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Davi Santos (born February 1, 1990) is a Brazilian born American actor best known for his role playing Sir Ivan, The Gold Ranger, on the long-running American television series Power Rangers Dino Charge. Santos is a screenwriter and principle of The Cure, a film that world premiered at Cannes Film Festival.

Early life and Education
In late 1990, Santos' family emigrated from his natal Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to New York City. Santos grew up in Astoria, a neighborhood in the northwestern corner of the New York City borough of Queens. Since the age of 8, Santos practices and trains in Martial arts; he currently holds a second Dan Back-belt in Shotokan Karate.

Santos attended the Professional Performing Arts School along side Connor Paolo and Sarah Hyland. Santos is alum of LaGuardia Arts "Fame" Highschool. In 2008, Santos enrolled at Macaulay Honors College at Lehman (CUNY), where he designed the courses of his self-created major Cognitive Philosophy and Theatrical Arts and met Christopher J. Lopez.

During his years at the Lehman College, Santos spearheaded the 2010 24 Hour Play Fun; founded the Macaulay Theater Group to produce original work of developing playwrights with staged readings and festivals of short plays creating collaborations between both Emmy winning and Broadway professionals with current students; and was recognized as an Honor Student in 2013.

Career
Santos has a background in theatre and commercials. In 2009 at the New York International Fringe Festival, Santos played his first Off-Broadway role as Hunter in the world premiere of Afterlight by Monica Flory at the Cherry Lane Theatre. In early 2010, Santos presented a staged reading of Pail of Smoke by Peter Paulino, a play in progress about an ambitious politician struggling for success who ends up sacrifiyig his sexuality, identity and goodness to win. Later that year, Pail of Smoke premiered at Macaulay Honors College at Lehman and shared credits with Emmy nominee Ron Raines and Broadway veteran Dona D. Vaughn.

Also in 2010, Santos played the role of Rafael—a young Brazilian arriving to New York City in 1962—in Bemvindo, a based-on-a-true-story film made for the 2010 5x5 Project at the Domani Vision Society. At the 2010 Samuel French Play Festival, Santos played Jaul in Map of Our Country at Theatre Row. The following year, Davi Santos portrayed the seductive titular character of Salome at an irreverent and erotic new production of Oscar Wilde's Salome which was presented at The Secret Theatre by the Brooklyn-based Femme Fatale Theatre; the production featured an all-male cast and explored unrequited lust and sexual taboos through a distinctly queer aesthetic.



In the Fall of 2011, after two months of work, Christopher J. Lopez and Santos completed the script for The Cure which was shot in December of the same year and completed in early 2012. The Cure, where Santos plays the role of Damien Villanueva, premiered at the Palais des Festivals et des Congrès at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival.

Densely Hollow was the result of seven months of co-writing between Christopher J. Lopez and Santos, The short film was shot in only seven days in June 2012, the film was completed in the fall of 2013. Santos is credited as co-writer, director, producer and actor.

 

Presented at the 2012 New York Musical Theatre Festival, Santos stared, at the Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre, in Trouble: The Musical, a new rock musical called "intense", "shocking", and "profoundly moving" during its London Premiere. Trouble is a raw and uncensored look at eight teenagers and all the turmoil, sex, joy, heartbreak and trouble that young love brings. In 2013, a self-tape landed Santos an appearance on ABC's comedy series Don't Trust the B in Apartment 23 ; right after, Santos joined the cast of the american Sitcom Mr. Box Office for two seasons. Santos continued making television appearances on Nickelodeon's How to Rock, and ABC Family's Switched at Birth (TV series), Mystery Girls and Chasing Life.

Announced in December 2014, Santos was cast to play the role of Tim Wyman in Blue Seraph Productions' third feature film Something Like Summer based on Jay Bell's acclaimed novel of the same name. Something Like Summer was filmed in Portland in September 2015 and is expected to premiere sometime in 2016. During the filming of Something Like Summer, Santos, who in 2014 was cast for two seasons, premiered in the long-running American television series Power Rangers Dino Charge as Sir Ivan of Zandar (Dino Charge Gold Ranger); a medieval knight who served the royal family of the small country of Zandar some 800 years ago.