Netflix star Wagner Moura opened up about the moment he met his wife of 25 years, Sandra Delgado, and why he was dressed like a ballerina.
Wagner Moura Reveals How He Met His Wife, Sandra Delgado
Fresh off his Golden Globe Award win, Brazilian actor Wagner Moura sat down with Drew Barrymore where he spilled the hilarious details of how he met his wife.
“Carnival is very insane, Drew. You have to go. It’s crazy,” he began during the Wednesday, January 21, episode of the “Drew Barrymore Show.” “We dress in many different kinds of outfits and I was dressed as a ballerina in this particular one, and that’s where I met my wife 25 years ago.”
Moura continued, “And she seemed to like the ballerina thing.”
The “Narcos” star explained that he and Delgado were acquaintances before that fateful day as they attended the same university.
“I knew her. She was kind of my friend, but not really,” he said. “She had a boyfriend and everything. But like I said, in Carnival all the barriers like just [disappear]. So I saw her and she saw the ballerina.”
He went on to say that their relationship progressed quickly after their first day together, calling it a “roller coaster of emotions.”
“We spent the entire Carnival together. Right after—I was already working in Rio de Janeiro, I was doing a play there—and I was like, ‘Do you want to go to Rio with me?’ and she was like, ‘Yeah,'” he recalled. “So she packed and went to Rio and started living together. That’s how we started to know each other, by living at the same apartment.”
Wagner Moura Has Been Married 25 Years
GettyWhile the relationship between “The Secret Agent” star and his longtime partner started in a whirlwind, Moura explained that it hasn’t all been “easy.”
“Not easy. No, not an easy journey,” he told Barrymore. “You know, like it’s very full of ups and downs and it’s—but beautiful.”
The actor and his photographer wife currently split their time between Rio de Janeiro and Los Angeles, as they raise their three teenage boys.
He opened up about fatherhood during a recent December 2025 interview with Interview Magazine, calling it “an impossible balance.”
“I came to realize that because I’ve tried to bring them with me. I’ve tried to go back all the time. I’ve tried everything,” he said. “It was very heartbreaking when I’d go back home and see they grew up. But also it’s beautiful to see their understanding of it. I was doing the play and I spent two weeks with them in L.A. and then I started doing these trips and I was like, ‘Guys, I’m sorry, I have to go.’ And they were like, ‘Hey man, I get it. This is what you do.'”
