Filippo Timi

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Filippo Timi
Filippo Timi 2009.jpg
Timi at the 2009 Venice Film Festival
Born (1974-02-27) 27 February 1974 (age 50)
Perugia, Umbria, Italy
Occupations
  • Actor
  • director
  • screenwriter
  • playwright
  • costumist
Years active1999–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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Biography

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.

Personal life

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]

Filmography

Films

YearTitleRoleNotes
1999 In the Beginning There Was Underwear TascaFeature film debut
AppassionateRicky
2000RosatigreAntonello "Rosatigre"Also screenwriter and costumer
Atomique. Les trois portesNoneDirector
2001500!Nico
Fare la vitaAntonello "Rosatigre"Also screenwriter and composer
Esile rosa tuNoneDirector
2002Aprimi il cuoreCustomer
L'altra donnaFilippo
2005 Onde Alex
2006L'eredità di CainoHim
2007In memoria di meZanna
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 ClownCameo appearance
Angel of Evil Enzo
2011 When the Night Manfred Sane
RuggineDoctor Boldrini
Missione di pace Che Guerava
Piazza GaribaldiHimselfDocumentary 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
2014I corpi estraneiAntonio
2015 Blood of My Blood The Madman
He Named Me Malala The voice of Malala's fatherItalian dub; documentary film
2016Icaros: A VisionPasajero Leonardo
Questi giorni Mr. Mariani
Ice Age: Collision Course Manny (voice)Italian voice-over role
2017FavolaMrs. FairytaleAlso screenwriter
2022 The Invisible Thread Paolo
The Eight Mountains Giovanni Guasti
Robbing Mussolini Achille Borsalino

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
2010 Boris Bruno StaffaEpisode: "La qualità non basta"
2013–presentI delitti del BarLumeMassimo VivianiLead role
2014–2015Il candidatoPiero ZuccaLead role

Selected plays

• 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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References

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  4. Avete visto il marito di Filippo Timi? Il motivo per cui la coppia ha deciso di sposarsi a New York lascia l’amaro in bocca (in Italian)
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