Thiago dos Santos Martins (Rio de Janeiro, September 19, 1988) is a Brazilian actor, singer and songwriter. He began his career in the theater group Nós do Morro, a social project carried out with the residents of the Vidigal favela. His first appearance on television was in 1999, in a participation in the traditional Christmas special of presenter Xuxa entitled Uma Carta Para Deus. In 2002, he gained prominence playing Lampião, one of the members of the band of kids from Caixa Baixa, in the award-winning film Cidade de Deus. In the same year, he played João Victor, a middle-class teenager in the series Cidade dos Homens. He made his debut in soap operas in 2004, playing Sal in the soap opera Da Cor do Pecado, which took place thanks to a nomination by actress Giovanna Antonelli, with whom he starred in the film Maria-Mãe do Filho de Deus in 2003.

Filmography

• Anything Goes — José Vasco da Silva (Vasco)
• 2025Sexa — Davi
• 2024A Festa de Léo — Técnico Cypa
• All About Family — Júpiter
• City of God: The Fight Rages On — Bradock
• 2024Dona Lurdes: O Filme — Ryan
• 2023Overhaul — Roger Mattos
• A Mother's Love — Ryan dos Santos Silva
• 2017Encantados — Antônio
• The Big Catch — Júlio Almeida Mendes da Silva Ribeiro
• Wounded Past — Sebastião Bezerra (Tião) (1ª fase)
• Ambitious Women — Diogo Rocha
• 2015Operações Especiais — Roni
• 2015Smile, You're on Camera — Assistente da Doutora
• Empire — Evaldo
• Caribbean Flower — Tenente Rodrigo Almeida
• Brazil Avenue — Leandro Dias
• Irrational Heart — Vinicius
• 2011Stereo Hearts 2 — Anderson
• 2011The Silver Cliff — Nassir
• 20105x Favela, Now by Ourselves — Jota
• 2009Flordelis: Basta uma Palavra para Mudar — Pedro Werneck
• 2008Once Upon a Time in Rio — Dé
• 2008Streets of Rio — Tiago
• Forbidden Desire — Lídio
• Toma Lá, Dá Cá — Marcinho
• 2006Xuxa Twins — Tigre
• Belíssima — Tadeu Rocha Assumpção
• 2005La veillée des abysses
• Shades of Sin — Gustavo Saldanha (Sal)
• 2003Mary, Mother of the Son of God — Apóstolo João
• 2002City of God — Lampião
• City of Men — João Victor

Appearances as themselves (1)

• 2013City of God: 10 Years Later — Himself