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

Born in Brazil and raised in New York City, Santos holds a 2nd dan backbelt in Shotokan Karate which he has practiced since age 8. Santos attended the Professional Performing Arts School alongside Connor Paolo, Sarah Hyland, and Andrea Bowen, and is alum of LaGuardia Arts Highschool. In 2008, Santos enrolled at Macaulay Honors College at CUNY, where he designed the courses of his self-created major Cognitive Philosophy and Theatrical Arts.

Film
In 2010, Santos played the role of Rafael, a young Brazilian arriving to New York City in 1962, in Bemvindo (Welcome). Written, directed and produced by Alexandra Roxo, Bemvindo is based on a true story and was made for the 2010 5x5 Project at the Domani Vision Society.

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.

On December 9, 2014 Blue Seraph Productions announced that Santos will portray the role of Tim Wyman in their third feature film Something Like Summer based on Jay Bell's acclaimed novel of the same name.

Television
In July 23, 2014 Santos portrayed Kyle on the fifth episode of Mystery Girls where Holly and Charlie go undercover at Holly's old high school to prevent a prank against the principal.

Playing Sir Ivan of Zandar, a medieval knight who served the royal family of the small country of Zandar some 800 years ago, Santos premiered in the long-running American television series Power Rangers Dino Charge as the Dino Charge Gold Ranger on September 12, 2015.

Theatre
Running from August 14 to August 25 at the 2009 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 and Santos shared credits with Emmy nominee Ron Raines and Broadway veteran Dona D. Vaugh.

In 2011, Davi Santos portrayed the seductive titular character of Salome at an irreverent and erotic new production of Oscar Wilde's Salome. Presented at The Secret Theatre from October 6 to October 16, the Brooklyn-based Femme Fatale Theatre production featured an all-male cast and explored unrequited lust and sexual taboos through a distinctly queer aesthetic.

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.