<Tr> <Th> Years active </Th> <Td> 1993--present </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Website </Th> <Td> www.rodrigo-santoro.com </Td> </Tr> <P> Rodrigo Junqueira dos Reis Santoro (Portuguese pronunciation: (ʁoˈdɾiɡu sɐ̃ˈtoɾu); born August 22, 1975) is a Brazilian actor . He has appeared in many successful movies, including Brainstorm (2001), Carandiru (2003), Love Actually (2003), Che (2008), I Love You Phillip Morris (2009), and Rio (2011). He is perhaps most famous for his portrayal of Xerxes in the movie 300 (2006) and its sequel 300: Rise of an Empire (2014). He was a series regular on the television series Lost portraying the character Paulo, and plays Hector Escaton in HBO's Westworld (2016). </P> <P> Santoro was born in Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro state, to Maria José Junqueira dos Reis, a Brazilian artist of Portuguese ancestry, and Francesco Santoro, an Italian engineer . In 1993, as Santoro was studying Journalism at PUC - Rio, he entered the Actor's Workshop of Rede Globo . Santoro went on to play parts in many of Globo's telenovelas, such as Olho no Olho (1993), Pátria Minha (1994), Explode Coração (1995), O Amor Está no Ar (1997), Suave Veneno (1999) and Mulheres Apaixonadas (2003), as well as the miniseries Hilda Furacão (1998), in the role of a priest . Santoro was also the voice actor of the titular character in Stuart Little and its sequel in the Brazilian dubbed copies . </P>

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