Andre Aggi

Andre Aggi was born in a small town in the south of Minas Gerais, Brazil. Youngest child of Domingos Oliveira and Maria Vanda Oliveira, Aggi has two older brothers. He first stepped onto a stage at the age of nine in a Christmas school play, acting as a passer-by and with only one line. At the same age he enrolled as a piano student at the local Public Conservatory of Music Juscelino Kubitschek. He remained at the school for two years, only to continue his theater classes and present local plays. At the age of 18 he joined Grupo de Teatro Experimental (The Experimental Theater Group), which he has never officially left. Having acted on eight theater plays (from Shakespeare to Augusto Boal), they performed throughout the southeast region of Brazil. He has also at times assumed the role as a writer for the group. After finishing high school in 1996, he moved to Los Angeles with the clear intention of attending film school at University of South California. However, after realizing the cost would be too high, he ended up working in underpaid jobs and unsuccessfully auditioning for any gigs found on his way. Back in Brazil, in 1998 Andre enrolled university at Faculdade de Direito do Sul de Minas, pursuing undergraduate in Law, which he quit in 2000, moving to Rio de Janeiro in order to get formal training in acting at CAL (Casa das Artes de Laranjeiras). While in Rio, he acted on an episode of the Brazilian soap opera The Clone (2001), was part of the support cast on the sketch comedy show Zorra Total (1999), and appeared on a number of TV ads. Back in his hometown in 2004, he resumed university as a law student and got his bachelor's degree in 2006. In 2007, Aggi became a registered lawyer at the Order of Attorneys of Brazil (Bar Association). Wishing for a change of pace, in September, 2011, Andre moved to Vancouver/BC - Canada. While in Vancouver, he became a production assistant on the fifth season of J.J. Abrams's Fringe (2008), followed by Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014), and Continuum (2012) (season 2). Still in Vancouver, Andre Aggi played the landlord Waluigi on the short comedy Broken Masters (2015), produced by James Kingstone, Sean Ronan and Markham Samuels, who run the independent 'Hammer & Tong'. Aggi is also a photographer and runs a personal blog in Portuguese.