Ênio Gonçalves
Acting
August 28, 1943
Died at age 70
October 5, 2013
Date of Death
Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
58 Credits
Biography
Ênio Gonçalves (Porto Alegre, August 28, 1938 — São Paulo, October 5, 2013) was a Brazilian actor, director and playwright. He majored in journalism and worked in over 30 films, starred in 20 telenovelas, and performed in numerous plays, starting with "Auto de Natal" in 1959.
He studied film directing at the "Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia" in Rome, Italy, and became popular after his performance in Nelson Rodrigues's "Toda Nudez Será Castigada" in 1965, directed by Zbigniew Ziembinski.
He would write some 20 plays, including "2 ou 3 Buracos" (1976), "Dia Torto" (1976), "Vem Contudo" (1977) and "Até as Orelhas" (2004), and adapt literary works such as J. Guimarães Rosa's Sorôco, Sua Mãe, Sua Filha (1975) for the screen and Erico Verissimo's "Sonata".
