Marco Gambino
| Marco Gambino | |
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 Marco Gambino.jpg Marco Gambino in 2018 | |
| Born | August 26, 1957 Palermo, Sicily, Italy |
| 💼 Occupation | Actor |
| http://www.marcogambino.com/ | |
Marco Gambino (Italian pronunciation: [ˈmarko ɡamˈbiːno]; August 26, 1957) is an Italian stage, television, and cinema actor based in London.[1] He has played a variety of roles in English, Italian and French.
Life and career[edit]
Marco was born in Palermo on August 26, 1957, the son of Annamaria Tosini, an artist, and Francesco Gambino, a civil engineer.
He started working on stage as an actor at a young age with Teatro Novecento under the direction of Antonio Raffaele Addamo.[2]
In the late 1980s he moved to London where, after working a few years as an art dealer, he decides to resume his career as a full time actor around 2000.[3]
Playwright and dramaturg Paolo Puppa gave him a first opportunity entrusting him with a few of his monologues from Venire a Venezia he starts a career which brings him to work on stage, cinema and television.
With Attilio Bolzoni in 2008 he created the monologue Parole d'Onore an account of the Mafia through the words of mafia bosses. The show has been touring since 2009 in three different languages.[4][5]
The collaboration with playwright Roberto Cavosi leads to La Colpa di Otello and I Persiani a Caporetto, both performed at the Teatro Biondo in Palermo.
After meeting in London with Director Giacomo Campiotti he stars in some of his movies:
- Never Again as Before, 2005, Movie
- L'amore e la guerra, 2007, TV
- St. Giuseppe Moscati: Doctor to the Poor, 2007, TV Miniseries
- Non è mai troppo tardi, 2014, TV Miniseries
- Liberi di scegliere, 2019, TV
He is also notable for playing John Gambino in Il Capo dei Capi (2007) and Michele Bonomo in Squadra Antimafia (2009).
His international cinema work includes Tom Tykwer's The International (2009) and Journal of a Contract Killer by Tony Maylam.
In 2019, he was awarded the Crocitti Prize in the “international artist” category.[6]
References[edit]
- ↑ Franceschini, Enrico (26 March 2019). "Totò e "Daiana" al tempo della Brexit". la Repubblica (in italiano). Retrieved 15 September 2020.
- ↑ "Biografia di Antonio Raffaele Addamo". www.cinemaitaliano.info (in italiano). CinemaItaliano.info. Retrieved 15 September 2020.
- ↑ Rizzo, Toto' (7 December 2018). "Marco, che diventò grande a Londra". Buttanissima Sicilia (in italiano). Retrieved 15 September 2020.
- ↑ Bernard-Gresh, Sylviane. "Parole d'onore (Parole d'honneur) - Spectacles dans le Grand Paris". Télérama.fr (in français). Retrieved 15 September 2020.
- ↑ "Paroles de mafieux". www.franceinter.fr (in français). 5 March 2013. Retrieved 15 September 2020.
- ↑ Prestigiacomo, Marta (11 January 2019). ""Premio crocitti in carriera" a Marco Gambino". La Notizia Londra (in italiano). Retrieved 15 September 2020.
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