Michel Ray de Carvalho (born in Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire, on 21 July 1944) is a British financier, former Olympic skier and luger, and former child actor in films such as The Brave One, The Tin Star, and Lawrence of Arabia (under the name Michel Ray).

Early life

De Carvalho's father was a Brazilian diplomat and his mother was British. He appeared in several films as a child and teenager, including the 1962 epic film Lawrence of Arabia (where he played the character Farraj, Lawrence's personal servant and childhood friend), The Divided Heart in 1954, The Tin Star with Henry Fonda and Anthony Perkins in 1957, and The Brave One in 1956 where he plays a young Mexican boy who tries to rescue his pet bull from being killed by a champion bullfighter. He quit acting to attend Harvard University, which he later described as "just about the most stupid decision" he ever made. Nevertheless, de Carvalho graduated from Harvard and then earned an MBA degree from the same university. De Carvalho represented Great Britain at the 1968 Winter Olympics in skiing, and luge at the 1972 and 1976 Winter Olympics. In May 2013 he was named President of British Skeleton.

Career

De Carvalho was the vice-chairman of investment banking at Citigroup, where he chaired Citi Private Bank in the EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) region, a post to which he was appointed in November 2009. He worked previously at HBS, Credit Suisse and Nikko Securities. On 23 April 2015 he became the Executive Director at Heineken Holding N.V., but remains active as board member or director of several other business ventures. In 2018 Carvalho was appointed chairman of CapGen.

Personal life

He married Heineken heiress Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken in 1983. In 2002 Charlene inherited a fortune of GB£3 billion ($4.8bn) upon the death of her father, Freddy Heineken. They have five children (two sons and three daughters, including twins, born between 1984 and 1991).

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