Enrico Lo Verso
Enrico Lo Verso (born January 18, 1964 in Palermo ) is an Italian actor .
Life
Lo Verso, the son of an engineer and an English teacher, grew up in Syracuse and studied at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia and the Istituto Nazionale del Dramma Antico in the Italian capital, where he also learned to shed his Sicilian dialect. After minor roles in a few films and his first television engagements, he caught the attention of director Gianni Amelio while working on the theater comedy Volevamo gli essere gli U2, who cast him in his Stolen Children as the Calabrian Carabiniere Antonio, who played the children of the title on the long and intense one Accompanied hike from Milan to Sicily. This role made Lo Verso one of the stars of the new Italian neorealism thanks to his natural-looking diction and charisma as a boy of the people . Numerous notable roles followed immediately afterwards (the brave and simple "Lucio" in Endstation Mord , the communist worker in Mario, Maria e Mario and one of the young agents in Die Escort ). With Farinelli, the castrato , Lo Verso was also highly successful in France; In 1999 he played in the disastrous Li chiamarono… briganti! the brigands Carmine Crocco .
Even in the new millennium, Lo Verso was a hardworking worker and a reliable, sometimes unorthodox, sometimes conventional interpretation of the following actors in heroic roles, whom he tracked time and again on television. Isolated Hollywood excursions are juxtaposed with interesting works such as Baarìa , Alatriste and September 11, 1863 .
In addition, the jury for the award for the best debut film at the Berlinale 2016 .
Lo Verso and his wife have a son, Giacomo, who was born in 1992 and works as a voice actor.
Filmography (selection)
- 1991: Hudson Hawk - The Master Thief
- 1992: End of the line murder (Le amiche del cuore)
- 1992: The Escort (La scorta)
- 1992: Stolen Children (Il ladro di bambini)
- 1994: Lamerica (Lamerica)
- 1994: Farinelli, the castrato (Farinelli voce regina)
- 1996: The Bible - Moses (Mosè) (TV movie)
- 1998: That's how we laughed (Così ridevano)
- 1999: Unruly (Méditerranées)
- 2000: Les Misérables - Prisoners of Fate (Les Misérables)
- 2001: Hannibal
- 2001: Judas (Giudà) (TV movie)
- 2006: Alatriste (Alatriste)
- 2006: The End of the Gods (L'inchiesta)
- 2009: Baarìa (Baarìa)
- 2010: One night in Rome (Habitación en Roma)
- 2012: The siege (September 11, 1683)
Web links
- Enrico Lo Verso in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Biography at mymovies (Italian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Enrico Lo Verso - Biography. Internet Movie Database , accessed July 14, 2014 .
- ↑ Andrea Orbicciani, Article Enrico Lo Verso. In: Roberto Chiti, Enrico Lancia, Andrea Orbicciani, Roberto Poppi: Dizionario del cinema italiano. Gli attori. Rome, Gremese 1998, pp. 281/282.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lo Verso, Enrico |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 18, 1964 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Palermo , Italy |