Neto DePaula Pimenta

Fluent in Portuguese, able to perform in it's numerous dialects - Be a boy From Ipanema, A City Sleaker or a farm boy and even a Portuguese sailor from the old continent. In English a fit the bill for the numerous variations of the Latin characters: Drug Lord, Latin Lover, Zorro, Hustler, Puerto Rican Pimps, Danny Trejo impersonator, East LA Cholo, Scarface, and everything in between. As well as many other Foreign Nationals, The Eastern Block Underworld, RUssian Mobster/enforcer, Italian Mafioso, Middle Eastern Insurgent, Greek Chef, Brazilian Boy Toy... Accents: Brazilian, South American, Hispanic, Italian, Eastern European, Russian, Middle Eastern, Greek.

I've been acting professionaly - as in being a member of the unions and getting paid gigs from mainstream production companies for 6 years now, and have been a performer for another 10. After years of people insisting on complementing me on my voice, and it's qualities before anything was said about my performance I thought I'd give voice over a try. In taking classes and experimenting with my voice, I found an imense freedom in the fact that my voice and body were no longer self imposed limitations on creating a character, and my range was actually much greater than that of which I was acustomed to. I'm still in pursuit of an agent to better promote my services, but in the meantime I've found some moderate succes in promoting and selling myself to various video game companies. Haven't worked with EA in their big hit MMA Video game as both a voice over Artist as well as a translator (English to Portuguese) for some of their Brazilian Fighters. I've done some animation webseries. Industrial Promos as Portuguese and have two other Video Games dropping Summer/Fall 2011, one of which I've voice half a dozen characters, having scenes in which I get to carry a conversation and even argu between my different selves. I look forward to more work as a charcater actor, and my main foucs is character in both video games and animation Bachelor's Degree in Social Communication with enphasis on Film Language. Minor in Film. Extensive Theatre, Voice and Perfomance training with various coaches both in LA as well as Brazil. Voice for Permance and Dialect Coaching with Bob Corff, in Los Angeles, CA Voice Over workshops, classes and private coaching with William Williams at Aliso Creek Productions in Burbank California. I'm not at all knowledgeable about audio engeneering. I do however have easy access to a full blown studio -Aliso Creek in Burbank California - which is where I work along with a professional sound engeneering expert - William Williams - to record all of my auditions as well as any jobs. Both my Portuguese and English fluency are at an academic level, which makes me a pretty darn good translator. For the last 15 years my main focus has been filmaking and acting. I'm a writer of plays and film and I can also lend a hand in improving or rewriting - give suggestions only when necessary and asked upon obviously- copy. Though I can easily deliver narration my main interest is in character where I can bring my whole bag of acting skills to support my voice work.