Rafa is a stage and screen actor. He is a graduate of the American Repertory Theater Institute at Harvard University with an MFA in Acting. He has studied at the Moscow Art Theater School, the Michael Chekhov Actors Studio Boston, as well as taken various opportunities to study acting at the Living Theater NY, Shakespeare & Company, and Lessac Institute, to name just a few of them. He has trained initially in France at the 'Atelier International de Théatre' (where Vincent Cassel also trained) and the Bilingual Acting Workshop.Among some of his stage roles in Moscow, Paris and Boston, he has performed in The Seagull, Fear and Misery in the Third Reich, 12 Angry Jurors, Hair, Anna in the Tropics, Wit, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, among many others.He speaks French, English and Portuguese fluently, is a fencer (the foil being his weapon of choice) and a Latin American Dancer.Rafael also holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Systems Engineering from the University of Bristol in England.