Luca Zingaretti
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Luca Zingaretti is an Italian
actor, known for playing Salvo Montalbano in Il commissario Montalbano
mystery series based on the character and novels created by Andrea Camilleri
. Zingaretti is a native of Rome
. He is the older brother of politician Nicola Zingaretti
.
, graduating in 1984, and began his acting career in the theatre, often working with director Luca Ronconi
, appearing in such diverse plays as Chekhov's
Three Sisters
, Shakespeare's
Titus Andronicus
, and Martin Sherman
's Bent
.
Zingaretti made his film debut in 1987 with a minor role in Gli occhiali d'oro ("The Gold-Rimmed Glasses") — directed by Giuliano Montaldo
— and the same year first appeared on television in Il Giudice Istruttore ("The Investigating Magistrate)", directed by Florestano Vancini
and Gianluigi Calderone. He first gained critical attention with his role as the ferocious "Ottorino" in Marco Risi's 1994 film Il branco ("The Wolf Pack"). In 1996 he starred with Sabrina Ferilli
in the film Vite strozzate ("Strangled Lives"), directed by Ricky Tognazzi
.
However, stardom arrived with his leading role as Commissario Salvo Montalbano, in a series of TV films, initially shown on RAI Two
, and then RAI One
, as well as many other European TV channels and SBS
in Australia. The series, which ran from 1999 to 2008, consisted of 18 films.
After his success he became one of the most in-demand dramatic actors in Italy appearing in such films as:
On TV he appeared in :
In 2008 he appeared in four new Montalbano films, and in the same period adapted and directed the play La Sirena, from a story by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
.
In 2009 he continues to appear in the theatre and also worked on the film Noi credevamo, directed by Mario Martone, and set during the reunification of Italy
in which he played Francesco Crispi
; he will also appear in the film Il figlio più piccolo ("The Younger Son"), directed by Pupi Avati
and co-starring Christian De Sica
.
In 2010 four new Montalbano episodes were produced, broadcast by RAI One
14 March 2011 and the 3 following Mondays.
.
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
actor, known for playing Salvo Montalbano in Il commissario Montalbano
Il commissario Montalbano
Il commissario Montalbano is an Italian television series....
mystery series based on the character and novels created by Andrea Camilleri
Andrea Camilleri
Andrea Camilleri is an Italian writer.-Biography:Originally from Porto Empedocle, Sicily, Camilleri, began studies at the Faculty of Literature in 1944, without concluding them, meanwhile publishing poems and short stories.From 1948 to 1950 Camilleri studied stage and film direction at the Silvio...
. Zingaretti is a native of 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...
. He is the older brother of politician Nicola Zingaretti
Nicola Zingaretti
Nicola Zingaretti is an Italian politician, president of the Province of Rome and erstwhile Member of the European Parliament for the Centre with the Democrats of the Left , part of the Socialist Group, and used to sit on the European Parliament's Committee on Legal Affairs.He was a substitute for...
.
Career
Zingaretti studied at the prestigious National Academy of Dramatic Art Silvio D' AmicoAccademia Nazionale di Arte Drammatica Silvio D'Amico
Accademia Nazionale d'Arte Drammatica Silvio D'Amico is a national drama school in Rome, Italy, located at Via Vincenzo Bellini, 16. Founded in 1936 by the theatrical theorist, critic, and writer Silvio D'Amico, the academy is the only state school for the training of actors and directors...
, graduating in 1984, and began his acting career in the theatre, often working with director Luca Ronconi
Luca Ronconi
Luca Ronconi is an Italian actor, theater director, and opera director.- Biography :After growing up in Tunisia, where his mother was a school teacher, he graduated from the Academy of Dramatic Art in Rome in 1953. He acted in productions of Luigi Squarzina, Orazio Costa, Michelangelo Antonioni...
, appearing in such diverse plays as Chekhov's
Anton Chekhov
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was a Russian physician, dramatist and author who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short stories in history. His career as a dramatist produced four classics and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics...
Three Sisters
Three Sisters (play)
Three Sisters is a play by Russian author and playwright Anton Chekhov, perhaps partially inspired by the situation of the three Brontë sisters, but most probably by the three Zimmermann sisters in Perm...
, Shakespeare's
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon"...
Titus Andronicus
Titus Andronicus
Titus Andronicus is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, and possibly George Peele, believed to have been written between 1588 and 1593. It is thought to be Shakespeare's first tragedy, and is often seen as his attempt to emulate the violent and bloody revenge plays of his contemporaries, which were...
, and Martin Sherman
Martin Sherman
Martin Sherman is an American dramatist and screenwriter, best known for his Pulitzer Prize-nominated play Bent , which explores the persecution of homosexuals during the Holocaust...
's Bent
Bent (play)
Bent is a 1979 play by Martin Sherman. It revolves around the persecution of gays in Nazi Germany, and takes place during and after the Night of the Long Knives....
.
Zingaretti made his film debut in 1987 with a minor role in Gli occhiali d'oro ("The Gold-Rimmed Glasses") — directed by Giuliano Montaldo
Giuliano Montaldo
Giuliano Montaldo is an Italian film director.While he was still a young student, Montaldo was recruited by the director Carlo Lizzani for the role of leading actor in the film Achtung! Banditi!...
— and the same year first appeared on television in Il Giudice Istruttore ("The Investigating Magistrate)", directed by Florestano Vancini
Florestano Vancini
Florestano Vancini was an award-winning Italian film director and screenwriter.He directed over 20 movies since 1960...
and Gianluigi Calderone. He first gained critical attention with his role as the ferocious "Ottorino" in Marco Risi's 1994 film Il branco ("The Wolf Pack"). In 1996 he starred with Sabrina Ferilli
Sabrina Ferilli
Sabrina Ferilli is an Italian theater and movie actress.- Selected filmography :* Natale a Beverly Hills * Tutta la vita davanti * Natale A New York * Dalida...
in the film Vite strozzate ("Strangled Lives"), directed by Ricky Tognazzi
Ricky Tognazzi
Riccardo Tognazzi is an Italian actor and film director. He has appeared in 50 films and television shows since 1963. His film The Escort was entered into the 1993 Cannes Film Festival...
.
However, stardom arrived with his leading role as Commissario Salvo Montalbano, in a series of TV films, initially shown on RAI Two
Rai Due
Rai 2 is one of the three main television channels broadcast by Italian public television company RAI alongside with Rai 1 and Rai 3. Rai 2 first started transmissions on November 4, 1961...
, and then RAI One
Rai Uno
Rai 1 is the primary television station of RAI, the national public service broadcaster, and the most watched television channel in Italy. It was born as Rai Tv from 1954 to 1961, called Programma Nazionale from 1961 to 1979, after called Rete 1 from 1979 to 1982, then called Rai Uno from 1982 to...
, as well as many other European TV channels and SBS
Special Broadcasting Service
The Special Broadcasting Service is a hybrid-funded Australian public broadcasting radio and television network. The stated purpose of SBS is "to provide multilingual and multicultural radio and television services that inform, educate and entertain all Australians and, in doing so, reflect...
in Australia. The series, which ran from 1999 to 2008, consisted of 18 films.
After his success he became one of the most in-demand dramatic actors in Italy appearing in such films as:
- Prima dammi un bacio ("First Give Me a Kiss") (2003), dir. Ambrogio Lo Giudice
- I giorni dell'abbandono ("Days of Abandonment") (2005), dir. Roberto FaenzaRoberto FaenzaRoberto Faenza is an Italian film director.Born in Turin in 1943, Roberto Faenza received a degree in Political Science and a diploma at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia....
- Tutte le donne della mia vita ("All The Women Of My Life") (2007), dir. Simona Izzo
On TV he appeared in :
- PerlascaPerlascaPerlasca, un Eroe Italiano is a 2002 Italian drama about the real-life hero Giorgio Perlasca, who posed as a Spanish ambassador and tricked Nazi officials to save the lives of five thousand Jews during the Holocaust...
, un eroe italiano ("Perlasca : An Italian Hero") (2002) - Doppio agguato ("Double Ambush") (2003)
- Cefalonia ("KefaloniaKefaloniaThe island of Cephalonia, also known as Kefalonia, Cephallenia, Cephallonia, Kefallinia, or Kefallonia , is the largest of the Ionian Islands in western Greece, with an area of . It is also a separate regional unit of the Ionian Islands region, and the only municipality of the regional unit...
") (2005) - Alla luce del sole (To The Sunlight") (2005), a film on the life of Don Pino PuglisiPino PuglisiGiuseppe 'Pino' Puglisi was a Roman Catholic priest in the rough Palermo neighbourhood of Brancaccio. He openly challenged the Mafia who controlled the neighbourhood, and was killed by them on his 56th birthday...
.
In 2008 he appeared in four new Montalbano films, and in the same period adapted and directed the play La Sirena, from a story by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa , was a Sicilian writer. He is most famous for his only novel, Il Gattopardo which is set in Sicily during the Risorgimento...
.
In 2009 he continues to appear in the theatre and also worked on the film Noi credevamo, directed by Mario Martone, and set during the reunification of Italy
Italian unification
Italian unification was the political and social movement that agglomerated different states of the Italian peninsula into the single state of Italy in the 19th century...
in which he played Francesco Crispi
Francesco Crispi
Francesco Crispi was a 19th-century Italian politician of Arbëreshë ancestry. He was instrumental in the unification of Italy and was its 17th and 20th Prime Minister from 1887 until 1891 and again from 1893 until 1896.-Sicily:Crispi’s paternal family came originally from the small agricultural...
; he will also appear in the film Il figlio più piccolo ("The Younger Son"), directed by Pupi Avati
Pupi Avati
Giuseppe Avati, better known as Pupi Avati is an Italian film director, producer, and screenwriter.-Early life and career:...
and co-starring Christian De Sica
Christian De Sica
Christian De Sica is an Italian actor, director and scriptwriter.- Life :De Sica was born in Rome, Italy, the second son of Italian director Vittorio De Sica and Spanish actress María Mercader. After attending liceo classico in Rome, he worked in a hotel in Venezuela, where he began his career as...
.
In 2010 four new Montalbano episodes were produced, broadcast by RAI One
Rai Uno
Rai 1 is the primary television station of RAI, the national public service broadcaster, and the most watched television channel in Italy. It was born as Rai Tv from 1954 to 1961, called Programma Nazionale from 1961 to 1979, after called Rete 1 from 1979 to 1982, then called Rai Uno from 1982 to...
14 March 2011 and the 3 following Mondays.
Theatre
- La Sirena, from the story "Lighea" by Giuseppe Tomasi di LampedusaGiuseppe Tomasi di LampedusaGiuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa , was a Sicilian writer. He is most famous for his only novel, Il Gattopardo which is set in Sicily during the Risorgimento...
, adapted by Luca Zingaretti - Saint JoanSaint Joan (play)Saint Joan is a play by George Bernard Shaw, based on the life and trial of Joan of Arc. Published not long after the canonization of Joan of Arc by the Roman Catholic Church, the play dramatises what is known of her life based on the substantial records of her trial. Shaw studied the transcripts...
by George Bernard ShawGeorge Bernard ShawGeorge Bernard Shaw was an Irish playwright and a co-founder of the London School of Economics. Although his first profitable writing was music and literary criticism, in which capacity he wrote many highly articulate pieces of journalism, his main talent was for drama, and he wrote more than 60...
, dir. Luca RonconiLuca RonconiLuca Ronconi is an Italian actor, theater director, and opera director.- Biography :After growing up in Tunisia, where his mother was a school teacher, he graduated from the Academy of Dramatic Art in Rome in 1953. He acted in productions of Luigi Squarzina, Orazio Costa, Michelangelo Antonioni... - Le due commedie in commedia by Giambattista AndreiniGiambattista AndreiniGiambattista Andreini was an Italian actor and playwright.-Life:Born in Florence to stage stars Isabella Andreini and Francesco Andreini, he had a great success as a comedian in Paris under the name of Leylio...
, dir. Luca Ronconi - BentBent (play)Bent is a 1979 play by Martin Sherman. It revolves around the persecution of gays in Nazi Germany, and takes place during and after the Night of the Long Knives....
by Martin ShermanMartin ShermanMartin Sherman is an American dramatist and screenwriter, best known for his Pulitzer Prize-nominated play Bent , which explores the persecution of homosexuals during the Holocaust...
, dir. Marco Mattolini - I villeggianti and La madre by Maxim GorkyMaxim GorkyAlexei Maximovich Peshkov , primarily known as Maxim Gorky , was a Russian and Soviet author, a founder of the Socialist Realism literary method and a political activist.-Early years:...
, dir. Sandro Sequi - Come gocce su pietre roventi by Rainer Werner FassbinderRainer Werner FassbinderRainer Werner Maria Fassbinder was a German movie director, screenwriter and actor. He is considered one of the most important representatives of the New German Cinema.He maintained a frenetic pace in film-making...
, dir. Marco Mattolini - The Fairy Queen by F. Pourcell, dir. Luca Ronconi
- Three SistersThree Sisters (play)Three Sisters is a play by Russian author and playwright Anton Chekhov, perhaps partially inspired by the situation of the three Brontë sisters, but most probably by the three Zimmermann sisters in Perm...
by Anton ChekhovAnton ChekhovAnton Pavlovich Chekhov was a Russian physician, dramatist and author who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short stories in history. His career as a dramatist produced four classics and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics...
, dir. Luca Ronconi - Murder in the CathedralMurder in the CathedralMurder in the Cathedral is a verse drama by T. S. Eliot that portrays the assassination of Archbishop Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral in 1170, first performed in 1935...
by T. S. EliotT. S. EliotThomas Stearns "T. S." Eliot OM was a playwright, literary critic, and arguably the most important English-language poet of the 20th century. Although he was born an American he moved to the United Kingdom in 1914 and was naturalised as a British subject in 1927 at age 39.The poem that made his...
, dir. Franco Branciaroli - Titus AndronicusTitus AndronicusTitus Andronicus is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, and possibly George Peele, believed to have been written between 1588 and 1593. It is thought to be Shakespeare's first tragedy, and is often seen as his attempt to emulate the violent and bloody revenge plays of his contemporaries, which were...
by William ShakespeareWilliam ShakespeareWilliam Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon"...
, dir. Peter SteinPeter SteinPeter Stein is a critically acclaimed German theatre and opera director who established himself at the Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, a company that he brought to the forefront of German theatre.... - The Last Days of Mankind by Karl KrausKarl KrausKarl Kraus was an Austrian writer and journalist, known as a satirist, essayist, aphorist, playwright and poet. He is regarded as one of the foremost German-language satirists of the 20th century, especially for his witty criticism of the press, German culture, and German and Austrian...
, dir. Luca Ronconi - The Madwoman of ChaillotThe Madwoman of ChaillotThe Madwoman of Chaillot is a play, a poetic satire, by French dramatist Jean Giraudoux, written in 1943 and first performed in 1945, after his death. The play has two acts and follows the convention of the classical unities...
by Jean GiraudouxJean GiraudouxHippolyte Jean Giraudoux was a French novelist, essayist, diplomat and playwright. He is considered among the most important French dramatists of the period between World War I and World War II. His work is noted for its stylistic elegance and poetic fantasy...
, dir. Luca Ronconi - Crimes of the HeartCrimes of the HeartCrimes of the Heart is a play by Beth Henley.-Synopsis:At the core of the tragic comedy are the three Magrath sisters, Meg, Babe, and Lenny, who reunite at Old Granddaddy's home in Hazlehurst, Mississippi after Babe shoots her abusive husband. The trio was raised in a dysfunctional family with a...
by Beth HenleyBeth HenleyElizabeth Becker "Beth" Henley is an American dramatist and actress. She writes primarily about women's issues and family in the Southern United States. She is also a screenwriter who has written many film adaptations of her plays...
, dir. Nanni LoyNanni LoyNanni Loy was an Italian film, theatre and TV director.Loy was born in Cagliari, Sardinia... - The Break of Noon by Paul ClaudelPaul ClaudelPaul Claudel was a French poet, dramatist and diplomat, and the younger brother of the sculptor Camille Claudel. He was most famous for his verse dramas, which often convey his devout Catholicism.-Life:...
, dir. Franco Però - Trompe l'oeil by Cagnoni, Camilli, Martelli, dir. Federico Cagnoni
- Maratona di New York by Edoardo Erba, dir. Edoardo Erba
- The Prisoners of War by J. R. AckerleyJ. R. AckerleyJ. R. Ackerley was arts editor of The Listener, the weekly magazine of the BBC...
, dir. Luca Zingaretti and Fabio Ferrari - Line by Al Horowitz, dir. Piero Maccarinelli
- Cannibal by Richard Crowe and Richard Zajdlic, dir. Patrick Rossi Gastaldi
- Separation by Tom Kempinski, dir. Patrick Rossi Gastaldi
- Three Hotels, by Jon Robin BaitzJon Robin BaitzJon Robin Baitz is an American playwright, screenwriter, television producer and sometime actor.-Life and career:Baitz was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of Edward Baitz, an executive of the Carnation Company. Baitz was raised in Brazil and South Africa before the family returned to...
, dir. Toni Bertorelli - Confortate il male antico
Cinema
- (1987) Gli occhiali d'oro, dir. Giuliano MontaldoGiuliano MontaldoGiuliano Montaldo is an Italian film director.While he was still a young student, Montaldo was recruited by the director Carlo Lizzani for the role of leading actor in the film Achtung! Banditi!...
- (1993) E quando lei morì fu lutto nazionale, dir. Lucio Gaudino
- (1993) Abissinia, dir. Francesco Martinotti
- (1994) Il branco, dir. Marco Risi
- (1994) Maratona di New York, dir. Marina Spada
- (1994) Senza pelle, dir. Alessandro D'Alatri
- (1995) Castle FreakCastle FreakCastle Freak is a 1995 American horror film directed by Stuart Gordon, roughly based upon the short-story The Outsider by H. P. Lovecraft. It has elements of splatter/slasher films and references to Creature Features.- Synopsis :...
, dir. Stuart GordonStuart GordonAfter the University of Wisconsin demanded future theatrical productions by Screw Theater be overseen by a University Professor, Gordon cut his University ties to form Broom Street Theater. Its first production, the new translation of the risque Lysistrata, premiered in May 1969. Gordon is... - (1995) L'anno prossimo vado a letto alle dieci, dir. Angelo Orlando
- (1996) Vite strozzate, dir. Ricky Tognazzi
- (1997) Les couleurs du diable, dir. Alain JessuaAlain JessuaAlain Jessua is a French film director and screenwriter. He directed ten films between 1956 and 1997. His 1967 film Jeu de massacre was entered into the 1967 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the award for Best Screenplay....
- (1997) ArtemisiaArtemisia (film)Artemisia is a 1997 French/Italian/German biographical film about Artemisia Gentileschi, the female Italian Baroque painter. The film was directed by Agnès Merlet, and stars Valentina Cervi and Michel Serrault.-Cast:...
, dir. Agnès MerletAgnès MerletAgnès Merlet is a French film director who is known for directing Son of the Shark, Artemisia and Dorothy Mills... - (1998) Rewind, dir. Sergio Gobbi
- (1998) Tu ridi, dir. Paolo and Vittorio TavianiPaolo and Vittorio TavianiPaolo and Vittorio Taviani are noted Italian film directors and screenwriters...
- (1999) L'anniversario, dir. Mario Orfini
- (1999) Oltremare - Non è l'America, dir. Nello Correale
- (2000) Sei come sei, several directors
- (2000) Il furto del tesoro, dir. Alberto Sironi
- (2002) Texas '46, dir. Giorgio Serafini
- (2003) Prima dammi un bacio, dir. Ambrogio Lo Giudice
- (2005) Alla luce del sole, dir. Roberto FaenzaRoberto FaenzaRoberto Faenza is an Italian film director.Born in Turin in 1943, Roberto Faenza received a degree in Political Science and a diploma at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia....
- (2005) I giorni dell'abbandonoI giorni dell'abbandonoI giorni dell'abbandono is a film of 2005 by Roberto Faenza, set in Turin, based on the novel by Elena Ferrante.-Synopsis:Olga , literary translator, wife and mother of two is suddenly abandoned by her husband for a younger woman. With this she enters into a painful lapse that turns into despair...
, dir. Roberto Faenza - (2006) Non prendere impegni stasera, dir. Gianluca Maria Tavarelli
- (2006) A casa nostra, dir. Francesca Comencini
- (2006) My Brother is an Only ChildMy Brother is an Only ChildMy Brother Is an Only Child is a 2007 Italian drama film directed by Daniele Luchetti. It is based on an Antonio Pennacchi's novel. The title comes from a song by Rino Gaetano from 1976.-Plot:This summary covers approximately the first half of the film....
, dir. Daniele LuchettiDaniele LuchettiDaniele Luchetti is an Italian film director, screenwriter and actor.He was born in Rome. He debuted as assistant director for Nanni Moretti in Bianca and La messa è finita... - (2007) Tutte le donne della mia vita, dir. Simona Izzo
- (2008) SanguepazzoWild Blood (2008 film)Wild Blood is an Italian film directed in 2008 by Marco Tullio Giordana.-Synopsis:This film tells the story of two renowned actors of Fascist cinema, Luisa Ferida and Osvaldo Valenti, who were supporters of the Salò Republic...
, dir. Marco Tullio GiordanaMarco Tullio GiordanaMarco Tullio Giordana is an Italian director and scriptwriter. His film Quando sei nato non puoi più nasconderti was entered into the 2005 Cannes Film Festival.-Director:*Maledetti, vi amerò... - (2010) Amici miei 400, dir. Neri Parenti
- (2010) Il figlio più piccolo, dir. Pupi AvatiPupi AvatiGiuseppe Avati, better known as Pupi Avati is an Italian film director, producer, and screenwriter.-Early life and career:...
- (2010) Noi credevamoNoi credevamoNoi credevamo is a 2010 Italian drama film directed by Mario Martone. The film was nominated for the Golden Lion at the 67th Venice International Film Festival.-Cast:* Luigi Lo Cascio - Domenico* Valerio Binasco - Angelo...
, dir. Mario MartoneMario MartoneMario Martone is an Italian film director and screenwriter. He has directed 15 films since 1985. His film L'amore molesto was entered into the 1995 Cannes Film Festival...
Television
- (1990) Il giudice istruttore, dir. Florestano VanciniFlorestano VanciniFlorestano Vancini was an award-winning Italian film director and screenwriter.He directed over 20 movies since 1960...
and Gianluigi Calderone - (1991) Una questione privata, dir. Alberto Negrin
- (1993) Il giovane Mussolini, dir. Gianluigi Calderone
- (1993) L'ombra della sera, dir. Cinzia TH Torrini
- (1997) La Piovra 8, dir. Giacomo BattiatoGiacomo BattiatoGiacomo Battiato is an Italian film director and writer.According to “The History Of The Italian Cinema”, published in 2009 in US and in England by Princeton University Press: “GIACOMO BATTIATO is one of the most erudite and flexible directors of his generation. A cultural organizer, he has also...
- (1998) Kidnapping-La sfida, dir. Cinzia TH Torrini
- (1999–2008) Il commissario Montalbano, dir. Alberto Sironi (18 TV-films)
- (1999) Operazione Odissea, dir. Claudio FragassoClaudio FragassoClaudio Fragasso is an Italian screenwriter and film director of mostly low-budget exploitation films.- Filmmaking history :...
- (1999) JesusJesus (1999 film)Jesus is a Biblical telefilm that retells the story of Jesus. It was shot in Morocco and Malta. It stars Jeremy Sisto as Jesus, Jacqueline Bisset as Mary of Nazareth, Debra Messing as Mary Magdalene and Gary Oldman as Pontius Pilate.-Overview:...
, dir. Robert YoungRoger Young (director)Roger E. Young is an American TV and film director. He won an Emmy Award in 1980 in Outstanding Directing in a Drama Series for Lou Grant . He was born in Champaign, Illinois. He graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Journalism from the University of Illinois... - (2002) Perlasca, un eroe italianoPerlascaPerlasca, un Eroe Italiano is a 2002 Italian drama about the real-life hero Giorgio Perlasca, who posed as a Spanish ambassador and tricked Nazi officials to save the lives of five thousand Jews during the Holocaust...
, dir. Alberto Negrin - (2002) Incompreso, dir. Enrico Oldoini
- (2003) Doppio agguato, dir. Renato De Maria
- (2005) Cefalonia, dir. Riccardo Milani
Director
- (2000) Gulu — Documentary
- (2007) Passa una vela... spingendo la notte più in là — Play
- (2008) La Sirena - Play
Voice overs
- (2003) Finding NemoFinding NemoFinding Nemo is a 2003 American comi-drama animated film written by Andrew Stanton, directed by Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich and produced by Pixar. It tells the story of the overly protective clownfish Marlin who, along with a regal tang called Dory , searches for his abducted son Nemo...
, dir. Andrew StantonAndrew StantonAndrew Stanton is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, and occasional voice actor based at Pixar Animation Studios. His film work includes writing and directing Finding Nemo and WALL-E; both films earned him the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.-Life and career:Stanton was...
and Lee UnkrichLee UnkrichLee Unkrich is an American director and film editor. He is a longtime member of the creative team at Pixar, where he started in 1994 as a film editor. He later began directing, first as co-director of Toy Story 2...
- Voice of Marlin - (2006) La Grande Finale, Official documentary of the 2006 FIFA World Cup2006 FIFA World CupThe 2006 FIFA World Cup was the 18th FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial international football world championship tournament. It was held from 9 June to 9 July 2006 in Germany, which won the right to host the event in July 2000. Teams representing 198 national football associations from all six...
- Narrator
Awards
- In 2003 Zingaretti was made a Knight of the Order of Merit of the RepublicOrder of Merit of the Italian Republic
The Order of Merit of the Italian Republic was founded as the senior order of knighthood by the second President of the Italian Republic, Luigi Einaudi in 1951...
.
- (2005) David di Donatello for Best ActorDavid di Donatello for Best ActorThe David di Donatello for Best Actor is a category of the major Italian film award, the David di Donatello, given by La Accademia del Cinema Italiano .-Winners and nominees:...
Award for Alla luce del sole - (2005) Karlovy Vary Best Actor AwardKarlovy Vary Award Winners 2005Karlovy Vary International Film Festival Award Winners 2005* Crystal Globe - Mój Nikifor /en:My Nikifor - director Krzysztof Krauze* Special Jury Prize - Eize makom nifla - director Eyal Halfon...
for Alla luce del sole - (2008) Middle East International Film FestivalMiddle East International Film FestivalAbu Dhabi Film Festival is an international film festival. Created in 2007, the ceremony is held annually in October in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates by the Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage , under the patronage of Sheikh Sultan Bin Tahnoon Al Nahyan, Chairman of the ADACH...
Black Pearl for Best Actor for SanguepazzoWild Blood (2008 film)Wild Blood is an Italian film directed in 2008 by Marco Tullio Giordana.-Synopsis:This film tells the story of two renowned actors of Fascist cinema, Luisa Ferida and Osvaldo Valenti, who were supporters of the Salò Republic...