October 27, 2006
Type: Movie
A young student (Mel Lisboa), a literature professor (Felipe Camargo) and a wounded warrior who is always with his face covered (Sergio Marone) are three militants, who are confined in an apartment in Belo Horizonte. There they confront their emotional and political options, involving loyalty, betrayal and desire.
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The Greatest Love of All
Title: The Greatest Love of All
Character: Maestro jovem
Released: September 7, 2006
Type: Movie
Antônio is an astrophysicist who has just found out he has an inoperable brain tumor. After decades living in the United States, he returns to Brazil and tries to learn more about his biological mother. His quest sends him off into the slums of Rio de Janeiro.
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Title: Bang Bang
Character: Xerife Edgard Stuart / Patrik Gogol
Released: October 3, 2005
Type: TV
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Delicate Crime
Title: Delicate Crime
Character: Antônio Martins
Released: September 30, 2005
Type: Movie
Antônio Martins, respected theatrical critic, is a very rational man. But a chance meeting with young Inês, a nude painting model, is going to rock him. Inês keeps a relationship with painter José Torres Campana, an older man with a deep influence over her. Antônio gets jealous, and the three become characters of a drama saturated with desire and danger.
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Romeo and Juliet Get Married
Title: Romeo and Juliet Get Married
Character: Romeu
Released: March 18, 2005
Type: Movie
The tomboyish, outgoing Julieta is the daughter of a member of the Palmeiras soccer club board. She is constantly frustrated by what she sees as institutional bias against women in soccer. One day while watching her beloved Palmeiras, she is struck by a handsome man, Romeu, that she sees rooting for the Palmeiras' chief rivals, the Corinthians. After meeting the same man again in the middle of eye exam, Julieta and Romeu quickly become a couple. However, in order to avoid incurring the wrath of her parents, Romeu is forced to pretend to be an adoring Palmeiras fan, an increasingly difficult task for the die-hard Corinthiano.
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Title: Hoje é Dia de Maria
Character: 1º Cangaceiro
Released: January 11, 2005
Type: TV
Maria is an orphan girl who suffers from her stepmother's wickedness. She then decides to escape in search of the fringes of the sea and takes a long walk through Brazilian folk tales. On his journey, he meets several fantastic characters.
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Title: Kubanacan
Character: Celso
Released: May 5, 2003
Type: TV
The story begins in 1951 in Kubanacan, a small Caribbean island country known as a"banana republic", both for its prime export and its economic problems. After the death of the current president, General Carlos Camacho imposes a coup d'état and establishes a dictatorial regime. In addition, the new ruler marries the wife of her predecessor, Mercedes, first lady loved by the people for her help to the poor and with whom she had an affair for years. In the village of Santiago, a mysterious man falls from the sky during a storm with a chest shot, being saved by the fishermen and cared for by Marisol. Without memory, Esteban falls in love with the girl and disputes his heart with her husband, Enrico, who leaves and lets his ex-wife live with the new love, who takes over her two children. Seven years later, in 1958, Marisol meets Camacho, who convinces her to leave and live as his mistress, claiming she would never get out of poverty in the village.
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6th Street, No Number
Title: 6th Street, No Number
Released: March 14, 2003
Type: Movie
Am unemployed man receives a package from a dying stranger to be delievered to a certain Maira at 6th Street but he never learns the number.
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Cristina Wants to Get Married
Title: Cristina Wants to Get Married
Character: Chico
Released: February 28, 2003
Type: Movie
Cristina still lives with her mother and wants to find her true love. She looks for help in a matrimonial agency, that arranges a meeting between her and Paulo. She likes the guy, but Paulo doesn't seem too enthusiastic. As time goes by, Chico, the owner of the agency, feels he is becoming too fond of Cristina...
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Title: O Beijo do Vampiro
Character: Augusto dos Anjos
Released: August 26, 2002
Type: TV
The struggling Lívia despairs when she learns that her husband, before dying, lost a fortune in shady deals. Widowed and with three children, she is forced to fight for her family and leaves for the paradisiacal beach town of Maramores, where her mother Zoroastra lives. Parallel to the difficulties, Lívia discovers that she is involved in the eternal struggle of Good against Evil. In fact, Lívia is the reincarnation of Princess Cecília, the eternal passion of the vampire Bóris Vladescu, who has been pursuing her for centuries. The two met in 7th century Europe, when Bóris disputed the princess's love with Count Rogério. Nowadays, Rogério was Beto, Lívia's husband, and the two times he faced Boris, his arch-enemy, he took the worst. Boris is in Maramores to get Cecilia, his immortal beloved. Or rather, Livia, who raises the boy Zeca, who she doesn't even suspect is actually a half-vampire, son of Boris. The vampire is willing to prepare his son to take his place, but Zeca is reluctant to accept his condition, much to his father's despair. With Bóris comes a legion of vampires willing to terrorize the residents of the peaceful city. Among them, the splendid Mina, his wife, and the gallant Victor, who involves the sweet Ciça in a game of seduction. Vampires are closely watched by the flustered Galileo Van Burger, a vampire hunter who failed to prevent his wacky son Bartô from being bitten. Who also keeps an eye on the vampires is the mystical Zoroastra, mother of Lívia, a modern witch, who owns the main inn in Maramores. And the mysterious Ezekiel, in reality an angel who came down to Earth to protect Lívia and Zeca from the evil that persecutes them. Engineer Rodrigo also arrives in the city, followed by his ex-girlfriend Lara. The two are the first victims of vampires. Lara is bitten by Victor and becomes an evil vampire, due to her bad temper. Rodrigo is bitten by Mina, who becomes pregnant and is expecting a daughter from him, which she says is from Boris. Meanwhile, Rodrigo is used by Boris to approach Lívia. Who does not like this involvement is Augusto, a friend of Lívia who has loved her in the past. Augusto is a widower who raises his small children with the help of sister-in-law Marta, a blind woman, but bitter and Machiavellian, who does everything to keep him from Lívia, because she loves him.
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The Trespasser
Title: The Trespasser
Character: Ivan
Released: November 24, 2001
Type: Movie
Two businessmen hire a hitman to kill their third partner and are then blackmailed by the hitman as he takes over their company.
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Title: Aquarela do Brasil
Character: Felipe
Released: August 22, 2000
Type: TV
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Tiradentes
Title: Tiradentes
Character: Inácio Alvarenga Peixoto
Released: June 12, 1999
Type: Movie
The story of one of the most important Brazilian heroes, Joaquim José da Silva Xavier, known as Tiradentes. He was the leader of a group who tried to proclaim Brazil's Independence from Portugal in 1789. But he was betrayed by one of his comrades and hanged.
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Até Que a Vida nos Separe
Title: Até Que a Vida nos Separe
Character: Paulo
Released: May 29, 1999
Type: Movie
A group of friends in Sao Paulo see each other regularly in different venues of this huge metropolis, and act as their own de-facto family. They are similar in many ways, all upper middle class professionals between 28 and 32 years of age, and very conscious of their psyche and lives. The diversity within the group however, is also remarkable. It's made up about half men and half women. The men are the most diverse, ranging from your average guy looking for love to an Afro-Brazilian womanizing rich playboy, to a conflicted homosexual, heir to a business empire. It is the friendship (Amizade) and bond between these people that the film exposes, and at the same time it explores the different personalities of this apparently homogeneous, but actually psychologically diverse group of Sao Paulo yuppies. They stick together "'til friendship should ever separate them"
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Title: Anything for Love
Character: Nestor Batalha Pereira
Released: October 13, 1997
Type: TV
Helena is an independendent woman with strong emotions. More than a dedicated mother, she is also a friend to her daughter. Her daughter is experiencing difficulties in her marriage with Marcelo because of his renewed interest in a formoe girlfriend. Marcelo‘s mother deslikes Helena and would like nothing better to see her son‘s marriage destroyed. Helena starts her life over again when she falls in love at first sight with Atilio, whom she marries. Although of poor health, her daughter wants to have a baby, believing that by fulfiling her husband‘s dream, she can save her marriage. As fate would have it, mother and daughter fall pregnant at the same time, each giving birth to a boy.
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Four Days in September
Title: Four Days in September
Character: Henrique
Released: October 1, 1997
Type: Movie
Fernando, a journalist, and his friend César join terrorist group MR8 in order to fight Brazilian dictatorial regime during the late sixties. César, however, is wounded and captured during a bank hold up. Fernando then decides to kidnap the American ambassador in Brazil and ask for the release of fifteen political prisoners in exchange for his life.
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Olhos de Vampa
Title: Olhos de Vampa
Character: Oscar
Released: August 1, 1996
Type: Movie
A beautiful woman is found dead, with a peach in her mouth, a bite in her butt and without blood in the body. When other women are found dead in the same modus-operandi, the police gives the nickname of "Vampa" to serial killer. Detective Leôncio is assigned to investigate the murder together with fetishist photographer Oscar. Without any lead, they decide to follow a sexy and popular night-club dancer on the streets of São Paulo, trying to identify possible suspects.
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O Guarani
Title: O Guarani
Character: Álvaro
Released: May 31, 1996
Type: Movie
The forbidden love affair between Peri, an Indian, and the beautiful Ceci, a Portuguese white girl, in the 17th century Brazil.
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Title: Renascer
Character: José Augusto Inocêncio (Zé Augusto)
Released: March 8, 1993
Type: TV
Jose Inocencio had innocence only as part of his name, but only those who new him well could notice this. But nobody knew him. He was a storyteller, and he was always the main character in the stories he told. He managed not only to create stories about himself, he managed to create a legend. The story of this powerful cacao farmer; Maria Santa, the beloved wife who died; and their four children is the main theme of 'Renascer'.
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Batimam and Robim
Title: Batimam and Robim
Released: April 3, 1992
Type: Movie
Batimam and Robim are two close friends. Their real names are Léo and Mário, but they've got those nicknames after dressing up for mardi-gras as Batman and Robin. To get some money, they decide to rob a small supermarket, but they meet some reaction and Mário gets shot by the owner, who is killed by Léo. They run away and find solace in an abandoned house. Léo decides to go out to try to get some help for his friend, whose leg was wounded, but to no avail. When he returns, the two start an argument.
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Title: Senna
Character: Milton Guirado Theodoro da Silva
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
The story of the adventure and triumph of the man who became a Brazilian national hero and conquered the world’s attention both on and off the Formula 1 track.