comedian
A comedian or comic is a person who seeks to entertain an audience by making them laugh. This might be through jokes or amusing
Amusement is the state of experiencing humorous and entertaining events or situations while the person or a ...
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Sebastian Maniscalco
Sebastian Maniscalco (; ; born July 8, 1973) is an American stand-up comedian and actor. He has released five comedy specials. Maniscalco has also had supporting acting roles in the films '' Green Book'' (2018) and ''The Irishman'' (2019), playi ...
Frank Spadone
Frank or Franks may refer to:
People
* Frank (given name)
* Frank (surname)
* Franks (surname)
* Franks, a medieval Germanic people
* Frank, a term in the Muslim world for all western Europeans, particularly during the Crusades - see Farang
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Enrico Renella
Enrico is both an Italian masculine given name and a surname, Enrico means homeowner, or king, derived from ''Heinrich'' of Germanic origin. It is also a given name in Ladino. Equivalents in other languages are Henry (English), Henri ( French), ...
Antonio Albanese
Antonio Albanese (born 10 October 1964 in Olginate, Province of Lecco), is an Italian comedian, actor, director and writer.
Biography
Born in Lombardy to Sicilian parents, he studied at the Civic Drama School in Milan, then opted to pursue an ...
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Aldo, Giovanni & Giacomo
Aldo, Giovanni & Giacomo are an Italian trio of comedians, actors, directors and screenwriters, composed of Aldo Baglio (; born 28 September 1958), Giovanni Storti (; born 20 February 1957) and Giacomo Poretti (; born 26 April 1956). Perfo ...
Giorgio Ariani
Giorgio Ariani (26 May 1941 – 5 March 2016) was an Italian stand-up comedian, actor and voice actor.
Life and career
Born in Ferrara, Ariani grew up in Florence and started his career as a comedian in regional cabaret clubs.Roberto Poppi. ''D ...
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Dario Bandiera
Dario Bandiera (born 9 February 1970) is an Italian actor and comedian.
Life and career
Born in Syracuse, Sicily, Bandiera began his career working in tourist villages as an entertainer. In 1992 he moved to Rome to study acting and in early ...
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Lino Banfi
Lino Banfi (born Pasquale Zagaria; 9 July 1936) is an Italian film actor and presenter. He has appeared in more than 100 films since 1960.
Biography
He was born in the Apulian city of Andria and at the age of three, moved to Canosa di Puglia. Li ...
Enrico Beruschi
Enrico Beruschi (born 5 September 1941) is an Italian comedian, actor, singer and television personality. He studied at the Italian Liceo classico in Milan, having Cochi Ponzoni as his deskmate.
Formerly employed in a food company, Beruschi bega ...
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Riccardo Billi
Riccardo Billi (22 April 1906 – 15 April 1982) was an Italian film actor and comedian. With Mario Riva he appeared as ''Billi & Riva'', one of the most popular Italian comic duos in the 1950s.
He appeared in around 85 films between 1938 a ...
Bombolo
Franco Lechner, best known as Bombolo (22 May 1931 – 21 August 1987), was an Italian character actor and comedian.
Life and career
Born in Rome into a humble family, a former peddler of dishes, Lechner was discovered in a tavern by Franco ...
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Franco Bracardi
Franco Bracardi (16 May 1937 – 27 February 2005) was an Italian actor, composer, pianist and stand-up comedian.
Born in Rome, during the first half of the fifties Bracardi began working as a jazz pianist in night clubs. In 1960 he became the p ...
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Giorgio Bracardi
Giorgio Bracardi (born 3 May 1933) is an Italian actor, composer and stand-up comedian.
Life and career
Born in Rome, the older brother of the actor, pianist and composer Franco, for many years Bracardi worked around the world as a piano playe ...
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Gino Bramieri
Gino Bramieri (; 21 June 1928 – 18 June 1996) was an Italian comedian and actor. He was especially known as a television comedian, but also performed in theatres, on radio, and in about thirty movies. He was nicknamed "Il Re della barzelletta ...
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Enrico Brignano
Enrico Brignano (born 18 May 1966) is an Italian actor, playwright, comedian, presenter and writer.
Life and career
Born in Rome, Brignano graduated in 1990 at the Laboratory of Performing Exercises under Gigi Proietti, who later chose him for ...
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Fred Buscaglione
Ferdinando "Fred" Buscaglione (; 23 November 1921 – 3 February 1960) was an Italian singer and actor who became very popular in the late 1950s. His public persona – the character he played both in his songs and his movies – was of a humoro ...
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Lando Buzzanca
Gerlando "Lando" Buzzanca (24 August 1935 – 18 December 2022) was an Italian stage, film, and television actor whose career spanned 65 years.
Life and career
Early years
Born in Palermo the son of a cinema projectionist, at 16 years old Buz ...
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Jerry Calà
Calogero Alessandro Augusto Calà, known by his stage name Jerry Calà (born 28 June 1951), is an Italian actor, filmmaker, comedian and singer who has written, directed, and acted in multiple film and television projects. He is considered one of ...
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Carlo Campanini
Carlo Campanini (5 October 1906 – 20 November 1984), was an Italian actor, singer and comedian. He appeared in more than 120 films between 1939 and 1969.
Life and career
Born in Turin, Campanini attended a technical school and a course of ...
Maccio Capatonda
Marcello Macchia (born 2 August 1978) is an Italian comedian, actor, writer and filmmaker. Best known by his stage name Maccio Capatonda, he is also known for his participation in television programs such as ''Mai dire...'' on Italia 1.
With E ...
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Pino Caruso
Giuseppe Caruso (12 October 1934 – 7 March 2019), best known as Pino Caruso, was an Italian actor, author and television personality.
Life and career
Caruso was born in Palermo, Sicily and debuted as dramatic stage actor in his home town in ...
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Massimo Ceccherini
Massimo Ceccherini (born 23 May 1965) is an Italian actor, film director, comedian and screenwriter.
Biography
Born in Florence, Ceccherini is the son of a plasterer, he seemed destined for the same profession, but his father was attracted to t ...
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Adriano Celentano
Adriano Celentano (; born 6 January 1938) is an Italian musician, singer, composer, actor, and filmmaker. He is dubbed "''il Molleggiato''" (the springy one) because of his dancing.
Celentano's many albums frequently enjoyed both commercial and ...
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Athina Cenci
Athina Cenci (born 13 March 1946), is a Greek-born Italian former actress, stand-up comedian and politician.
Life and career
Born in Kos, Greece, Cenci was co-founder and member, together with Francesco Nuti and Alessandro Benvenuti, of the ...
Paola Cortellesi
Paola Cortellesi (born 24 November 1973 in Rome) is an Italian actress, singer, voice actress, and presenter. She has starred in about 20 movies as well as a number of theatrical shows, television shows, and radio shows.
Biography
Cortellesi debut ...
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Giobbe Covatta Gianni Maria Covatta (born 11 June 1956), best known as Giobbe Covatta, is an Italian stand-up comedian, actor, writer and politician.
Life and career
Born in Taranto and raised in Naples, after appearing in a number of other variety shows Covatt ...
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Maurizio Crozza
Maurizio Crozza (; born 5 December 1959) is an Italian comedian, mimic, actor and television presenter.
Biography
Crozza was born in Genoa. He attended an acting school in the same city, where he graduated in 1980.
He has worked for many years ...
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Geppi Cucciari
Maria Giuseppina Cucciari (born 18 August 1973), best known as Geppi Cucciari, is an Italian stand-up comedian, actress, radio host and television presenter.
Life and career
Born in Cagliari, Cucciari spent her youth in Macomer, in the provi ...
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Gianfranco D'Angelo
Gianfranco D'Angelo (19 August 1936 – 15 August 2021) was an Italian actor and comedian.
Biography
Born in Rome, D'Angelo started his career as a comedian in the mid-1960s, achieving his first successes with the theatrical company "Il Bagagli ...
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Carlo Dapporto
Carlo Dapporto (26 June 1911 – 1 October 1989) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 35 films between 1944 and 1987. He was born in Sanremo, Italy and died in Rome
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Mauro Di Francesco
Mauro Di Francesco (born 17 May 1951) is an Italian actor, comedian and television personality.
Life and career
Born in Milan, Di Francesco started his career in the mid-1960s as a child actor appearing in some RAI miniseries. In the 1970s, he ...
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Aldo Fabrizi
Aldo Fabrizi (; born Aldo Fabbrizi; 1 November 1905 – 2 April 1990) was an Italian actor, director, screenwriter and comedian, best known for the role of the heroic priest in Roberto Rossellini's ''Rome, Open City'' and as partner of Totò in ...
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Gioele Dix
Gioele Dix, a pseudonym of his name David Ottolenghi (born 3 January 1956) is an Italian actor and comedian of Jewish descent.
Life
Gioele Dix began his theatrical career at the end of the 1970s, promoting and animating the Milan stage compan ...
Antonello Fassari
Antonello Fassari (born 4 October 1952) is an Italian actor and comedian.
Life and career
Antonello Fassari was born in Rome, where he practiced gymnastics at a competitive level until age 18.Giorgio Dell’Arti, Massimo Parrini. ''Catalogo dei v ...
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Ficarra e Picone
Salvatore Ficarra (born 27 May 1971, in Palermo) and Valentino Picone (born 23 March 1971, in Palermo) are an Italian comedy duo who work on stage, films, television and books as Ficarra e Picone.
Life and career
They started in 1993 along wi ...
Franco Franchi
Franco Franchi (born Francesco Benenato; 18 September 1928 – 9 December 1992) was an Italian actor, comedian and singer.
He was born in Palermo, Sicily and began his career in the 1950s, although his career only really took off in the 1960s. ...
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Pippo Franco
Pippo Franco (pseudonym of Franco Pippo) was born 2 September 1940 and is an Italian actor, comedian, television presenter, and singer. He made his name first as a musician in the early 1960s, and in the late 1960s began a career in film, starrin ...
Gigi e Andrea
Gigi Sammarchi (Bologna, 2 November 1949) and Andrea Roncato (San Lazzaro di Savena, 7 March 1947) are an Italian former comedy duo who worked on stage, films and television as Gigi e Andrea.
History
The couple started performing together in s ...
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Aldo Giuffrè
Aldo Giuffrè (10 April 1924 – 26 June 2010) was an Italian film actor and comedian who appeared in over 90 films between 1948 and 2001. He was born in Naples and was the brother of actor Carlo Giuffrè.
He is known for his roles in '' The F ...
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Ezio Greggio
Ezio Greggio (; born 7 April 1954) is an Italian-born Albanian comedian, actor, writer and film director.
In Italy he is mostly known for his long-lasting appearances in TV shows like '' Drive In'' and '' Striscia la notizia'', while abroad h ...
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Beppe Grillo
Giuseppe Piero "Beppe" Grillo (; born 21 July 1948) is an Italian comedian, actor, blogger, and politician.
He has been involved in politics since 2009 as the co-founder (together with Gianroberto Casaleggio) of the Italian Five Star Movement ...
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Gene Gnocchi
Eugenio Ghiozzi (born 1 March 1955), best known by his stage name Gene Gnocchi, is an Italian television presenter, comedian and former footballer.
Gnocchi was born in Fidenza into a working-class family. He was an aspiring vocalist in a rock b ...
Leo Gullotta
Salvatore Leopoldo "Leo" Gullotta (born 9 January 1946) is an Italian actor, voice actor, comedian and writer.
Biography
Born in Catania and the last of six children, Gullotta started his career as an extra in Teatro Massimo Bellini. In his long ...
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Caterina Guzzanti
Caterina Guzzanti (born 5 June 1976) is an Italian satirist and actress. She is best known for her role in the celebrated television series "Boris".
Biography
She is the daughter of former Member of Parliament Paolo Guzzanti, and the sister of Sa ...
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Corrado Guzzanti
Corrado Guzzanti (born May 17, 1965) is an Italian satirical actor, director, screenwriter, comedian and impersonator. He has become famous both for his impersonations of Italian personalities (politicians, journalists, entertainment and tele ...
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Sabina Guzzanti
Sabina Guzzanti (born 25 July 1963) is an Italian satirist, actress, writer and producer whose work is devoted to examining social and political life in Italy.
Early life
Born in Rome as the eldest daughter of celebrated Italian political comment ...
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Paolo Hendel
Paolo Hendel (born 2 January 1952) is an Italian actor, playwright and comedian.
Life and career
Born in Florence, at young age Hendel made several works, including gamekeeper, guardian of a garage and detective.Giorgio Dell’Arti, Massimo Par ...
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Enzo Iacchetti
Vincenzo "Enzo" Iacchetti (born 31 August 1952) is an Italian stand-up comedian, actor, television presenter and singer.
Biography
Born in Castelleone, Iacchetti graduated in accounting and then made his apprenticeship as an entertainer perfo ...
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Sabrina Impacciatore
Sabrina Impacciatore (born 29 March 1968) is an Italian actress.
Life and career
Born in Rome to parents from Abruzzo and Sardinia, Impacciatore studied acting at the Actors Studio in New York and enrolled several other acting courses in Rome. ...
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Ciccio Ingrassia
Francesco Ingrassia (5 October 1922 – 28 April 2003) was an Italian actor, comedian and film director.
He was born in Palermo, Sicily, and began his career in the 1950s, although his career only really took off in the 1960s. He starred in m ...
Katia & Valeria
Katia Follesa (born 12 January 1976 in Giussano) and Valeria Graci (born 22 August 1980 in Milan) are an Italian former comedy duo who worked on stage, films and television as Katia & Valeria.
The couple formed in 2001 in a drama school, the Labo ...
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Cinzia Leone
Cinzia Leone (born 4 March 1959) is an Italian actress and comedian.
Life and career
Born in Rome, Leone began working in the theater since 1981, but became popular thanks to the participation to several variety shows of good success broadcast ...
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Lillo & Greg
Pasquale Petrolo (Rome, 27 August 1962) and Claudio Gregori (Rome, 17 November 1963), best known as Lillo & Greg, are an Italian comedy duo who work on stage, film, television, radio as well as musicians, authors and cartoonists.
Life and caree ...
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Luciana Littizzetto
Luciana Littizzetto (born 29 October 1964) is an Italian comedy actress, shock jock and humor writer.
Littizzetto is known in her home country for her irreverent gags, lampooning government ministers and church prelates alike.
Nicknamed "Luciani ...
Erminio Macario
Erminio Macario (27 May 1902 – 25 March 1980), best known as Macario, was an Italian film actor and comedian. He appeared in 42 films between 1933 and 1975.
Life and career
Born in Turin, Macario made his debut at a young age in the amate ...
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Nino Manfredi
Saturnino "Nino" Manfredi (22 March 1921 – 4 June 2004) was an Italian actor, voice actor, director, screenwriter, playwright, comedian, singer, author, radio personality and television presenter.
He was one of the most prominent Italian a ...
Simona Marchini
Simona Marchini (born 19 December 1941) is an Italian actress, television and radio presenter, stage director, comedian and art dealer.
Life and career
Born in Rome, the daughter of the businessman Alvaro, Marchini graduated in modern literat ...
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Neri Marcorè
Neri Marcorè (born 31 July 1966) is an Italian actor, voice actor, impressionist, television presenter and singer. He has appeared in 22 films and television shows since 1994. He starred in the film ''Incantato'', which was entered into the 2003 ...
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Maurizio Mattioli
Maurizio Mattioli (born 3 June 1950) is an Italian actor and comedian.
Life and career
Born in Rome, Mattioli started his career in 1973, when he appeared in the RAI variety show ''Dove sta Zazà''. He got his first successes as a member of th ...
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Anna Mazzamauro
Anna Mazzamauro (born 1 December 1938) is an Italian actress, comedian and television personality.
Life and career
Born Anna Maria Mazzamauro in Rome, Mazzamauro made her film debut in 1967, in Massimo Franciosa's '' Pronto... c'è una certa G ...
Sandra Mondaini
Alessandrina "Sandra" Mondaini (; 1 September 1931 – 21 September 2010) was an Italian actress, singer, and television and radio presenter. She appeared in 30 films between 1953 and 2008.
Born in Milan, Italy, she married actor Raimondo V ...
Tuccio Musumeci
Tuccio Musumeci (born 20 April 1934) is an Italian actor and comedian.
Life and career
Born in Catania, Musumeci started his career in the 1960s, performing in local cabarets and avanspettacolo companies.Santino Mirabella. ''In scena - conversa ...
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Alighiero Noschese
Alighiero Noschese (; 25 November 1932 – 3 December 1979) was an Italian TV impersonator and actor.
Life and career
Noschese was born in Naples. After an unsuccessful attempt to work as journalist, he debuted for Italian radio as imitator ...
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Giorgio Panariello
Giorgio Panariello (born 30 September 1960 in Florence) is an Italian comedian, film and stage actor, director and television presenter.
Biography
Born in Florence to a father of Campanian origin, he raised in Cinquale, a seaside town in the pro ...
Francesco Paolantoni
Francesco Paolantoni (born 3 March 1956) is an Italian film, stage and television actor and comedian.
Born in Naples, Paolantoni studied acting at the Accademia Nazionale di Arte Drammatica Silvio D'Amico in Rome, then he started a career as a ...
Raffaele Pisu
Raffaele Pisu (24 May 1925 – 31 July 2019) was an Italian actor and comedian.
Life and career
Born in Bologna as Guerrino Pisu into a family of Sardinian origin, Pisu debuted in the drama theater and in 1945 he was one of the founders of th ...
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Renato Pozzetto
Renato Pozzetto (born 14 July 1940) is an Italian actor, director, comedian, and singer.
Biography
Pozzetto was born into a working-class family from Milan and grew up in the town of Gemonio (in the Province of Varese). After graduation, he made ...
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Gigi Proietti
Luigi "Gigi" Proietti (2 November 1940 – 2 November 2020) was an Italian actor, voice actor, comedian, musician, singer and television presenter.
Early life
He was born in Rome to Romano Proietti, originally from Umbria, and Giovanna Ceci, a ...
Ric e Gian
Riccardo Miniggio (Turin, 31 December 1935) and Gian Fabio Bosco (Florence, 30 July 1936 - Lavagna, 14 February 2010) were an Italian comedy duo who worked on stage, films and television as Ric e Gian.
Life and career
Miniggio started his caree ...
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David Riondino
David Riondino (born 10 June 1952) is an Italian actor, singer-songwriter, comedian, writer, playwright, screenwriter, director and composer.
Life and career
Born in Florence, the son of a teacher, Riondino started his career in the mid-1970s ...
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Mario Riva
Mario Riva (26 January 1913 – 1 September 1960) was an Italian television presenter and actor. He appeared in 51 films between 1941 and 1960.
Life and career
Born in Rome as Mariuccio Bonavolontà, the son of a composer, Giuseppe (Joseph) ...
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Enzo Robutti
Enzo Robutti (24 October 1933 – 13 February 2022) was an Italian actor, voice actor, comedian, playwright, and writer.
Life and career
Born in Bologna, Robutti attended the drama school of the Piccolo Teatro in Milan, and debuted on stage ...
Francesco Salvi
Francesco Salvi (born 7 February 1953) is an Italian actor, singer, screenwriter, and director.
Biography
Born in the northern town of Luino, near the Italian border with Switzerland, Salvi started his career in the mid-1980s. His performance ...
Teo Teocoli
Antonio "Teo" Teocoli (born 25 February 1945) is an Italian actor, TV conductor, singer and writer appearing in about 30 mostly Italian productions since 1975.
Selected filmography
* ''Paolo e Francesca'' (1971)
* ''The Boss and the Worker ...
Trettré
The Trettré are a trio of Italian actors and stand-up comedians who gained great popularity in the early 1980s with their participation in many TV programs like '' Drive In''. The trio was formed by Gino Cogliandro, Mirko Setaro, and Eduardo R ...
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Massimo Troisi
Massimo Troisi (; 19 February 1953 – 4 June 1994) was an Italian actor, cabaret performer, screenwriter, and film director. He is best known for his works in the films '' I'm Starting from Three'' (1981) and '' Il Postino: The Postman'' (1994) ...
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Fatima Trotta
Fatima Trotta (born 2 July 1986) is an Italian actress, comedian and television presenter.
Life and career
Born in Naples, as a child Trotta participated to several beauty pageants, and at young age she worked in a Neapolitan free channel TV pr ...
Paolo Villaggio
Paolo Villaggio (; 30 December 1932 – 3 July 2017) was an Italian actor, voice actor, writer, director and comedian. He is noted for the characters he created with paradoxical and grotesque characteristics: Professor Kranz, the ultra-timid G ...
Culture of Italy
Italy is considered one of the birthplaces of Western civilization and a cultural superpower. Italian culture is the culture of the Italians, a Romance ethnic group, and is incredibly diverse spanning the entirety of the Italian peninsula ...
List of Italians
Listed below are Italian people of note, who are identified with the Italian nation through residential, legal, historical, or cultural means, grouped by their area of notability.
Acting
Actors
* Stefano Accorsi (born 1971), actor, ...