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Filippo Timi was born on 27 February 1974 in Perugia, Umbria, Italy. He is an actor and writer, known for Vincere (2009), The Double Hour (2009) and The American (2010). He was previously married to Sebastiano Mauri.- Actor
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Elio Germano was born on 25 September 1980 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He is an actor and writer, known for Leopardi (2014), Nine (2009) and Mio fratello è figlio unico (2007).- Actor
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Luca Marinelli was born on 22 October 1984 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He is an actor, known for The Old Guard (2020), They Call Me Jeeg Robot (2015) and Martin Eden (2019). He is married to Alissa Jung.- Actor
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Edoardo Gabbriellini was born on 16 July 1975 in Livorno, Italy. He is an actor and director, known for The Landlords (2012), I Am Love (2009) and Holiday (2023).- Actor
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Alessandro Borghi was born on 19 September 1986 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He is an actor, known for Suburra (2015), On My Skin: The Last Seven Days of Stefano Cucchi (2018) and The Eight Mountains (2022).- Actor
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Edoardo Pesce was born on 12 September 1979 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He is an actor and writer, known for Dogman (2018), Fortunata (2017) and Non sono un assassino (2019).- Actor
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Stefano Accorsi got his diploma from the School of Theater in Bologna. He divides his time between theater, cinema, and television. Currently he is the Artistic Director of the Theater Foundation of Tuscany. He was appointed Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters) by the French Ministry of Culture. His movies include: Jack Frusciante è uscito dal gruppo (Jack Frusciante Has Left the Band) by Enza Negroni, I piccoli maestri (Little Teachers) by Daniele Luchetti, Ormai è fatta! (Outlaw) by Enzo Monteleone (Grolla d'Oro Award), Un uomo perbene (A Respectable Man) by Maurizio Zaccaro (Grolla d'Oro), Capitaes de Abril (April Captains) by Maria de Medeiros, Come quando fuori piove by Mario Monicelli, Radiofreccia (Radio Arrow) and Made in Italy by Luciano Ligabue (David di Donatello, Amidei Award and Ciak d'Oro), L'ultimo bacio (The Last Kiss), Baciami ancora (Kiss Me Again) and A casa tutti bene (There's No Place like Home) by Gabriele Muccino, Saturno contro (Saturn in Opposition), Le fate ignoranti (The Ignorant Fairies) and La Dea Fortuna (The Goddess of Fortune) by Ferzan Ozpetek (Nastro d'Argento, Ciak d'Oro and Globo d'Oro from the foreign press in Italy), La stanza del figlio (The Son's Room) by Nanni Moretti, Santa Maradona by Marco Ponti, Romanzo criminale (Crime Novel) and Un viaggio chiamato amore (A Scandalous Journey / A Journey Called Love) by Michele Placido (Coppa Volpi Best Actor at the 59th Venice Film Festival), Tous le soleils by Philippe Claudel, Veloce come il vento (Italian Race) by Matteo Rovere (David di Donatello, Nastro d'Argento, 2016 FICE Award Actor of the Year), Fortunata directed by Sergio Castellitto (Ciak d'Oro Best Actor). He debuted in directing with the short film Io non ti conosco, produced by Yoox Group that he also acted in (2014 Nastro d'Argento Best NewDirector). For Sky Italia, the series 1992 and the sequels 1993 and 1994 directed by Giuseppe Gagliardi, of which he is the creator and actor. Also for Sky in association with HBO, The Young Pope by Paolo Sorrentino.- Actor
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Pierfrancesco Favino was born on 24 August 1969 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He is an actor and producer, known for World War Z (2013), Rush (2013) and Angels & Demons (2009).- Actor
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Claudio Santamaria is born in Rome. His career begins on the big screen in 1998, but his big break arrives in 2001, when Gabriele Muccino casts him for "L'Ultimo Bacio". Throughout the years he appears in many movies and in 2005 he wins the Nastro D'Argento for Best Actor for "Romanzo Criminale" directed by Michele Placido. The Italian and international movies that highlighted his career include: "Il Cartaio" by Dario Argento, "Torneranno I Prati" by Ermanno Olmi, "Casino Royale" by Martin Campbell, "600 Kilos d'or pur" by Eric Besnard and "Pauline Dètective" directed by Marc Fitoussi. He voiced Christian Bale's Batman in Italian in "Batman Begins", "The Dark Knight", "The Dark Knight Rises" and Batman in "The Lego Movie", "LEGO Batman - The Movie", The LEGO Movie 2 - The Second Part" and in the Spotify Podcast "Batman - Un'autopsia". He is beloved from the tv audience for his performance in the biopic of the famous Italian singer "Rino Gaetano - Il Cielo è Sempre Più Blu" and being himself a great musician he performed all the songs in this series. In 2015 he appears as the protagonist, Orlando Mieli, in the TV series "È Arrivata la Felicità", a romantic comedy acclaimed by the Italian public since the pilot episode, this is why the second season was confirmed in 2017. The past few years he works in theatre, acting in "Occidente Solitario" by Martin McDonagh directed by Juan Diego Puerta Lopez and "Gospodin" by Philipp Lohle directed by Giorgio Barberio Corsetti. In 2017 he acts as Enzo Ceccotti in "Lo Chiamavano Jeeg Robot", directed by Gabriele Mainetti: It was thanks to this role that he wins the David Di Donatello as Best Actor. In the meantime he debuts as a director with the short movie "The Millionairs"; his cinematic journey proceeds throughout the next few years with "Brutti e Cattivi", first movie by Cosimo Gomez, "Rimetti a Noi i Nostri Debiti" by Antonio Morabito, "Tutto il Mio Folle Amore" directed by Oscar Wininng director Gabriele Salvatores presented in the 76th Venice International Film Festival. He continues his creative journey with the director Gabriele Muccino working on "Gli Anni Più Belli" released in 2020. In 2021 he is presented in the 78th Venice International Film Festival with the Film "Freaks Out" directed by Gabriele Mainetti where he acts as "BeastMan" affected by hypertrichosis with super-human strength. In 2022 he is Matteo, Postulator of the Vatican, in the Sky series "Christian" directed by Stefano Lodovichi and Antonio Nicastro, manager of the daily newspaper "L'Ora - Inchiostro contro Piombo" directed by Piero Messina, Ciro D'Emilio and Stefano Lorenzi. He also voiced the brave monster hunter Jacob Holland in Italian in the animated Netflix show "Il Mostro Dei Mari". In 2023 he acts as Franco in the drama "Educazione Fisica" directed by Stefano Cipani and presented as preview in the National Film Festival in Rome, he returns in the second season of the series "Christian" as Matteo, and is the voice of Super Mario in the animated movie "Super Mario Bros - The Movie".- Carmine Recano was born on 28 November 1980 in Naples, Campania, Italy. He is an actor, known for Loose Cannons (2010), Chinese Wife (2006) and Sospetti 3 (2005).
- Andrea Carpenzano was born on 24 August 1995 in Lugo, Ravenna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. He is an actor, known for Tutto quello che vuoi (2017), The Champion (2019) and Il permesso - 48 ore fuori (2017).
- Filippo Nigro, born in Rome in the Trieste district, attended the Faculty of Arts at the University "La Sapienza" Rome and then furthered his studies graduating from the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia under the guidance of the Oscar-winning director Lina Wertmüller. He is known for starring in the critically-acclaimed films, films "A.C.A.B. - All Cops Are Bastards" (2012), "Different from Whom?" (2009) and "Facing Window" (2003). His television work includes the wildly popular series "Suburra - Blood on Rome" (2017) and its upcoming spin-off "SuburrAEterna" among many others. Married, he is the father of three children.
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With his starring roles in two of the most popular foreign films of all time, Italian native Marco Leonardi has become one of Hollywood's most sought-after young actors. Leonardi most recently completed production on two feature films that showcase his diversity as an actor. In Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003), Leonardi stars as a drunken bandito with Antonio Banderas and Johnny Depp. He filmed _Mary (2005)_ with Juliette Binoche in Italy. Leonardi made his U.S. feature debut in the independent drama My Brother Jack (1997). Based on a true story and set in the 1960s, "My Brother Jack" centers on an Italian-American, working-class family whose son becomes addicted to heroin. Since the film's premiere at the Hamptons International Film Festival, Leonardi has been gathering critical acclaim for his portrayal of the drug-addicted young magician. Leonardi is best known to American audiences from the hugely successful foreign films Like Water for Chocolate (1992) and _Nuovo cinema Paradiso (1989)_. Based on the novel of the same name, "Like Water For Chocolate" remains one of the highest-grossing foreign films in the United States, running in theaters for a record number of consecutive weeks. In "Cinema Paradiso" Leonardi portrayed the adult "Toto," whose fascination with movies and his loving relationship with a Sicilian movie theater projectionist is chronicled. Critically acclaimed, "Cinema Paradiso" won the Academy Award for best Foreign Film. American audiences most recently saw Leonardi co-starring in the TNT Original Movie David (1997). Born in Australia to Italian parents, Leonardi grew up in Rome and began in commercials at the age of three. An Italian Film veteran, Leonardi has starred in over 20 films in his native Italy including The Stendhal Syndrome (1996), opposite Asia Argento and directed by Dario Argento; The Palermo Connection (1990), directed Francesco Rosi and starring Jim Belushi and Mimi Rogers; and Una vacanza all'inferno (1997), opposite F. Murray Abraham, Giancarlo Giannini. Leonardi divides his time between Los Angeles and Rome. Fluent in four languages (Italian, English, Portuguese, and Spanish), Leonardi enjoys soccer, horseback and motorcycle riding and playing with dog "Benny".- Actor
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Roberto Herlitzka was born on 2 October 1937 in Turin, Piedmont, Italy. He is an actor, known for Good Morning, Night (2003), The Great Beauty (2013) and L'ultima lezione (2000). He has been married to Chiara Cajoli since 1968.- Actor
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Riccardo Scamarcio was born on 13 November 1979 in Trani, Apulia, Italy. He is an actor and producer, known for John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017), Loose Cannons (2010) and Tre metri sopra il cielo (2004).- Writer
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Pif was born on 4 June 1972 in Palermo, Sicily, Italy. He is a writer and director, known for The Mafia Kills Only in Summer (2013), At War with Love (2016) and E noi come stronzi rimanemmo a guardare (2021).- Born in Savignano Irpino, Avellino, Carpentieri studied architecture in Naples, where from 1965 to 1974 he was engaged in the organization and promotion of cultural events with the group Nuova Cultura. In 1975 he was co-founder of the stage company Teatro dei Mutamenti, in which he was active until 1980 as a director, an actor and a playwright. He made his film debut in 1990, almost fifty years old, in Gianni Amelio's "Porte aperte". In 1993 he won a Nastro d'Argento for best supporting actor for his performance in Gabriele Salvatores' "Puerto Escondido". Since 1995 he is the artistic director of the Neapolitan stage company Libera Scena Ensemble.
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Silvio Orlando was born on 30 June 1957 in Naples, Campania, Italy. He is an actor and writer, known for The Caiman (2006), Il posto dell'anima (2003) and The Inner Cage (2021). He has been married to Maria Laura Rondanini since 7 October 2008.- Fabrizio Ferracane is an Italian actor born in Mazara del Vallo, Sicily, in 1975. After a long career in theater, he debuted on the big screen in the film "Malèna" (2000), by Giuseppe Tornatore with Monica Bellucci. He currently works between tv and cinema. In 2007 he was in the tv series "Il capo dei capi", in 2010 in "Squadra Antimafia - Palermo Oggi". He also acted in "Il commissario Montalbano" and in the films "Uno per tutti" (2015), "Dopo la guerra" and "L'ordine delle cose" (2017), by Andrea Segre. In 2014 he was among the protagonists of the film "Anime nere", for which he was nominated for Best Actor at David di Donatello Awards. In 2019 he won, together with Luigi Lo Cascio, the Best Actor Award at David di Donatello for "The Traitor" by Marco Bellocchio.
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Pietro Castellitto was born on 16 December 1991 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He is an actor and director, known for The Predators (2020), Twice Born (2012) and Enea (2023).- Actor
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Kim Rossi Stuart was born on October 31th, 1969 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He began acting at the age of 5 along with his father Giacomo Rossi Stuart in The Murri Affair (1974). Kim's mother, Klara Müller, is an ex-top model. Kim has 3 sisters, 2 of them actresses like him: Loretta Rossi Stuart and Valentina Rossi Stuart, the latter also stunt-woman. Ombretta is the third sister.
Kim left his parent's home at 14 (1983) and also left school to study theater and in 1986 began acting regularly, especially on TV productions, like Fantaghirò (1991) and for the cinema with a small role in The Name of the Rose (1986). However it was with Karate Warrior (1987) and Poliziotti (1995) that Kim reached popularity. After this commercial movie he began to act only in quality movies, like Senza pelle (1994) where his role, a man with psychological problems, was appreciated by critics. Then he acted with the legendary director Michelangelo Antonioni in Beyond the Clouds (1995), and in an international TV fiction The Red and the Black (1997).
In the last years he came back to act in the theater with "Re Lear", a tragedy by William Shakespeare, and with the most important Italian actors like Turi Ferro in the opera "Le visiteur", a comedy by Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt, from which it is derived Il visitatore (1997), still interpreted by Kim and Turi.
On November 26th, 2011, at the age of 42, Kim became a father: the actress Ilaria Spada, his girlfriend from just a few months before, gave birth to their son, a child called Ettore. They have announced their intention to marry in summer 2015.- Actor
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Born in Lombardy to Sicilian parents, he studied at the Civic Drama School in Milan, then opted to pursue an acting career. His first experiences as a comedian date back to 1992, when he made his debut at the Zelig Theatre in Milan. He showcased his acts on the popular Maurizio Costanzo talk show and collaborated with actor-comedian Paolo Rossi. His popularity increased after he joined the Italia 1 show "Mai dire gol". He recently appears on the show "Che tempo che fa", presented by Fabio Fazio and aired on Rai 3. From the late 1990s, Albanese also pursued a movie career, working both as an actor, under the direction of Carlo Mazzacurati and Pupi Avati, and also as a director in his own right.- Actor
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Marco Giallini was born on 4 April 1963 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He is an actor, known for Perfect Strangers (2016), Rocco Schiavone (2016) and A.C.A.B. - All Cops Are Bastards (2012). He was previously married to Loredana Giallini .- Actor
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Valerio Mastandrea was born on 14 February 1972 in Garbatella, Rome, Lazio, Italy. He is an actor and producer, known for Perfect Strangers (2016), Ride (2018) and Balancing Act (2012).- Actor
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Vinicio Marchioni was born on 10 August 1975 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He is an actor and director, known for There's Still Tomorrow (2023), Romanzo criminale - La serie (2008) and Dry (2022). He has been married to Milena Mancini since 24 September 2011. They have two children.- Actor
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Andrea Lattanzi is known for Manuel (2017), On My Skin: The Last Seven Days of Stefano Cucchi (2018) and Letto numero 6 (2019).- Actor
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Born in 1981, he graduated from Paolo Grassi Dramatic Arts Academy. At 18, he made his theater debut alongside Toni Servillo in "Le avventure di Pinocchio", directed by Andrea Renzi. Since 2005, he's written, directed, and produced for theater, cinema, and TV, mainly with "La piccola società" the production company he created with director/screenwriter Francesco Ghiaccio. The first movie they made together "Un posto sicuro" won a Nastro d'Argento prize for its social value. He's starred in movies and TV series with directors like Susanne Bier, Edoardo De Angelis, Peter Chelsom, Francesca Comencini, Claudio Cupellini, Stefano Sollima. He directed the theatrical piece "American Buffalo" by David Mamet (Eliseo productions), winning two Maschere del Teatro awards and a nomination for the Ubu prize. In 2019, he wrote and directed the movie "L'immortale", winning a Nastro d'Argento prize as best first-time director and a David di Donatello nomination. He's the artistic director, director, and actor on the last season of "Gomorra - the TV series".- Actor
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Salvatore Esposito, Neapolitan, born in '86, studied at Beatrice Bracco Theater Academy and at the School of Cinema in Naples. He then moved to Rome and in 2013 he was cast for his first role on the TV series "Il clan dei camorristi". But his trampoline to fame was "Gomorra - the TV series" (2014) based on Roberto Saviano's book. Starring as the lead in all four season made him a household name, also thanks to the success of the series. In 2016, he was on the big screen with "Lo chiamavano Jeeg Robot" as a young mobster. He moved away from mobster roles with his subsequent movies: "Zeta" and "Veleno", and with the comedy "Puoi baciare lo sposo" (2018). In 2019, Salvatore starred in "L'Eroe" and joined the fourth season on the TV series "Fargo". Some of his recent movies: "AFMV - Addio fottuti musi Verdi", "Taxi 5", "L'immortale", and "Spaccapietre". In 2020, he began shooting the comedy "Rosanero" by Andrea Porporati and the movie "L'ultima cena" by Davide Minnella. In 2021, Salvatore published his first book: "Lo Sciamano".- Actor
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Fabrizio Gifuni was born on 16 July 1966 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He is an actor and writer, known for Human Capital (2013), Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy (2012) and Hannibal (2001). He has been married to Sonia Bergamasco since 2000. They have two children.- Actor
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Edoardo Leo was born on 21 April 1972 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He is an actor and writer, known for 18 Years Later (2010), The Legendary Giulia and Other Miracles (2015) and Perfect Strangers (2016).- Actor
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Neri Marcorè (pronounced Mark-oReh) was born in Marche (central Italy) County in 1966. While studying Modern Languages in Bologna he enrolled in a summer Impersonator-Comedian contest televised by the state channel RAI, and from there on his career took off with small parts in TV commercials, animated series voice-overs and feature films, but he is most often recognised for his TV comedy roles and impersonation, from the Paccoman dancer to documentary presenter Alberto Angela.- Actor
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Checco Zalone was born on 3 June 1977 in Bari, Apulia, Italy. He is an actor and writer, known for Tolo Tolo (2020), Quo vado? (2016) and What a Beautiful Day (2011).- Peppino Mazzotta was born on 20 May 1971 in Domanico, Calabria, Italy. He is an actor, known for Black Souls (2014), La velocità della luce (2007) and We Believed (2010).
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Filippo Scotti (Gravedona, 22 December 1999) is an Italian actor, protagonist of the film It was the hand of God presented at the Venice Film Festival 2021, with which he won the Marcello Mastroianni Award as best emerging actor.
He began his acting career in 2010, when he enrolled in various theatrical courses and workshops in Naples. After the theater, where he made his debut as a protagonist in the show Il Marchese di Collino directed by Patrizia Di Martino, he began acting in several short films by directors such as Gabriele Russo and Francesca Macrì. In the same year he gets a small role in the 1994 television series and then two years later in the series produced by Netflix Black Moon and in the film The King dies.
The first leading role comes in 2021 in It was the hand of God, directed by Paolo Sorrentino, where he plays the role of the alter ego of Sorrentino himself as a young man. For this interpretation he won the Marcello Mastroianni Prize at the 78th Venice International Exhibition.- Adriano Tardiolo was born in 1998 in Allerona, Terni, Umbria, Italy. He is an actor, known for Happy as Lazzaro (2018), Jailbird (2022) and Días de cine (1991).
- Francesco Scianna was born on 25 March 1982 in Palermo, Sicily, Italy. He is an actor, known for Baaria (2009), Angel of Evil (2010) and Ben-Hur (2016).
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Born in Paris, Flavio grew up between France and Italy, learning to speak both languages.
Between 1993 and 1999 he studied in France, at the International boarding school of Valbonne (C.I.V), where he achieved an International Baccalaureat and learned to speak English fluently.
In 2002 He graduated at Genoa's National Theatre Academy, and started to work with the Theatre's company as an actor and then as a director. His debut in theater was "Mother Courage" by Bertolt Brecht, where he also was assistant director. From then until 2005 he exclusively worked as an actor and stage director for Genoa's National Theatre whilst writing and directing his own plays.
In 2008 he appeared for the first time on screen co-starring in the movie "Talk to me about love", in the role of Tancredi directed by Silvio Muccino. His movie career then suddenly started, and in the same year he co-starred in the film "At a glance", directed by Sergio Rubini, and was cast in "The losers's blood", directed by Michele Soavi. He then co-starred in "Einstein", directed by Liliana Cavani, where he played the role of Eduard Einstein, the schizophrenic son of Albert Einstein.
In 2009 he participated, as leading actor, in the 66th Venice International Film Festival with three movies: "Tris di Donne e abiti nuziali" By Vincenzo Terraciano, "The red shadows" By Citto Maselli, and "I Am Love" directed by Luca Guadagnino, which was nominated for a Golden Globe and an Academy Award.
In the last 2 years, Flavio starred in the movie "Another World" Directed by S. Muccino and was a regular in the tv series "Police District". In 2011 he played the male leading Role in "Cinderella" (as Prince Charming), directed by C. Duguay.
While acting, Flavio produces his own movies, where he experiments in many ways the narrative possibilities of digital movie making. In 2010 he directed "A Quantum Butterfly Dream", a visual concept of a stream of consciousness where visual memories are modified by the subjectivity of the character who's telling them, and he is now editing "By My Side", his second indie movie, all shot in night time with no light setup.- Actor
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Vincenzo Amato was born on 30 March 1966 in Palermo, Sicily, Italy. He is an actor, known for Unbroken (2014), Golden Door (2006) and Respiro (2002).- Actor
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Sergio Castellitto was born in Rome in 1953. After graduating from the Silvio D'Amico National Academy of Dramatic Art in 1978, he began his theatrical career in Italian public theater with "Shakespeare's Measure for Measure" at the Teatro di Roma and with roles in other plays such as "La Madre by Brecht", "Merchant of Venice", and "Candelaio" by Giordano Bruno. At the Teatro di Genova he starred in the roles of Tuzenbach in "Chekhov's Three Sisters" and "Jean in Strindberg's Miss Julie", both under the direction of Otomar Krejka. In the coming years, he also starred in such theatrical productions as "L'infelicità senza desideri" and "Piccoli equivoci" at the Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto. He also appeared in "Barefoot in the Park" by Neil Simon. During his years in the theatre, he worked alongside many famous actors, including Luigi Squarzina, Aldo Trionfo, and Enzo Muzii. Castellitto began his film career in 1983 beside Marcello Mastroianni and Michel Piccoli in "The General of the Dead Army" by Luciano Tovoli. He interpreted many films like "Sembra morto...ma è solo svenuto" directed by Felice Farina, "Piccoli equivoci" by Ricky Tognazzi and "Stasera a casa di Alice" by Carlo Verdone. He became more famous with the films "The Great Pumpkin" by Francesca Archibugi and "The Star Maker" by Giuseppe Tornatore. In the late 1980s, Castellitto appeared in several Italian television miniseries, including "Un siciliano in Sicilia" (1987), "Cinque storie inquietanti" (1987), "Piazza Navona" (1988), "Cinéma" (1988), and "Come stanno bene insieme" (1989). He also appeared in the miniseries "Victoire, ou la douleur des femmes" (2000). Success arrived with the films "La famiglia", "L'ultimo bacio", "Caterina in the Big City", "My Mother's Smile", "Mostly Martha", and especially with "Don't Move", written by his wife Margaret Mazzantini. Other films that he interpreted include "Il regista di matrimoni" by Marco Bellocchio and La stella che non c'è by Gianni Amelio. In France Castellitto played the male lead opposite Jeanne Balibar in Jacques Rivette's Va savoir (2001). His most recent accomplishment as actor has been in his role as "Padre Pio: Miracle Man", arguably the defining role of his career. The first film that he directed is "Libero Burro", followed by "Don't Move". He played the role of the antagonist, King Miraz, in the film "The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian". His most recent film as director was "Twice Born", which played at the Toronto Film Festival (2012), where it was not well received by much of the English speaking press. Most recently, Castellitto appeared in the television series "In Treatment" in the role of Giovanni. Castellitto is married to Margaret Mazzantini with four children.- Actor
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Considered one of the leading figures of Italian innovation in theater, Cecchi alternates the work of stage and film actor to that of a theater director. Memorable is his performance in the drama "End of the match" by Samuel Beckett and, for the cinema, that of Renato Caccioppoli in "Morte di un matematico napoletano". In 2007 he won the Gassman Award as best Italian actor.- Enrico Lo Verso was born on 18 January 1964 in Palermo, Sicily, Italy. He is an actor, known for The Way We Laughed (1998), Hudson Hawk (1991) and Captain Alatriste: The Spanish Musketeer (2006). He has been married to Elena Montagna since 29 July 1989. They have one child.
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Massimo Dapporto was born on 8 August 1945 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy. He is an actor, known for The Family (1987), Mignon è partita (1988) and Una storia semplice (1991).- Actor
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Giancarlo Giannini is an Oscar-nominated Italian actor, director and multilingual dubber who made an international reputation for his leading roles in Italian films as well as for his mastery of a variety of languages and dialects.
He was born August 1, 1942, in La Spezia, Italy. For 10 years he lived and studied in Naples, earning a degree in electronics. At 18 he enrolled in the Academy of Dramatic Art D'Amico in Rome and made his stage acting debut there. His credits included performances in contemporary Italian plays as well, as in Italian productions of William Shakespeare's plays "Romeo and Juliet" and "A Midsummer's Night Dream". In 1965 he made his television debut starring as David Copperfield in the TV miniseries made by RAI ,the Italian national TV company. He made his big-screen debut in Libido (1965), a Freudian psychological thriller. Since 1966 he has been in a successful collaboration with legendary Italian director Lina Wertmüller, who made several award-winning films with Giannini as a male lead. He appears as peasant Tonino who prepares to assassinate dictator Benito Mussolini in Love & Anarchy (1973), as a sailor in the irony-laden comedy Swept Away (1974), and as a concentration-camp survivor in the Oscar-nominated Seven Beauties (1975). He also starred as a Jewish musician arrested by the Nazis in Rainer Werner Fassbinder's masterpiece Lili Marleen (1981).
Giannini also made a reputation for dubbing international stars in films released on the Italian market, such as Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, Michael Douglas, Dustin Hoffman, Gérard Depardieu, and Ian McKellen, among others. He received a compliment from Stanley Kubrick for his dubbing of Nicholson in The Shining (1980). Giannini's fluency in English and his mastery of dialects has brought him a number of supporting roles in Hollywood productions, such as A Walk in the Clouds (1995), Hannibal (2001), Darkness (2002), and Man on Fire (2004), among many others. He appears as Rene Mathis in the 21st James Bond film Casino Royale (2006), and reprises the role in the sequel, Quantum of Solace (2008).- Actor
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Blue-eyed and well-built Italian actor in international cinema, Franco Nero, was a painting photographer when he was discovered as an actor by director John Huston. He has since appeared in more than 200 movies around the world, working with Europe's top directors, such as Luis Buñuel, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Claude Chabrol, Sergey Bondarchuk, Michael Cacoyannis, Elio Petri, Marco Bellocchio, Enzo G. Castellari, among many others.
Nero was born in Parma (Northern Italy), in the family of a strict police sergeant. His inclination for acting had already become obvious in his teenage years, when he began organizing and participating in student plays. After a short stint at a leading theater school, he moved to Rome, where he joined a small group of friends for the purpose of making documentaries. Still unsure of his ultimate vocation, he worked various jobs on the crew. He studied economics and trade in Milan University, and appeared in popular Italian photo-novels. This gave him a chance to gain a little role in Carlo Lizzani's La Celestina P... R... (1965).
A year later, the handsome face of Nero was noticed by Huston, who chose him for the role of "Abel" in The Bible in the Beginning... (1966) (aka La Bibbia). But success came after he got the role of the lonely gunfighter, dragging a coffin, in one of the best spaghetti-westerns; Sergio Corbucci's Django (1966). Nero then filmed a few other westerns of that style as Ferdinando Baldi's Texas, Adios (1966) and Lucio Fulci's Massacre Time (1966).
In 1967, Joshua Logan cast him in the film version of the musical Camelot (1967) (Warner Bros.), opposite Vanessa Redgrave, for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe award. During filming of Camelot, he met actress Vanessa Redgrave, who become his long-time partner (they married decades later). He played with Catherine Deneuve in Luis Buñuel's Tristana (1970) and was directed by Sergey Bondarchuk in the war drama The Battle of Neretva (1969). Later, director Bondarchuk cast Nero for the role of famous American reporter "John Reed" in two-part "Krasnye kolokola II" (1982). In the late 60s and during the 70s, Nero played many different roles, but most of them connected with political and criminal genre, which criticized the Italian justice system.
In the early 80s, Nero was chosen for the role of the white ninja, "Cole", in Enter the Ninja (1981) and in 1990 as terrorist "Gen. Esperanza", opposite Bruce Willis, in Renny Harlin's Die Hard 2 (1990). He has also payed the roles of leading national heroes, such as "Garibaldi" (Italy), "Arpad" (Hungary), and "Banovic Strahinja" (Yugoslavia). In the USA, he has been in successful mini-series, such as "The Pirate" (Warner Bros), "The Last Days of Pompeii" (CBS), "Young Catherine" (TNT), "Bella Mafia" (CBS), "The Painted Lady", "Saint Augustine", and movies such as "The Legend of Valentino", "21 Hours to Munich", "Force 10 from Navarone", "Enter the Ninja", "The Versace Murder", and Letters to Juliet (2010).
He worked with the top European directors from Carlo Lizzani, Damiano Damiani, Luigi Zampa, Luis Buñuel, Elio Petri, Michael Cacoyannis, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Claude Chabrol, 'Vatroslav Mimica', Marco Bellocchio, etc. At the beginning of the 80s, he also began producing, writing and directing. Between films, he participates in various theatrical events.
Apart from his cinematographic work, Nero also works for charitable organizations. Over the last 45 years, he has been a benefactor of the Don Bosco orphanage in Tivoli. He has received many awards and, in 1992 for his artistic merits, a knighthood of the Italian Republic was bestowed on him by the President of Italy. In 2011, he was honored by Brunel University of London with the honorary degree of doctor of Letters honoris causa and, in Toronto, with a star on the Walk of Fame.- Actor
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Born in Palermo, Sicily on the 20th of October, 1967. Following the family tradition, enrolled into Medicine with the intention of becoming a psychiatrist. Began performing with a group of street actors in his native Palermo. In 1989 received a small part in a theatrical production ("Waiting for Godot"), and toured Italy with the company.
Ditched med school, and went to Rome to attend the "Silvio D'Amico" Academy of Dramatic Arts. After a series of increasingly important roles in theater, landed the lead role in One Hundred Steps (2000). He was referred for the role by his uncle Luigi Maria Burruano, a seasoned Sicilian actor who in the movie played the main charachter's father. The role won him the David di Donatello for best lead actor. After this he starred in several different roles, the most important of which was The Best of Youth (2003), a seven-hour long movie originally made for TV, but then released in theaters. In the movie he played a psychiatrist, which was his chosen specilization when still studying medicine.
Luigi Lo Cascio currently lives in Rome.- Writer
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Carlo Verdone is considered by many the heir of Alberto Sordi, expecially when they acted together in Troppo forte and In viaggio con papa', in these films many similarities with Sordi were apparent, the popular language, the romanesco, and the embodiment of Italian middle man in the '80s that Sordi did in the '50s and '60s.
In the last ten years Verdone has shown in his films the anguishes and the neurosis of Italian modern man. He is the brother-in-law of Christian de Sica. His father is an appreciated university Italian professor in cinema history.- Actor
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He was born in Milan in 1955. His mother, Rosa, was from Como (a city in Northern Italy), and his father, Matteo, was from Puglia (the "heel" of the Italian peninsula). He grew up in a suburbia quarter of Milan. His mother worked as a wardrobe maid at the "Derby", a well-known theater where lots of the most popular Italian comedians performed. Diego's uncle owned the place, which Diego visited since when he was a child. He was first employed as a light technician, then he began to perform as the "terruncello", the guy who lives in the North of Italy but still retains his Southerner accent. He began his career as a comedian at the end of the 70es, but he really succeeded in the 80es with blockbuster Italian comedies. His first dramatic role was in 1985 with Pupi Avati's movie "Regalo di Natale", which acknowledged him as a truly gifted actor. In 1985 he met Gabriele Salvatores, who directed him in many important movies (e.g. the Academy Award winner Mediterraneo). His filmography witnesses his versatile acting. Recently he starred in the Italian Tv serial "Il giudice Mastrangelo", where he has the role of a judge from Milan who returns to his native Puglia to solve mysteries and crimes. His entire career seems to pay tribute to his Northern and Southern origins.- Actor
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Sergio Rubini was born on 21 December 1959 in Grumo Appula, Puglia, Italy. He is an actor and director, known for The Passion of the Christ (2004), The Station (1990) and The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999). He was previously married to Margherita Buy.- Tommaso Ragno was born in Vieste, a coastal town in the province of Foggia, as the eldest of two children. His family, mainly from Apulia and on the grand-maternal side from ex-Yugoslavia, moved to Piacenza when he was two years old. Always having been very introverted, he spent a lot of time in solitude reading books and studying literature, planning on becoming a writer. However, later he went on to study acting at the Paolo Grassi School of Dramatic Art in Milan. After having spent a part of his life living in Berlin, Ragno resides in Rome, where he has also spent the pandemic lockdown. In 1988, he debuted as a stage actor in the Greek tragedy La seconda generazione, a collection of pieces by Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides directed by Mario Martone. Since the 1990s, he has worked repeatedly with Carlo Checci, whom he calls his "greatest teacher". He made his film debut in 1997 starring in We All Fall Down by Davide Ferrario. In 2001 he was the lead in Chimera, directed by Pappi Corsicato, and in 2007, alongside Isabelle Huppert, in Medea Miracle by Tonino De Berdani. He also starred in The Council of Egypt (2002), L'uomo privato (2007), Me and You (2012), Like Crazy (2016) and Bloody Richard (2017). In 2018, he starred in Happy as Lazzaro, directed by Alice Rohrwacher, who won the Award for the best Screenplay for it at the Cannes Film Festival as well as the American National Board of Review's Best Foreign Language Film Award. In his role as the grown-up Tancredi, Ragno has been nominated at the CinEuphoria Awards for Best Ensemble - International Competition. Other notable works he starred in include Nanni Moretti's Three Floors in 2021 and Paolo Virzì's Dry in 2022 both of which were shot before the pandemic. In 2022, he won the Nastro d'Argento for the Best Supporting Actor for his role in Mario Martone's Nostalgia. Starting in 1998 with Più luce non basta directed by Elisabetta Lodoli, Ragno has played various roles in different television productions, establishing himself as the protagonist in the series Distretto di polizia and Il tredicesimo apostolo. Since 2004 he has been narrating literary classics such as The Picture of Dorian Gray, Dracula, A Room with a View and Frankenstein on the program Ad alta voce on Rai Radio 3. For his role of Marcello in the 2018 series Il miracolo, directed by Niccolò Ammaniti, he won the Flaiano Prize as well as the Golden Screen Award. In 2020, he played the Italian mafia boss Donatello Fadda in the fourth season of Fargo, written and directed by Noah Hawley.
- Antonio Folletto was born on 16 February 1988 in Napoli, Campania, Italy. He is an actor, known for A casa tutti bene - La serie (2021), I bastardi di Pizzofalcone (2017) and Thanks for Vaselina (2019).
- Domenico Diele was born on 25 July 1985 in Siena, Tuscany, Italy. He is an actor, known for A.C.A.B. - All Cops Are Bastards (2012), 1992 (2015) and Paura 3D (2012).
- Andrea Arcangeli was born in Pescara, Italy, in 1993. He started acting in a theater company when he was 17, and joined his first projects in cinema and television after moving to Rome in 2012. He got his first leading role in the movie "The Startup" in 2017, and in 2018 was chosen by Danny Boyle for his TV series "Trust" for FX Channel.
- Jacopo Olmo Antinori was born on 28 August 1997 in Poggibonsi, Tuscany, Italy. He is an actor, known for Me and You (2012), The Dinner (2014) and The Girl in the Fog (2017).
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Gabriele Lavia is one of the most important figures on the Italian stage scene. He devoted his work also to cinema, creating characters for some famous Italian horror movies like David Hemmings friend in "Profondo Rosso", the journalist of "Zeder". He also directed some movies like "Scandalosa Gilda" and "La Lupa" with longtime companion Monica Guerritore. He portrayed the gay stage director in "Ricordati Di Me" by Gabriele Muccino.
But his work is mainly on stage. As actor and director, he put on stage the works of Shakespeare, Strindberg and Pirandello. He started in 1975 with William Shakespeare's "Othello". His last work was "Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf?" by Edward Albee in 2005.- Born in 1999, from a French father and an Italian mother, is a student of acting and dubbing. his television career begins with "mare fuori" set in Naples (plays the role of Filippo), and then continues with "nudes" set in Emilia Romagna (plays the role of Vittorio) and finally in "un professore" set in Rome (which plays the role of Simone)
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Corrado Fortuna was born on 31 March 1978 in Palermo, Sicily, Italy. He is an actor and director, known for My Name Is Tanino (2002), Lost Love (2003) and Come Into the Light (2005).- After his first experiences on the set at a very young age in films such as Salce's "L'anatra all'arancio" and Monicelli's "Romanzo popolo", alongside his father Ugo, Gian Marco Tognazzi studied at the Rossellini Institute for Cinematography in Rome and at the same time he trained on sets as an assistant director. Then came the roles in the films "Vacanze in America" by Carlo Vanzina (1984), "Sposerò Simon Le Bon" by Carlo Cotti (1985) and "A night at the cemetery" by Lamberto Bava. In 1989 he met Beatrice Bracco, with whom he studied for years, radically changing his interpretative path. In the meantime he also works a lot in the theater. In the 90s he acted in many cinema films such as "Crack" by Giulio Base, "Ultrà" by Ricky Tognazzi, "Teste rasate" by Claudio Fragasso and "I Laureti" by Leonardo Pieraccioni. Paired with Alessandro Gassmann he plays "Uomini senza donne" and "Facciamo fiesta", directed by Angelo Longoni and "Teste di Cocco" by Ugo Fabrizio Giordani. In 1999 he was the protagonist of the film "S.O.S." by Thomas Robsahm, and "Prime luci dell'alba", directed by Lucio Gaudino, in competition at the Berlin Film Festival, for which he was nominated for the Silver Ribbon as Best Actor. In 2002 he was directed by his sister Maria Sole in "Passato prossimo" and in 2005 in "Romanzo criminale" by Michele Placido, which earned him a nomination for the Nastri d'Argento as Best Supporting Actor. He also acts in "Cecenia" by Leonardo Giuliano, in the film "Guido che sfidò le Brigate Rosse" by Giuseppe Ferrara, in "Polvere" by Max D'epiro, "Ex" by Fausto Brizzi and in "Bella addormentata" by Marco Bellocchio. In 2009 he won the Nastro d'Argento as Best Leading Actor for the short film Fuoriuso. At the same time as cinema and theater he also works on many successful television series. In 2016 he was the protagonist of "Il Ministro" by Giorgio Amato and in 2017 he participated in Federico Moccia's film "Non c'è Campo". In 2018 he returned to theaters with "A casa tutti bene" by Gabriele Muccino, for which he won the collective Nastro d'argento for the cast and the Kineo Award for Best Supporting Actor at the 75th Venice Film Festival, and with the film by Massimiliano Bruno "Non ci resta che il crimine". The same year he was on the set of Vincenzo Alfieri's second film "Gli uomini d'oro". In 2019 he is among the protagonists of the comedy "Se mi vuoi bene" by Fausto Brizzi, of the horror-comedy "Sono solo fantasmi" directed by Christian De Sica, of "Ritorno al crimine" by Massimiliano Bruno and "Divorzio a Las Vegas" by Umberto Carteni. In 2020, in the role of Luciano Spalletti he is on the set of the Sky TV series "Speravo de mori prima", based on the biography of Francesco Totti, directed by Luca Ribuoli, then he is in the cast of the film "Ostaggi" directed by Eleonora Ivone and Angelo Longoni, of which he is the protagonist, and of the ensemble comedy "I Cassamortari" directed by Claudio Amendola with Massimo Ghini and Lucia Ocone. In 2021 he returns to the set of Max Bruno's crime trilogy in "C'era una volta il crimine". In 2022 we see him involved in several projects: " Quando " by Walter Veltroni, " Lo Sposo Indeciso " by Giorgio Amato and in the serial version of " Non ci resta che il calcio " by Max Bruno. In 2023 he works as the protagonist of the Swiss crime series "Alter Ego" by E. Bernasconi and R. Ralstom, he is called by Luca Ribuoli for a cameo in the second series of "Call my agent".
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Maurizio Donadoni was born on 7 January 1958 in Bergamo, Italy. He is an actor, known for La piovra (1984), La freccia nera (2006) and Pinocchio (2008).- Actor
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Giovanni Anzaldo was born on 12 November 1987 in Rivalta di Torino, Piedmont, Italy. He is an actor and director, known for The Mongrel (2012), Sullo stress del piccione (2017) and Fuoco amico: Tf45 - Eroe per amore (2016).- Matteo Martari was born in Verona. At the age of 21 moved to Milan, where he began working as a model while studying drama at Scuola di teatro Quelli di Grock.
In 2015 he made his film debut in The Complexity of Happiness (2015) directed by Gianni Zanasi. In the same year debuted on TV in Thou Shalt Not Kill (2015) as the police officer Andrea Russo.
In the following years he participated in several productions such as Medici (2016), Non mentire (2019), I bastardi di Pizzofalcone (2017) and as the protagonist in L'alligatore (2020) and Cuori (2021).
His movie career includes Godard Mon Amour (2017) directed by Michel Hazanavicius, Fabrizio De André: Principe libero (2018), The Goddess of Fortune (2019) and Four to Dinner (2022). - Actor
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14 million records sold before turning twenty.From cinema to important theaters from Patroni Griffi to Viviani to Strehler.Famous for having walked across the Sistina Theater on a tightrope in Barnum.He won the Sanremo Festival in 1988 with the song "Perdere l'Amore" which returned to fame on the summer of 2020 in a duet with Tiziano Ferro.He is currently on tour with "Sogno e son desto...Oggi è un altro giorno" which from a TV hit in the past years has become a constant and well-loved sold out.
Famous for: Ferro (2020) Odio l'estate (2020) Riccardo va all'inferno (2017) La macchinazione (2016) Sabato, domenica e lunedì (TV Movie) 2012 Questi fantasmi (TV Movie) 2011 La meravigliosa avventura di Antonio Franconi (2011) Napoli milionaria (TV Movie) 2011 Filumena Marturano (TV Movie) 2010 Ces amours-là (2010) L'ultimo Pulcinella (2008) Civico zero (2007) Senza via d'uscita - Un amore spezzato (TV Movie) 2007 Operazione pilota (TV Movie) 2007 Camera Café (TV Series) 2004-2005 Le courage d'aimer (2005) Le genre humain - 1ère partie: Les Parisiens (2004)- Actor
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Paolo Bonacelli was born on 28 February 1937 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He is an actor, known for The American (2010), Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975) and Caligula (1979).- Actor
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Ninetto Davoli was born on 11 October 1948 in San Pietro a Maida, Calabria, Italy. He is an actor and assistant director, known for Uno su due (2006), The Decameron (1971) and La Tosca (1973). He has been married to Patrizia Carlomosti since 1973. They have two children.- Tiziano Menichelli is known for Denti da squalo (2023) and Antonia (2024).
- Stefano Rosci is known for Denti da squalo (2023).
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Marcello Prayer was born on 11 February 1965 in Bari, Puglia, Italy. He is an actor and writer, known for The Best of Youth (2003), Caravaggio's Shadow (2022) and Dov'è Mario? (2016).- Francesco Colella was born on 1 June 1974 in Catanzaro, Calabria, Italy. He is an actor and writer, known for The Good Mothers (2023), ZeroZeroZero (2019) and Don Matteo (2000).