Fabio Volo, pseudonym of Fabio Bonetti, (born 23 June 1972) is an Italian writer, actor, radio and television presenter, screenwriter, drummer, singer and philosopher.
[Fabio Volo on Librimondadori.it]
/ref>
Career
Fabio Bonetti was born in Calcinate, Italy on 23 June 1972. After attending middle school, he worked in his father's bakery (which is now an ice-cream shop in Brescia
Brescia (, locally ; lmo, link=no, label= Lombard, Brèsa ; lat, Brixia; vec, Bressa) is a city and ''comune'' in the region of Lombardy, Northern Italy. It is situated at the foot of the Alps, a few kilometers from the lakes Garda and Iseo. ...
) and did other casual jobs (like modeling and nightlife related).
In 1996 he became a leading figure at Radio Capital
Radio Capital is an Italian private radio station, was founded in May 1977 and is owned by the Gruppo Editoriale L'Espresso (ultimately by EXOR owned by the Agnelli-family) and began broadcasting in 1985.
Broadcast FTA on Hot Bird, on SKY Ital ...
, an Italian radio station.Le Iene
''Le Iene'' (; , but referencing the Italian name of Quentin Tarantino's 1992 movie ''Reservoir Dogs'') is an Italian television program.
The program
''Le Iene'' is a television program broadcast on the Italian channel Italia 1. Beginning in 1997, ...
.[
In 2000 he began to anchor his own radio broadcast "Il volo del mattino" on ]Radio Deejay
Radio DeeJay is an Italian radio station. It was founded on 1 February 1982 by the Italian radio and television personality Claudio Cecchetto and was acquired by the Gruppo Editoriale L'Espresso in 1989. In 2020 EXOR (of the Agnelli-family) became ...
[ and he published his first book entitled "Esco a fare due passi". This was followed by "È una vita che ti aspetto", "Un posto nel mondo", "Il giorno in più", "Il tempo che vorrei", "Le prime luci del mattino" and "La strada verso casa".][
In 2002 he debuted as an actor in Alessandro D'Alatri's movie "Casomai". He was nominated for Best Actor at the ]David di Donatello
The David di Donatello Awards, named after Donatello's ''David'', a symbolic statue of the Italian Renaissance, are film awards given out each year by the ''Accademia del Cinema Italiano'' (The Academy of Italian Cinema). There are 26 award cat ...
for his role in this film. In 2006 and 2008 Fabio Volo anchored "Italo Spagnolo" and "Italo Americano" on MTV
MTV (Originally an initialism of Music Television) is an American cable channel that launched on August 1, 1981. Based in New York City, it serves as the flagship property of the MTV Entertainment Group, part of Paramount Media Networks, a di ...
. In 2010 he won the "Premio Letterario la Tore Isola d'Elba", an ingenuity and excellence award. In 2011, Volo starred in "Il giorno in più", the movie based on his eponymous book. In 2012 he returned in television with "Volo in diretta" on Rai 3
Rai 3 (formerly Rete 3) is an Italian free-to-air television channel owned and operated by state-owned public broadcaster RAI – Radiotelevisione italiana. It was launched on 15 December 1979 and its programming is centred towards cultural and ...
.
Internationally, Volo has served as the voice of Po in the Italian version of the ''Kung Fu Panda
''Kung Fu Panda'' is an American media franchise that originally started in 2008 with the release of the animated feature film of the same name, produced by DreamWorks Animation. Following the adventures of the titular Po Ping (primarily voic ...
'' film series.
Filmography
Films
Television
Books
With his novels he has sold over 5 million copies in Italy alone.[
* ''Esco a fare due passi'' (2001)
* ''È una vita che ti aspetto'' (2003)
* ''Un posto nel mondo'' (2006)
* ''Il giorno in più'' (2007)
* ''Il tempo che vorrei'' (2009)
* ''Le prime luci del mattino'' (2011)
* ''La strada verso casa'' (2013)
* ''È tutta vita'' (2015)
* ''Quando tutto inizia'' (2017)
* ''Una Gran Voglia di Vivere'' (2019)
]
References
External links
*
*
{{DEFAULTSORT:Volo, Fabio
1972 births
Living people
Italian male film actors
Italian male television actors
Italian television presenters
Italian male screenwriters
Actors from Bergamo
21st-century Italian novelists
21st-century Italian screenwriters
Writers from Bergamo