Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos

Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos

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Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos

Actor 1954-06-25 Umbuzeiro, Paraíba, Brazil

Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos is a Brazilian actor and director whose career spans film, television, theater, and circus. He gained international recognition for his performance as physician Drauzio Varella in Hector Babenco’s acclaimed Carandiru (2003), for which he received an acting award at the Cartagena International Film Festival. He made his feature-film debut as the legendary Brazilian outlaw Lampião in Perfumed Ball (O Baile Perfumado, 1996), and subsequently worked with acclaimed directors including Walter Sall...