Rudy Ruggiero

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Rudy Ruggiero , birth name Ruggero Comploj , (born July 25, 1961 in Innsbruck ) is a German - Italian actor .

Life

Rudy Ruggiero was born in Tyrol to a German father and an Italian . He also has Russian, Spanish and Hungarian ancestors. He grew up trilingual (German, Italian, American English) in Italy, Austria and Germany. He moved to New York City in 1979 at the age of 18 . From 1982 to 1986 he completed a three-year acting course at the renowned Herbert Berghof Studio in New York City. There belonged u. a. William Hickey , Uta Hagen and Herbert Berghof among his teachers. He also attended a guest seminar at Al Pacino there . He also attended Stella Adler's drama school (1989; one year), took acting classes with Eric Morris in Los Angeles and at the Lee Strasberg Institute .

From 1989 to about 2000 he played theater in the United States, mostly at off-Broadway theaters, with the Actors Group in New York City, the Pasadena Playhouse in Los Angeles and the Balcony Theater in Los Angeles. He also did improvisational theater . He also had small roles in television and in film. In between he went to Tel Aviv , where he lived for six years and learned Hebrew . In 2000/2001 he returned to Europe . From then on he commuted between Berlin and Vienna, both professionally and privately .

He made his movie debut in 1988, alongside Lauren Bacall , with a small supporting role in the feature film Rendezvous with a corpse . This was followed by small roles in movies a. a. als Kellner in Liebe has two faces (1996) next to Barbra Streisand , as well as series roles, u. a. in Zeit der Sehnsucht (1998/1999; as Swiss Maitre'D Antonio) and in Practice - The Lawyers (1999). He first appeared on German television in 2001 as Dr. Lederer in the 4th season of the RTL action series Medicopter 117 - Every life counts to be seen. In the Austrian television comedy Herzensfeinde (2001) he played as Inspector Corsaro at the side of Peter Weck and Friedrich von Thun . In 2002 he had a supporting role in the movie Meine Sister - Das Biest by Reinhard Schwabenitzky ; In 2003, under Schwabenitzky's direction, another supporting role followed in his movie Two Fathers of a Daughter . He had a supporting role in the modern homeland film Bauernprinzessin (2004); he was from Bosnia -derived foreign workers Milo, who works in the village economy as a bartender and kitchen help.

In 2005 he was in the 3rd part of the TV series Die Patriarchin as Mr. Dreesen. Ruggiero played his best-known role on German television between 2006 and 2010 in the ZDF early evening series Da geht Kalle . He was the Greek Kostas Tatassopoulus. He embodied the owner of an import and export shop in Flensburg and the godfather of the serial character Hanno Andresen. Ruggiero was on the main cast of the series.

In 2008, he had a recurring supporting role in the Austrian television series Der Winzerkönig as Dr. Kaminski. He also played a supporting role as Alessandro Borghese in the German-Austrian-French adventure film The Bible Code (2008). In the German comedy Die Schimmelreiter (2008) he played the Italian Massimo. In the Austrian thriller Katharsis (2011) he played Eric Scanetti, the special investigator in a murder case. In the ZDF television film Love, Babies and a New Beginning (first broadcast: April 2012) he was seen alongside Marion Kracht and Eva Habermann . He played the Italian Giuseppe Pelicano, a father whose baby was born with an umbilical tear. In the ZDF television film Tessa Hennig - Mutti rises off (2013) he was Miguel, the future gay Spanish neighbor of the three middle-aged friends who want to found a shared flat for women on Mallorca .

Ruggiero also had episode roles a. a. in the television series and television series Oben ohne (2008, as Italian Luigi), SOKO Kitzbühel (2009, as a native Syrian Hassan Schami, a successful manufacturer of special glass and again in 2014, as a disco owner Safet), one like no (2009, as a hotel guest Dr. Hendrik Meissen), Murder in the best company (2013, as cook Attilio Parilla) and SOKO Vienna (2014, as husband and father Martin Schumann).

In April 2015, he was seen in the ZDF Sunday film Katie Fforde : Back to the Sea in a supporting role in the New England , Boston and New York City . He played the helpful taxi driver Leo Bosworth.

Ruggiero currently lives (as of August 2018) near Munich and in Vienna . He also has a residence in Vienna. In addition to German and Italian citizenship, he also has US citizenship.

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Rudy Ruggiero . Profile and vita at Schauspielervideos.de. Retrieved April 20, 2015
  2. ↑ a b c d short vita and filmography. In: ORF . Archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on July 19, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Enemies of the heart . Occupation; Production details. Retrieved April 20, 2015
  4. ↑ There comes Kalle ( Memento from January 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Actor; Role portrait and vita. Retrieved April 20, 2015
  5. ↑ Catharsis . Film review at Filmtipps.at. Retrieved April 20, 2015
  6. ↑ a b Rudy Ruggiero . Profile. Agency Tanja Seifert. Agency for actors. Retrieved April 21, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Ruggiero, Rudy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Comploj, Ruggero (maiden name); Comploj, Rudy; Ruggiero, Rudolph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Italian actor
DATE OF BIRTH July 25, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Innsbruck , Tyrol, Republic of Austria