Name	Joaquim De Almeida
Height	5'8
Naionality	Lisbon, Portugal
Date of Birth	15-Mar-1957
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Joaquim de Almeida left Portugal when he was 18 years old because he wanted to pursue art studies, and the Lisbon Conservatory was temporarily closed after the 1974 democratic revolution. He lived in Vienna, Austria, working in various jobs including gardening.

He married a pianist, Maria Cecilia de Almeida, and they moved to New York City in 1977 when she received an American grant for music studies. He again worked in various jobs, such as waiter and bartender, to support his own studies in the Actors Studio.

Divorced from Maria, he has lived with Brazilian singer Carmo Risques since the early 1990s. In the late 1990s he started a rodízio grill restaurant named O Porcão in the docks district of Lisbon, and renamed it Xurrascão do Tejo in 2004. He lived in New York for several years, and in 2004 moved to his own house in Santa Monica, California. In 2005 he applied for American citizenship.