Anecdotes

Won Critics Award 2006 for his role in "Começar de Novo" of Samuel Beckett.

He was a Radio host: "Como Quem e Porquê" (1986). He was the Tv host of RTP program "Mesa À Portuguesa" (1996).

Besides working in Portugal, João already worked in French and English Tv series.

His cinema debut was in 1978 in the movie "Histórias Selvagens".

In 1995 he became a member of the National Theater where he worked in the play "Os Jornalistas" (The Journalists).

He's one of the founders of Alta Recreação Theater (1986). In the first years this theater dedicated to the street theater.

His theater debut was in the play "Uma No Cravo e Outra na Ditadura" in Parque Mayer.

In 1975 he helped to create the French play "La Nuit Du 28 September" of Richard Demarcy.

Studied in Conservatório of Lisbon (Actor's Formation Course) in 1972/1974.

Father of Afonso Lagarto.