Edoardo Purgatori

Edoardo Purgatori (born January 14, 1989 in Rome ) also known as Edoardo Hendrik is an Italian - German film and theater actor .

Life

Edoardo Purgatori was born in 1989 as the eldest of three children of the Italian journalist Andrea Purgatori and the German art historian and actress Nicola Schmitz. Today he is a citizen of both Italy and Germany. His grandfather, Mirko Purgatori, was a film producer, his cousin Giorgio Salvioni, who died in 1994, was a screenwriter and film producer.

After kindergarten he attended the German School in Rome . Here Purgatori already appeared as an amateur actor in front of classmates. Later he was a member of the school's own theater group. He took his first acting courses from the age of 18 in New York City . He got his first film role in 2007 as one of the leading actors in the crime series Donna Detective .

In 2008 he began studying international relations at the Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali in Rome, which he broke off a short time later. He went to London to receive professional acting training. In Great Britain he was a graduate of the Oxford School of Drama .

In 2010 Purgatori returned to Italy, where he found audiences in the theater as well as in film and television productions. He played a leading role in Tennessee Williams ' play The Glass Menagerie and was seen as " Mark Antony " in Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare .

As a film actor, Purgatori has so far only been able to shine in a few internationally acclaimed productions. His best-known film was the comedy To Rome With Love , produced in 2012 and directed by Woody Allen .

Purgatori lives in Rome and Berlin , but also in London and Los Angeles .

Filmography (selection)

movie theater

• La Dea Fortuna , directed by Ferzan Özpetek (2019)
• Mr. H , directed by Giulio Neglia (2019)
• Freaks Out , directed by Gabriele Mainetti (2019)
• NE KO , directed by Ludovico Purgatori (2018)
• The Record of Existence , directed by Lorenza La Bella (2018)
• Quando corre Nuvolari , directed by Tonino Zangardi (2018)
• Appunti di viaggio , directed by Andrea Natale (2016)
• Ben-Hur , directed by Timur Bekmambetov (2016)
• La grande rabbia , directed by Claudio Fragasso (2016)
• Amore oggi , directed by Giancarlo Fontana e Giuseppe Stasi (2014)
• Am Wald , directed by Marco Longobucco (2013)
• La mossa del pinguino , directed by Claudio Amendola (2013)
• Minnie , directed by Andrea Natale (2012) - Finalista alla V edizione Festival del Cortometraggio "Corto Corrente" (2013)
• Breaking Point , directed Ludovico Purgatori (2012)
• The Fallen Angel , directed by Michele Coggiola (2012)
• To Rome with Love , directed by Woody Allen (2012)
• G: The Other Me , directed by Michele Coggiola (2011)
• Fist chi? , directed by Marco Maltauro (2009)

TV

• Baby, directed by Andrea De Sica and Anna Negri - Netflix series (2018)
• Tutto può succedere 2, directed by Lucio Pellegrini - Series (2016)
• The Boundary (Il Confine), directed by Carlo Carlei - TV-Movie (2016)
• Separation in Italian, directed by Florian Gärtner - TV-Movie (2014)
• Un medico in famiglia - series, 22 episodes (2013-2016)
• Anita Garibaldi , directed by Claudio Bonivento - Miniseries (2012)
• Eroi per caso , directed by Alberto Sironi - Miniseries (2011)
• Mia madre , directed by Ricky Tognazzi - Miniseries (2010)
• Un caso di coscienza , directed by Luigi Perelli - Series (2009)
• Donna detective - series, 22 episodes (2008-2010)

theatre

• The Diner, directed by Gabriele Di Luca and Massimiliano Setti, "Carrozzeria Orfeo" Theater Company (2019)

• LOOSE ENDS - Giovani Sospesi, directed by Armando Quaranta (2019)
• The Pass, directed by Maurizio Mario Pepe, "the shape of water" Theater Company (2019)
• Killology, directed by Maurizio Mario Pepe, "the shape of water" Theater Company (2018)
• The Pass, directed by Maurizio Mario Pepe, "the shape of water" Theater Company (2017)
• Marathon, directed by Maurizio Mario Pepe, "the shape of water" Theater Company (2016)
• Julius Caesar, monologue directed by Maurizio Mario Pepe (2015) - [English Production]
• The Shape of Things, directed by Michele Coggiola e Maurizio Mario Pepe (2013) - [English Production]
• The Glass Menagerie, directed by Maurizio Pepe (2013–2015) - [English and Italian Production]
• Tartuffe, directed by Gerrit Krüger (2008) - [German Production]
• Les Miserables, directed by Gerrit Krüger (2007) - [German Production]
• Rabbit Rabbit, directed by Gerrit Krüger (2006) - [German Production]
• Dance of the Vampires, directed by Sabine Krüger (2004) - [German Production]

Web links

• Edoardo Purgatori in the Internet Movie Database (English)