Alessandro Preziosi | |
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Alessandro Preziosi on 17 July 2009.
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Born |
Naples, Campania, Italy |
19 April 1973
Occupation | Film and television actor |
Years active | 1995–present |
Children | Andrea Eduardo Preziosi (b. 1995) Elena Preziosi (b. 2006) |
Website | http://www.alessandropreziosi.tv/ (Italian) |
Alessandro Preziosi (born April 19, 1973) is an Italian actor.
Son of lawyers, originating in Avellino, there lives his childhood, later he moved to Naples, in Vomero, completed his classical studies at the Liceo Umberto I of Naples, he graduated in law from the University Federico II of Naples with the maximum of the votes and became assistant in tax law at the University of Salerno, then attended the Academy of Amateur Dramatics of Milan standing out to the attention of the director Antonio Calenda who entrusted him with the role of Laertes in Hamlet.
He works on television in the soap opera of Channel 5, Vivere and in the TV miniseries Una donna per amico (TV series) of Rossella Izzo 2 but continues to engage in the theater realizing the monologue The last hours of AI with his friend Tommaso Mattei which will start a production partnership artistic creating the Khora Theatre company. Later he left the soap, reads in Trilogy by Aeschylus, always directed by Calenda, in Herald garments in Agamemnon and Orestes in The Libation Bearers and Eumenides getting critical acclaim.
But the popularity arrives with Elisa di Rivombrosa, television series Cinzia TH Torrini, transmitted between December 2003 and February 2004 by Canale 5 (an italian Network), thanks to the great success which won the Telegatto as a male character of the year in the role of Earl Fabrizio Ristori. In the second season it is present only in the first two episodes, having chosen to rededicate themselves to the theater with King Lear, directed by Calenda, is role, is that of Edmund, followed by the musical comedy Datemi tre caravelle (Give me three caravels), the original production of Khora Theatre, in which she plays Christopher Columbus, a role that will come back to play in subsequent performances of 2005 and 2006.
After the short movie of 2001 dedicated by director Giorgio Reale Scieri to the case, in 2004 is the protagonist of his first film for the film Vanilla and chocolate Ciro Ippolito, and the television miniseries in six episodes of Captain Vittorio Sindoni, broadcast by RAI 2 ; in the second season, which aired in 2007, it is present only in the first two episodes.
In 2007 he appears on the big screen in the film The Viceroys by Roberto Faenza, and The Lark, by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani. In September, it is called to participate as the narrator, along with Giannini, Guaccero and Fulco, event The Agora night on the esplanade of the Shrine of Loreto, the first youth meeting with Pope Benedict XVI.