Antonio Luigi Grimaldi, known as Antonello Grimaldi (born 14 August 1955) is an Italian

Italian people

The Italian people are an ethnic group that share a common Italian culture, ancestry and speak the Italian language as a mother tongue. Within Italy, Italians are defined by citizenship, regardless of ancestry or country of residence , and are distinguished from people...

 actor, film

Film director

A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...

 and television director

Television director

A television director directs the activities involved in making a television program and is part of a television crew.-Duties:The duties of a television director vary depending on whether the production is live or recorded to video tape or video server .In both types of productions, the...

, and screenwriter

Screenwriter

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Biography

Grimaldi was born on 14 August 1955 in Sassari

Sassari

Sassari is an Italian city. It is the second-largest city of Sardinia in terms of population with about 130,000 inhabitants, or about 300,000 including the greater metropolitan area...

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on the island of Sardinia

Sardinia

Sardinia is the second-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea . It is an autonomous region of Italy, and the nearest land masses are the French island of Corsica, the Italian Peninsula, Sicily, Tunisia and the Spanish Balearic Islands.The name Sardinia is from the pre-Roman noun *sard[],...

 in Italy

Italy

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. After receiving his Laurea

Laurea

In Italy, the laurea is the main post-secondary academic degree.-Reforms due to the Bologna process:Spurred by the Bologna process, a major reform was instituted in 1999 to introduce easier university degrees comparable to the bachelors...

 in law in 1981, he moved to Rome

Rome

Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...

 and attended the Gaumont School of Cinema, founded by composer Renzo Rossellini. He later taught music history

Music history

Music history, sometimes called historical musicology, is the highly diverse subfield of the broader discipline of musicology that studies the composition, performance, reception, and criticism of music over time...

 at the Accademia di Belle Arti (Academy of Fine Arts) in Sassari and film direction at the Scuola Golden in Turin

Turin

Turin is a city and major business and cultural centre in northern Italy, capital of the Piedmont region, located mainly on the left bank of the Po River and surrounded by the Alpine arch. The population of the city proper is 909,193 while the population of the urban area is estimated by Eurostat...

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Career in film

Grimaldi's directorial debut came in 1985 with Juke box. In 1987, he was assistant director

Assistant director

The role of an Assistant director include tracking daily progress against the filming production schedule, arranging logistics, preparing daily call sheets, checking cast and crew, maintaining order on the set. They also have to take care of health and safety of the crew...

 to Giuseppe Piccioni for the feature film

Feature film

In the film industry, a feature film is a film production made for initial distribution in theaters and being the main attraction of the screening, rather than a short film screened before it; a full length movie...

 Il Grande Blek, starring Sergio Rubini

Sergio Rubini

- Biography :He was born in Grumo Appula but soon moved to Rome to study acting. After some roles in theater, he debuted in a feature film with Figlio mio infinitamente caro , which was followed by Desiderando Giulia and Il caso Moro...

 and Francesca Neri

Francesca Neri

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In 1997, Grimaldi appeared in Nirvana

Nirvana (film)

Nirvana is a science fiction film, produced in Italy in 1997 by director Gabriele Salvatores, starring Christopher Lambert, Diego Abatantuono, Sergio Rubini and Stefania Rocca...

, directed by Gabriele Salvatores

Gabriele Salvatores

Gabriele Salvatores , is an Italian Academy Award-winning film director and screenwriter.-Biography:Born in Naples, Salvatores debuted as a theatre director in 1972, founding in Milan the Teatro dell'Elfo, for which he directed several avant-garde pieces until 1989.In that year, he directed his...

. He then starred in two films directed by Gabriele Muccino

Gabriele Muccino

Gabriele Muccino is an Italian film director. He is the elder brother of actor Silvio Muccino, who often appears in his brother's films....

: Ecco fatto (1998) and Come te nessuno mai (1999), where he played the role of the head of police. Also in 1999, he appeared in Guardami, a biopic of a porn star loosely based on the life of adult actress Moana Pozzi

Moana Pozzi

Moana Pozzi , often called simply Moana, was an Italian pornographic actress, actress, television personality, model, politician and writer.-Early years:...

, starring Elisabetta Cavallotti, and directed by Davide Ferrario.

In 2000, Grimaldi directed Un delitto impossibile (An Impossible Crime), starring Lino Capolicchio

Lino Capolicchio

Lino Capolicchio is an Italian actor, screenwriter, and film director. He won a special David di Donatello acting award for his role in Vittorio de Sica's 1970 film, The Garden of the Finzi-Continis....

, Carlo Cecchi

Carlo Cecchi

Carlo Cecchi is an Italian actor.Born in Florence, Cecchi studied under the Living Theatre and with the Workshop of Eduardo De Filippo. In 1968 he made his debut for cinema in La sua giornata di gloria...

, Ivano Marescotti, Ángela Molina

Ángela Molina

Ángela Molina is a Spanish actress, and a daughter of Antonio Molina, Spanish singer and actor.Molina studied dance and theater art in the Escuela Superior de Madrid. She rose to international prominence after starring in Luis Buñuel's last movie That Obscure Object of Desire...

, and Silvio Muccino

Silvio Muccino

Silvio Muccino is an Italian actor.-Biography:Muccino was born in Rome on April 14, 1982.Graduated from Rome’s Arts High School and enrolled in the Arts Faculty of Rome’s La Sapienza University....

. Starting in 2001, he transitioned from film to television, directing the teleplay

Teleplay

A teleplay is a television play, a comedy or drama written or adapted for television. The term surfaced during the 1950s with wide usage to distinguish a television plays from stage plays for the theater and screenplays written for films...

 Gli insoliti ignoti (2003), the television series Le stagioni del cuore (2004), and the television miniseries

Miniseries

A miniseries , in a serial storytelling medium, is a television show production which tells a story in a limited number of episodes. The exact number is open to interpretation; however, they are usually limited to fewer than a whole season. The term "miniseries" is generally a North American term...

 La moglie cinese (2006), as well as 33 episode

Episode

An episode is a part of a dramatic work such as a serial television or radio program. An episode is a part of a sequence of a body of work, akin to a chapter of a book. The term sometimes applies to works based on other forms of mass media as well, as in Star Wars...

s of the police drama Distretto di Polizia from 2001 to 2007.

Grimaldi returned to film in 2006, with his appearance in Il caimano

Il caimano (film)

The Caiman is a 2006 Italian comedy-drama film directed by Nanni Moretti and starring Silvio Orlando and Margherita Buy. Focusing on Silvio Berlusconi's vicissitudes, it was released just before the beginning of the 2006 elections, in which Berlusconi lost. It was one of the most successful films...

, directed by Nanni Moretti

Nanni Moretti

Giovanni "Nanni" Moretti is an Italian film director, producer, screenwriter and actor.-Life and work:Moretti was born in Bruneck, South Tyrol , in 1953 to parents who were teachers...

. In 2008, he directed Moretti, Valeria Golino

Valeria Golino

Valeria Golino is an Italian-Greek film and television actress. She is best known to English language audiences for the 1988 film Rain Man, and the Hot Shots! films...

, and Alessandro Gassman

Alessandro Gassman

Alessandro Gassman is an Italian actor.Born in Rome, he is the son of Italian actor Vittorio Gassman and French actress Juliette Mayniel.-Career:...

 in Caos calmo, and also guest starred on the sitcom Boris.

In 2009, Grimaldi directed the Canale 5

Canale 5

Canale 5 is an Italian private television network of Mediaset, the media branch of Fininvest. Canale 5 was the first private television network to have a national coverage in Italy in 1980, based on a local channel, TeleMilano 58, founded in 1978....

 television film Due mamme di troppo featuring Angela Finocchiaro

Angela Finocchiaro

-Filmography:* 1979 - Ratataplan, by Maurizio Nichetti* 1980 - Ho fatto splash, by Maurizio Nichetti* 1986 - Il burbero, by Franco Castellano and Giuseppe Moccia* 1988 - Domani accadrà, by Daniele Luchetti* 1989 - Luisa, Carla, Lorenza e.....

 and Barbara Matera

Barbara Matera

Barbara Matera is an Italian television announcer, actress and MEP for the centre-right The People of Freedom party.-Biography:Matera was born on 9 December 1981 in Lucera in the Province of Foggia,in the Apulia, southern Italy....

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