Francesco Prando

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Francesco Prando
Born (1960-02-22) 22 February 1960 (age 63)
Rome, Kingdom of Italy
OccupationActor
Years active1985–present
Children1
Parents
  • Marcello Prando (father)
  • Luciana Durante (mother)
Relatives Checco Durante (grandfather)
Anita Durante (grandmother)
Lelia Durante (aunt)

Francesco Prando (born 22 February 1960) is an Italian actor and voice actor. [1]

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Biography

Prando was born in Rome to actors Marcello Prando and Luciana Durante. His maternal grandparents were actors Checco and Anita Durante. [2] As a voice actor, Prando is renowned for dubbing over the voices of Luke Perry, Vince Vaughn, Guy Pearce and Matthew McConaughey. He has also dubbed over Keanu Reeves, Daniel Craig, Jason Statham, Paul Rudd, Michael Fassbender and many more. Some of his popular dubbing roles include Will Truman (portrayed by Eric McCormack) in the Italian version of Will & Grace .

In Prando's animated roles, he voiced Ned Flanders in the Italian dub of The Simpsons since Season 4, replacing Pino Insegno. He also performed the Italian voices of Prince Charming in the Shrek films, Phineas T. Ratchet in Robots , Li Shang in Mulan and more.

Filmography

Cinema

Television

Dubbing roles

Animation

Live action

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References

  1. ↑ "Francesco Prando's dubbing contributions". Antoniogenna.net. Retrieved 9 October 2018.
  2. ↑ intervista 2012 interview (in Italian)
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