Marcello de Nardo

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Marcello De Nardo (born July 25, 1963 in Basel ), (dual citizen Switzerland / Italy ), is a Swiss actor , singer , dancer and director .

Life

Marcello De Nardo lives and works as the son of Italian immigrants in Zurich , Vienna and Italy. His father Giuseppe De Nardo comes from the north of San Pietro di Feletto near Conegliano (TV) near Venice and his mother, Elvira Tamelleo, from Caserta in southern Italy. He spent his childhood in Switzerland, where he completed his schooling in a college on Chaumont near Neuchatel in French-speaking Switzerland and later in Basel. Before he started his acting studies, he finished an apprenticeship as a gentlemen's outfitter in order to meet his father's request for a "solid education".

Education

De Nardo studied at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna , at the Max Reinhardt Seminar . His teachers were u. a. Erni Mangold , with whom he later appeared on stage at the Volkstheater Wien in 2008 in " Tales from the Vienna Woods ", as well as Samy Molcho , Susi Nicoletti , Bruno Dalanski and Sam Cane for dance. At the same time he studied singing with Ursula Peyer.

Career

Since 1981 he has worked as an actor in Switzerland, Germany and Austria. He has appeared in numerous musicals such as ( Cameron Mackintosh's ) Cats , A Chorus Line , Les Misérables and Grease at the Raimundtheater and the Theater an der Wien . He premiered at the Volkstheater in Vienna in March 2007, under the direction of Michael Schottenberg, as the emcee in Cabaret .

For the Swiss television DRS he took on many episode roles in sitcoms such as: Fascht e Familie by Charles Lewinsky , Männerzimmer and Schöne Aussichten by Domenico Blass. For seven years he was regularly in front of the camera for the Saturday evening show Benissimo .

Michael Schottenberg , whom he met during rehearsals for Grease (Musical) | Grease , took him to the Schlosspark Theater in Berlin, where he premiered as Otto Weininger in Weininger's Night by Joshua Sobol in 1996. He was then seen in numerous leading roles at Heribert Sasse's Schlosspark Theater. His work took him to Essen, Vienna, Zurich, Basel, Berlin, Venice and Munich.

At the Schlosspark Theater in Berlin he was artistic director and deputy artistic director under Heribert Sasse from 2000 to 2003. He also staged plays such as The Servant of Two Lords by Carlo Goldoni , the world premiere of Rolf Hochhuth 's Hitler’s Doctor Faust with Christine Wodetzky and Hermann Treusch in the leading roles and at the Vienna Theater in the Josefstadt , Much Ado About Nothing , with Herbert Föttinger and Sandra Cervik as Benedict and Beatrice.

Its directors were: George Tabori , Michael Schottenberg , Heribert Sasse , Hansgünther Heyme , Nuran David Calis , Rolf von Sydow , Gale Edwards , Samy Molcho and Thomas Schulte-Michels u. a.

Since 2003 he has been on stage regularly in major roles at the Reichenau Festival and since 2005 in numerous leading roles at the Volkstheater Vienna .

In the summer of 2013, Marcello De Nardo stood in front of the camera as the main actor in a ten-part mystery series "The Quest" for the American broadcaster ABC ( American Broadcasting Company ) (broadcast date: July 31, 2014). The producers were Mark Ordesky with Jane Fleming from Court Five , Bertram van Munster and Elise Doganieri from Profile Television Production LLC, and Rob Eric and his business partner Oscar winner Michael Williams from Green Harbor Production / Scout Productions.

The jury justified his nomination for the Nestroy Theater Prize 2011 in the category Best Actor as follows:

“Hardly any other actor shapes the Vienna Volkstheater like him. Marcello De Nardo has designed countless large and also smaller roles intensively, impresses with his playful intelligence and his complete, also physical devotion. As Puntila he is the epicenter of a powerful performance in the Volkstheater, as Colonel Redl at the Reichenau Festival he fascinated him as an ice-cold careerist, unhappy lover, strategist, dreamer, perpetrator and victim at the same time. "

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SURNAME De Nardo, Marcello
ALTERNATIVE NAMES DeNardo, Marcello
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss actor, singer, dancer and director
DATE OF BIRTH July 25, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel