Rodrigo Santoro
Rodrigo Santoro
Rodrigo Junqueira dos Reis Santorois a Brazilian actor. He has appeared in many successful movies, including Brainstorm, Carandiru, Love Actually, Che, I Love You Phillip Morris, and Rio. He is perhaps most famous for his portrayal as Xerxes in the movie 300and its subsequent sequel 300: Rise of an Empire. He was also a series regular on the television series Lost portraying the character Paulo...
NationalityBrazilian
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth22 August 1975
CityRio de Janeiro, Brazil
CountryBrazil
Rodrigo Santoro quotes about
In film, you're always using your tools, your body, your voice, your emotions, but onstage, you use them in a different way.
I'm a spiritual person. I'm not very religious. I was raised Catholic, but I am influenced a lot by Buddhism and Hinduism.
I take a role because it makes sense to me, rationally.
Sometimes in Brazil, I work harder to make characters different and believable and to overcome the persona I have.
When you shoot a movie, the camera is always taking, taking, taking and not giving anything back.
In a lot of roles, strong women feel like they need to apologize. But men don't need to apologize for being ruthless and women somehow do?