José Dumont

José Dumont was born on Jul 01, 1950 in Brazil. José Dumont's big-screen debut came with Lucio Flavio directed by Hector Babenco in 1977, strarring Prisioner. José Dumont is known for Nos Tempos do Imperador directed by Joana Antonaccio, Gabriel Fuentes stars as Bernardinho and Gabriel Falcão as Pierre d'Orléans. José Dumont has got 21 awards and 8 nominations so far. The most recent award José Dumont achieved is Cinema Brazil Grand Prize. The upcoming new tvshow José Dumont plays is Nos Tempos do Imperador - Season 1 which will be released on Aug 09, 2021.

Jose Dumont was born in Bananeiras, a small city in Paráiba, Brazil. In the early 70s he started working in the theatre. He soon started in the cinema too. His first film was "Morte e Vida Severina", a very successful musical in Brazil. His next movie was "Lúcio Flávio, Passageiro da Agonia". In 1980, at Gramado Festival, he got a prize for best supporting actor for "Gajin - Os Caminhos da Liberdade". One year later, he got two best actor prizes for "O Homem que Virou Suco": the Candango and another Gramado. Another Best Actor Gramado Prize came to him in 1984, for "O Baiano Fantasma". For this film he was also awarded a prize at Havana Festival. Another Candago prize for best actor came to him in 1985, for his work in "A Hora da Estrela". In 1998 he was given two more prizes: another Candago and a Miami Festival Award for "Kenoma". "Narradores de Javé" gave Dumont two more awards for best actor in Recife and in Rio de Janeiro.