Renato Aragão

Born Antonio Renato Aragão in Ceará, Brazil (1935), Renato Aragão discovered his love for arts early in his life. Although a lawyer, he found his great pleasure in acting and writing and in making people laugh. His funny body language embraces everyone from toddler to grown-ups in his naive humor. Renato Aragão started his artistic life on TV Ceará with a program called Video Alegria, gathering various comedians, until the definitive formation of the group "Os Trapalhões" - Renato Aragão, Dedé Santana, Mussum and Zacaria, in 1975 - Tv Tupi. The program Os Trapalhões figures in the Guiness Book (1997) as the longest-running program broadcast by television in Brazil.Among the comedy programs Renato Aragão led or took part in, one can highlight: "AEIOURCA" (TV Tupi -1964), "Adoráveis Trapalhões (TV Excelsior - 1965* performing together with Wanderley Cardoso, Ivon Cury and Ted Boy Marino) and "Os Insociáveis" (TV Record - 1972), the program "Os Trapalhões" - (Globo TV Network, 1977-1995; Canal Viva 2000-2018); "A Turma do Didi" (Globo / Canal VIVA, 1995 - 2018).In cinema, he has a vast list of films: From the film "Na Onda do Iê-Iê-Iê", produced in 1965 to "Os Saltimbancos Trapalhões Rumo à Hollywood", in 2017, we count 51 successes, 7 of them are 10 best box office for national films ever in Brazil. Renato Aragão has also filmed in Morocco and in Hollywood, the Meca of the film industry. Show less «