Gianfranco Terrin | |
---|---|
Born | |
Occupation(s) | Actor and producer |
Years active | 1995–present |
Gianfranco Terrin is an Italian film and stage actor born in Naples, Italy. He first became known for hosting the TV mini-series Movie Surfers [1] airing on the Disney Channel.
He grew up in Pozzuoli, where at the age of ten, director Giuseppe M. Gaudino chose him to play a street urchin in Round the Moons between Earth and See . [2] Soon after, He was in the Italian TV Series Un posto al sole and in the feature film Rosa Funzeca directed by Aurelio Grimaldi. He trained in Italy with Actress Fioretta Mari [3] and moved to Los Angeles, where he was awarded a full scholarship for the Lee Strasberg Institute. He was the main host of the Disney Channel mini TV series Movie Surfers and starred in several feature films, including Bobby Fischer Live, Marlon Brando Unauthorized, and Mont Reve . He filmed a commercial for Fastweb, [4] [5] and played the lead role of Leonard in Il Castello di Azzurrina . [6] In 2012, he produced and directed Hysteria 2012 , a short documentary nominated at the California International Short Festival. He played Adam in the Italian version of La Forma delle Cose ( The Shape of Things ) at Teatro Brancaccino [7] in Rome. [8] He appeared in CBS's Criminal Minds Beyond Borders . [9] He played Italian gangster Carmine Parone in the 2016 crime drama Live by Night , [10] and Z'Luigino in the Francis Ford Coppola experimental film project Distant Vision (2015). [11] He has latest appeared in the TV series Carthago a WW2 period drama, that is based on a true story and nominated as the Best Series Award at Cannes Film Festival. [12]
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
1997 | Giro di Lune tra Terra e mare | Banda di Gennarino | |
2002 | Un Posto al Sole | Lucio Finaturio | 1 episode |
2002 | Rosa Funzeca | Gianfranco | |
2009 | Bobby Fischer Live | Luigi Italian Reporter | |
2010 | Brando Unauthorized | Jean Paul | |
2012 | Mont Reve | Riccardo Bartolo | |
2015 | The Elevator: three Minutes can change your life | Deliveryman | |
2015 | Ana Maria in Novela Land | Dancer #2 | |
2016 | Distant Vision | Z'Luigino | |
2016 | Live by Night | Carmine | |
2017 | Criminal Minds Beyond Borders | Assistente M.L. Marco Betti | Episode: "II Mostro" |
2018 | Azzurrina | Leonard | |
TBA | Miss Italia 2009 |
The Sanremo Music Festival, officially the Italian Song Festival, is the most popular Italian song contest and awards ceremony, held annually in the city of Sanremo, Liguria. It is the longest-running annual TV music competition in the world on a national level and it is also the basis and inspiration for the annual Eurovision Song Contest.
Gino Paoli is an Italian singer-songwriter. He is a seminal figure who has written a number of songs widely regarded as classics in Italian popular music, including: "Il cielo in una stanza", "Che cosa c'è", "Senza fine", "Quattro amici al bar" and "Sapore di sale".
Gianfranco Miglio was an Italian jurist, political scientist, and politician. He was a founder of the Federalist Party. For thirty years, he presided over the political science faculty of Milan's Università Cattolica. Later on in his life, he was elected as an independent member of the Parliament to the Italian Senate for Lega Nord. The supporters of Umberto Bossi's party called him Prufesùr, a Lombard nickname to remember his role.
Veleno is a studio album by Italian singer Mina, released on 25 October 2002 by PDU.
Vittorio Umberto Antonio Maria Sgarbi is an Italian art critic, art historian, writer, politician, cultural commentator and television personality. He is President of the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto. He was appointed curator of the Italian Pavilion at the 2011 Venice Biennale. Several times a member of the Italian Parliament, in 2008 he served as Cabinet Member for Culture, Arts and Sports in Milan's municipal government for six months when Mayor Letizia Moratti terminated his mandate as she saw him 'unfit for the job'. In 2012, he was removed as Mayor of Salemi by the Ministry of Interior after he failed to acknowledge Mafia interferences in his cabinet.
Giuseppe Povia, better known just as Povia, is an Italian rock singer-songwriter.
Paolo Zavalloni, best known as Paolo Zavallone and El Pasador, was an Italian singer, bandleader and composer.
Virginio Merola is an Italian politician. Merola is a member of the Democratic Party and former Mayor of Bologna.
Raffaella Fico is an Italian showgirl, singer and model.
Valentina Nappi is an Italian pornographic film actress and adult model. She has won numerous awards including the 2017 XBIZ Award for the Foreign Female Performer of the Year.
Giordano Macellari is an Italian painter.
The Golden Neptune (Italian: "Nettuno d'oro") is a prize conferred by the City of Bologna, since 1974, to citizens, companies, associations and cultural institutions that have brought honour to the city, through their professional or public activity. The prize, awarded by resolution of the municipal council of Bologna, is a reproduction of the statue of the Neptune fountain in Piazza Maggiore, a symbol of the city.
Umarell are men of retirement age who spend their time watching construction sites, especially roadworks – stereotypically with hands clasped behind their back and offering unwanted advice to the workers. Its literal meaning is "little man". The term is employed as lighthearted mockery or self-deprecation.
Giorgio Guazzaloca was an Italian politician, Mayor of Bologna from 1999 to 2004.
Domenico Bartoli was an Italian journalist and essayist. In 1960 he became the director of Il Resto del Carlino, a Bologna-based mass-circulation daily newspaper, remaining in the position for ten years.
Francesco Acquaroli is an Italian politician of the Brothers of Italy (FdI).
Enzo Lattuca is an Italian politician, former deputy of the Italian Republic, mayor of Cesena since 2019 and current President of the Union of Valle Savio Municipalities.
Matteo Lepore is an Italian politician, member of the Democratic Party (PD) and he is serving as mayor of Bologna since 11 October 2021.
The 2023 Democratic Party leadership election was a primary election that was held in Italy in February 2023 to elect the National Assembly and secretary of the Democratic Party (PD). It consisted of a closed primary election among party members held from 9 to 19 February, and an open primary election held on 26 February.