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Known For

Acting

Known Credits

106

Gender

Male

Birthday

1959-02-16 (66 years old)

Place of Birth

Mexico City, Mexico

Also Known As

Chico Díaz

Chico Diaz

Biography

Francisco Díaz Rocha, known as Chico Díaz (Mexico City, February 16, 1959), is a Peruvian-Brazilian actor born in Mexico. Graduated in architecture and urban planning, he worked in theater from the age of fourteen. His first work in his artistic life was in 1982 on the big screen in O Sonho não Acabou. With all the main awards in Brazilian cinema, namely Gramado Brasília, Recife and Rio de Janeiro, he is one of the most versatile and present actors on Brazilian screens with more than 80 films made in Brazil and abroad.

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Acting

—		Hélio Melo as Hélio Melo (Voice)
—		Special Agents as Comandante Queiroz
—		Os Donos do Jogo

2025

Girassol Vermelho as Romeu

2024		Vermelho Monet as Johannes Van Almeida
2024		Rebirth as Padre Santo

2023		O Humanismo de Frei Betto
2023		Alien Nights as Alê

2022		Abandonados as Cônsul Yodogawa
2022		1936 - O Ano da Morte de Ricardo Reis as Ricardo Reis
2022		All the Flowers as Rivaldo
2022		Diário Dentro da Noite

2021		The American Guest as Cândido Rondon
2021		Jaguar Man as Pedro

2020		Babenco: Tell Me When I Die as Banquet Attendee
2020		Candango: Memoirs from a Festival as Self (archive footage)
2020		Em Busca de Carlos Zéfiro as Reading
2020		The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis as Ricardo Reis

2019		Santiago das Américas ou o Olho do Terceiro Mundo as narração
2019		Cine Holliúdy: A Série as Coronel Pandolfo
2019		Cine Holliúdy 2: A Chibata Sideral as Vei Góis

2018

Happy Hour: Verdades e Consequências as Arlindo

2017		Travessia as Roberto
2017		Going to Brazil as Augusto

2016		Guerra do Paraguay
2016		Em Nome da Lei as Gomez
2016		Velho Chico as Belmiro dos Anjos

2015		Oração do Amor Selvagem
2015		El Hipnotizador as Darek

2014		Words with Gods as The Man (ep. "The Man Who Stole a Duck")
2014		The Ardor as João

2013		Blue Desert
2013		Os Pobres Diabos
2013		Dossiê 50: Comício a Favor dos Náufragos as Narrator

2012		Jonathas' Forest as Zé dos Patos
2012		Gabriela as Coronel Melk Tavares

2010		The Midday Sun
2010		The Inventor of Dreams as Hélio Pellegrino

2009		Dó-Ré-Mi-Fábrica as Zanata
2009		Ouro Negro as Vicente Camargo
2009		The Story of Me as Camelô

2008		Praça Saens Peña as Paulo
2008		A Favorita as Átila Mendonça

2007		O Magnata as Dr. Ribeiro
2007		O Afeto Que Se Encerra Em Nosso Peito Juvenil
2007		Paraíso Tropical as Jáder

2006

Angels of the Sun as Tadeu

2005

Quem Você Mais Deseja

2003		Benjamim as Alyandro
2003		Celebridade as Jairo Cardoso
2003		Garrincha: Lonely Star as Sobral
2003		Carga Pesada as Gringo
2003		As Alegres Comadres as Dr. Caius
2003		The Egg

2002		Pastores da Noite as Dudu
2002		Lua Cambará - Nas Escadarias do Palácio
2002		The Forest as Firmino
2002		Mango Yellow as Wellington Cannibal

2001		Favorite Son
2001		A Grande Família as Pedrada

2000		Brava Gente as Lilico
2000		Brava Gente as José da Silva
2000		Brava Gente as Zé
2000		Brava Gente as Dudu

1999		Luna Caliente as Gomulka
1999		O Tronco as Catulino
1999		Força de um Desejo as Clemente
1999		O Belo e as Feras

1998		Dona Flor and Her 2 Husbands as Mirandão
1998		Hilda Furacão as Orlando Bonfim
1998		The Patriot as Felizardo

1997		Doces Poderes as Jornalista de Rondônia
1997		Cachaça
1997		Belly Up as Múcio
1997		Perfumed Ball as Zé de Zito
1997		Napomuceno's Will as Carlos
1997		Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional as Self

1996		Salsa e Merengue as Ramiro Morales
1996		Corisco & Dadá as Corisco
1996		O Campeão as Humberto

1994		Rio's Love Song as (segment "Samba do Grande Amor")
1994		Memorial de Maria Moura as Duarte
1994		The Third Bank of the River

1993		De Sentinela as Sentinela
1993		Nightly Diary

1991

O Dono do Mundo as Durval

1990		Fable of the Beautiful Pigeon-Fancier as Marido de Fulvia
1990		Barrela: Escola de Crimes as Bahia

1989		Kananga do Japão as Olegário
1989		1º de Abril, Brasil

1988

Luzia Homem as Torquato

1987		The Colour of His Destiny
1987		Corpo Santo as Orlando

1986		Talking Cinema as Man with green eyes (Diadorim)
1986		Where the River Runs Black as Raimundo
1986		The Man in the Black Cape as Manezinho

1985		Avaete, Seed of Revenge as Louco do Juqueri
1985		Chico Rei

1984		Quilombo as Anunciação
1984		Águia na Cabeça as Gabriel

1983		Innocence as Juca
1983		Parahyba Mulher Macho as Severino
1983		Gabriela as Chico Moleza

1982		The Dream's Not Over as Danilo 'Biela'
1982		The Adventures of a Paraíba
1982		Don't Play with Tigers

Camera

2022

Diário Dentro da Noite as Director of Photography

Directing

2022

Diário Dentro da Noite as Director

Production

2022

Diário Dentro da Noite as Executive Producer

1990

Barrela: Escola de Crimes as Associate Producer

Visual Effects

2022

Diário Dentro da Noite as Animation

Writing

2022

Diário Dentro da Noite as Screenplay