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name: "Vinícius de Oliveira"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/vinicius-de-oliveira"
fi1m_id: "vinicius-de-oliveira"
imdb_id: "nm0646737"
tmdb_id: 10059
wikidata_id: "Q612164"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "18 July 1985"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T22:20:07.818799+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Vinícius de Oliveira

## Identity

Vinícius de Oliveira

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/vinicius-de-oliveira
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** vinicius-de-oliveira
- **IMDb ID:** nm0646737
- **TMDB ID:** 10059
- **Wikidata ID:** Q612164
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vin%C3%ADcius_de_Oliveira, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q612164, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0646737/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/10059

Actor. Born 18 July 1985 in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 18 July 1985, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vin%C3%ADcius_de_Oliveira, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q612164, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0646737/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/10059

## Coming up

- *Crisálida* (2027-09-02), as Pedro

## Fi1m on Vinícius de Oliveira

> Vinícius de Oliveira brings a useful hardness to *Central Station*, resisting the easy charm expected of a child lead. His partnership with Fernanda Montenegro is still the clearest reason for our interest in his work.

Josué does not make it easy for Dora to like him in *Central Station* (1998), and Vinícius de Oliveira does not soften that difficulty for us. He gives the boy a hardness that Fernanda Montenegro has to answer, rather than simply absorb with adult patience. We rate this performance highly because the child is allowed to be an awkward companion, not a ready-made lesson in kindness. Walter Salles lets the suspicion between them last. De Oliveira never treats the boy's difficult behaviour as something cute.

We were moved by their relationship because neither performance asks us to overlook how wary these two people are of each other. De Oliveira's resistance gives Montenegro something to work against, and their exchanges are stronger for it. The film occasionally offers reassurance too readily; the boy's harder edges help keep that tendency in check. There is skill here in making a child worth watching without making him agreeable. Salles gets the best from the pairing when he leaves both characters room to be difficult.

Salles is also the clearest thread through de Oliveira's subsequent film work. They reunited for *Behind the Sun* (2001), a period drama set in rural Brazil, and *Linha de Passe* (2008), an ensemble portrait of family life in São Paulo. Those collaborations carried him beyond his child-actor breakthrough, though fewer prominent leading parts followed. Later supporting roles include Júnior in *Neon Bull* (2015), with Éder in the television series *Sintonia* (2019) among his work on the smaller screen.

We would welcome another leading part that gives him a relationship as demanding as the one with Montenegro. The early performance is good enough to make that a reasonable hope, without requiring us to declare every later appearance essential. Start with *Central Station* for the uneasy partnership, and allow the story its occasional eagerness to reassure.

## Biography

Vinícius de Oliveira is a Brazilian actor. He was born on 18 July 1985 in Rio de Janeiro and was discovered by director Walter Salles while working as a shoeshine boy at Santos Dumont Airport. He was selected from among more than 1,500 candidates to play Josué Fontenele de Paiva in the 1998 film *Central Station* (original title *Central do Brasil*), opposite Fernanda Montenegro.

De Oliveira has appeared in further films directed by Salles, including *Behind the Sun* (2001) and *Linha de Passe* (2008). He has also worked in television and received the Guarani Award for Best Revelation in 1999 for his performance in *Central Station*.

*Sources: pt.wikipedia.org, en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Central Station* (1998), Fi1m 85, as Josué Fontenele de Paiva — [page](https://film.one/film/central-station.md)

## Complete filmography (38)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Crisálida* (2027), as Pedro
- *Parallel Consequences* (2026), Casting Coordinator
- *Leite em Pó* (2026), Actor
- *Pão Doce* (2026), Actor
- *Rio de Sangue* (2026), as Wanderson
- *Almost Deserted* (2025), as Luís
- *Tremembé* (2025), series, as Rogério
- *Films to Die For* (2025), as (archive footage) (uncredited)
- *Um Espaço que se Move* (2025), Actor
- *Sobredor* (2024), Director, Screenplay
- *Cortina Fechada* (2024), as Diogo
- *A Matriarca* (2024), Actor
- *Not My Fault: Brazil* (2022), series, as Eduardo (Dudu)
- *Um Dia Qualquer* (2022), as Maciel
- *Um Dia Qualquer* (2020), series, as Maciel
- *The Freitas Brothers* (2019), series, as Gilvan
- *Second Call* (2019), series, as Pedro Torres Soares
- *Sintonia* (2019), series, as Éder
- *Motolove* (2017), as Cadu
- *Capitão Brasil* (2017), Actor
- *Unidade Básica* (2016), series, as Malaquias
- *Demonia: A Melodrama in 3 Acts* (2016), as Rildo
- *Neon Bull* (2016), as Junior
- *Santo Forte* (2015), series, as João
- *Magnifica 70* (2015), series, as Saulo
- *Moto Anjos* (2015), as Alexandre
- *If God Comes Let Him Bring a Gun* (2014), as Damião
- *Trinta* (2013), Actor
- *As Órbitas* (2012), as Rafael
- *Federal Bank Heist* (2011), as Denivaldo
- *Fca Carla* (2011), as Doutor Hugo
- *The Time and Turn of Augusto Matraga* (2011), as Josias
- *Linha de Passe* (2008), as Dario
- *Stray Bullet* (2003), as Carlos
- *Behind the Sun* (2001), as Membro  da Família Ferreira
- *Mild Poison* (1999), series, as Adelmo de Alencar Júnior
- *Central Station* (1998), as Josué Fontenele de Paiva — Fi1m 85, [page](https://film.one/film/central-station.md)
- *A Adoção*, as Tiago

## Gallery

- ![Foto do ator Vinicius de Oliveira (2009)](https://film.one/media/person/87912/gallery-0a33564a4e93.jpg) Foto do ator Vinicius de Oliveira (2009) — Gpsilva2003, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/ViniciusCamposdeOliveira.jpg/1280px-ViniciusCamposdeOliveira.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Vinícius de Oliveira](https://film.one/media/person/87912/gallery-66673a1686b7.jpg) Vinícius de Oliveira — Gpsilva2003, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2e/ViniciusCamposdeOliveira_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Vinícius de Oliveira](https://film.one/media/person/87912/gallery-4df0324f3474.jpg) Vinícius de Oliveira — Image via TMDB
- ![Vinícius de Oliveira](https://film.one/media/person/87912/gallery-9310f2582843.jpg) Vinícius de Oliveira — Image via TMDB
- ![Vinícius de Oliveira](https://film.one/media/person/87912/gallery-516690a94acb.jpg) Vinícius de Oliveira — Image via TMDB
- ![Vinícius de Oliveira](https://film.one/media/person/87912/gallery-a88b9268e880.jpg) Vinícius de Oliveira — Image via TMDB

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