Wagner Maniçoba de Moura is a Brazilian actor, filmmaker, musician,
and journalist. Besides being a well-established and acclaimed actor
in Brazil, he has achieved international fame for roles in Elite Squad
(2007), its sequel: Elite Squad: The Enemy Within (2010) and Elysium
(2013) as Spider. He received a Golden Globe nomination for his role
as Pablo Escobar in the first two seasons of the Netflix series Narcos
(2015â€"2016).His first major play was A Máquina ("The Machine"), in
2000. In this time, he became really good friends with two others
upcoming actors, Lázaro Ramos and Vladimir Brichta. It was also
because of this play that Wagner travelled for the first time to Rio
de Janeiro and São Paulo. In the same year, after a few short movies,
Moura had a small participation on the movie Woman on Top.[citation
needed]After small roles in movies like Abril Despedaçado ("Behind
the Sun", 2001),[citation needed] As Três Marias ("The Three Marias",
2002),[citation needed] 2003 launched Moura's career to a whole other
level. He played a major role in the drama Carandiru, where he
portrayed Zico,[citation needed] and the leading role of the comedy
Deus e Brasileiro ("God Is Brazilian"), where he played a funny
fisherman who became friends with God.[citation needed]Even though at
this point of his career Moura was a well-established movie actor he
wanted more. In the following years, he worked on series and soap
operas such as Sexo Frágil ("Weak Gender", 2003),[citation needed] JK
(2006),[citation needed] and ParaÃso Tropical ("Tropical Paradise",
2007).[citation needed]
and journalist. Besides being a well-established and acclaimed actor
in Brazil, he has achieved international fame for roles in Elite Squad
(2007), its sequel: Elite Squad: The Enemy Within (2010) and Elysium
(2013) as Spider. He received a Golden Globe nomination for his role
as Pablo Escobar in the first two seasons of the Netflix series Narcos
(2015â€"2016).His first major play was A Máquina ("The Machine"), in
2000. In this time, he became really good friends with two others
upcoming actors, Lázaro Ramos and Vladimir Brichta. It was also
because of this play that Wagner travelled for the first time to Rio
de Janeiro and São Paulo. In the same year, after a few short movies,
Moura had a small participation on the movie Woman on Top.[citation
needed]After small roles in movies like Abril Despedaçado ("Behind
the Sun", 2001),[citation needed] As Três Marias ("The Three Marias",
2002),[citation needed] 2003 launched Moura's career to a whole other
level. He played a major role in the drama Carandiru, where he
portrayed Zico,[citation needed] and the leading role of the comedy
Deus e Brasileiro ("God Is Brazilian"), where he played a funny
fisherman who became friends with God.[citation needed]Even though at
this point of his career Moura was a well-established movie actor he
wanted more. In the following years, he worked on series and soap
operas such as Sexo Frágil ("Weak Gender", 2003),[citation needed] JK
(2006),[citation needed] and ParaÃso Tropical ("Tropical Paradise",
2007).[citation needed]
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