Gianni Di Gregorio (born 19 February 1949) is an Italian director, screenwriter and actor.

Life and career

Born in

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, Di Gregorio trained as a stage actor and director in the Drama School of

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. He started his professional career as a screenwriter in the second half of the 1980s. In the 1990s Di Gregorio started collaborating with

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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 ''Mid-August Lunch'' (originally released as ''Pranzo di ferragosto'') is a 2008 Italian comedy-drama and the directorial debut of Italian actor and screenwriter Gianni Di Gregorio. It was produced by Italian writer-director Matteo Garrone wh ...

, which he also wrote and starred; he followed that up with three other films in the same vein

The Salt of Life ''The Salt of Life'' ( it, Gianni e le donne) is the second film from writer/director/actor Gianni Di Gregorio, who began his directorial career with 2008’s ''Mid-August Lunch''. Plot Gianni (Gianni Di Gregorio) is 60 and might as well be invis ...

(2011), Good for Nothing (2014) &

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(2019).

Filmography

* ''

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'' (1986, co-writer) * '' Sembra morto... ma è solo svenuto'' (1986, co-writer) * '' Stazione di servizio'' (1989, co-writer, 2 episodes) * '' Affetti speciali'' (1989, co-writer) * '' Naufraghi sotto costa'' (1991, co-writer) * '' Ospiti'' (1998, actor as ''Giacomo'') * ''

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'' (2000, actor as ''Lodeger'') * ''

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'' (2002, co-writer) * '' Gomorrah'' (2008, co-writer) * ''

'' (2008, director and co-writer) * ''

'' (2011, director and co-writer) * '' Good for Nothing'' (2014, director and co-writer) * ''

'' (2019, director and co-writer)

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Di Gregorio, Gianni 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