Sergio Kato
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| Born |
Sergio Luiz Pereira July 15, 1960 Além Paraíba, Minas Gerais, Brazil |
| Nationality | Brazilian |
| Citizenship | United States and Brazil |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1970-present |
| Spouse(s) |
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| Children | 4 |
| Relatives | Mazarópi (Brother) |
| Website | sergiokato |
Sérgio Luiz Pereira, stagename Sergio Kato (born July 15, 1960) is a Brazilian actor, television host, comedian and former martial artist. He found greater fame in his hometown of Rio de Janeiro, after a stage play at the Scala Rio music venue. Since them, Kato have been working for a number of advertising campaigns, TV shows and films.
Sergio is brother of former footballer and current football coach Mazarópi.
He began his acting career at Teatro O Tablado in Rio de Janeiro, where he studied and worked. Still in Rio de Janeiro, he gained notoriety acting, dancing and singing in spectacles of Scala Rio.
Still young, in 1982 he served the Brazilian Air Force, than in 1985 he moved to the United States. After studying English at California High School, he studied at the University of California in Los Angeles, where he received a diploma from the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. In similar fashion, the movie industry changes rapidly, many projects in Europe and the USA.
Kato' first TV appearance came in 1976. His first film was Bete Balanço, in 1984, where he played a dancer. He wanted to move from a ballet dancer to acting, finally achieving it when he was chosen to play the role of a cab driver in the Brenda Starr film with Brooke Shields. Later he played a bartender together with Tracey Birdsall-Smith, on the film I Might Even Love You.
In January 1993, just weeks after leaving back to California from Japan, Kato was reading several new scripts for future films, one of them being the Only the Strong, an action drama film with Mark Dacascos, written and directed by Sheldon Lettich.
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