Rodrigo Santoro — Brazilian Actor born on August 22, 1975,

Rodrigo Junqueira dos Reis Santoro is a Brazilian actor. He has appeared in many successful movies, including Brainstorm, Carandiru, Love Actually, Che, I Love You Phillip Morris, and Rio. He is perhaps most famous for his portrayal as Xerxes in the movie 300 and its subsequent sequel 300: Rise of an Empire. He was also a series regular on the television series Lost portraying the character Paulo... (wikipedia)

I don't want to be in a position where I'm playing roles I'm comfortable with and making money, but doing it without feeling like I'm growing.
I'm a spiritual person. I'm not very religious. I was raised Catholic, but I am influenced a lot by Buddhism and Hinduism.
I love both the sun and the moon, day and night. But I enjoy the day the most because I live in Rio and I can play sports.
Definitely as an actor, the experience you have, at least I'm talking for me, my experience as an actor is you go to the set and know what you're going to do, know your lines, you rehearse, you do your scene, you go back home. As a producer, for the first time I saw the whole picture in a completely different way.
I need to surf - surf and yoga. Whenever I'm in L.A., I go down to San Diego to surf for the weekend, and I always come back perfect.