Al Danuzio

One of Northern Brazil's most uprising actors. Alberto Danuzio Coutinho Aguiar was born in São Luís, Maranhão, Brazil, to Rosiane Cordeiro Coutinho, a hairdresser, and Dulvanir Pestana Aguiar, a tax auditor. His stepmother is a elementary school teacher, and his stepfather a Cuban American retired organist. He acted in plays from nine until eighteen years old, when moved to Miami with his mother and stepfather. He learned Spanish, English, and worked on Soup Operas from Telemundo-NBC such as "La Casa de Al Lado" (The House Next Door), "Corazon Valiente" (Brave Heart) and "El Rostro de La Venganza" (Revenge's Face). Al moved to New York to attend (for a year) NYFA Acting for Film Conservatory and then transferred to a BFA in Acting for Film in Los Angeles at NYFA, graduating with honors in January, 2016. With a short film based on his thesis, written, produced and performed by Al, his career launched back to Brazil. In "Um Toque de Aurora" (A Touch of Aurora) Al performs with Thaila Ayala a blind couple in their first night of intimacy. The film gave Al four awards as Best Actor. He also won as Best Actor at the Brazilian International Press Awards 2016, the most important award a Brazilian immigrant can receive in The United States. Living between São Paulo and São Luís, Al Danuzio wrote, produced and acted on his next short film: "Aquarela". Playing a Brazilian prisoner forced to accept his wife be raped. The film won two Kikitos at the 46 Gramado International Film Festival and stablished Al as a uprising actor from the Northern region of Brazil. After he acted as a corrupted police officer with Marcella Cartaxo and Tony Tornado in "Helen". He played a peculiar loan shark called Robinho Sete Palmos along side Roberto Pirillo and André Ramiro in the TV Series "Amor dos Outros" (Loving Others). With Silvero Pereira in "De Repente Drag" (Suddenly Drag) he was Túlio, a funny, but homophobic, tv host. In "Curupira, O Demônio da Floresta" (Curupira, The Demon of the Forest) he was Marcos, the leader of a group of irresponsible teenagers lost in a northern Brazilian island. Al Danuzio also was cast as the protagonist of the TV-Series "Punga". A rich heir of oil company, Vitor Benzi, that abandoned everything to defend the love of his life, his adopted sister.