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

• 2026Special Agents — Comandante Queiroz
• 2025Girassol Vermelho — Romeu
• Rulers of Fortune — Galego
• 2024Hélio Melo — Hélio Melo (Voice)
• Rebirth — Padre Santo
• 2024Vermelho Monet — Johannes Van Almeida
• 2023Alien Nights — Alê
• 2023O Humanismo de Frei Betto
• 1936 - O Ano da Morte de Ricardo Reis — Ricardo Reis
• Abandonados — Cônsul Yodogawa
• All the Flowers — Rivaldo
• 2022Diário Dentro da Noite — Director, Screenplay, Executive Producer, Director of Photography, Animation
• 2021Jaguar Man — Pedro
• The American Guest — Cândido Rondon
• 2020Babenco: Tell Me When I Die — Banquet Attendee
• 2020Em Busca de Carlos Zéfiro — Reading
• 2020The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis — Ricardo Reis
• 2019Cine Holliúdy 2: A Chibata Sideral — Vei Góis
• Cine Holliúdy – The Series — Coronel Pandolfo
• 2019Notícias do Fim do Mundo
• 2019Santiago das Américas ou o Olho do Terceiro Mundo — narração
• 2018Happy Hour: Verdades e Consequências — Arlindo
• 2017Going to Brazil — Augusto
• 2017Travessia — Roberto
• 2016Em Nome da Lei — Gomez
• 2016Guerra do Paraguay
• Old River — Belmiro dos Anjos
• El Hipnotizador — Darek
• 2015Luz, Câmera, 50 Anos: Dona Flor e Seus 2 Maridos - O Filme — Mirandão
• 2015Oração do Amor Selvagem
• 2014The Ardor — João
• 2014Words with Gods — The Man (ep. "The Man Who Stole a Duck")
• 2013Blue Desert
• 2013Dossiê 50: Comício a Favor dos Náufragos — Narrator
• 2013Os Pobres Diabos — Lazarino
• Gabriela — Coronel Melk Tavares
• 2012Jonathas' Forest — Zé dos Patos
• 2011A Warlike Sense for the Beautiful Things
• 2010The Inventor of Dreams — Hélio Pellegrino
• 2010The Midday Sun — Matuim
• 2009Dó-Ré-Mi-Fábrica — Zanata
• 2009Ouro Negro — Vicente Camargo
• 2009The Story of Me — Camelô
• A Favorita — Átila Mendonça
• 2008Praça Saens Peña — Paulo
• 2007O Afeto Que Se Encerra Em Nosso Peito Juvenil
• 2007O Magnata — Dr. Ribeiro
• Tropical Paradise — Jáder
• 2006Angels of the Sun — Tadeu
• 2006The Invisible Friend — Guilhermino
• 2005Quem Você Mais Deseja
• 2003As Alegres Comadres — Dr. Caius
• 2003Benjamim — Alyandro
• Carga Pesada — Gringo
• Celebrity — Jairo Cardoso
• 2003Garrincha: Lonely Star — Sobral
• 2003The Egg
• 2002Lua Cambará - Nas Escadarias do Palácio — João Índio
• 2002Mango Yellow — Wellington Cannibal
• Pastores da Noite — Dudu
• 2002The Forest — Firmino
• A Grande Família — Pedrada
• 2001Favorite Son
• Brava Gente — Lilico, José da Silva, Zé, Dudu
• Força de um Desejo — Clemente
• Luna Caliente — Gomulka
• O Belo e as Feras
• 1999O Tronco — Catulino
• Hilda Hurricane — Orlando Bonfim
• 1998The Patriot — Felizardo
• 1997Belly Up — Múcio
• 1997Cachaça
• 1997Doces Poderes — Jornalista de Rondônia
• 1997Napomuceno's Will — Carlos
• 1997Perfumed Ball — Zé de Zito
• 1996Corisco & Dadá — Corisco
• O Campeão — Humberto
• Salsa e Merengue — Ramiro Morales
• Memorial de Maria Moura — Duarte
• 1994Rio's Love Song — (segment "Samba do Grande Amor")
• 1994The Third Bank of the River
• 1993De Sentinela — Sentinela
• 1993Nightly Diary
• O Dono do Mundo — Durval
• 1990Barrela: Escola de Crimes — Bahia, Associate Producer
• 1990Fable of the Beautiful Pigeon-Fancier — Marido de Fulvia
• 19891º de Abril, Brasil
• Kananga do Japão — Olegário
• 1988Hell Hunters — Paco - Pilot - Additional Cast (as Chico Dias)
• 1988Luzia Homem — Torquato
• Corpo Santo — Orlando
• 1987Fonte da Saudade
• Mandala — Rafael
• 1987The Colour of His Destiny
• 1986Talking Cinema — Man with green eyes (Diadorim)
• 1986The Man in the Black Cape — Manezinho
• 1986Where the River Runs Black — Raimundo
• 1985Avaete, Seed of Revenge — Louco do Juqueri
• 1985Chico Rei
• 1984Quilombo — Anunciação
• 1984Águia na Cabeça — Gabriel
• 1983Gabriela — Chico Moleza
• 1983Innocence — Juca
• 1983Parahyba Mulher Macho — Severino
• 1982Don't Play with Tigers
• 1982The Adventures of a Paraíba
• 1982The Dream's Not Over — Danilo 'Biela'
• The Trapalhões

Appearances as themselves (3)

• 2020Candango: Memoirs from a Festival — Self (archive footage)
• O País do Cinema — Self
• 1997Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional — Self