Paolo Sassanelli
Appearance
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![]() Paolo Sassanelli (Déluge TV, 2022) | |
Born | 29 October 1958 Bari, Italy | (age 65)
Occupation | Actor |
Height | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) |
Paolo Sassanelli (born 29 October 1958) is an Italian stage, film and television actor and director.
Life and career
[edit]Born in Bari, Sassanelli made his stage debut in his hometown in the second half of the 1980s.[1] He then moved to Rome and had his breakout in the early 1990s with the role of Gabriele Serra in the TV-series Classe di ferro.[1][2] In 2014, Sassanelli won the Nastro d'Argento for best supporting actor for his performance in the crime-comedy film Song'e Napule.[3] His short film debut Guerra (War) won as best fiction at The Palace International Short Film Festival, in 2010.
Selected filmography
[edit]- Colpo di luna (1995)
- Marriages (1998)
- Un medico in famiglia (TV, 1998-2014)
- Without Filter (2001)
- Compagni di scuola (TV, 2001)
- Now or Never (2003)
- The Life That I Want (2004)
- Red Like the Sky (2005)
- Codice rosso (TV, 2006)
- Last Minute Marocco (2007)
- Don't Think About It (2007)
- Days and Clouds (2007)
- Giulia Doesn't Date at Night (2009)
- Ubaldo Terzani Horror Show (2010)
- Unlikely Revolutionaries (2010)
- Questo mondo è per te (2011)
- Make a Fake (2011)
- Paura (2012)
- Song'e Napule (2013)
- Ever Been to the Moon? (2015)
- Somewhere Amazing (2015)
- Youtopia (2018)
- Notti Magiche (Magical Nights), directed by Paolo Virzì (2018)
- Tuttapposto (2019)
- Nevermind, directed by Eros Puglielli (2018)
- L'eroe (The hero), directed by Cristiano Anania (2019)
- Tutta un'altra vita, directed by Alessandro Pondi (2019)
- Tuttapposto, directed by Gianni Costantino (2019)
- Surprise Trip, directed by Roberto Baeli (2021)
- Sulla Giostra, directed by Giorgia Cecere (2021)
- Quasi Orfano, directed by Umberto Carteni (2022)
- La tentazione di esistere, directed by Fabio Pellegrini (2023)
- Provincia Bianca, directed by Angelo Calculli (2023)
- Il Pirata - Memorie da Spoon River, directed by Cristiano Ciliberti (2023)
- Stolen Moments, directed by Stefano Landini (2024)
Director
[edit]Feature films
[edit]- Two Little Italians, 2018
Short films
[edit]- Bei capelli (Beautiful hair), (2003)
- Uerra (War), (2009)
- Ammore (Love), (2013)
- Amore Disperato (Desperate Love), (2016)
- Un voto all'italiana (An Italian-style vote), (2017)
References
[edit]- ^ a b Roberto Chiti; Roberto Poppi; Enrico Lancia. Dizionario del cinema italiano : Gli attori dal 1930 ai giorni nostri. Gremese Editore, 2002. pp. 182–3. ISBN 8884402697.
- ^ Fabio Secchi Frau. "Paolo Sassanelli: Classe? Di ferro!". MyMovies. Retrieved 5 November 2015.
- ^ Arianna Finos (June 29, 2014). "Nastri d'argento, trionfo di Virzì ma tanto spazio ai giovani". La Repubblica. Retrieved 5 November 2015.