Joaquim de Almeida is one of the most appraised Portuguese actors, well known in the world of the international cinema. He traveled the world working in Europe, Argentina, Brazil, Mexico and in the United States in many movies and stage productions.

Won best actor award in the Cairo film festival for his performance in Retrato de Família ("Family Portrait"). Became known to the world with performance in movies such as, Good Morning, Babylon, Beyond the Limit (aka "Beyond the Limit") and The Soldier. He also worked in several New York City Shakespeare productions, such as, "Blood Wedding", "What Would Jeanne Moreau Do", in the "wpa Theatre" and "The Count of Mount Cristo".

In 1998 he won the Portuguese Golden Globe for the movie Tentação. However Joaquim does not place the money above a good script, "In the past year, I had a proposal to make a film with Sylvester Stallone and gave up when I had the contract practically signed".


Besides Portuguese, speaks five languages fluently: English, French, Italian, Spanish and German. Father of a son, Lourenço, born 1992, (with Maria Cecília) and a daughter, Ana Gaivão Risques Baptista de Almeida, born 2002 (with Maria do Carmo Gaivão de Tavares Risques Pereira). Son of João Baptista de Almeida and wife Maria Sara Portugal. They were both graduated in pharmacy and Technical Directors of J.A.B.A. Laboratories. Has five older siblings: Jorge André, Isabel Maria, Ana Maria, José António and João. His paternal grandfather José António Baptista de Almeida (b. Lagos, 1887, d. Lisbon, 1950), was also a pharmaceutical (diplomed by the Pharmacy School of Lisbon in 1909) and the founder of J.A.B.A Laboratories.