Marcio Rosario(I)

Brazilian actor, director, and producer Marcio began his acting career at age 4 in a regional theater company in Santos. During his adolescence, he participated in several successful plays in Brazil. At age 12, he made his film debut in "O Amor, Unidos Dois Corações" (Love, United Two Hearts), directed by Wilson Rodrigues, and acted in more than 10 plays in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. In 1992, he moved to the United States and studied at renowned schools such as the American Film Institute and the Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute, working for many years as an actor and also as a production assistant and executive producer on various projects for television networks and film companies in the USA. Marcio worked with acclaimed Romanian director Pouran Deherrkian on the film "Bitterland" and was invited by Japanese director Takashi Miike, considered by Time magazine as one of the 10 best directors in Hollywood, to join the cast of "City of Lost Souls". In addition to these works, Marcio was also hired by Mexican director Jackie Torres for the film "The Price of the North". Marcio participated in many major international productions, such as: "The Expendables," "Collateral Damage," "The Scorpion King," "The Thin Red Line," "Fight Club," "The General's Daughter," "Galaxy Quest," "Next Best Thing," "Rio, I Love You" (in the "Texas" segment), directed by the acclaimed director Guillermo Arriaga, and worked on the award-winning and acclaimed Brazilian film "Deserto." In the United States, Rosario acted in the successful NBC soap opera "Days of Our Lives" as police officer Santos Jones, which led him to other soap operas such as: "The Bold and the Beautiful," "General Hospital," "Passions," and "Sunset Beach." In 2005, he was invited to return to Brazil to work on "Belíssima," a Brazilian soap opera on the largest broadcaster in South America, Globo TV. Since then, she has worked on more than 10 telenovelas, such as Flor do Caribe, Charmed Floats, Araguaia, O Profeta, Pé em Jaca, Serpentes e Lagartos, Sol Nascente, Fitness, Dupla Identidade, Supermax, and recently, she played the popular character "Bazunga" in the telenovela Eu Amo Paraisópolis. Rosario also worked as a production manager for 6 years in Brazil for Record TV, which produced TV programs (telenovelas and series) filmed abroad in cities such as Miami, Lisbon, Rome, Sicily, and Toronto. In total, she produced more than 650 episodes. At the Beverly Hills Playhouse in Los Angeles, she studied the Meisner Technique for three years at one of Hollywood's most renowned acting schools and trained actors in Brazil for 2 years. Marcio Rosario is a partner in the Brazilian production company Três Tons Visuais Filmes, and as a producer, he has won over 200 national and international awards for short films produced by his company, such as: "FLIRT" , "EMPTY", "SINAL"Sinal" and "BERGAMOTA", which has already won over 135 awards. As an actor, he has won 22 Best Actor awards from "BERGAMOTA". He recently directed the documentary "Brinquedoteca", Mauro's Magical Workshop (His Debut as a Director), which won Best Documentary awards at 10 international festivals so far. Marcio Rosario is also a television presenter. He hosted "Cultura & Design," a variety program broadcast on the Brazilian national channel "Cultura TV" for 4 seasons. In recent years, he has worked for Netflix on the successful series (Emergência Radioativa and Sintonia) and Globoplay (Minha Sogra Perfeita 2). - Mini biography from IMDb by: Sonia Kessar