Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1933-12-09
Day of Death
2022-05-30
Place of Birth
Monte Santo de Minas, Brazil
Milton Gonçalves
Biography
Milton Gonçalves OMC (Monte Santo de Minas, December 9, 1933 – Rio de Janeiro, May 30, 2022) was a Brazilian actor, director, singer, voice actor and producer. He's one of the most famous black actors in Brazil, having collaborated twice with acclaimed director Hector Babenco. Gonçalves started his career in São Paulo, in an amateur group. As he moved to a professional group, he met Augusto Boal, who was looking for an actor to play an old black man. Joining Boal's Teatro de Arena, Milton Gonçalves found an open environment for political, philosophical and artistic discussion, where he was not discriminated for his race. Gonçalves wrote four plays, one of which was staged by the Teatro Experimental do Negro and directed by Dalmo Ferreira. "There I learnt everything I know about Theater. It was fundamental for my comprehension of the world." A Black Movement activist, Milton Gonçalves tried a political career, in the 1990s, as a candidate to Rio de Janeiro state governorship. Father of actor Maurício Gonçalves, he is married to Oda Gonçalves since 1966.
Filmography (112)
Milton Gonçalves, Além do Espetáculo
2025
Juntos A Magia Acontece 2
2021
Hermanoteu na Terra de Godah: O Filme
2021
Pixinguinha, an Affectionate Man
2021
Candango: Memoirs from a Festival
2020
Juntos a Magia Acontece
2019
Carcereiros: O Filme
2019
Aperto
2019
Pressed, Ripped Apart
2019
Memórias do Grupo Opinião
2019
Mussum: Um Filme do Cacildis
2019
All Paulos in the World - Paulo José
2017
Jovem aos 50 - A História de Meio Século da Jovem Guarda
2017
Pitanga
2016
