João Pedro Zappa
João Pedro Zappa was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1988 and began studying theater at an early age, at Tablado, where he stayed from 2002 to 2010, and at Faculdade da Cidade, where he took a bachelor's degree in Theater.
He has acted in 13 feature films - seven of which he starred in - and numerous shorts. These films have won him awards and nominations at the biggest film festivals in Brazil and abroad.
In 2008, he released his first feature, “Ressaca” (2009, Dir Bruno Vianna), for which he received the award for best actor at the Festival-Cine-Esquema-Novo. With “Boa Sorte” (2014, directed by Carolina Jabor), he was nominated for the Guarani Award for Best Breakthrough Actor. In 2017, the biopic “Gabriel e a Montanha” (directed by Felipe Barbosa), which premiered with two awards at the Critics' Week in Cannes (an unprecedented feat until then), earned him praise in the national and international specialized media, as well as a nomination for best actor at the Brazilian Cinema Grand Prix, among other nominations that year. In 2021, he won the Best Performance award for “Noites de Alface” (Dir. Zeca Ferreira) at the 28th Vitória Film Festival.
In streaming and on TV, he has acted in series and soap operas such as “Santos Dumont” (2019, originally for HBO, now available on TV Brasil), “Reality Z” (2020, Netflix), “Nos Tempos Do Imperador” (2021, TV Globo), “Betinho - No Fio da Navalha” (2023, Globoplay) and “Raul Seixas - Metamorfose Ambulante” (to be released, Globoplay).
In theater, he has appeared in ten professional plays and was nominated in 2015 for the FITA award for best actor for his performance in the award-winning play "The Importance of Being Perfect", a text by Oscar Wilde.