Nik Novecento (19 February 1964 – 15 October 1987) was an Italian actor and television personality.

Life and career

Born in

Bologna Bologna (, , ; egl, label= Emilian, Bulåggna ; lat, Bononia) is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region in Northern Italy. It is the seventh most populous city in Italy with about 400,000 inhabitants and 150 different nat ...

as Leonardo Sottani, Novecento's career was launched by film director

Pupi Avati Giuseppe Avati, better known as Pupi Avati (born 3 November 1938), is an Italian film director, producer, and screenwriter. He is known to horror film fans for his two giallo masterpieces, ''The House with Laughing Windows'' (1976) and '' Zeder ...

, who discovered Novecento when he was working at a gas station; Novecento starred in six Avati's films between 1983 and 1987. Aside from his film career, Novecento gained some popularity as regular opinionist of '' Maurizio Costanzo Show'' and as television host of the Avati's TV-show ''Hamburger Serenade'', broadcast by

RaiUno Rai 1 () is an Italian free-to-air television channel owned and operated by state-owned public broadcaster RAI – Radiotelevisione italiana. It is the company's flagship television channel, and is known for broadcasting mainstream and genera ...

in 1986. In October 1987, at 23, he suddenly died of a heart attack while he was in Rome at Avati's studios.

Filmography

References

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* Italian male film actors 1964 births Actors from Bologna 1987 deaths Italian television presenters 20th-century Italian male actors {{italy-actor-stub