Luigi Lo Cascio

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Luigi Lo Cascio

Luigi Lo Cascio (born October 20, 1967 in Palermo ) is an Italian actor .

biography

Luigi Lo Cascio was born in Palermo in 1967. He grew up with four brothers in the Sicilian capital and decided to follow in the footsteps of his great-grandfather and uncle and study medicine in order to pursue a career as a psychiatrist just like them. During his studies Lo Cascio and friends joined the street theater Ascelle (English: "armpit" ) in his hometown, where he was discovered in 1989 by the theater director Federico Tiezzi. Tiezzi offered him a role in the production of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot , which took the amateur actor to the Teatro Quirino in Rome and the Teatro Carignano in Turin , among others . He quickly found pleasure in the theater and dropped out of medical school prematurely in order to devote himself to a professional career as an actor. Lo Cascio moved to Rome and successfully completed his acting training at the Silvio D'Amico State Art School in 1992 with Orazio Costa's production of William Shakespeare's Hamlet . Further appearances in the 1990s in numerous classical theater plays such as Alexandre Dumas ' Die Kamelliendame (1992), Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet (1996), Heinrich von Kleist's Die Familie Schroffenstein (1997) or Oscar Wilde's Salome (1998) followed. Lo Cascio has a preference for the Luigi Pirandellos theater , the Greek tragedy, but also the works of Samuel Beckett and Bertolt Brecht .

On the recommendation of his uncle Luigi Maria Burruano , also an actor, Lo Cascio got the lead role in Marco Tullio Giordana's feature film 100 steps in 2000 . The crime drama follows the life of the Sicilian politician Giuseppe "Peppino" Impastato , who opposed the mafia with a self-financed independent radio station and paid for it with his life in 1978. 100 steps was granted international success with audiences and critics. The film was nominated for the Golden Globe in 2001, while Lo Cascio in the same year for his film debut as Giuseppe Impastato, which was characterized by the Frankfurter Rundschau as the "trinity" of Rudi Dutschke , Werner Enke and Roberto Benigni , the David di Donatello , the received the most important Italian film award. The actor was able to seamlessly build on his success a year later with the lead role in Giuseppe Piccioni's Light of My Eyes (2001). In the quiet, melancholy love story, the Italian plays the Roman chauffeur Antonio, who identifies with heroes from science fiction novels and who meets the love of his life in the single mother and the stoic who refuses to live. Lo Cascio received the Coppa Volpi as best actor at the premiere of Licht mein Augen at the Venice Film Festival 2001 together with film partner Sandra Ceccarelli and stood up against such established actors as Ben Kingsley ( The Triumph of Love ) or Gael García Bernal ( Y Tu Mamá También - Lust for Life ).

After the success of 100 steps and light of my eyes , Luigi Lo Cascio advanced to become the “shooting star” of Italian cinema. In 2002 the most beautiful day of my life followed with Cristina Comencini's Italian family story , again alongside Ceccarelli, the role of the homosexual son of Virna Lisi , who hides his love for men. In 2003 Lo Cascio worked again with Marco Tullio Giordana on The Best Years . The film, originally conceived as a four-part television series for the state television RAI , shows the political and social development of Italy from the 1960s to the present using the example of a family, and was released in cinemas as a two-part three-hour series. As an opposing pair of brothers, Lo Cascio and his compatriot Alessio Boni dominated the scene, who were later honored together with the rest of the male acting ensemble with the Nastro d'Argento des Sindacato Nazionale Giornalisti Cinematografici Italiani . By 2006, six more film productions followed, in which Lo Cascio was mainly represented with leading roles, including Buongiorno, notte - The Aldo Moro Case (2003), Marco Bellocchio's reappraisal of the Aldo Moro kidnapping case from the 1970s, and renewed collaboration with Giuseppe Piccioni and Sandra Ceccarelli on the film-within-a-film drama The Life I Always Wanted (2004), in which Lo Cascio is seen as the amorous and later egomaniacal star of a costume drama. In 2009 he played with Baarìa .

Luigi Lo Cascio lives in Rome and has been married to the film editor Desideria Rayner since 2006 .

Filmography

Awards

David di Donatello

  • 2001: Best Actor for 100 Steps
  • 2002: nominated for Best Actor for Light My Eyes
  • 2004: nominated as Best Actor for The Best Years

European film award

  • 2002: nominated for the audience award for best actor for light of my eyes
  • 2003: nominated as Best Actor for The Best Years

Further

Sindacato Nazionale Giornalisti Cinematografici Italiani

  • 2001: nominated for the Nastro d'Argento for Best Actor for One Hundred Steps
  • 2004: Nastro d'Argento as Best Actor for The Best Years
  • 2011: Nastro d'Argento of the year for Noi credevamo (together with the drama ensemble and staff)

Venice International Film Festival

  • 2001: Coppa Volpi and Pasinetti Prize for Best Actor for the Light of My Eyes

Web links

Footnotes

  1. a b cf. Biography at luigilocascio.20m.com (Italian)
  2. cf. Distelmeyer, Jan: The clown and power . In: Frankfurter Rundschau, August 28, 2003, features section, p. 10
  3. a b cf. Jähnigen, Brigitte: The man as a minstrel . In: Stuttgarter Nachrichten, December 23, 2004, Kulturmagazin, p. 15
  4. cf. Breithaupt, Christiane: Fat years, toothless times . In: the daily newspaper, March 5, 2005, culture, p. 21