Gianni Di Gregorio (born 19 February 1949) is an Italian director, screenwriter and actor.
Gianni Di Gregorio | |
|---|---|
 Gianni Di Gregorio | |
| Born | 19 February 1949 (age 75) Rome, Italy |
| Occupation(s) | Director Screenwriter |
Life and career
editBorn in Rome, Di Gregorio trained as a stage actor and director in the Drama School of Alessandro Fersen. He started his professional career as a screenwriter in the second half of the 1980s.[1]
In the 1990s Di Gregorio started collaborating with Matteo Garrone as a screenwriter, an actor and an assistant director, their most famous work being the 2008 award-winning film Gomorrah. He made his directorial debut in 2008, with the critically acclaimed Mid-August Lunch, which he also wrote and starred in; he followed that up with other films in the same vein.[1][2]
Filmography
edit- Giovanni Senzapensieri (1986, co-writer)
- Sembra morto... ma è solo svenuto (1986, co-writer)
- Stazione di servizio (1989, co-writer, 2 episodes)
- Affetti speciali (1989, co-writer)
- Naufraghi sotto costa (1991, co-writer)
- Ospiti (1998, actor as Giacomo)
- Estate romana (2000, actor as Lodeger)
- Viva la scimmia (2002, co-writer)
- Gomorrah (2008, co-writer)
- Mid-August Lunch (2008, director and co-writer)
- The Salt of Life (2011, director and co-writer)
- Good for Nothing (2014, director and co-writer)
- Citizens of the World (2019, director and co-writer)
- Never Too Late for Love (2022, director and co-writer)
References
edit- ^ a b Fabio Secchi Frau. "Gianni Di Gregorio: Gianni e il cinema". MyMovies. Retrieved 11 September 2015.
- ^ Wally Hammond. "Gianni Di Gregorio: interview". Time Out. Retrieved 14 May 2016.
