Chico Diaz
Born: 1959-02-16 in Mexico City, Mexico
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2026
- Special Agents as Comandante Queiroz
2025
- Rulers of Fortune as Galego
- Girassol Vermelho as Romeu
2024
- Rebirth as Padre Santo
- Hélio Melo as Hélio Melo (Voice)
- Vermelho Monet as Johannes Van Almeida
2023
2022
- All the Flowers as Rivaldo
- Abandonados as Cônsul Yodogawa
- 1936 - O Ano da Morte de Ricardo Reis as Ricardo Reis
- Diário Dentro da Noite
2021
- The American Guest as Cândido Rondon
- Jaguar Man as Pedro
2020
- Babenco: Tell Me When I Die as Banquet Attendee
- Candango: Memoirs from a Festival as Self (archive footage)
- The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis as Ricardo Reis
- Em Busca de Carlos Zéfiro as Reading
2019
- Cine Holliúdy – The Series as Coronel Pandolfo
- Notícias do Fim do Mundo
- Cine Holliúdy 2: A Chibata Sideral as Vei Góis
- Santiago das Américas ou o Olho do Terceiro Mundo as narração
2018
- Happy Hour: Verdades e Consequências as Arlindo
2017
- Travessia as Roberto
- Going to Brazil as Augusto
2016
- Old River as Belmiro dos Anjos
- O País do Cinema as Self
- Em Nome da Lei as Gomez
- Guerra do Paraguay
2015
2014
- The Ardor as João
- Words with Gods as The Man (ep. "The Man Who Stole a Duck")
2013
- Blue Desert
- Dossiê 50: Comício a Favor dos Náufragos as Narrator
- Os Pobres Diabos as Lazarino
2012
- Gabriela as Coronel Melk Tavares
- Jonathas' Forest as Zé dos Patos
2010
- The Inventor of Dreams as Hélio Pellegrino
- The Midday Sun as Matuim
2009
- Dó-Ré-Mi-Fábrica as Zanata
- The Story of Me as Camelô
- Ouro Negro as Vicente Camargo
2008
- A Favorita as Átila Mendonça
- Praça Saens Peña as Paulo
2007
- Tropical Paradise as Jáder
- O Afeto Que Se Encerra Em Nosso Peito Juvenil
- O Magnata as Dr. Ribeiro
2006
- Angels of the Sun as Tadeu
- The Invisible Friend as Guilhermino
2003
- Celebrity as Jairo Cardoso
- Carga Pesada as Gringo
- The Egg
- Garrincha: Lonely Star as Sobral
- As Alegres Comadres as Dr. Caius
- Benjamim as Alyandro
2002
- Pastores da Noite as Dudu
- Lua Cambará - Nas Escadarias do Palácio as João Índio
- Mango Yellow as Wellington Cannibal
- The Forest as Firmino
2001
- A Grande Família as Pedrada
- Favorite Son
2000
- Brava Gente as Lilico
1999
- Força de um Desejo as Clemente
- O Belo e as Feras
- Luna Caliente as Gomulka
- O Tronco as Catulino
1998
- Hilda Hurricane as Orlando Bonfim
- The Patriot as Felizardo
1997
- Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional as Self
- Perfumed Ball as Zé de Zito
- Cachaça
- Napomuceno's Will as Carlos
- Belly Up as Múcio
- Doces Poderes as Jornalista de Rondônia
1996
- Salsa e Merengue as Ramiro Morales
- O Campeão as Humberto
- Corisco & Dadá as Corisco
1994
- Memorial de Maria Moura as Duarte
- Rio's Love Song as (segment "Samba do Grande Amor")
- The Third Bank of the River
1993
- De Sentinela as Sentinela
- Nightly Diary
1991
- O Dono do Mundo as Durval
1990
- Fable of the Beautiful Pigeon-Fancier as Marido de Fulvia
- Barrela: Escola de Crimes as Bahia
1989
- Kananga do Japão as Olegário
- 1º de Abril, Brasil
1988
- Luzia Homem as Torquato
- Hell Hunters as Paco - Pilot - Additional Cast (as Chico Dias)
1987
- Mandala as Rafael
- Corpo Santo as Orlando
- The Colour of His Destiny
- Fonte da Saudade
1986
- Where the River Runs Black as Raimundo
- The Man in the Black Cape as Manezinho
- Talking Cinema as Man with green eyes (Diadorim)
1985
- Avaete, Seed of Revenge as Louco do Juqueri
- Chico Rei
1984
- Quilombo as Anunciação
- Águia na Cabeça as Gabriel
1983
- Gabriela as Chico Moleza
- Innocence as Juca
- Parahyba Mulher Macho as Severino
1982
- Don't Play with Tigers
- The Adventures of a Paraíba
- The Dream's Not Over as Danilo 'Biela'