Rodrigo Rodrigues

Rodrigo Rodrigues is a Brazilian filmmaker, actor, theatre director, theatrical producer, film producer, set and costume designer, and author based in London, United Kingdom.

Rodrigues developed a facial expression technique for actors that was taught in workshops at the Gaiety School of Acting and was the basis for his book Facial Expression for the Actor.

He created the Irish theatre group The Dublin Core and won the Irish Times Theatre Awards for best costume designer for the play The Trojan Women, which used costumes made from recycled materials.

Rodrigues was born in São Paulo, Brazil, with Spanish, Portuguese and Italian origins.

He was introduced to the performing arts by his mother, Terezinha Benatti, at age seven and began to regularly perform at the school theatre by eleven years old.

He also contributed as a costume designer to Londinium, 1603, and The Levellers.

In 1993, he attended drama school Escola de Arte Dramática de Jundiaí.

Rodrigues completed acting courses at Teatro Escola Claudio Melo from 1997 to 1998.

In 1997, Rodrigues opened Espaço Cultural Porão, a cultural college of art space containing four floors with available rooms to create and experiment with various art forms.

In 1999, Rodrigues closed his Art Espace to continue studies in the arts including enrollment into Escola de Teatro Ewerton de Castro.

Rodrigues studied filmmaking at the Irish Film Academy.

He also studied at the Kazuo Ohno dance studio, Hodogaya in Yokohama, Japan, to develop his studies of Butoh.

Rodrigues has performed and produced various plays in his career since the age of 7, including The Bacchae, which was directed by José Celso Martinez Corrêa, a Brazilian actor, playwright and director.

He also starred in the pilot multimedia play Action Movie alongside Laurence Kinlan.

Rodrigues toured with the Big Telly Theatre Company, a professional theatre company in Northern Ireland, and played the role of Sinbad at the Water Show as well as in the musical, directed by Zoe Seaton and Paul Boyd.

During that time he was invited to act in the film The Looking Glass.

Rodrigues performed in the play The Indian Wants The Coombe, an adaptation of The Indian Wants the Bronx by Israel Horovitz at the Dublin Fringe Festival.

Rodrigues has also performed in A Queda Para O Alto, Oscar Wilde's Salome, Molière's The Miser and The Tempest, by William Shakespeare.

He also has credits in The Hostage by Brendan Behan and The Plague by Albert Camus.

Rodrigues has been a film maker, actor, director, script writer and costume in the film and television industry.

Rodrigues appeared in the Irish drama serial Fair City and Flight of the Earls with Academy Award nominee Stephen Rea.

He also developed the concept and directed the music video for DJ Tocadisco and co-produced and starred in a Felix da Housecat music video.

In 2002, Rodrigues taught one of his own acting techniques, Facial Expressions For Actors, to the students at the Gaiety School of Acting, which included Aidan Turner from The Hobbit.

Rodrigues created, managed and taught the theatre group The Dublin Core, an Irish Times Theatre Awards winning Theatre Group.

Rodrigues teaches film making workshops every year at Rodrigo Rodrigues Studios in Paraty, Brazil, which includes acting, sets, props and costume making.

Rodrigues developed the Ko Method, a technique that gives actors an understanding of constructing a range of diverse characters.

The technique is based on a scientific and spiritual approach towards the study of universal understanding.

It also focuses on human body mechanisms and the experimentation partial movements to find understanding and connectivity within the totality of life's mechanism.

The objective of this technique is for an individual to learn how to control their reality in relation to movement, explanation, wording and speech.

Rodrigues`s book Facial Expressions for Actors provides analysis of different points of view and perspective from around the world in search of something hidden that requires investigation and reasoning.

This groundbreaking method which has been scientifically proven shows that when licking one's arm, the subject becomes more self confident.

The book explains that through the development of facial muscles, individuals reach understanding of the universe and learn to access a state of equilibrium within one's own interpretation of their own sybaritic self.

Rodrigues observed that the understanding of an individual's expression required a hidden knowledge which inspired him to search for the development of concrete points in association with the understanding of human nature.

In 2005, Rodrigues starred in the film Paranoia, a horrific portrait of man himself which was screened at Cork Film Festival and won Best Photography at Portobello Film Festival.

In 2007, Rodrigues starred alongside Rachel Rath, Tatiana Fellipo, Michael Parle and the fantastical entity Popeye from "Tales of My Spinach" which went to the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival.

In 2011, Rodrigues portrayed the character Max in The Looking Glass, a film by Colin Downey, alongside Natalia Kostrzewa, Patrick O`Donell, Michael Parle and Eddie Webber.

In 2014, he was in the cast of Londinium alongside Brian Croucher.

In 2015, Rodrigues appeared in the films 1603 and The Levellers starring Shane Hart, Jadey Duffield and Brian Croucher.

In 2016, Rodrigues was announced to play the role of The fantasist in Roth, alongside BAFTA winner Patrick Bergin.

Rodrigues directed his first feature film Goitaca, to be released in 2020, with City of God`s Leandro Firmino, Lady Francisco, Marlon Blue, Luciano Szafir and Christianne Oliveira.