Actor, circus humorist. His father is the circus humorist Osvaldo Moreira, known as Veneno. Rico is part of the second generation of artists in his family. He debuted at age four as a clown at Teatrinho do Veneno and Dalila, a circus owned by his parents in the city of Piracicaba, São Paulo throughout the 1940s. When they stopped putting on circus acts in 1990, the family started acting in theater plays. Rico is the author of "Os caçadores de Drácula", inspired in the Brazilian soap opera "Vamp".