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| Born | David Ottolenghi 3 January 1956 Milan, Italy |
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David Ottolenghi (born 3 January 1956), known by the pseudonym Gioele Dix, is an Italian actor and comedian.
Born in Milan to a family of Jewish descent, Gioele Dix began his theatrical career at the end of the 1970s, promoting and animating the Milan stage company Teatro degli Eguali. Among the numerous plays he took part in are: A Midsummer Night's Dream , a rock musical from Shakespeare directed by Gabriele Salvatores (who went on to direct a film adaptation); A Martian in Rome by Ennio Flaiano, directed by Antonio Salines; two stagings of Molière's The Imaginary Invalid and Tartuffe with veteran actor Franco Parenti. Intending to pursue a career as a stand-up comedian, he appeared at the Derby Club and the Zelig, important historical Milan cabarets, reaching fame in 1988 in the TV variety show Cocco on Rai 2 with the character of a permanently enraged car driver.
Io sono un automobilista, ed essendo un automobilista sono sempre costantemente incazzato come una bestia!!
- I'm a car driver and, being a car driver, I'm always constantly furiously pissed off!!
— Gioele Dix
In the 1990s he confirmed his popularity as a stage actor, as well as a playwright, in a number of works and on TV, but often also as a comedian sending up and imitating renowned soccer players in prime-time sports shows.
In the 2000s, Dix had various movie engagements and filmed for the national TV together with Giorgio Albertazzi in 2004. Among the many theatrical works, he interpreted Cuori pazzi by F.T Altan (2000), The Libertine by E.E. Schmitt together with Ottavia Piccolo (2001) where he is the first Italian man playing naked, Corto Maltese from scripts by Hugo Pratt and music by Paolo Conte. He the returned to the stage with Edipo.com , directed by Sergio Fantoni (2003); then La Bibbia ha quasi sempre ragione with Cesare Picco at the piano (2004), all of them plays enhancing the narrative dimension of the story, thus exploiting Dix's natural talent as a raconteur.
In 2007, he was engaged in the cast of Zelig (a popular comedy TV show) as one of the comedians, interpreting his now famous caricature of the "permanently enraged car driver".
In 2008, he staged Tutta colpa di Garibaldi with scripts by himself, Sergio Fantoni and Nicola Fano, directed by Fantoni; he followed with the play Dixplay by himself, with the participation of Bebo Best Baldan.
Dix has also published some comedic books:
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