Rodrigo Rodrigues

In 2016, Rodrigues was announced to play the role of The Magnus in Roth, alongside BAFTA winner Patrick Bergin. Rodrigues directed his first feature film Goitaca, to be released in 2020, with City of God`s Leandro Firmino, Lady Francisco, Marlon Blue, Luciano Szafir and Christianne Oliveira.

In 2011, Rodrigues portrayed the character Max in The Looking Glass, a film by Colin Downey, alongside Natalia Kostrzewa, Patrick O`Donell, Michael Parle and Eddie Webber. In 2014, he was in the cast of Londinium alongside Brian Croucher. In 2015, Rodrigues appeared in the films 1603 and The Levellers starring Shane Hart, Jadey Duffield and Brian Croucher. He also contributed as a costume designer to Londinium, 1603, and The Levellers.

In 2010, Rodrigo Rodrigues Studios, previously called Paraty Studios, was found by Rodrigues with the help of Fergal Fitzgerald. A visionary film making space, open for all kinds of visionary art, located in the middle of the Atlantic forest in Brazil. All sets, costumes and props are made of recycled and organic materials to support life on earth which is part of Rodrigues´s environment activism and human development to educate locals and visitors on how to live with respect towards planet Earth. The accommodations were part of Rodrigo Rodrigues Studios´s previous film pilot sets recycled and transformed into wood cabins and tree houses for actors, crew and visitors during their stay. The studio will release it´s new feature film Goitaca in 2020, in which all sets and costumes have been made out of recycled and organic materials.

In 2010, Rodrigues received the Irish Times Theatre Awards at the Smock Alley Theatre for Best Costume Designer for The Trojan Women, which was directed by Rodrigues and co-directed by Alan King.

In 2005, Rodrigues starred in the film Paranoia, which was screened at Cork Film Festival and won Best Photography at Portobello Film Festival. In 2007, Rodrigues starred alongside Rachel Rath, Tatiana Fellipo, Michael Parle and Cristopher Kavanagh in Waterfall, which went to the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival.

Rose Cereser received the National Volvo Award for Best Education Traffic Program in 2002 for Amigos do transito Group Work for Theatre, TV Program, and Advertising where Rodrigo was a director, actor and presenter.

The DENETRAN Brazilian National Awards awarded Rose Cereser the Best Project Award in 2001 for Amigos do transito, which Rodrigo directed, acted and presented.

In 1998, Rodrigues received the Best Theatre Production award from the Cultural Map Awards of the government of São Paulo State for his play Mitos e Lendas, which he wrote, directed, produced and performed.

Rodrigues completed acting courses at Teatro Escola Claudio Melo from 1997 to 1998. In 1999, Rodrigues closed his Art Espace to continue studies in the arts including enrollment into Escola de Teatro Ewerton de Castro and Indac Escola de Artes to continue studies in the arts including his enrollment into Escola de Teatro Ewerton de Castro and Indac Escola de Artes with Flavia Pucci, a Japanese dance theatre, founded by Tatsumi Hijikata and Kazuo Ohno, where he participated in the studies of Butoh technique. Rodrigues studied filmmaking at the Irish Film Academy. He also studied at the Kazuo Ohno dance studio, Hodogaya in Yokohama, Japan, to develop his studies of Butoh.

In 1997, Rodrigues opened Espaco Cultural Porao, a cultural college of art space containing four floors with available rooms to create and experiment with various art forms. In 2002, Rodrigues taught one of his own acting techniques, Facial Expressions For Actors, to the students at the Gaiety School of Acting, which included Aidan Turner from The Hobbit. Rodrigues created, managed and taught the theatre group The Dublin Core, an Irish Times Theatre Awards winning Theatre Group. Rodrigues teaches and coordinates a series of visionary film making workshops every year at Rodrigo Rodrigues Studios in Paraty, Brazil, which includes acting, sets, props and costume making. All being produced from recycled and organic materials. Rodrigues is also very well known in the Surrey area to be an awful supply teacher who took great pride in boring his students about his 'new and upcoming film, Goitaca'. This is a clear indication as to how successful his work in the film industry has been, and his work in the Magna Carta School has been widely regarded as the pinnacle of his educational career (an opinion backed by many of his former students and fans alike).

Rodrigues was born in São Paulo, Brazil, to an Afro-French father and Brazilian mother with Spanish, Portuguese and Italian origins. He was introduced to the performing arts by his mother, Terezinha Benatti, at age seven and began to regularly perform in plays at the school theatre by eleven years old. In 1993, he attended drama school Escola de Arte Dramatica de Jundiai and graduated two years later having performed a total of 400 hours of theater presentations.

In 1993, Rodrigues received the award for best actor at the Monologue Festival at the Escola de Artes Dramáticas Jundiaí for his performance in Fafa Volte Para Seu Chico.