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Movies starring Milton Gonçalves have generally received mixed reviews and hold an average score of 59%.
Carandiru - released in 2003 - is Milton Gonçalves's highest rated movie, with a score of 76% based on 176 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Milton Gonçalves is Acquária - released in 2003 - with a score of 31% based on 2 reviews.
Milton Gonçalves (December 9, 1933) is a Brazilian actor. He's one of the most famous black actors in Brazil, having collaborated twice with acclaimed director Hector Babenco.
Gonçalves started his career in São Paulo, in an amateur group. As he moved to a professional group, he met Augusto Boal, who was looking for an actor to play an old black man. Joining Boal''s Teatro de Arena, Milton Gonçalves found an open environment for political, philosophical and artistic discussion, where he was not discriminated for his race.
Gonçalves wrote four plays, one of which was staged by the Teatro Experimental do Negro and directed by Dalmo Ferreira. "There I learnt everything I know about Theater. It was fundamental for my understanding of the world."
A Black Movement activist, Milton Gonçalves tried a political career, in the 1990s, as a candidate to Rio de Janeiro state governorship.
Father of actor Maurício Gonçalves, he is married to Oda Gonçalves since 1966.
Milton Gonçalves has acted in films with Zezé Motta, Ruy Polanah, Nildo Parente and Charles Myara.
Milton Gonçalves has worked with these film directors: Héctor Babenco, Carlos Diegues, Paul Mazursky and Bruno Barreto.
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