Gero_Camilo

Gero Camilo

Gero Camilo

Brazilian actor, dramatist, singer-songwriter, poet

"Paulo Rogério da Silva" redirects here. For the football player born as Paulo Rogério Reis Silva, see Somália (footballer born 1984).

Gero Camilo (born Paulo Rogério da Silva[1] on December 18, 1970) is a Brazilian actor, dramatist, singer-songwriter and poet.[3][4] A descendant of Indigenous, African, Portuguese, and Dutch people, he was born in Fortaleza, Ceará from parents of Acopiara.[5] He was a militant of Liberation theology in Ceará,[1] where he started to act in amateur theater when he was 19 years old. In 1994, he entered the School of Dramatic Art of University of São Paulo,[1] acting on university productions, and concluded the course four years later.[6]

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In March 2022, he was cast as Didi, a character created and originally played by Renato Aragão, in the upcoming film Mussum: O Filmis, about the comedian who died in 1994.[7]

Personal life

He is openly gay and some of his most famous characters have ties to the LGBT community, such as Miss Pirangi from the 2012 TV Globo's telenovela Gabriela (which is a remake of the 1975 soap opera of the same name).[2]

Selected filmography

Films
Telenovelas, series and miniseries
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Discography

Notes

  1. Conjunto Esperança (the neighborhood where he was born and raised) is a neighborhood that is located on the outskirts of Fortaleza (the capital of the state of Ceará), located next to the Parque Santa Rosa neighborhood (one of the oldest neighborhoods in Fortaleza).

References

  1. [1]
    Lledó, Maria Júlia (15 January 2016). "Gerador de sonhos, Gero é Camilo e Brasil" (in Portuguese). São Paulo. Archived from the original on 2016-01-28. Retrieved 28 January 2016.
  2. [2]
    "Aldeotas, peça de Gero Camilo, ganha as telonas". Bravo! (in Brazilian Portuguese). 2022-12-05. Retrieved 2023-08-31.
  3. [3]
    Abreu, Paulo Renato (August 2, 2014). "Gero Camilo lança hoje disco Megatamainho em Fortaleza". O Povo (in Portuguese). Archived from the original on 2014-10-26. Retrieved October 26, 2014.
  4. [4]
    "Ator cearense Gero Camilo também é cantor e compositor" (in Portuguese). Globo.com. August 12, 2014. Archived from the original on 2014-10-26. Retrieved October 26, 2014.
  5. [5]
    Sanches, Pedro Alexandere (February 15, 2008). "A desforra do antigalã". CartaCapital (in Portuguese).
  6. [6]
    "Gero Camilo" (in Portuguese). Enciclopédia Itaú Cultural. Archived from the original on 2014-10-26. Retrieved October 26, 2014.
  7. [7]
    "Ator que vai interpretar Didi em filme sobre Mussum é definido; saiba quem". Na Telinha. Grupo Folha. 5 March 2022. Retrieved 5 March 2022.
  8. [8]
    "Amor em Quatro Atos - Teledramaturgia". Archived from the original on 2013-10-16. Retrieved 2015-02-10.
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