Fame aside, Milhem Cortaz is above all a career actor who has seen the business change around him more than once. Elsewhere on the filmography sits 'Elite Squad: The Enemy Within'. The trail of credits goes back as far as 1996. Whatever else appears, drama runs right through the filmography. The count stands at 75 titles, and the range inside it is wide. 'Elite Squad' is the most-watched work of the career, as Capitão Fabio.
Milhem Cortaz
54 years (Dec 6, 1971)São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
59 Movies16 Series
Fame aside, Milhem Cortaz is above all a career actor who has seen the business change around him more than once. Elsewhere on the filmography sits 'Elite Squad: The Enemy Within'. The trail of credits goes back as far as 1996. Whatever else appears, drama runs right through the filmography. The count stands at 75 titles, and the range inside it is wide. 'Elite Squad' is the most-watched work of the career, as Capitão Fabio.
Milhem Cortaz (São Paulo, December 6, 1971) is a Brazilian actor and presenter. Of Arab and Italian descent, Cortaz started in theater at the age of 11, led by actor Walmor Chagas when he performed in the play O Santo Milagroso, in 1983. He moved at the age of 15 to live in Italy with his aunt to get rid of his cocaine addiction, where he graduated from the Piccolo Teatro di Milano and began doing street theater under the influence of Commedia dell'arte but returned to Brazil in 1990, joining the Centro de Pesquisa Teatral (CPT) and stood out, among others, for his performances in O Melhor do Homem in 1995, directed by Ulysses Cruz. He is known for Carandiru (2003), Elite Squad (2007) and A Wolf at the Door (2013).