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Joaquim De Almeida - International Actor
name : Joaquim De Almeida
date of birth : 15th March 1957
place of birth : Lisbon, Portugal
Quim has been playing poker at CelebPoker since the summer of 2004, during this time he has competed in major online & live tournaments around the globe.
Previously married to Cecilia de Almeida. They have one son. He is in a relationship with Brazilian singer Carmo Risques, and they have a son together. Before he turned to acting as his full-time profession, he was a gardener at the Embassy of Zaire in Austria, as well as a waiter in NYC.
Joaquim has appeared in more than forty internationally acclaimed films, and has worked extensively in Europe, Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, and the United States in films and countless stage productions.
He won the Best Actor Award at the Cairo Film Festival for his 1992 performance in Portrait De Famille and received international attention for his role in Good Morning Babylon, Beyond the Limit and The Soldier.
On the New York stage, de Almeida appeared in several New York Shakespeare Festival productions including Blood Wedding, What Would Jeanne Moreau Do, at the WPA Theatre and The Count of Monte Cristo, directed by Peter Sellars at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.
