Wagner Moura
Wagner Maniçoba de Moura (born June 27, 1976) is a Brazilian stage and screen actor, voice actor, and filmmaker. His accolades include the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor for his performance in The Secret Agent (2025), as well as a Golden Globe nomination for portraying Pablo Escobar in Narcos, and an Annie Award nomination for his voice performance as Death in Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (2022).
Widely renowned in Brazil for his performances in popular films and TV shows, he is also one of the most reputable Brazilian actors internationally. He has starred in multiple feature films in Brazil and Hollywood, including Brazilian box office hits like Elite Squad, which won the Golden Bear at the 58th Berlin Internacional Film Festival. Elite Squad overseas success boosted Moura’s international recognition. Besides being a well-established and acclaimed actor in Brazil, Moura has achieved international success as a part of the movement that seeks positive representation for South Americans in Hollywood. In 2013 he debuted in Hollywood in the science fiction feature film Elysium, directed by Neill Blomkamp. In 2024, Moura starred alongside Kirsten Dunst in Civil War, directed by Alex Garland, marking his first leading role in a major Hollywood film. For his performance in The Secret Agent (2025), Moura became the first South American actor to win the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 2.7955 |
| Birthday | 1976-06-27 |
| Place of Birth | Rodelas, Bahia, Brazil |
| Also Known As | Wagner Maniçoba de Moura, |
2007
Elite Squad
8.056/2688
In 1997, before the visit of the pope to Rio de Janeiro, Captain Nascimento from BOPE (Special Police Operations Battalion) is assigned to eliminate t...
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Elite Squad
2003
Carandiru
7.578/608
When a doctor decides to carry out an AIDS prevention program inside Latin America’s largest prison: the Casa de Detenção de São Paulo - Carandiru, he...
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Carandiru
2005
Lower City
6.5/97
Best friends Deco and Naldinho co-own a cargo boat in Brazil's Salvador da Bahia. They give a ride to a sultry prostitute named Karinna, and soon both...
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Lower City
2003
The Man of the Year
6.75/86
Maiquél has lost a bet and dyed his hair blond. This seemingly innocuous event triggers a head-on collision with destiny in which he goes from nobody...
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The Man of the Year
2021
My Uncle José
7/3
It begins in 1983 in Salvador city, with the attack against José, an ex-member of a left-wing political group. Meanwhile, his nephew Adonias is worrie...
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My Uncle José
2004
Nina
5.722/27
After losing her job, an unstable woman sinks further and further into a violent fantasy world.
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Nina
2003
God Is Brazilian
6.265/166
God decides to take a vacation, but first He has to find a saint who can rule the universe while He's away. So He goes to the Northeast of Brazil, whe...
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God Is Brazilian
2001
Behind the Sun
7.354/130
Brazilian badlands, April 1910. Tonho is ordered by his father to avenge the death of his older brother. The young man knows that if he commits this c...
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Behind the Sun
2007
Ó Paí, Ó: Look at This
7/203
During the Carnival in the historical site of Pelourinho, Salvador da Bahia, we follow the lives of the tenants of a falling-to-pieces tenement house...
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Ó Paí, Ó: Look at This
Angicos
0/0
The film “Angicos”, which deals with the story of Paulo Freire and his literacy program in the small town in the interior of Rio Grande do Norte, had...
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Angicos
2021
Marighella
7.6/133
Afro-Brazilian poet and politician, the legendary Carlos Marighella. Driven to fight against the erosion of civil and human rights following the CIA-b...
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Marighella
2007
Basic Sanitation, the Movie
7.111/144
When they discover their town lacks funding for a sewage system, but does have a federal grant to make a movie, a group of villagers decide to make a...
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Basic Sanitation, the Movie
2008
Romance
7.4/23
During a remake of the play Tristan and Isolde, actors Pedro and Ana fall in love. While the characters live an idealized love, the interpreters are l...
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Romance
2010
Elite Squad: The Enemy Within
7.83/2027
After a bloody invasion of the BOPE in the High-Security Penitentiary Bangu 1 in Rio de Janeiro to control a rebellion of interns, the Lieutenant-Colo...
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Elite Squad: The Enemy Within
2003
The Middle of the World
6.722/45
Romão, illiterate and unemployed, feels destiny drawing him on an odyssey to Rio de Janeiro in pursuit of a job and a decent life. A family of seven j...
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The Middle of the World
2013
Elysium
6.518/9524
In the year 2159, two classes of people exist: the very wealthy who live on a pristine man-made space station called Elysium, and the rest, who live o...
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Elysium
2011
VIPs
6.424/119
Marcelo leaves his family and moves to Mato Grosso do Sul, where he learns how to fly airplanes by himself watching the pilots. One day, he responds t...
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VIPs
2011
The Man from the Future
7.221/387
Zero is a brilliant scientist. However, 20 years ago, he was publicly humiliated when he lost Helena, the love of his life. One day, an accidental exp...
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The Man from the Future
2006
The Machine
7.342/19
In Nordestina, a small town lost in the Brazilian badlands, young Karina dreams of becoming an actress and leaving to explore the world. Before losing...
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The Machine
2012
Father’s Chair
7/60
Theo is living the good life in an upscale Brazilian neighborhood. He’s a hardworking doctor, husband, and father. However, Theo has chosen his career...
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Father’s Chair
1998
Rádio Gogó
0/0
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Rádio Gogó
2014
Trash
7.051/655
Set in Brazil, three kids who make a discovery in a garbage dump soon find themselves running from the cops and trying to right a terrible wrong.
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Trash
2014
Futuro Beach
6.5/86
Donato fails in his attempt to save a drowning man, and meets one of the man's friends. He decides to start his life over, but pieces of his past keep...
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Futuro Beach
2013
Bald Mountain
7.014/70
In 1980, best friends Juliano and Joaquin join the gold rush at Serra Pelada, Bald Mountain, a mountain town near the mighty Amazon river. As the town...
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Bald Mountain
2022
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
8.201/8758
Puss in Boots discovers that his passion for adventure has taken its toll: He has burned through eight of his nine lives, leaving him with only one li...
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Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
2020
There's a Monster in My Kitchen
6.2/4
A jaguar's forest home is being burned to grow animal feed for the meat industry. If we don't act, more precious habitats will be destroyed, Indigenou...
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There's a Monster in My Kitchen
2022
De Quanta Terra Precisa o Homem?
0/0
The unlikely encounter between Eduardo Moreira, a former banker, and the MST, the main social movement for agrarian reform in Latin America.
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De Quanta Terra Precisa o Homem?
2025
The Secret Agent
7.303/622
Brazil, 1977. Marcelo, a technology expert in his early 40s, is on the run. Hoping to reunite with his son, he travels to Recife during Carnival but s...
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The Secret Agent
2024
Fall Risk
7/5
Set in Los Angeles, a young woman, Dylan, is in and out of the hospital with a life-changing diagnosis, but something isn't right with her partner, Em...
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Fall Risk
2024
Civil War
6.9/4272
In the near future, a group of war journalists attempt to survive while reporting the truth as the United States stands on the brink of civil war.
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Civil War
Last Night at the Lobster
0/0
The Red Lobster perched in the far corner of a run-down New England mall hasn't been making its numbers and headquarters has pulled the plug. But mana...
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Last Night at the Lobster
Say Her Name
0/0
In 2005, celebrated novelist Francisco Goldman married a beautiful young writer named Aura Estrada in a romantic Mexican hacienda. The month before th...
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Say Her Name
1995
Borboletas
10/1
Two friends in a car in Salvador.
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Borboletas
2024
Torn Asunder: Waging Alex Garland's Civil War
7.4/5
A six-part documentary about the making and shooting of Alex Garland's 'Civil War'.
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Torn Asunder: Waging Alex Garland's Civil War
2014
Rio, I Love You
4.796/49
The third episode of the Cities of Love franchise, Rio, I Love You is an anthology, created by 10 visionary directors from across the globe. The story...
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Rio, I Love You
2005
Desejo
7.5/2
A journey into the psyche of Atanásio, a doorman in Copacabana, confused while attempting to understand his desires and aspirations.
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Desejo
2002
The Three Marias
4.917/6
A mother, with her three daughters, exacts revenge on her former fiancé for killing her husband and sons.
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The Three Marias
2007
Ópera do Mallandro
6/3
The short tells the story of a boy who, in his last recovery test at school, has the task of writing a text in 15 minutes. During the creative process...
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Ópera do Mallandro
2008
Blackout
8.8/2
At the end of a tough workweek an assistant congressman and his friend go to an abandoned room in the Capitol building to relax and smoke a joint. Whi...
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Blackout
2016
Exodus: Where I come from is disappearing
0/0
Observational documentary about people as refugees and asylum seekers in many geographical locations such as Germany, Brazil, Western Sahara, Myanmar,...
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Exodus: Where I come from is disappearing
2017
The Magnificent 8
8/5
On a Sunday, the actors Maria Ribeiro, Fernanda Torres, Wagner Moura, Carolina Dieckmann, Sophie Charlotte, Mateus Solano, Alexandre Nero and Du Mosco...
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The Magnificent 8
2017
Life in Gray
7/2
A faux documentary about the ongoing social, political and economical crisis in Brazil, where the government cuts the colors of Rio de Janeiro, turnin...
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Life in Gray
2018
Into the Amazon
7.8/3
A documentary re-telling of the remarkable and dangerous journey taken by President Theodore Roosevelt and legendary Brazilian explorer Cândido Rondon...
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Into the Amazon
2020
Wasp Network
6.049/405
Havana, Cuba, 1990. René González, an airplane pilot, unexpectedly flees the country, leaving behind his wife Olga and his daughter Irma, and begins a...
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Wasp Network
2000
Woman on Top
6.062/250
Set to the intoxicating rhythms of Brazil, "Woman on Top" is a spicy, sexy comedy about the magic of food, love and music. Meet Isabella, a sultry enc...
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Woman on Top
2020
Sergio
6.553/357
A sweeping drama set in the chaotic aftermath of the US invasion of Iraq, where the life of top UN diplomat Brazilian Sérgio Vieira de Mello hangs in...
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Sergio
2010
VIPs: Histórias Reais de um Mentiroso
7.2/35
The infamous anti-hero Marcelo Nascimento da Rocha is one of the greatest Brazilian con artists ever that has lured several persons with his schemes....
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VIPs: Histórias Reais de um Mentiroso
2004
Miguel's Destiny
0/0
This beloved Brazilian parody of Shakespeare in Love tells the story of Miguel's relentless furiculite. For better or worse, it is his aim to conquer...
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Miguel's Destiny
2022
The Gray Man
6.901/4187
When a shadowy CIA agent uncovers damning agency secrets, he's hunted across the globe by a sociopathic rogue operative who's put a bounty on his head...
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The Gray Man
2015
Luz, Câmera, 50 Anos: Carga Pesada: A Grande Viagem - O Filme
8/2
Bino advises Pedro to get married, but he is reluctant until Rosa calls him and arranges a meeting in Fortaleza. Along the way, adventures chase truck...
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Luz, Câmera, 50 Anos: Carga Pesada: A Grande Viagem - O Filme
2026
The Last Day
0/0
Over a single summer day in New York, the lives of two mothers briefly entwine. Julia, a writer and mother, is unsettled by creative stagnation, unpro...
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The Last Day
2026
The Last House
0/0
A family of four are suddenly sealed inside their home with no way out, and must work together to survive against both their dwindling resources and t...
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The Last House
The Outsider
0/0
Swiss-born and naturalized Brazilian artist and activist Claudia Andujar survived the Holocaust to her remarkable work as a photographer whose practic...
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The Outsider
The Scent of the Pitanga
0/0
A remake of Abbas Kiarostami's Taste of Cherry. Plot TBA.
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The Scent of the Pitanga
Flesh of the Gods
0/0
Married couple Raoul and Alex descend each evening from their luxury skyscraper condo to venture into the electric nighttime realm of 1980s Los Angele...
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Flesh of the Gods
Ascenso
0/0
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