Rodrigo Junqueira dos Reis Santoro (Portuguese pronunciation: [ʁoˈdɾiɡu sɐ̃ˈtoɾu]; born 22 August 1975) is Brazilian actor. He has appeared in many successful movies, including Brainstorm (2001), Carandiru (2003), Love Actually (2003), Che (2008), I Love You Phillip Morris (2009), and Rio (2011). He is perhaps most famous for his portrayal of Persian King Xerxes in the movie 300 (2006) and its sequel 300: Rise of an Empire (2014). He was a series regular on the television series Lost portraying the character Paulo, and plays Hector Escaton in HBO\'s Westworld (2016).\n', '

Santoro was born in Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro state, to Francesco Santoro, an Italian engineer and Maria José Junqueira dos Reis, a Brazilian artist of Portuguese descent. \n', '

In 1993, as Santoro was studying Journalism at PUC-Rio, he entered the Actor\'s Workshop of Rede Globo. \n', 'Santoro went on to play parts in many of Globo\'s telenovelas, such as Olho no Olho (1993), Pátria Minha (1994), Explode Coração (1995), O Amor Está no Ar (1997), Suave Veneno (1999) and Mulheres Apaixonadas (2003), as well as the miniseries Hilda Furacão (1998), in the role of a priest. Santoro was also the voice actor of the titular character in Stuart Little and its sequel in the Brazilian dubbed copies.\n', '

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