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Italian actor
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Male
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Birth:
19 February 1949(Rome)
The details
Biography
Introduction
Gianni Di Gregorio (born 19 February 1949) is an Italian director, screenwriter and actor.
Life and career
Born in Rome, Di Gregorio trained as a stage actor and director in the Drama School of Alessandro Fersen. He started his professional career as a screenwriter in the second half of the 1980s.
In the 1990s Di Gregorio started collaborating with Matteo Garrone as a screenwriter, an actor and an assistant director. He made his directorial debut in 2008, with the critically acclaimed Mid-August Lunch, which he also wrote and starred in.
Selected filmography
- Gomorrah (2008, screenwriter)
- Mid-August Lunch (2008, director and screenwriter)
- The Salt of Life (2011, director and screenwriter)
- Good for Nothing (2014, director and screenwriter)