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.