Wagner Moura, Biography, Movies & News

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He may not be as well known in America, but in his native Brazil, Wagner Moura is a bona-fide star. His early roles (1999's Radio Gogo, 2000's Woman on Top) proved brief, but his performance as a prisoner in 2003's Carandiru was full of brooding promise. He landed a lead role on a popular Brazilian telenovela and continued performing on stage until landing a trifecta of career-defining roles in 2007: first as a vicious police captain in the critically-acclaimed Elite Squad; then as a villainous entrepreneur on the telenovela Paradiso Tropical (Rede Globo); and finally as the tortured title Dane in an experimental production of Hamlet. After reprising his role as Lt. Colonel Nascimento in 2010's Elite Squad: Enemy Within, Moura, now a father of two, broke through to American audiences as the mysterious Spider in the blockbuster Elysium (2013). Just as fascinating as the characters he played - he fronted the Brazilian rock band His Mother and practiced jiu-jitsu - Wagner Moura was full of surprises.