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Filippo Timi | |
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 Timi at the 2009 Venice Film Festival | |
| Born | 27 February 1974 |
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| Years active | 1999–present |
| Spouse | Sebastiano Mauri (m. 2016;div. 2021) |
Filippo Timi (born 27 February 1974) is an Italian actor, director and writer. [1]
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Filippo Timi | |
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| Timi at the 2009 Venice Film Festival | |
| Born | 27 February 1974 |
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| Years active | 1999–present |
| Spouse | Sebastiano Mauri (m. 2016;div. 2021) |
Filippo Timi (born 27 February 1974) is an Italian actor, director and writer. [1]
| This section of a biography of a living person does not include any references or sources .(December 2022) |
Winner of ‘Best Actor under 30’ at the 2004 UBU Awards, the maximum prize for Italian theatre, onstage he has been Orpheus, Danton, Perceval, Cupid, Hamlet and Satan, playing three different roles in Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House by Andrée Ruth Shammah in 2016. [2]
Despite his stuttering [3] and partial blindness he became a star of the big screen including a wide range of activities as author and entrepreneur for TV, cinema, theatre, magazines and musical shows; between 2006 and 2008 he published the best-seller trilogy Tuttalpiù muoio (At Worst I’ll die) , E lasciamole cadere queste stelle (Let these stars fall) and Peggio che diventare famoso (Worse than becoming famous) in which he recalls his humble origins and transform youth troubles into a powerful and intense love for life, through a vividly ironic and phantasmagoric lens.
His 2009 Shakespeare adaptation Il popolo non ha il pane, diamogli le brioche (People don’t have bread, let's give them sweet rolls) , written, directed by and starring him as Hamlet, was sold out for two years and legitimated his name as one of the most acclaimed and talented authors of Italian theatre.
His film career took off with roles in Ferzan Ozpetek's multiple award winning Saturn in Opposition and Saverio Costanzo's In Memory of Me , for which he was nominated for a best supporting actor award by the Italian Syndicate of Film Journalists. After taking the lead roles in Wilma Labate's Miss F and Giuliano Montaldo's The Demons of St. Petersberg with Isabella Rossellini, he won a Best Actor award for his leading role in Academy Award winner director Gabriele Salvatores's As God Commands .
Since 2009 Timi's films were in competition in major festivals: at Cannes with Vincere by Marco Bellocchio, where he played the young Benito Mussolini, and at the Venice International Film Festival with the debut of Giuseppe Capotondi, The Double Hour , winner of the Coppa Volpi. He played dramatic roles in Vallanzasca, Angel of Evil (2011), the period drama Rust (2011) alongside comedies like Asterix and Obelix: God Save Britannia (2012).
The actor completed his English-language debut acting alongside George Clooney in Anton Corbijn's action film The American . [3] He has also dubbed Tom Hardy's voice in the Italian release of The Dark Knight Rises , and voiced Manny in the Italian dub of the last two films of the Ice Age franchise, replacing Leo Gullotta.
Timi is openly gay. In 2016, he married his longtime boyfriend, the artist and writer Sebastiano Mauri, in a civil ceremony in New York City. [4] They have since divorced. [5]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 1999 | In the Beginning There Was Underwear | Tasca | Feature film debut |
| Appassionate | Ricky | ||
| 2000 | Rosatigre | Antonello "Rosatigre" | Also screenwriter and costumer |
| Atomique. Les trois portes | None | Director | |
| 2001 | 500! | Nico | |
| Fare la vita | Antonello "Rosatigre" | Also screenwriter and composer | |
| Esile rosa tu | None | Director | |
| 2002 | Aprimi il cuore | Customer | |
| L'altra donna | Filippo | ||
| 2005 | Onde | Alex | |
| 2006 | L'eredità di Caino | Him | |
| 2007 | In memoria di me | Zanna | |
| Saturn in Opposition | Roberto | ||
| Signorina Effe | Sergio | ||
| 2008 | The Demons of St. Petersberg | Gusiev | |
| As God Commands | Rino Zena | ||
| 2009 | Vincere | Benito Mussolini | |
| The Double Hour | Guido | ||
| 2010 | The American | Fabio | |
| The Solitude of Prime Numbers | Clown | Cameo appearance | |
| Angel of Evil | Enzo | ||
| 2011 | When the Night | Manfred Sane | |
| Ruggine | Doctor Boldrini | ||
| Missione di pace | Che Guerava | ||
| Piazza Garibaldi | Himself | Documentary film | |
| 2012 | Love Is in the Air | Max Lamberti | |
| Ice Age: Continental Drift | Manny (voice) | Italian voice-over role | |
| Asterix and Obelix: God Save Britannia | Décurion patrouille | ||
| 2013 | A Castle in Italy | Ludovic Rossi-Levi | |
| Like the Wind | Umberto Mormile | ||
| 2014 | I corpi estranei | Antonio | |
| 2015 | Blood of My Blood | The Madman | |
| He Named Me Malala | The voice of Malala's father | Italian dub; documentary film | |
| 2016 | Icaros: A Vision | Pasajero Leonardo | |
| Questi giorni | Mr. Mariani | ||
| Ice Age: Collision Course | Manny (voice) | Italian voice-over role | |
| 2017 | Favola | Mrs. Fairytale | Also screenwriter |
| 2022 | The Invisible Thread | Paolo | |
| The Eight Mountains | Giovanni Guasti | ||
| Robbing Mussolini | Achille Borsalino |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 2010 | Boris | Bruno Staffa | Episode: "La qualità non basta" |
| 2013–present | I delitti del BarLume | Massimo Viviani | Lead role |
| 2014–2015 | Il candidato | Piero Zucca | Lead role |
• Fuoco centrale, by Cesare Ronconi (1995) • G.A. story, by Robert Wilson (1996) • La rabbia, study by Pippo Delbono (1996) • Medea, by Filippo Timi e Federica Santoro; produced by Giorgio Barberio Corsetti (1999) • F. di O., by Filippo Timi, produced by Giorgio Barberio Corsetti (1999) • La tempesta, by Giorgio Barberio Corsetti (1999) • Il Graal, by Giorgio Barberio Corsetti (2000) • Woyzeck, by Giorgio Barberio Corsetti (2001) • Il gabbiano, by Anton Milenin (2001) • La morte di Danton, by Aleksandr Popowski (2004) • La vita bestia, by Giorgio Barberio Corsetti (2006) • Il colore bianco, by Giorgio Barberio Corsetti (2006) • Il popolo non ha il pane? Diamogli le brioche, by Filippo Timi (2009) • Favola. C'era una volta una bambina, e dico c'era perché ora non c'è più, by Filippo Timi (2011) • Giuliett'e Romeo. M'engolfi 'l core, amore, by Filippo Timi (2011) • Il Don Giovanni: vivere è un abuso, mai un diritto, by Filippo Timi (2013) • Skianto, by Filippo Timi (2014) • Una casa di bambola, by Andrée Ruth Shammah, (2015–16)
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