Milhem Cortaz (born December 6, 1971) is a Brazilian actor.Cortaz'
first role came on the 2000 film Mater Dei, written by Diogo Mainardi,
where he portrayed a security guard. On 2002, he premiered on the
television with a minor character on Rede Globo's unsuccessful
telenovela Desejos de Mulher. On the following year, he started
gaining some notoriety after starring on the critically acclaimed
Hector Babenco film Carandiru, about the massacre on the prison of the
same name.On 2005, Cortaz starred on Rede Record's telenovela Essas
Mulheres and acted on the controversial independent film A
Concepção, in which he appears fully naked a considerable number of
times. On the following year, he acted on Record's successful
telenovela Cidadão Brasileiro and on the American-Brazilian film
Journey to the End of the Night.It was not until José Padilha's 2007
film Elite Squad, in which he portrays a corrupt police officer, that
he gained notoriety of the major public. In 2009 he starred as Cazé
on Record's Chamas da Vida and played the deceased father of former
Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in Fábio Barreto's
Lula, o filho do Brasil.
first role came on the 2000 film Mater Dei, written by Diogo Mainardi,
where he portrayed a security guard. On 2002, he premiered on the
television with a minor character on Rede Globo's unsuccessful
telenovela Desejos de Mulher. On the following year, he started
gaining some notoriety after starring on the critically acclaimed
Hector Babenco film Carandiru, about the massacre on the prison of the
same name.On 2005, Cortaz starred on Rede Record's telenovela Essas
Mulheres and acted on the controversial independent film A
Concepção, in which he appears fully naked a considerable number of
times. On the following year, he acted on Record's successful
telenovela Cidadão Brasileiro and on the American-Brazilian film
Journey to the End of the Night.It was not until José Padilha's 2007
film Elite Squad, in which he portrays a corrupt police officer, that
he gained notoriety of the major public. In 2009 he starred as Cazé
on Record's Chamas da Vida and played the deceased father of former
Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in Fábio Barreto's
Lula, o filho do Brasil.
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