Luiz Fernando Ianelli is a Brazilian actor born on March 20, 1950 in Rio de Janeiro. Along with director Carlos Hugo Christensen he established a good partnership and made three of his five films with him: as the boy Zeca da Curva who falls in love with the wind and with another man in The Boy and the Wind (1967); followed by the young troubled teen in Anjos e Demônios (1970) and Enigma para Demônios (1975) in the 1970's. Other films without the director are Ninguém Segura Essas Mulheres (1976) and as the lead in the comedy O Varão de Ipanema (1976).

Despite being a young and talented actor he never made it so big with audiences and didn't land more roles after his last film neither had appearances on TV series of telenovelas. He quit acting and moved to the United States in his later life. He died on May 23, 2015 in California.

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Luiz Fernando Ianelli

Actor