Joaquim de Almeida

Joaquim de Almeida
de Almeida at the 2011 Festival International du Film d'Amour de Mons
Born	Joaquim António Portugal Baptista de Almeida (1957-11-15) 15 November 1957 (age 59) Lisbon, Portugal
Nationality	Portuguese
Citizenship	U.S. (2005–present) Portugal
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1982–present
Spouse(s)	Maria Cecilia de Almeida Maria Risques Pereira
Parent(s)	João Baptista de Almeida Maria Sara Portugal

U.S. (2005–present)

Joaquim António Portugal Baptista de Almeida (born 15 November 1957) is a Portuguese actor. He began his acting doing some theater. During the 1980s, he started his film career appearing on the 1982 action film The Soldier, and later achieved recognition for playing Andrea Bonanno in the 1987 Italian film Good Morning, Babylon. He achieved international fame with his portrayals of Félix Cortez in the 1994 thriller Clear and Present Danger and Bucho in the 1995 action thriller Desperado. Several years later, he became popular for playing Ramon Salazar on the Fox thriller drama series 24, between 2003 and 2004, and Hernan Reyes in the 2011 film Fast Five.

Being fluent in several languages, Almeida has worked in several countries in Europe and the Americas, in many film and stage productions, winning some international awards in films like Retrato de Família, Adão e Eva and O Xangô de Baker Street. His other well-known films include The Honorary Consul (1983), Only You (1994), La Cucaracha (1998), One Man's Hero (1999), Behind Enemy Lines (2001), Whore (2004), The Death and Life of Bobby Z (2007), Che: Part Two (2008), The Burning Plain (2008), and The Gilded Cage (2013).