Charles Paraventi
Acting
Biography
Charles Adrian Paraventi Essabba (Queens, New York, July 4, 1969) is an American actor naturalized Brazilian.
Born: July 4, 1969
Place of Birth: New York, New York, USA
Known For
New Amsterdam
The arrival of the West Indian Companies to Natal in the XVII century is just the beginning of this violent story that pushes Bernarda and her family to run away from the city and from the invasion. In the Potengi Mill she meets the foreman's son Rafael and they immediately discover a passionate love. It will give them the force to try to survive during those violent years triggered by Jacob Rabbí, a German assigned by Prince John Maurice of Nassau to command the conquest.
Rio Heroes
The stories of a group of fighters who are part of a tough competition of Mixed Martial Arts where anything goes.
Walking on Clouds
City of God
In the poverty-stricken favelas of Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s, two young men choose different paths. Rocket is a budding photographer who documents the increasing drug-related violence of his neighborhood, while José “Zé” Pequeno is an ambitious drug dealer diving into a dangerous life of crime.
Cine Holliúdy: A Série
A Muralha
A hundred years after Europeans set foot in the New World, Brazil still remains largely unexplored. The Conquest recounts the saga of the earliest adventurers who wandered through these unknown lands. Jesuit priests, adventurers seeking gold, slaves and indigenous tribes were entangled in unceasing battles, at a time when laws were made by the sharp edge of a sword.
Genesis
The story of the first 2,300 years of humanity and recounts events exclusively from that period. The plot begins by giving us a greater understanding of why we exist and how we turned from perfection to imperfection. The origin of all social and racial problems is there at the beginning of everything, when via one decision a human being who only knew good and enjoyed it so much also chose to know evil.
Marighella
Afro-Brazilian poet and politician, the legendary Carlos Marighella. Driven to fight against the erosion of civil and human rights following the CIA-backed military coup of 1964 and the brutal, racist right-wing dictatorship that followed, the revolutionary leaves behind his wife and son to take up arms, becoming a notorious enemy to the power structure.
Man on Fire
Jaded ex-CIA operative John Creasy reluctantly accepts a job as the bodyguard for a 10-year-old girl in Mexico City. They clash at first, but eventually bond, and when she's kidnapped he's consumed by fury and will stop at nothing to save her life.
Quatro Amigas Numa Fria
Dani is about to get married and travels with three other friends to Bariloche for her bachelorette party. The girls expect a fun and peaceful trip, but when they arrive in the Argentine city, things start to go wrong and the group has to make do: Karen forgets to book a place and, from there, the situation only gets worse. Together, they will need to find practical solutions to their problems and experience completely unexpected adventures.
Filmography
as Padre Schubert
as Atanásio
as Rocha
as Juvenal
as Agnaldo
as Hector
as Dr. Key
as Esteban
as Marcão
as Client
as Armond
as Bob
as Bera / Rei de Sodoma
as Júlio
as Solano (Professor de Matemática)
as Morte
as Rocha
as Scott
as Maurice of Nassau
as D. João VI
as Policial
as Osório
as Assistant Director
as Léo
as Investidor (voice)
as Technocrat
as Amauri (Primo)
as Geraldo José
as Guarda Virgílio
as García
as Helder
as Robério (Tanajura)
as Raul
as Psicanalista
as Howie Stein
as Borges
as Ronald
as Actor - Avant garde
as Jersey Boy
as Tio Sam - Uncle Sam
as Boca
as padre jesuíta na praia quando Ana, Antônia, Beatriz e Padre Miguel chegam ao Brasil
as mendigo
as Glauber
as Dr. Farina
as Saulo (voz)
as Prof. Afrânio
as Carvalho