Gianni Di Gregorio
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Born | 19 February 1949 Rome, Italy | (age 72)
Occupation | Director Screenwriter |
Gianni Di Gregorio (born 19 February 1949) is an Italian director, screenwriter and actor.
Life and career[]
Born in Rome, Di Gregorio trained as a stage actor and director in the Drama School of Alessandro Fersen. He started his professional career as a screenwriter in the second half of the 1980s.[1]
In the 1990s Di Gregorio started collaborating with Matteo Garrone as a screenwriter, an actor and an assistant director, their most famous work being the 2008 award winning film Gomorrah. He made his directorial debut in 2008, with the critically acclaimed Mid-August Lunch, which he also wrote and starred; he followed that up with three other films in the same vein The Salt of Life (2011), Good for Nothing (2014) & (2019).[1][2]
Filmography[]
- (1986, co-writer)
- (1986, co-writer)
- Stazione di servizio (1989, co-writer, 2 episodes)
- (1989, co-writer)
- (1991, co-writer)
- (1998, actor as Giacomo)
- (2000, actor as Lodeger)
- (2002, co-writer)
- Gomorrah (2008, co-writer)
- Mid-August Lunch (2008, director and co-writer)
- The Salt of Life (2011, director and co-writer)
- Good for Nothing (2014, director and co-writer)
- (2019, director and co-writer)
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b Fabio Secchi Frau. "Gianni Di Gregorio: Gianni e il cinema". MyMovies. Retrieved 11 September 2015.
- ^ Wally Hammond. "Gianni Di Gregorio: interview". Time Out. Retrieved 14 May 2016.
External links[]
Categories:
- 1949 births
- 20th-century Italian people
- Living people
- European Film Award for Best Screenwriter winners
- Italian film directors
- Italian male film actors
- Italian male screenwriters
- Italian screenwriters
- Film people from Rome