Jayme Guimarães Periard is a Brazilian actor. Before 1981, he was already doing amateur theater, having joined the Martins Pena theater school and had classes with famous names such as José Wilker, Mona Lazar, Denise Stoklos and others. In 1983, he began to act professionally in television and theater.

In 1991, he starred in the first teledramaturgy program on Brazilian television that dealt with HIV, the miniseries O Pordor, on Rede Globo; in 1995, he starred in the telenovela Sangue do Meu Sano, by SBT. He produced and directed As Guerreiras do Amor, by Domingos de Oliveira, on stage, and worked as assistant director in other plays.

In 2004, together with his sister Izabela Periard, he inaugurated a cultural space in Barra da Tijuca, the Yanperi space, where he teaches courses in interpretation. In 2010, he was honored at the Trianon Municipal Theater Foundation, for participating in the 12th anniversary program of the house as director of the theatrical production "Pedaços de Mim". In 2017, he acted in Apocalypse, as the psychopath Nicanor Duarte. In 2018, he is in the cast of Netflix's The Mechanism Series.