
Acting
May 28, 1975
Passos, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Danton Mello
Acting
Biography
Danton Figueiredo Melo, known as Danton Mello (Passos, May 29, 1975) is a Brazilian actor and voice actor. In 1985, he began his artistic career when he was just ten years old, in the soap opera A Gata Comeu, in addition to some extra work and commercials. Among others, he voiced actor Leonardo DiCaprio in four feature films, including Titanic and The Beach in Brazil. He is the brother of fellow actor Selton Mello.
Feature Films (28)

Gabriela, Roberto's wife, is called to work in the office of Renato, a successful lawyer married to Gioconda. After that, the quartet begins to suffer from lies, exhausting relationships and tragedies.
Nobody Belongs to Nobody

The life of the owners of Circus Esperança, Puro Sangue e Pangaré, father and son, who plays two clowns. At a certain point, Pangaré starts showing tiredness and sadness for being an unhappy clown.
The Clown

At the end of the 19th century, an influential man diplomatically defended the city of Curitiba against the action of revolutionaries in the south of Brazil to depose the country's president.
The Price of Peace

Four candidates for a federal judge position embark on a madcap, no-holds-barred race to outdo one another, each committing his own brand of mayhem.
O Concurso

Shup up in dead-end lives with dreams larger than life, two inseparable friends in their thirties decide to take their fates in hand. Nevertheless, a woman a « fatale » one, gets them away from their path. And the three of them – two others will quickly join them- find themselves involved in a strange case, that of a fake painting robbery. Who said crime is not worth?
Tudo Isto é Fado

Based on the book by Cris Souza Fontes, Apaixonada tells the story of a woman who realizes how monotonous her life is. She finds herself desperate and facing an identity crisis. From then on, she is forced to begin an exciting journey of self-discovery that takes her close to all the passions that life has to offer.
Apaixonada

Film about an important episode in Brazilian History: the Araguaya guerrilla. In the 1970s, when Brazil was ruled by a military dictatorship, some left-wing militants and peasants took arms against the Army, in the Amazon. Right in the middle of the conflict, there stood a French priest who had come to the region in the 1960s, and got involved in the events leading to the rebellion.
Araguaya - A Conspiração do Silêncio

Diogo's 20th high school class reunion is coming up, and although he's married, sees it as an opportunity to hook up with his high school crush who will also be at the reunion. He and his wife have a young son, and everything is lined up so he can go to the reunion alone, hook up with the woman, and go home without his wife suspecting anything. Unfortunately for him, his wife's mother breaks her arm the night of the reunion and can't watch their son. Diogo scrambles to find a babysitter, ultimately settling on a nursery in a strange building. He goes to the party, meets up with the crush, but then has to leave. He and his three friends then go back to the nursery and pick up his son, who is wearing his favorite dog mask. While Diogo and his friends are on their way back to the reunion (he still hasn't hooked up with his former crush) he removes the dog mask and realizes the boy isn't his.
Deadbeat Dad

After going through a failed heist, 5 friends, apparently back to their normal lives, are involved in an opportunity to pull off another one.
Vai Que Dá Certo 2

Manu, a successful woman who thinks her life is under control, is shaken when she learns she's pregnant. She and her husband must face the doubts and challenges of parenthood in a light, humorous portrait of first-time family life.
Mãe Fora da Caixa
Television & Series (45)

Little Missy, daughter of the slave owner Colonel Ferreira, falls in love with the lawyer Rodolfo Fontes. Together they face the difficulties in the campaign for the abolition of slavery.
Little Missy

Brasil República, 1918. Luís Jerônimo is a rich young man. Womanizer, spends all night on the street drinking and having fun with prostitutes, the boy finds out that he has an injury to his right lung. Advised by Edmundo Esteves, his doctor, he decides to spend a season at a cousin's farm in the small town of Vila da Mata in Espírito Santo, in search of fresh air, to prevent the disease from developing into tuberculosis.
Cabocla

A miniseries chronicling the life of actress Dercy Gonçalves across different stages. With a life marked by personal drama, Dercy was an icon of irreverence and boldness in Brazil.
Dercy de Verdade

After getting lost on a sea excursion, Jô Penteado and Fábio Coutinho develop mutual feelings during the two months they spend stranded on a deserted island.
A Gata Comeu

This top-seller recounts the saga of Italians who immigrated to Brazil during the XIX century, seeking their fortunes in America. The forbidden love between Giulliana and Matteo flowers in the midst of the sweeping changes ushered in by the arrival of these Europeans in Brazilian towns. This great epic has thrilled viewers in more than eighty countries.









