Alice Bellagamba (born 1 November 1987 in

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, Italy) is an Italian actress and

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Biography

Bellagamba began skating at the age of six. She reached the third position in couple and first single at the

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"Acli Italian artistic skating championships". At the age of nine she began modern dancing, with Carla Giacani and Romina Muzzi. Three years later she attended a stage in

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in the school of the "Tuscany Ballet" and the "Opus Ballet", during which she was noticed by Daniel Tinazzi. The following year, after a scholarship assigned to her by the same school under the direction of Cristina Bozzolini, Bellagamba moves to

where she attended the schools and studied dance. At the age of fifteen years she dropped out of school for a professional course of dance but she doesn't interrupt the studies and succeeded in graduating. In the meantime she deepens her dance studies with: Fabrizio Monteverde, Daniel Tinazzi, Eugenio Scigliano, Arianna Benedetti, Mauro Astolfi, Stefania Di Cosimo, Domenique Lesdema,

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, Steve La Chance and

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. In 2002 she joined the company "Junior Balletto di Toscana" and, later, the Aterballetto, performing in

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and

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. 5 October 2008: Alice becomes a students of the talent ''

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''. At the end of the television program, she was the only dancer in the show, and she was classified fourth in the eighth edition of ''Amici di Maria De Filippi''. Her debut was in the musical ''Io Ballo'', under the direction of Chicco Sfondrini and Patrick Rossi Gastaldi, with choreography by Garrison Rochelle, and the other "boys and girls" of the TV show ''Amici di Maria De Filippi''. After that, she was one of the show ''Amici Tour''. She was noticed by the director Rossella Izzo for the new fiction of

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: ''Ritmo della vita''. In 2009 she starred in the film ''Balla con noi'', directed by

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. The film was released in cinema on 27 May 2011. On 5 June 2009, she becomes testimonial for the Foundation "G. SALESI ONLUS", making her own image " available... with the goal to express the joy and the strength of the life.. " for the research and the improvement of the quality hospital accommodation for the children and their families, and for the social support for women and children in conditions of uneasiness. In 2010 she began studying acting with Francesca Viscardi Leonetti. In June 2010 she made her debut on stage with ''Non ci posso fare niente'' based on the 1782

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''. In the same year, she worked in '' Anna e i 5 – la nuova serie'', directed by

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. In October of the same year she began her new TV series on Channel 5 ''

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'' by Roberto Burchielli. The series will be broadcast on TV since March 2011. In 2012 Bellagamba joined the cast of the TV series '' Provaci ancora prof 4'', in the role of Valentina Grassetti, with an international cast of actors and actress, also in 2012, she had a role of Salome in the television miniseries ''

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'' and, after that in the cast of the drama '' Un passo dal cielo 2'' with

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. In the same year she became the star of the sitcom '' Talent High School - Il sogno di Sofia'', in which she plays the role of a dancer enrolled in an academy show. In 2013, Bellagamba is the protagonist of the second season of the sitcom produced by LuxVide for DeAgostini: '' Talent High School 2 - Il sogno di Sofia''. In June of the same year she was chosen by

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for his new holiday movie "A fantastic goings" where she plays Clelia. In October of the same year, Bellagamba presents the Grand Gala of the sixth edition of the International Short Film Festival: "Corti and Cigarettes". On 19 December 2013 he made his debut as a TV presenter with Marche Show! - The living room of Alice on by local broadcast TV Center Marche. On 30 August, at the 71ª edition the

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, she is rewarded as "Best Emerging Actress" in the first edition of the "International Award", dedicated to

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. In 2015, in the TV miniseries "Pietro Mennea – The arrow South" interprets Carlotta, first love Olympian athlete Pietro Mennea. In the summer of 2015 he began collaborate, as master trainer, with

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's project "

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", giving lessons to

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. In September of the same year he became professor of

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, always Rome, at the "Kledi Dance" dance school owned by

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. On 28 April 2017, at the Festival Tulipani of Seta Nera, she presented her first

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entitled "Last Chance", that has directed, written and she sees it the protagonists as well. On 10 May 2018, goes out to the cinema the psychological thriller "Le Grida del Silenzio" of which he is co-protagonist. On 14 March 2018 he founded the

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of "Balletto delle Marche", of which he is

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and

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. The Compagnia, after two months of rehearsals, is engaged to perform in the stages of

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and

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and in the important Festival evenings of the

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Private life

On 18 October 2014, after a few months of engagement, wed producer Andrea Rizzoli, son of the actress

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and the publisher Angelo Rizzoli. On 3 February 2016, from pages of Vanity Fair, announced the separation from her husband.

Filmography

TV programs

Competitor

* ''

'' (2008–2009) * ''Amici – La sfida dei talenti'' (2009)

Conductor

* ''Marche Show! – Il salotto di Alice'' (2013) * ''Inside The Spot'' (2017)

Dance companies

* ''Junior Balletto di Toscana'' (2002-2004)

* '' Aterballetto'' (2004-2008)

* ''Balletto delle Marche'' (2018-ongoing)

and

Awards and honors

* 2014: 71ª edition the

, first edition of the "International Award" ** ''Best Emerging Actress''

Other

* ''Corti and Cigarettes 2013 International Short Film Festival'' Presenter with

Monica Scattini Monica Scattini (1 February 1956 – 4 February 2015) was an Italian actress. Films Scattini appeared in include ''Maniaci sentimentali'', for which she won a David di Donatello for Best Supporting Actress, and '' Lontano da dove'', for ...

and Dancer (2013) * ''Il Gene dello sport'' with

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(2014)

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Bellagamba, Alice 1987 births Living people People from Iesi Italian female dancers Italian film actresses Italian ballerinas Italian television presenters Italian women television presenters