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Carlo Gabriel Nero | |
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 Franco Nero and Carlo Gabriel Nero in 1979 | |
| Born | Carlo Gabriel Sparanero 16 September 1969 London, England |
| Occupation(s) | Screenwriter, director, producer |
| Years active | 1980–present |
| Spouse | Jennifer Wiltsie |
| Children | 3 |
| Parent(s) | Franco Nero Vanessa Redgrave |
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| Family | Redgrave |
Carlo Gabriel Redgrave Nero (born Carlo Gabriel Sparanero; 16 September 1969) is an Italian-British screenwriter, film director and producer.
The son of actors Franco Nero and Vanessa Redgrave, [1] his maternal half-sisters are actresses Joely Richardson and Natasha Richardson (1963–2009).
Nero is the nephew of actors Corin (1939–2010) and Lynn Redgrave (1943–2010), cousin to actress Jemma Redgrave, and the uncle of Micheál Richardson and Daisy Bevan.
When Nero was about two years old, his parents separated. Consequently, he divided his childhood between Italy with his father and London with his mother. [2]
Nero graduated from the Italian National Film School in Rome – Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, [3] and furthered his film studies at the New York University Film School. [4] Vanessa Redgrave said in a 2016 interview with The Times, "It's no surprise that Carlo has ended up in the film business; he just happens to prefer being on the other side of the camera." [2]
In 1999, Nero's first feature film as writer/director, Uninvited, was released. The film, adapted from James Gabriel Berman's book of the same name, was screened at numerous international film festivals, including Cannes. [4]
Nero directed his mother Vanessa Redgrave, Angelina Jolie, and his sister Joely Richardson, in the 2004 HBO movie, The Fever. The film was adapted by a play written by actor Wallace Shawn. [5]
In 2005, Nero established a production company Dissent Projects Ltd. with his mother to produce social and environmental documentaries. [6] [7]
In June 2024, principal photography was completed on The Estate, [lower-alpha 1] a feature drama, executive produced by Nero, Vanessa Redgrave, and Franco Nero. The film is written and directed by Nero, and stars his mother and father. The Estate also features Nero's wife, actress Jennifer Wiltsie and daughter Lillian Nero. [8]
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Francesco Clemente Giuseppe Sparanero, known professionally as Franco Nero, is an Italian actor. His breakthrough role was as the title character in the Spaghetti Western film Django (1966), which made him a pop culture icon and launched an international career that includes over 200 leading and supporting roles in a wide variety of films and television productions.
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Letters to Juliet is a 2010 American romantic comedy-drama film starring Amanda Seyfried, Christopher Egan, Gael García Bernal, Vanessa Redgrave and Franco Nero. This was the final film of director Gary Winick before his death on February 27, 2011. The film was released theatrically in North America and other countries on May 14, 2010. The idea for the film was inspired by the 2006 non-fiction book Letters to Juliet, by Lise Eve Friedman and Ceil Jann Friedman, which chronicles the phenomenon of letter-writing to Shakespeare's most famous romantic character.
A Quiet Place in the Country is a 1968 giallo thriller film directed by Elio Petri, and starring Franco Nero and Vanessa Redgrave. Based on the short story "The Beckoning Fair One" by Oliver Onions, its plot follows an artist who relocates to a rural villa with his girlfriend, where he begins to experience increasingly terrifying, apparently supernatural events.
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Dropout is a 1970 Italian romantic drama directed by Tinto Brass. It stars real-life couple, Franco Nero and Vanessa Redgrave. They also worked with Brass a year later on the drama La vacanza. Dropout was released in France on December 18, 1970, followed by a theatrical release in Italy on February 22, 1971.
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