The actor Bruno gagliasso, 40 years old, is one of the best-known personalities in Brazilian television. As his surname indicates, he is descendant of Italians on the mother's side.
According to the site Cognomix, the surname Gagliasso derives from a modification of the name Galeazzo or from the Piedmontese term Gajass, used to name the ties used to join bundles of wheat.
Gagliasso is a typically Piedmontese surname, from Turin and Moncalieri, in the province of Turin; of La Morra, in the province of Cuneo, and Roatto, in the province of Asti.
Popularity
Cognomix points out that there are currently approximately 118 Gagliasso families in Italy, with the largest concentrations being in the regions of Piedmont (106) Lazio (4) and Lombardia (4)
This surname is 3004th in popularity in the Piedmont region, being the 1057th most common in the province of Cuneo and the most popular in the city of Roatto, in the province of Asti.
Bruno Gagliasso's career
Bruno Gagliasso Marques was born in Rio de Janeiro on April 13, 1982. His parents are Paulo Cesar Marques e Lucia Gagliasso, famous chef in Rio de Janeiro.
While the father has Portuguese ancestry, Lucia has said in several interviews that she learned to cook at a young age with her mother, mother-in-law and godmother, honoring the tradition of her family members who came from Italy.
The couple Paulo and Lucia divorced when Bruno was still a child and she married Fernando Ferreira, a stepfather with whom Bruno always had a great relationship. Your brother Thiago Gagliasso, who is also an actor and was elected state deputy for Rio de Janeiro in the last elections, he is the son of Lucia and Fernando.
Bruno Gagliasso in soap operas
Bruno began his career in 1999, at the age of 17, after some advertising and acting work. He participated in the episode “Daddy is Gay!”, from the program You Decide, on TV Globo and soon after went to SBT, where he stood out in the soap opera chiquititas.
Back to the Globe, in 2001 he signed a contract with the broadcaster, where he stayed until 2020. Among his first works are the role of young Caetano in the miniseries At Casa das Sete Mulheres (2003) and the problematic Inácio in the soap opera Celebridade (2003)
In 2005, Bruno played the character Júnior, in the soap opera America and, the following year, he gave life to the country boy Ricardo, in the remake of soap opera Sinhá Moça.
In 2007, the actor won his first villain in soap operas, Ivan, from Tropical paradise, and in 2010 he played the role of the Italian bigamist Berillo Rondelli in the soap opera Passion. The following year, she played the wicked Colonel Timothy in the soap opera Charmed twine.
Cinema and series
In 2013, Bruno Gagliasso starred in the film Bush without a Dog, beside Leandra Leal, and the novel Rare jewel, opposite Bianca Bin. The plot won the award International Emmy for best soap opera.
In 2014, the actor was invited to star in Glória Perez's series, Dual Identity, in which he interpreted the serial killer Edu. The following year, she worked on the soap opera Babylon, in the role of drug dealer and pimp Murilo.
In 2016, the protagonist Mário played in the soap opera rising sun, and in 2018 he played the protagonist Gabriel in another soap opera, The Seventh Guardian.
In 2021, the actor acted in the film marighellaDirected by Wagner Moura. In the same year, he announced his move to Portugal with his wife, also an actress Giovanna Ewbank, with whom he has been married since 2010, and their children.
He acquired the European citizenship through his father, who has Portuguese ancestry.
Racism in Portugal
Bruno and his wife, Giovanna Ewbank, adopted a four-year-old girl named Chissomonicknamed Titi, who was born in Malawi, in Africa.
In 2019, the couple adopted the boy Bless, also four years old, again in Malawi. In July 2020, Giovana gave birth to the couple's third child, Cyan.
In 2017, the case of racism involving “socialite” Day McCarthy, who published a video on her social networks calling Titi, the adopted daughter of Bruno and Giovana, a “monkey”. “The girl is black, has horrible hair, and Do people say the girl is beautiful?”, the attacker reportedly said, among other statements.
Bruno Gagliasso went to the police station and filed a complaint racial slur.
Entrepreneurship and activism
Actor Bruno Gagliasso also owns three restaurants, inn and gym and campaigner against racial prejudice and LGBTQI+ people.
At the awards GQ Men of The Year 2015, the actor kissed the actor on the mouth Joao Vicente de Castro. “To the card-carrying sexists, hypocrites and prejudiced people, our affection and our love as a man with an H! Bring on 2016”, wrote Gagliasso, when posting the photo of the kiss on your Instagram.
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