Michel de Carvalho

Michel de Carvalho
Full name	Michel Rey de Carvalho
nation	United Kingdom
birthday	July 21, 1944
place of birth	Gerrards Cross , Buckinghamshire
size	178 cm
Weight	72 kg
Career
discipline	Single seater double seater
status	resigned

Michel Rey de Carvalho (born July 21, 1944 in Gerrards Cross , Buckinghamshire ) is a retired British luge driver and actor .

De Carvalho is the son of a Brazilian and an Englishwoman . He attended a school in Switzerland where he learned to ski. Thereupon he got the key role of the adopted son Toni in the film The Divided Heart by Michael Balcon . More roles followed until he withdrew from acting in 1962 after playing as an Arab orphan boy in Lawrence of Arabia . In the films he always appeared under the name Michel Ray .

De Carvalho graduated from Harvard University with a degree in economics. In addition to his work, he started a sports career. In the late 1960s he was a member of the British alpine ski team until he switched to luge. Together with Jeremy Palmer-Tompkinson he competed in doubles at the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo , Japan. They reached the 20th place. In 1976 they competed again in Innsbruck , Austria and achieved the same placement. De Carvalho also started in a single-seater and finished 29th.

De Carvalho worked for various financial services companies and became a multimillionaire. He is married to Charlene , the daughter of master brewer Freddy Heineken . After the death of her father in 2002, she inherited a fortune of 6 billion dollars, replacing Queen Beatrix as the richest woman in the Netherlands.

Filmography (selection)

• 1954: The Divided Heart (The Divided Heart)
• 1956: Roter Staub (The Brave One)
• 1957: Tin Star (The Tin Star)
• 1962: Lawrence of Arabia (Lawrence of Arabia)

Web links

• Michel de Carvalho in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Michel de Carvalho in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )