Sebastiano Lo Monaco (on September 18, 1958) is an

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actor of theatre, cinema and television.

Career

Sebastiano Lo Monaco was born in

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. He attended the Silvio d'Amico National Academy of Dramatic Arts and, in 1989, he became "capocomico" and artistic director. With his

theater company Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage. The perform ...

, he produces several theatrical plays, like '' Henry IV'', ''

Right You Are (if you think so) ''Right You Are (if you think so)'' (, also translated as ''So It Is (If You Think So)'', is an Italian drama by Luigi Pirandello. The play is based on Pirandello's short story ''La signora Frola e il signor Ponza, suo genero''. It premiered 18 ...

'', ''Il berretto a sonagli'', '' Tonight We Improvise'', ''

Six Characters in Search of an Author ''Six Characters in Search of an Author'' ( it, Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore, link=no ) is an Italian play by Luigi Pirandello, written and first performed in 1921. An absurdist fiction, absurdist metatheatrical, metatheatric play about th ...

'', ''Non si sa come'' by

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, ''

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'' by Edmond Rostand, ''A View from the Bridge'' by

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, '' Othello'' by

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, '' Non è vero... ma ci credo'' by

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, ''

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'' by

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and ''Per non morire di mafia'' by

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, where he is always the protagonist. From May 2000 to March 2004, he was the artistic director of the Vittorio Emanuele II Theatre in Messina. He also appears in a lot of films and television series, like ''

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'', '' I Vicerè'', '' Dove siete? Io sono qui'', '' Body Guards'', '' Gli angeli di Borsellino'', ''Joe Petrosino'' (as Vito Cascio Ferro), ''

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'', '' La piovra 8'' and ''9'' (as Lawyer Torrisi), and ''

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'' (as Lawyer Vasile).

Filmography

Film

* ''

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'' (1983) * ''

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'' (1985) * ''Spogliando Valeria'' (1989) * '' Panama Sugar'' (1990) * ''Body Puzzle'' (1992) * '' Where Are You? I'm Here'' (1993) * ''Prima del tramonto'' (1999) * ''Maestrale'' (2000) * '' Body Guards'' (2000) * '' Gli angeli di Borsellino'' (2003) * ''Se sarà luce sarà bellissimo - Moro: Un'altra storia'' (2004) * '' I Vicerè'' (2007) * '' Baarìa'' (2009) * ''Io, Don Giovanni'' (2009) * ''

La vita è una cosa meravigliosa ''La vita è una cosa meravigliosa'' () is a 2010 Italian comedy film directed by Carlo Vanzina Carlo Vanzina (13 March 1951 – 8 July 2018) was an Italian film director, producer and screenwriter. Vanzina was born in Rome, the son of Maria ...

'' (2010) * '' Napoletans'' (2011) * ''Lilith's Hell'' (2015)

Television

* ''Vita di Antonio Gramsci'' (1981) * ''

'' (1990) * '' La piovra'', (1997) * ''

Un prete tra noi ''Un prete tra noi'' is an Italian drama television series. The title translates in English, "A priest among us." Un prete tra noi tells the story of Don Marco, a Catholic priest, who is assigned to penitentiary as a chaplain. Cast * Massimo D ...

'' (1997) * '' La piovra'', (1998) * ''Sarò il tuo giudice'' (2001) * ''Storia di guerra e d'amicizia'' (2002) * ''

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'' (2004) * ''Joe Petrosino'' (2006) * ''

'' (2009) * '' Saint Philip Neri: I Prefer Heaven'' (2010) * ''Il delitto di Via Poma'' (2011)

References

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