Ivo Müller
Actor/Writer
Ivo Müller is a stage and screen actor whose work spans Europe, the U. S., and his native Brazil. His main stage credits include a production of Twelve Angry Men with Grupo Tapa, one of Brazil’s most established theatre companies, as well as his long-running hit solo performance based on the writings of Rainer Maria Rilke.
His screen work includes Tabu, the multi-award-winning Portuguese film directed by Miguel Gomes, which received the Critics’ Best Picture Award at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2012. Müller has worked with major studios such as HBO, Sony, and Globo TV. His recent credits include Hebe: The Brazilian Star (2019), in which he portrayed an AIDS-stricken hairdresser in the biopic of one of Brazil’s most celebrated television hosts, the US independent film Proof Sheet (2022), and Night Stage, which premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2025.
Alongside his acting career, Müller has worked as a teacher and acting coach on the award-winning documentary Cine Marrocos (2019), collaborating with homeless people and refugees living in an abandoned movie theatre in São Paulo. His additional stage credits include Stitching by Anthony Neilson, Huis Clos (No Exit) by Jean-Paul Sartre, The Widows by Arthur Azevedo, Camaraderie by August Strindberg, Bitter Sicilian by Luigi Pirandello, and Hecuba by Euripides.