Pino Insegno

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Pino Insegno
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Insegno at the Giffoni Film Festival in 2008
Born
Giuseppe Insegno

(1959-08-30) 30 August 1959 (age 64)
Rome, Italy
Occupations
  • Actor
  • voice actor
  • television presenter
  • comedian
Years active1981–present
Spouses
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(m. 1997;div. 2007)​
Alessia Navarro
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(m. 2012)​
Children4
Relatives Claudio Insegno  [ it ] (brother)

Giuseppe "Pino" Insegno (born 30 August 1959) is an Italian actor, voice actor, television presenter and comedian. [1]

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Since 1986, Insegno has been a member of the comedy quartet Premiata Ditta  [ it ] and he also found success dubbing characters into the Italian language and presenting a variety of television shows across Italy.

Biography

Born in Rome, Insegno began his career in 1981 and then eventually in 1986, he became a member of Premiata Ditta alongside Roberto Ciufoli  [ it ], Francesca Draghetti  [ it ] and Tiziana Foschi  [ it ]. The group performed a variety of comedy sketches on stage, television, and film, most notably the 1995 film L'assassino è quello con le scarpe gialle. [2] Insegno also appeared in the music video for the song Tu stasera non esci by Gemelli Diversi on their second album 4x4.

Between the early and mid 2000s, he was one of four presenters of Premiata Teleditta alongside his three colleagues. In 2010, he presented the show Insegnami a sognare and from 2010 to 2013, he presented the Italian version of the French-Canadian game show Action Réaction . He presented these shows for Rai 1. He also presented shows for Mediaset in the past. [3]

Insegno is recognised as a voice actor and dubber. He serves as the official Italian voice of Will Ferrell, having dubbed him in a majority of his films. He also dubbed Viggo Mortensen, Liev Schreiber and Sacha Baron Cohen in some of their movies. He is well known for voicing Stan Smith in the Italian-Language version of American Dad and he performed the Italian voices of Diego in the Ice Age film series, John Smith in Pocahontas and Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World , Chick Hicks in Cars and Cars 3 , The Magic Mirror in the Shrek movies, and he also dubbed several characters in The Simpsons . [4]

Personal life

Insegno is the older brother of voice actor Claudio Insegno  [ it ]. From his first marriage to actress Roberta Lanfranchi  [ it ], Insegno had two children. He had another two with his second and current wife Alessia Navarro.

Filmography

Cinema

Dubbing roles

Animation

Live action

Video games

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References

  1. ↑ "Pino Insegno's dubbing contributions". Antoniogenna.net. Retrieved 8 October 2018.
  2. ↑ "Pino Insegno". MYmovies . Retrieved 8 October 2018.
  3. ↑ "Pino Insegno - Attore - Biografia e Filmographia - Ecodelcinema". ecodelcinema.com. 8 August 2014. Retrieved 8 October 2018.
  4. ↑ PINO INSEGNO e il DOPPIAGGIO (2012) | enciclopediadeldoppiaggio.it
  5. ↑ "American Dad! Italian voice cast". Antoniogenna.net. Retrieved 2019-04-11.
  6. ↑ "I Simpson - The Simpsons Italian voice cast". Il mondo dei doppiatori, antoniogenna.net (in Italian).

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