Pasquale Aleardi (born 1 June 1971) is a Swiss actor. He is known for playing the role of 'J.D. Salinas' in ''

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''. He also starred as Billy Flynn in the Broadway production of ''

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''. In 2016, Aleardi starred in the lead role of Tommaso, an Italian Miner in ''Gotthard'' (2016). The film is the largest-scale Swiss TV production ever made and screened as a world premiere on 2 August 2016 for the traditional Prefestival evening, at the Festival del film Locarno 2016. Aleardi is the son of Greco-Italian emigrants. Aleardi was hired for his first Swiss film role in ''

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'' (1994). Despite the sudden success he ended 1995, the Theatre Academy and went to Germany, where he took engagements at theaters in Bonn, Düsseldorf and Cologne. After several theater successes on German stages with pieces such as ''The Big Bang'' by

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(Best Production NRW 96 / Berlin Theatre Meeting), his interest focused on the movie. He played among others on the side of Veronica Ferres in the TV movie ''Forever Lost'', for its German cinema debut ' to cast him alongside

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, with the main role in a film version of Bertolt Brecht's ''

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'' he mimed the role of Ekart alongside Matthias Schweighofer and his performance on the side of Milla Jovovich in the 80 million expensive production ''

'' gave him first on the international stage. One of the greatest successes landed Pasquale to his home country, when copilot Peter Landolt Pasquale Aleardi celebrated in January 2006 hit movie in the Swiss cinema production '' Grounding - The Last Days of Swissair''. In Germany, Aleardi played in 2006 in the spring at the Berlinale in the film ''Beautiful Life'', as well as in the theater adaptation of Frank Wedekind ''Lulu''. In Anke Engelke series womanizing he put his comedy talent. In autumn 2006 launched the German film comedy ''Where Is Fred?'' in which Aleardi was an egocentric Marketing Manager,

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makes life difficult. Simultaneously launched in Switzerland, the television production sweets, in which he tries to save as a charming Blender his company with all the tricks from ruin. Pasquale Aleardi lives in Berlin, speaks five languages; next to the spectacle is music his second passion. He is active as a singer, plays the piano and is a member of the Cologne music project since 2004. In 2017 he won a Swiss Film Award for Best Leading Actor for playing the role of Tommaso in ''Gotthard'' in (2016).

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Aleardi, Pasquale 1971 births Living people Male actors from Zürich Swiss male film actors Swiss male television actors Swiss people of Greek descent Swiss people of Italian descent 20th-century Swiss male actors 21st-century Swiss male actors