Perry Salles

Perilúcio José de Almeida (March 6, 1939 – June 17, 2009), better known by his stage name Perry Salles, was a Brazilian film director and actor.

In 1989, after his divorce from Vera Fischer, stricken by a severe existential crisis, Salles moved to Bahia, initially to Salvador and later to Trancoso.

In the early 2000s, after overcoming his depression, Salles went back to Rio de Janeiro, after being invited by friend Ivone Hoffmann to partake in a theater play.

He then saw a resurgence, and later portrayed Mustafá in the 2001 telenovela O Clone and Pacheco in one episode of the 2005–07 HBO series Mandrake, his last major TV role.

He retired from acting afterwards, in order to cure his disease, but would eventually succumb to it on June 17, 2009; his body was cremated and his ashes buried at the Caju Cemetery in Rio de Janeiro.