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Nino Frassica | |
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Born | Antonino Frassica 11 December 1950 Messina, Italy |
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Years active | 1970–present |
Height | 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) |
Spouses | Daniela Conti (m. 1985;div. 1993)Barbara Exignotis (m. 2018) |
Antonino "Nino" Frassica (born 11 December 1950) is an Italian actor, comedian and television personality.
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Born in Messina, Sicily, Frassica is mostly known for his deadpan humour, characterized by absurd jokes he described as a way of "ruining logic and the Italian language". [1] He is considered "a master of nonsense humour". [2] He debuted for Italian television with Renzo Arbore's Quelli della notte (1985), in which he played a semi-illiterate friar. Later, again in collaboration with Arbore, he was given a major role in the surreal quiz show Indietro tutta! (lit. Full speed backwards!, 1987).
Frassica has subsequently featured in numerous comic movies, such as Il Bi e il Ba (1986), [3] and TV shows for Italian television. He plays Marshal Antonio "Nino" Cecchini on the Italian TV series Don Matteo (2000-present). [4] He co-hosted the second night of the Sanremo Music Festival 2025 alongside Bianca Balti, Cristiano Malgioglio and Carlo Conti. [5]
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