Joaquim António Portugal Baptista de Almeida (born March 15, 1957) is a Portuguese actor. He began his acting during the 1980s, appearing on the 1982 action movie The Soldier. He achieved international fame with his portrayals of Félix Cortez in the 1995 Tom Clancy's thriller Clear and Present Danger, drug kingpin Bucho in the 1995 action thriller film Desperado, Ramon Salazar on the Fox thriller drama series 24 and the corrupt businessman Hernan Reyes in 2011 street racing film Fast Five. His other well known films include The Honorary Consul (1983), Good Morning, Babylon (1987), Only You (1994), The Mask of Zorro (1998), Behind Enemy Lines (2001), The Death and Life of Bobby Z (2007), Che: Part Two (2008) and The Burning Plain (2008). He has worked in Europe, Argentina, Mexico, the United States and Brazil in many film and stage productions, winning several international awards.

Filmography

• 2026Hungry — Walker
• 2026Santo António - Lisbon Love
• 2025Mercato — Nascimento
• 2024Road House — Sheriff
• Shōgun — Domingo
• 2024Smoke Signals — José Manuel Durão Barroso
• 2023Fast X — Hernan Reyes
• 2023Missing — Javi
• 2023O Último Animal — Dr. Ciro
• 2023The Palace — Dr. Lima
• Turn of the Tide — João Canto Moniz
• 2022God Save the Queens — Hugo
• 2022Land of Dreams — Julian / Dr. Palmer
• 2020Fatima — Father Ferreira
• 2020The Legion — Paetus
• Warrior Nun — Cardinal Duretti
• Aruanas — Robert Johnson
• 2018Breaking & Exiting — Hank
• 2017Downsizing — Conference Director Dr. Pereira
• 2017The Hitman's Bodyguard — Foucher
• Training Day — Menjivar
• 2016Diablo — Arturo
• Queen of the South — Epifanio, Don Epifanio Vargas
• 2015A Date with Miss Fortune — Jose
• 2015Our Brand Is Crisis — Castillo
• Santa Bárbara — Marcelo Vidal
• 20143 Holes and a Smoking Gun — Joey the Junkman
• 2014Atlas Shrugged: Part III — Francisco d'Anconia
• 2014Of Mind and Music — Dr. Alvaro Cruz
• 2014Rouge Brésil — João da Silva
• 2014The Duel: A Story Where Truth Is Mere Detail — Comandante Vasco Moscoso de Aragão
• 2013Robosapien: Rebooted — Esperenza
• Rouge Brésil — João da Silva
• 2013The Gilded Cage — José Ribeiro
• 2013Three-60 — Alberto Ibarguren
• Elementary — Cal Medina
• 2012Mamitas — Prof. Alexander Viera
• Missing — Antoine Lussier
• Revolution — Luis Nunez
• 2011Fast Five — Reyes
• Once Upon a Time — King Xavier
• Revenge — Salvador Grobet
• 2010Backlight — Jay
• 2010Christopher Roth — Christopher Roth
• Flight 8714: Take Off to Disaster — Hunter
• Parenthood — Matthew Biscali
• República — Henrique
• Archer — Román Calzado (voice)
• 2009Holy Money — Mangini
• 2008Che: Part Two — President René Barrientos
• Crusoe — Santos Santana
• 2008La conjura de El Escorial — Escobedo
• 2008Oscar. The color of destiny — Oscar Domínguez
• 2008The Burning Plain — Nick Martinez
• 2008The Lovebirds — Marco Correia
• The Mentalist — Gabriel Porchetto
• 2007Call Girl — Mouros
• 2007La Cucina — Michael
• 2007The Death and Life of Bobby Z — Don Huertero
• 2007The Heart of the Earth — Baxter
• 2006Have No Fear: The Life of Pope John Paul II — Archbishop Oscar Romero
• 2006Love and Debate — Max
• 2006Moscow Zero — Yuri
• 2006The Celestine Prophecy — Father Sanchez
• 2005A Shot in the Dark — Rafael
• Bones — Raphael Valenza
• Wanted — Manuel Valenza
• The Batman — Bane (voice)
• 2004The Life — Pierre
• Kingpin
• 2003The Fugitive — Lolo
• 2003The Immortals — Roberto Alua
• 2002Break of Dawn — Radman / Constantin
• CSI: Miami — Joseph Trevi
• 2002Sweat — Noh
• 24 — Ramon Salazar
• 2001Behind Enemy Lines — Admiral Juan-Miguel Piquet, Commander of NATO Naval Command
• 2001His Master's Voice — Oliveira
• 2001Stranded — Fidel Rodrigo
• 2001The Xango from Baker Street — Sherlock Holmes
• 2001Water and Salt — Marido
• 2000April Captains — Gervásio
• 1999Cartoon Noir — Narrator (Voice)
• 1999Inferno — Xana
• 1999No Vacancy — Reynaldo
• 1999On the Run — Ignácio
• 1999One Man's Hero — Cortina
• The West Wing — Carlos Carrio
• 1999Vendetta — Joseph Macheca
• 1998Dollar for the Dead — Friar Ramon
• 1998La Cucaracha — Jose Guerra
• 1997Corazón loco — Emilio
• 1997Fátima — Avelino de Almeida, journalist
• L'Enfant du bout du monde — Miguel Carmina
• La Femme Nikita — Joaquim Armel
• 1997Tentação — Father António
• 1997We're All Still Here
• 1997Women — Gigi
• Dead Man's Walk — Major Laroche
• 1996Tale About the Cat and the Moon — The Cat (voice)
• 1995Adam and Eve — Francisco
• Amália - Uma Estranha Forma de Vida — Narrator
• 1995Desperado — Bucho
• 1995Pereira Declares — Manuel
• 1994Clear and Present Danger — Col. Felix V. Cortez
• 1994El baile de las ánimas — Antonio
• 1994Only You — Giovanni
• 1994Uma Vida Normal — Miguel
• 1993Amok — The lover
• 1993Amor e Dedinhos de Pé — Francisco Frontaria
• 1993On the Edge of the Horizon — Voice of Spino (voice) (uncredited)
• 1993Shadows in a Conflict — José
• 1992A Passing Season — Miguel
• 1992Aqui D'El Rei! — Manuel
• 1992Cold Land — Leonardo
• 1992The Fencing Master — Luis de Ayala
• 1991Alex — Pedro
• 1991El día que nací yo — Pelayo Menéndez
• 1991Retrato de Família — Miguel Montenegro
• 1991The Dumbfounded King — Almeida
• 1990Sandino — Sandino
• 1989Les Deux Fragonard — Honoré Fragonard
• 1988Disamistade — Sebastiano Catte
• 1988Priceless Beauty — Jimmy
• 1988Terre sacrée — Mateo Elorduy
• 1987Good Morning, Babylon — Andrea Bonnano
• 1987Milan noir — Tremaine
• 1987Repórter X — Reinaldo Ferreira
• 1987The Sun and the Moon
• Miami Vice — Roberto 'Nico' Arroyo
• 1983The Honorary Consul — Leon
• 1982The Soldier — The Soldier's Force
• 1979Un uomo americano — Miguel Montero
• Breaking & Exiting — Hank
• Epitaph — Vince Castro

Appearances as themselves (5)

• 2019An Indian in War - Life and Work of António-Pedro Vasconcelos — Self
• 2019Looking for Cesária Évora — self
• 2018Near Myth: The Oskar Knight Story — Self
• Alta Definição — Self, Self - Guest
• Parabéns — Self