Thiago Neves Fragoso (born November 1, 1981) is a Brazilian actor and singer. He began his theatrical career in 1989, at the age of eight, in an amateur theater group in Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro.
Biography
At eleven he began his professional career with the musical Os Sinos da Candelária, based on the massacre of street children in a church in Rio in 1993. He hasn't stopped since. His training included two theater companies in Rio where he worked with classics from Brazilian and world theater; in 2003 and 2004 he was invited to participate as a guest sketch in the Circuito Carioca de Esquetes; in 2001, a show was selected for the "Fringe" show at the Curitiba Theater Festival; took numerous workshops and training courses in voice, body, interpretation, dance and singing with various professionals such as Amir Haddad, Luis Melo, Leila Mendes, Marilena Bibas, Juliana Carneiro da Cunha, Michel Bercovitch and Felipe Abreu in various institutions such as Uni-Rio, Casa de Arte das Laranjeiras, Studio Escola de Atores, among others.
His debut on television was in the series Confissões de Adolescente, in which he participated playing the character Léo.[1] He then made his debut on Rede Globo, in 1996, playing Carlos Alfredo in Malhação de Verão.[2] In the same year, he was also in the soap opera Perdidos de Amor, on TV Bandeirantes, in which he was Guilherme.
He went on exchange to the United States in 1998 and spent a year in Alabama, where he graduated from Lamar County High School. The actor took American and English literature classes and is still able to recite excerpts from Shakespeare'sMacbeth in English. He participated in two plays in a school dramatic arts group and won the "Best Actor of the Year" award at the graduation ceremony. His film debut took place in 2001, with the film A Partilha, based on the work of Miguel Falabella and directed by Daniel Filho.
In 2001 until 2002 he was "Fernando Escobar (Nando)" in the Globo soap opera by Glória Perez "O Clone".
In 2003, lived Estêvão, an officer of the imperial guard who fell in love with Rosário (Mariana Ximenes), niece of Bento Gonçalves (Werner Schünemann) in A Casa das Sete Mulheres. His first television protagonist was in the soap opera O Profeta, on Globo, a remake of the soap opera of the same name, where he played Marcos, a young man with premonitory powers and strong ambition. This character was created by Ivani Ribeiro with another name: Daniel. With this character, he won in the "Best Actor" category at the 2007 Contigo Awards and also won in the "Romantic Couple" category. In 2007 he dubbed the Portuguese version of the character Linguini from the Walt Disney Pictures and Pixar animated film, Ratatouille. He recorded a song and clip for the Brazilian version of the CD/DVD of the soundtrack for the film High School Musical 2, alongside Itauana Ciribelli, which is called "Você é a Música em Mim" (version of "You Are the Music In Me "). The version was so successful that it ended up being rebroadcast on Disney channels around the world.[3]
In 2010, Thiago Fragoso starred in emotional scenes alongside Adriana Esteves in the miniseries Dalva e Herivelto: uma Canção de Amor, where singer Pery Ribeiro, son of Dalva de Oliveira and Herivelto Martins, played. In 2011, Thiago Fragoso played one of the central roles in the 6 pm soap opera, "Araguaia", and before production even ended, he received the invitation to play Márcio Hayalla, one of the protagonists of the soap opera O Astro.[4] In the second half of 2012, the actor played the lawyer Edgar Vieira in Lado a Lado, composing the protagonist quartet of the soap opera together with Marjorie Estiano, Lázaro Ramos and Camila Pitanga. For Edgar's composition, Thiago brushed his hair and frequented English tea houses, so that he could absorb the elegance required of him by the character at the beginning of the 20th century.
A few months after the end of Lado a Lado, Thiago returned to prime time playing the character "Niko" in Amor à Vida. The character was known for performing the first kiss between a male homosexual couple in a Rede Globo soap opera, together with Mateus Solano.[5][6][7][8] In 2014, he was announced alongside Camila Pitanga as the protagonist of Babilônia, playing the role of lawyer Vinícius.[9][10][11][12][13] In 2016, Fragoso played former volleyball player Caio in Malhação.[14] Still in 2017, he entered the second phase of the 9 o'clock soap opera, O Outro Lado do Paraíso, written by Walcyr Carrasco, to be one of the protagonists.[15][16]
He was also announced as one of the protagonists of the Brazilian production of the rock opera American Idiot directed by Mauro Mendonça Filho. At his side will be Beto Sargentelli, Nando Brandão and Di Ferrero.[17]
Accident
On January 28, 2012, Thiago and Danielle Winits suffered an accident during a performance of the musical Xanadu directed by Miguel Falabella, playing in Rio de Janeiro. They suffered a fall of around five meters in height while performing a flight in the musical and the four steel cables that supported them broke. They hit three women in the audience who suffered injuries. Danielle suffered a cut in her mouth and Thiago had multiple fractures in six ribs, lung perforation (hemopneumothorax), laceration of intercostal and paravertebral muscles, laceration of the diaphragm, fracture of a vertebra in the lumbar region, liver injury and internal bleeding. The actor had to undergo surgery where he received three titanium prostheses in his ribs and had his diaphragm and intercostal muscles reconstituted. At the same time, the actor had been invited to make a special appearance in the last chapters of the soap opera A Vida da Gente as Gabriel, and had even recorded some scenes for the character. However, due to unforeseen circumstances, the actor was replaced by Eriberto Leão, who re-recorded the scenes.[18][19][20][21]
Personal life
He is married to actress Mariana Vaz, with whom he has a son, Benjamin Vaz Fragoso, born on February 1, 2011, the same day as his wife's birthday.[22] During the COVID-19 pandemic, the actor became the father of Martin, on May 2, 2020.[1] He has a band called Poesia de Gaia, of which he is the lead singer.[23] He has a brother called Rodrigo, who is also a singer.[24] His hobbies include swimming, running, bodybuilding, playing video games and watching series on TV. His favorite author is William Shakespeare and he is a Fluminense fan.[25]
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