He is the son of the late banker and entrepreneur Walther Moreira Salles. He is the founder and chairman of the Grupo Globo, which is the largest media conglomerate in Latin America. He is also the founder of the Banco Itaú, which is the largest private bank in Brazil. Walther Moreira Salles Junior has produced and directed several films, including the award-winning film Central Station.
Walther Moreira Salles Junior is a Brazilian filmmaker and film producer with a net worth of $1.9 billion. He is the founder and chairman of Grupo Globo, the largest media conglomerate in Latin America, and the founder of Banco Itaú, the largest private bank in Brazil. He has produced and directed several award-winning films, including Central Station. He was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in April 1956 and is the son of the late banker and entrepreneur Walther Moreira Salles.
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💰Walther Moreira Salles Junior Net worth: $4.1 Billion
He attended the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts. His first big movie was Foreign Land which was released in 1995 in Brazil. Salles has directed the movies The Knife, Central Station, Midnight, Behind the Sun, The Motorcycle Diaries, Dark Water, To Each His Own Cinema, Stories on Human Rights, and On the Road. He has won more than 50 awards including two BAFTA Film Awards and awards at the Cannes Film Festival, Sundance Film Festival, and Venice Film Festival. His father Walther Moreira Salles founded Unibanco and his family owns a controlling stake in the bank. Walther Moreira Salles Junior and his three brothers are all billionaires and own a majority stake in the world's leading supplier of niobium. He is married with one child and lives in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
