Stefano Lelio Beniamino Accorsi (; born 2 March 1971) is an Italian actor.
Early life and background
Accorsi was born in
Bologna
Bologna (, , ; egl, label=Emilian language, 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 1 ...
. He graduated from Bologna's Theatrical School in 1993, and acted in the theatre for several years before moving to cinema.
Career
In 1995 he played the lead in ''
Jack Frusciante è uscito dal gruppo'', one of his best known films.
In 1998 he worked with Daniele Luchetti in ''I Piccoli Maestri'', which competed for the
Golden Lion at the
Venice International Film Festival. In the same year he won three prizes for his role in ''
Radiofreccia'', directed by rock star
Luciano Ligabue
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Biography
Ligabue was born in Correggio, in the province of Reggio Emilia (Emilia-Romagna in northern ...
, including
David di Donatello for Best Actor
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.
He was the lead in the successful film ''
L'ultimo bacio'' (''The Last Kiss'').
He won the leading role in
Maria de Medeiros
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Ear ...
’ ''
Capitães de Abril'' (''April Captains''), and has worked with director
Nanni Moretti
Giovanni "Nanni" Moretti (; born 19 August 1953) is an Italian film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor.
His films have won accolades including a Palme d'Or at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival for ''The Son's Room'', a Silver Bear at the ...
in ''
The Son's Room
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''.
In 2001, Accorsi also had the leading role in
Ferzan Özpetek
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Ferzan Özpetek was born in Istanbul in 1959. In 1976, he decided to move to Italy to study Cinema History at Sapienza Unive ...
's ''Le fate ignoranti ''(''His Secret Life – Festival Title/The Ignorant Fairies – International Title''), which was in competition at the 2001
Berlin International Film Festival
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. This film was a big success in Italy and in Turkey, and Accorsi, who played the role of a homosexual man, won three awards for his interpretation.
He also starred in
David Blair's ''Tabloid TV'' (UK) and in Marco Ponti's ''Santa Maradona''.
Then Accorsi acted in the TV film ' by Giacomo Battiato.
His next film was ''Un viaggio chiamato amore'' (A Journey Called Love) which took part in the Venice International Film Festival 2002 and for which he won the Coppa Volpi, the award for best male performance as the Italian poet
Dino Campana.
He didn't make any more films for about a year, during which time he went to France. He went to the Venice International Film Festival 2003 as a member of the jury. In 2004 he shot two movies: ''Ovunque sei'', directed by
Michele Placido
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, where he plays the role of an emergency care doctor; and ''L'amore ritrovato'', directed by
Carlo Mazzacurati
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His better known films include ''Il Toro'' (1994) and ''La lingua del santo'' (2000). H ...
.
Accorsi worked with
Diane Kruger
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Kruger became known for her roles in ...
in ''
Les Brigades du Tigre'' (2005) and with
Julie Depardieu
Julie Marion Depardieu (born 18 June 1973) is a French actress who has appeared in a number of successful films.
Early life
Born 18 June 1973 in Paris, she is the daughter of Gérard Depardieu, Gérard and Élisabeth Depardieu and the sister of t ...
in ''
La Faute à Fidel
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''. He was featured in ''
Un baiser s'il vous plaît
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'' in 2007 and its sequel ''
Baciami ancora'' in 2010.
Personal life
Accorsi was engaged to
Corsican supermodel
. They have one son and one daughter together, Orlando, born on 21 September 2006 and Athena, born on 29 August 2009.
He is an agnostic.
Filmography
Films
Television
Music videos
Awards
References
External links
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Saverio Ferragina press agent
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1971 births
Living people
Actors from Bologna
Italian male film actors
Italian male television actors
Italian agnostics
David di Donatello winners
Nastro d'Argento winners
Ciak d'oro winners
Volpi Cup for Best Actor winners
20th-century Italian male actors
21st-century Italian male actors