Paolo Sassanelli

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Paolo Sassanelli
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Paolo Sassanelli (Déluge TV, 2022)
Born29 October 1958 (1958-10-29) (age 65)
Bari, Italy
OccupationActor
Height1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)

Paolo Sassanelli (born 29 October 1958) is an Italian stage, film and television actor and director.

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Life and career

Born in Bari, Sassanelli made his stage debut in his hometown in the second half of the 1980s. [1] He then moved to Rome and had his breakout in the early 1990s with the role of Gabriele Serra in the TV-series Classe di ferro . [1] [2] In 2014, Sassanelli won the Nastro d'Argento for best supporting actor for his performance in the crime-comedy film Song'e Napule . [3] His short film debut Guerra (War) won as best fiction at The Palace International Short Film Festival, in 2010.

Selected filmography

Director

Feature films

Short films

  • Bei capelli (Beautiful hair), (2003)
  • Uerra (War), (2009)
  • Ammore (Love), (2013)
  • Amore Disperato (Desperate Love), (2016)
  • Un voto all'italiana (An Italian-style vote), (2017)

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References

  1. 1 2 Roberto Chiti; Roberto Poppi; Enrico Lancia. Dizionario del cinema italiano : Gli attori dal 1930 ai giorni nostri. Gremese Editore, 2002. pp. 182–3. ISBN   8884402697.
  2. Fabio Secchi Frau. "Paolo Sassanelli: Classe? Di ferro!". MyMovies . Retrieved 5 November 2015.
  3. Arianna Finos (June 29, 2014). "Nastri d'argento, trionfo di Virzì ma tanto spazio ai giovani". La Repubblica . Retrieved 5 November 2015.