Alessandro Preziosi

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Alessandro Preziosi

Alessandro Preziosi (born April 19, 1973 in Naples ) is an Italian actor .

Life

Alessandro Preziosi first studied law at the University of Naples Federico II . He graduated with honors and worked as a lawyer in Avellino for two years .

Preziosi then completed an acting training at the Accademia dei Filodrammatici in Milan , which he finished with a diploma as a stage actor. During his training, he joined the Teatro Filodrammatici in Milan among others in Spring Awakening by Frank Wedekind and in several plays on Italian authors. He made his stage actor debut in 1998 at the Teatro Stabile del Friuli-Venezia Giulia with the role of Laertes in Hamlet , directed by Antonio Calenda and Kim Rossi Stuart in the title role. In the Oresty of Aeschylus he played the roles of Orestes (2001, 2003) and the Herald (2001). In the 2004/2005 season he took over the scheming prince Edmund in William Shakespeare's King Lear . In July 2008 he played the title role in Hamlet in a production of the Khora Teatro at the Teatro Romano in Verona . With this production Preziosi undertook a successful nationwide tour of Italy in the 2008/2009 season and in the 2009/2010 season. With the Khora Teatro Preziosi also realized his own productions, including the musical comedy Datemi tre caravelle (2005-2007) with the music of Stefano Di Battista , in which Preziosi took on the role of Christopher Columbus , and the melodrama Il Ponte (2008), also with the music of Stefano Di Battista, in which Preziosi played and directed at the same time. In 2009 he produced William Shakespeare's Was ihr wollt (2009), which premiered as part of the Shakespeare Festival at the Teatro Romano in Verona and was shown at several Italian theater festivals.

Preziosi's film career began in 1999 with the participation in the Italian soap opera Vivere and the Italian miniseries Una donna per amico 2 . Preziosi achieved particular fame as Conte Fabrizio Ristori in the Italian telenovela Elisa di Rivombrosa , in which she played alongside Vittoria Puccini . He appeared with Giuliano Gemma in the crime series Il Capitano , and he also took on the title role in the TV miniseries Il commissario De Luca .

In the cinema, Preziosi was seen in Vaniglia e cioccolato , The House of Larks , I vicerè , Il sangue dei vinti and in Mine vaganti . In mine vaganti by Ferzan Ozpetek , who is also at the International Film Festival in Berlin was shown Preziosi played as Antonio the role of the gay brother of the male lead actor Riccardo Scamarcio . While Preziosi, in his film role, advocates living homosexuality and standing by one's own feelings, Preziosi is rather negative about homosexuality and same-sex partnerships .

In 2006, he took on the role of art thief Vincenzo Peruggia in the television film L'uomo che rubò la Gioconda , who stole the Mona Lisa from the Louvre in Paris in 1911 .

In 2008, he played the title role as a young, adult man in the German-Italian TV coproduction Augustinus , a biopic about the church teacher Augustinus , which was shown as a two-parter on ARD in April 2010 , while the old Augustinus was played by Franco Nero . At the Ravenna Festival 2010 Preziosi performed in June 2010 in the Basilica Sant'Apollinare in Classe with a reading of texts by Augustine under the title Dal più segreto fondo della mia anima .

Preziosi has a daughter together with the actress Vittoria Puccini. The couple has been separated since January 2011. Preziosi is also the father of a son from a previous relationship. In 2009, Preziosi hit the headlines of the Italian tabloid press when clear photos of him and Giorgia Pagliacci , an Italian model, appeared. His interview with a nude appearance on the Italian TV show Viktor Victoria also caused a stir in March 2010 .

Filmography (selection)

  • 1999: Vivere (TV series)
  • 1999: Una donna per amico 2
  • 2003: Elisa di Rivombrosa (TV series)
  • 2004: Vaniglia e cioccolato
  • 2005–2007: Il capitano (TV series)
  • 2006: L'uomo che rubò la Gioconda (TV movie)
  • 2007: The house of the larks (La masseria delle allodole)
  • 2007: The Viceroys (I vicerè)
  • 2008: Il sangue dei vinti
  • 2008: Il commissario De Luca (TV series)
  • 2010: Kiss change 2 - opposites take off ( Maschi contro femmine )
  • 2010: Men al dente (Mine vaganti)
  • 2010: Augustine (TV series Sant'Agostino)
  • 2011: exchange of kisses - no foreplay without aftermath (Femmine contro maschi)
  • 2011: Edda Ciano e il comunista (TV movie)
  • 2013: Better live Italian! (TV movie)
  • 2015: Beauty and the Beast (Miniseries)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alessandro Preziosi - biografia Biography at film.it
  2. ↑ alessandro preziosi: attore ( memento of February 17, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Theater roles (excerpt); Web archive version dated February 17, 2008
  3. ↑ Alessandro Preziosi ( Memento from February 17, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Biography at SIPARIO.it
  4. ↑ Alessandro Preziosi: il mio Amleto attuale come un intellettuale in crisi Rita Celi in: La Repubblica of June 29, 2008 (portrait of Alessandro Preziosi)
  5. ↑ Alessandro Preziosi, Gay al Cinema Omofobo nella Realtà ( Memento of January 4, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) in: Omoeros of March 20, 2010; Web archive version dated January 4, 2011
  6. ↑ Alessandro Preziosi dice no ai matrimoni gay ( Memento from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Interview in Gioia , March 2010
  7. ^ Ravenna Festival 2010, dalle tenebre alla luce Festival Chronicle Sabato Sera Online
  8. ↑ Alessandro Preziosi tradisce Vittoria Puccini Stefania Russo in Spettegola.com from September 30, 2009
  9. ↑ Alessandro Preziosi nudo a Victor Victoria ( Memento from September 7, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) Jugo.it
personal data
SURNAME Preziosi, Alessandro
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian actor
DATE OF BIRTH April 19, 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Naples