- 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.
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