Diego Bianchi
Diego Bianchi 2014

Diego Bianchi,

Also known with the pseudo-name of Zoro (Roma, 28 October 1969), is an Italian Tv host, ex blogger and ex Italian Youtuber.

Biography

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Born and raised in the roman zone of San Giovanni,[1] He received his high school Diploma from Classical High school "Augusto";[2] then he took his major in political science at Sapienza university, with speaker Domenico Fisichella, with a thesesis on political parties La Rete di Leoluca Orlando e la Lega Nord di Umberto Bossi.[3]

Since the young years he was passionate about music, starting from violin and arriving at the percussion which he also played on stage of the 1996 Musicultura edition, with the group Original Slammer Band which he were a part during this period.[4]

 
Bianchi al Materacamp 2008

From 2000 he started working as a content manager of the web page Excite Italia. From 2003 with pseudo-name of "Zoro" ( "Zorro" in Roman dialect), start the activity as a blogger founding "La Z di Zoro". During this period he wrote comic summaries of Grande Fratello episodes. From 2007 these were published on YouTube.[5] Continuing his experience as youtuber, from september of the same year he starts "Tolleranza Zoro" on his channel, focused on the analysis, in a ironical and satirical way,of the different currents of the newborn Partito Democratico.[6]

From the end of 2007 till may 2010 he writes his own column in the newspaper Il Riformista, with the title La posta di Zoro[7]. Also in 2077 the television broadcaster LA7 ask him to realise , for the web site, a blog born on 5 December on the same year with the name La 7 di 7oro. From october 2010 he keep a column on the weekly newspaper Il Venerdì di Repubblica with the title Il sogno di Zoro. The television debut took place on 30 April 2008, when an episode of Tolleranza Zoro was broadcast as part of Enrico Mentana's in-depth program Enrico Mentana Matrix on Channel 5

In the same year he joined the cast of Serena Dandini Parla con me on Rai 3,[8] in which the videos of the column Tolleranza Zoro are broadcasted: this is the first case in italy of a web product played on tv, while maintaining its original format.[9] Il 30 december 2011 LA7 played Zoro 2011 - Finale di partita, a special appointment of Tolleranza Zoro, a documentary of the political year that has just endend.[10]

 
From left: Diego Bianchi with Guido Scorza e Alessandro Gilioli in Rome 2010.

In January 2012 he followed Dandini in LA7 ans enter in the cast of the program The Show Must Go Off, during which the episodes of Tolleranza Zoro were broadcasted. In 2013 he goes back on Rai with a program conducted by himself, Gazebo; initially broadcasted weekly then daily till 2017. Meanwhile, after debuting on film on 2012 Il sole dentro produced by Paolo Bianchini, in 2014 did Arance & martello, directed and interpreted by himself, presented out of competition at 71ª Mostra internazionale d'arte cinematografica di Venezia.[11] From 2017 goes back to LA7 with the program Propaganda Live.[12]

Life

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After the marriage, the couple had a daugther, Anita, born in 2003 and occasionally present in his television activity. He is also uncle of the actor Ludovico Tersigni.[13]

Filmography

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Cinema

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Actor

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  • Il sole dentro, regia di Paolo Bianchini (2012)
  • Arance & martello, regia di Diego Bianchi (2014)

Director

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  • Arance & martello (2014)

TV Programms

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  • Parla con me (2008-2011)
  • Zoro 2011 - Finale di partita (2011)
  • The Show Must Go Off (2012)
  • AnnoZoro - Finale di partita (2013)
  • Gazebo (2013-2017)
  • Propaganda Live (2017-in corso)

Recognitions

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Notes

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  1. ^ Diego Bianchi a De Core Podcast - Ep.50 on YouTube
  2. ^ Diego Bianchi (28 October 2005). "36".
  3. ^ Raffaella De Santis (4 June 2016). "Diego Bianchi: "Non invento nulla, è la politica a far ridere"".
  4. ^ Arianna Ascione (2022-09-08). "Propaganda inizia stasera: Diego Bianchi in arte Zoro, dall'origine dello pseudonimo a quando fece il console in un film, 7 segreti su di lui".
  5. ^ "Zoro ha cinquant'anni". 2019-10-28.
  6. ^ "Riparte Gazebo: 10 cose da sapere su Diego Bianchi". 28 September 2015.
  7. ^ "la z di zoro". Il Riformista. 6 June 2023.
  8. ^ "Diego Bianchi a La7, Zoro e Makkox lasciano Rai3. La "banda" di Gazebo raggiunge Andrea Salerno". 5 June 2017.
  9. ^ Aldo Grasso (31 December 2011). "La realtà surreale di Tolleranza Zoro".
  10. ^ Alberto Puliafito (30 December 2011). "Zoro 2011 - Finale di partita. Un documentario? No, un documento".
  11. ^ Federico Boni (22 July 2014). "Venezia 2014: Arance e Martello di Diego Bianchi alla Settimana della critica".
  12. ^ "Propaganda Live: dal 29 settembre il nuovo programma di Zoro su La7". 15 September 2017.
  13. ^ "Diego Bianchi: moglie, figlia, sorella e nipote". 18 February 2022.
  14. ^ "22/06/2016 - Premio Colombe d'oro per la pace - XXXII edizione". www.archiviodisarmo.it.
  15. ^ "Fiorello vince (con Bortone e Zoro) il premio Funari e manda un messaggio dal "glass box" di Viva Rai2: "Ormai sono chiuso qua dentro..."". Il Fatto Quotidiano (in Italian). 2023-02-20.