José Dumont (Father)

Born in Paraíba in 1950, José Dumont began acting in theater at the beginning of the 1970s. After appearing in films such as Lucio Flavio, by Hector Babenco, and Gaijin: Roads to Freedom, by Tizuka Yamasaki, he established himself as one of the most important actors in Brazilian cinema. In 1979, he played a migrant from the northeast in O Homem que Virou Suco, by João Batista de Andrade, a role that won him the prize for Best Actor at the Gramado and Brasilia film festivals. At the Havana Film Festival in 1985, he was chosen Best Actor for three films: O Baiano Fantasma, by Denoy de Oliveira, Avaeté, Seed of Revenge by Zelito Viana, and Tigipió, by Pedro Jorge de Castro. Other standout roles in film include Hour of the Star, by Suzana Amaral, At Play in the Fields of the Lord, by Hector Babenco, and Kenoma, by Eliane Caffé. .