Gianluca Testa

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Gianluca Testa (born March 2, 1982) is an Italian actor, director and singer-songwriter.

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Biography

Gianluca Testa began his acting career in theatre productions and independent cinema. In theatre he worked with Giuliano Vasilicò and Gruppo di Ricerca e Progettazione Teatrale, starring the role of San Giovanni in Dal Vangelo secondo Giovanni for three years [1] and worked with Giancarlo Nanni and Teatro Vascello in Rome since 2006 to 2009. [2] In 2006 he appeared in the official music video for Raf (singer) in the song Dimentica . In 2008, he starred as Mirko Bertolini in the miniseries Rex [3] [4] [5] on Rai 1 and as Francesco Ticconi in the television series Carabinieri on Canale 5. In 2009 he starred as main character in the movie Mad in italy , distributed in the US, [6] [7] [8] and in Symphony in Blood Red , distributed in Germany. In 2010 he starred as Brenno in the movie Pipi Room , directed by Jerry Calà, [9] and in Calibro 10 , with Franco Nero. In the same year he starred the role of Syd Barrett in the musical Syd l'altra faccia della luna [10] and directed the short film Fagiolino e il cavaliere [11] [12] under the patronage of Molise. In 2014, Gianluca Testa wrote and directed the short film Banza Kiri! starred by Aurora Ruffino. [13] [14] In 2019, Gianluca Testa wrote and directed the short film La strategia del prigioniero starred by Daniele Marcheggiani, Anca Mariana Doncilà, Roberta Valdes. [15] [16] Since 2002 he directs many commercials and music videos for Video Italia and MTV. He works also as trainer in the field of self-help [17] [18] and acting coach. [19] In 2020 Testa released his studio album Nomade digitale [20] [21]

Selected filmography

Films

Television

Music Videos

Short films

Selected discography

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