Matheus Nachtergaele OMC (São Paulo, January 3, 1968) is a Brazilian actor, director and author. Nachtergaele has won several awards, including five APCA Awards, three Grande Otelo Awards, two Guarani Awards and three Quality Brasil Awards. He showed his talent in many roles, both in cinema and television. Best known for City of God, Central Station and A Dog's Will.

Filmography

• 2026Cabras da Peste 2: Miami Vixe — Trindade
• 2026Son of a Bitch — Bacalhau
• The Rogue's Trial (TV Series) — João Grilo, Associate Producer
• Anything Goes — Poliana (Audálio Candeias)
• 2024Antonio Candido, Final Notes — Narrator (voice)
• Chabadabadá — Quincas
• City of God: The Fight Rages On — Cenoura
• Rebirth — Norberto dos Reis
• 2024The Rogue's Trial — João Grilo / Jesus / Diabo, Associate Producer
• 2023Heavier Is the Sky — Antônio
• 2023Peréio, Eu Te Odeio!
• 2022Julia's Lover — Sandro
• 2022King Car — Zé Macaco
• 2022The Club of Angels — Lucídio
• 2021Get the Goat — Trindade
• All the Women in the World — Cabral
• Diário de um Confinado
• Rocky & Hudson: Os Caubóis Gays — Rocky (voz)
• Cine Holliúdy – The Series — Prefeito Olegário Maciel
• 2019Mercy — Aurélio
• 2019Tito and the Birds — Dr. Rufus (voice)
• 2018The City of Pirates — Ivan (voice)
• 2017492: A Man Called Death — Luciano
• 2017All Paulos in the World - Paulo José
• Filhos da Pátria — Pacheco
• 2017Zama — Vicuña Porto / Gaspar Toledo
• 2016Don't Call Me Son — Matheus
• 2016The Serpent — Paulo, Associate Producer
• 201526º Prêmio da Música Brasileira - Homenagem a Maria Bethânia — ele mesmo
• 2015Big Jet — Seu Xico/Nelson
• Coffin Joe — José Mojica Marins / Zé do Caixão
• 2015Luz, Câmera, 50 Anos: Ó Paí, Ó - O Filme — Queixão / Moisés
• 2015When I Stopped Worrying About Scoundrels — João Carlos
• 2014Blue Blood — Gaètan
• Serra Pelada: A Saga do Ouro — Coronel Carvalho
• Sweet Mother — Fernando de Souza
• 2013Bald Mountain — Coronel Carvalho
• 2013Na Quadrada das Águas Perdidas — Olegário
• Saramandaia — Seu Encolheu
• 2013The Inventor of Dreams
• 2013Trinta — Joãosinho Trinta
• 2012Rat Fever — Pazinho
• 2012Sweet Mother — Fernando de Souza
• The Enchanted Tale — Miguézim
• The Well Beloved One — Dirceu Borboleta
• 2010The Well Beloved One — Dirceu Borboleta
• Decamerão: A Comédia do Sexo — Tofano
• 2009The Dead Girl's Feast — Director, Screenplay, Original Music Composer
• 2008Birdwatchers — Dimas
• Queridos Amigos — Tito
• 2008The Black Virgin
• Ó Paí, Ó: A Série — Queixão/Moisés
• 2007500 Almas
• 2006A Meeting with Milton Santos — Narrador
• 2006Bog of Beasts — Everardo
• 2006Journey to the End of the Night — Nazda
• América — Jesuino Costa "Carreirinha"
• 2005Conception — X, Associate Producer
• 2005Delicate Crime — Actor in play 'woyzeck o brasileiro'
• 2005Dry Movie — Salustiano
• Os Amadores — Jaime
• 2005Red Carpet — Quinzinho
• 2004Nina — Pintor
• Shades of Sin — Hélio da Silva (Pai Helinho)
• 2003O Curupira — Narrator
• 2003The Storytellers — Souza
• 2002At the Edge of the Earth — Narrator (voice)
• 2002City of God — Sandro Cenoura
• 2002Eclipse
• 2002Mango Yellow — Dunga
• Pastores da Noite — Curió
• 2001Bufo & Spallanzani — Agenor
• Os Maias — Teodorico 'Raposão'
• 2000A Dog's Will — João Grilo
• A Muralha — Padre Miguel
• Brava Gente — Pedro, Nezinho, Chico, Curió
• 2000Making of O Auto da Compadecida
• 1999Castle Ra-Tim-Bum: The Movie — Rato
• O Auto da Compadecida — João Grilo
• 1999O Enfermeiro — Procópio
• 1999Twins — Rapaz
• 1998Central Station — Isaías Paiva
• Hilda Hurricane — Cintura Fina
• 1998Kenoma — Pedro
• 1998Midnight — Francisco
• 1997Anahy de las Misiones
• 1997Anchietanos — Andrew Ribeiro
• 1997Four Days in September — Severino Barroso / Jonas
• A Comédia da Vida Privada
• Bad adolescence — Gilvan
• O Zelador
• The Caretaker — Eliseu

Appearances as themselves (11)

• 2023Amizade — himself
• 2023Pictures of Ghosts — Self (archive footage)
• 2017Brazilian Cinema in the 20th Century — Self
• 2017How Do You See Me? — Self
• Lady Night — Self
• O País do Cinema — Self
• 2005Câmera, Close! — Himself
• 2003Cidade de Deus: Oficina dos Atores — Himself
• 2003Diante do espelho — Himself / King Lear
• 2002Conquista Central Station - The 7 days of creation — Self
• O Povo Brasileiro — Self