Domingos Montagner
| Domingos Montagner | |
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| Born |
Domingos Montagner Filho 26 February 1962 São Paulo, São Paulo,  Brazil
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| Died | 15 September 2016 (aged 54) Canindé de São Francisco, Sergipe, Brazil |
| Cause of death | Drowning |
| Resting place | Quarta Parada Cemetery, São Paulo |
| Nationality | Brazilian |
| Occupation | Actor, producer, clown |
| Years active | 1997–2016 |
| Spouse(s) | Luciana Lima (m. 2002–16) |
| Children | Leo (b. 2003) Antônio (b. 2007) Dante (b. 2012) |
Domingos Montagner Filho (26 February 1962 – 15 September 2016) was a Brazilian actor, playwright and entrepreneur. He began his career in theaters and circuses, through the course of interpretation of Myriam Muniz. In 1997, Montagner formed La Mínima group, alongside Fernando Sampaio, and won the Shell Award for Best Actor. In 2003, he founded the Zanni Circus, of which he was artistic director.
He began his career in TV, three years later, but gained national notoriety, among others, to play Captain Herculano in the soap opera Cordel Encantado (2011), Mundo in Joia Rara (2013), and Miguel in Sete Vidas (2015). In the cinema, he participated in the feature film Gonzaga: de Pai pra Filho (2012). He became "one of Brazil's most loved TV actors."
In 2016, Montagner played Santo dos Anjos, the protagonist of the soap opera Velho Chico, broadcast by Rede Globo, his last work. In a break between recordings, he drowned while swimming in São Francisco River, the main theme of the television drama.
Montagner was born in São Paulo's neighborhood of Tatuapé in a family of Italian Brazilians. He began working at sixteen in the bar of his parents in Tatuapé, where he worked as an office boy and archivist in an engineering company. Slender, at 1,90 m tall, he became an athlete of the Sport Club Corinthians Paulista playing handball.
Montagner was Second Lieutenant of the Brazilian Army and after leaving military service graduated in physical education, teaching in the 80s in public and private schools in São Paulo. It was so nearly eleven years when he began his artistic career at 27 years old.
He was a Roman Catholic.
His artistic career began in the circus, in his theater company La Mínima in 1980. In 1990, Montagner joined the theater as a clown.
Montagner became a star of Brazilian television despite the fact that his first major television role did not come until he was 46 years old. His first television series was Cordel Encantado of Rede Globo. Oe made a few appearances on the television shows Força-Tarefa and A Cura. He also participated in the show Divã, portraying Carlos Alencar, the lover of the protagonist Mercedes, played by actress Lília Cabral. In 2012, he played the role of President Paulo Ventura in the miniseries O Brado Retumbante. In the same year, he played in Salve Jorge the Turkish tour guide Zyah, who falls in love with Bianca, Cléo Pires' character. In 2013, he played the role of the activist Mundo in Joia Rara.
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