Career
Born in the city of Santa Rita do Passa Quatro, in the state of São Paulo, with fourteen years of age he moves to the state"s capital, São Paulo city, working as a lab assistant and office-boy for a law firm. In 1967, while studying law at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, he begins his theater career at the Teatro da Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, with the play Morte e Vida Severina by João Cabral de Melo Neto and Chico Buarque. A year later, he was starring in movies, but his career came to a quick halt because of his political activism.
He would also join the hippie movement during that time, in contrast with his militaristic actions.
Forced into exile in Europe in 1968, he returns in 1974 to live in Pelotas, state of Rio Grande do Sul, his wife"s homeland. They both teach at the federal university in that city, but soon move to Porto Alegre, where he produces musicals and stars in child plays.
Then, after the success of the movie A Intrusa (The Intruder) (1979), filmed in Uruguaiana, RS, he starts working as an actor in television Globo"s soap-operas. In 2011 he plays Milton in the soap-opera Insensato Coração and, in 2012, the character Nilo in Avenida Brasil. in 2013 the character ernest in joia rara, in 2015 plays the villain gibson stewart in a regra do jogo
José performed in over 24 movies and 47 television shows, of which most are soap-operas.
