Gianni Di Gregorio

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Gianni Di Gregorio
Born19 February 1949 (1949-02-19) (age 75)
Rome, Italy
Occupation(s)Director
Screenwriter

Gianni Di Gregorio (born 19 February 1949) is an Italian director, screenwriter and actor.

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Life and career

Born in Rome, Di Gregorio trained as a stage actor and director in the Drama School of Alessandro Fersen. He started his professional career as a screenwriter in the second half of the 1980s. [1]

In the 1990s Di Gregorio started collaborating with Matteo Garrone as a screenwriter, an actor and an assistant director, their most famous work being the 2008 award-winning film Gomorrah . He made his directorial debut in 2008, with the critically acclaimed Mid-August Lunch, which he also wrote and starred in; he followed that up with other films in the same vein. [1] [2]

Filmography

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References

  1. 1 2 Fabio Secchi Frau. "Gianni Di Gregorio: Gianni e il cinema". MyMovies . Retrieved 11 September 2015.
  2. Wally Hammond. "Gianni Di Gregorio: interview". Time Out . Retrieved 14 May 2016.