To watch actor Wagner Moura in any of his films—as a special-ops-unit police captain caught in a web of brutality in ‘Elite Squad,’ as a confident veteran journalist in ‘Civil War,’ or as that research scientist in ‘The Secret Agent’—is to see both intelligence and intuition at work.
For Moura, connecting with the broader world is paramount, and this past year he has been on a roll. He won the Best Actor award for his role in The Secret Agent and became the first Brazilian actor to be nominated for Best Actor at the Oscars.
Moura is among TIME’s 100 most influential people of the year. Read the full interview and see the list here: time.com/article/2026/04/15/wagner-moura-t...