Valerio Mastandrea

Valerio Mastandrea
Mastandrea in 2010
Born	(1972-02-14) 14 February 1972 (age 52) Rome, Italy
Occupations	Actor director writer producer

Valerio Mastandrea (born 14 February 1972) is an Italian film, stage and television actor.

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Life and career

He was born in Rome. While being a student of philosophy, in the early 1990s Mastandrea enjoyed some success thanks to the semi-regular participation in the Canale 5 late night talk show Maurizio Costanzo Show.^[1]

After some occasional participation in stage plays and films, he had his breakout with the role of Tarcisio in the 1995 crime film Palermo – Milan One Way by Claudio Fragasso. In 1997 he got his first leading role in the sleeper box office hit We All Fall Down.^[1]

Awards

Mastandrea won the David di Donatello for Best Actor for his role in The First Beautiful Thing in 2010.^[2]

In 2013, he won both the David di Donatello for Best Actor for his performance in Ivano De Matteo's Balancing Act and the David di Donatello for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Roberto Andò's Long Live Freedom.^[3]

Selected filmography

Film

Palermo – Milan One Way (1995)
A Cold, Cold Winter (1996)
Growing Artichokes in Mimongo (1996)
We All Fall Down (1997)
Physical Jerks (1997)
Viola Kisses Everybody (1998)
The Scent of the Night (1998)
La Carbonara (2000)
Tomorrow (2001)
Empty Eyes (2001)
The Nest (2002)
Maximum Velocity (V-Max) (2002)
The Vanity Serum (2004)
Working Slowly (Radio Alice) (2004)
Sorry, You Can't Get Through! (2005)
Napoleon and Me (2006)
Last Minute Marocco (2007)
Night Bus (2007)
Non pensarci (2008)
Your Whole Life Ahead of You (2008)
Un giorno perfetto (2008)
Good Morning Aman (2009)
Giulia Doesn't Date at Night (2009)
Nine (2009)
The First Beautiful Thing (2010)
Things from Another World (2011)
All at Sea (2011)
Padroni di casa (2012)
Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy (2012)
Balancing Act (2012)
Garibaldi's Lovers (2012)
Long Live Freedom (2013)
The Chair of Happiness (2013)
The Face of an Angel (2014)
Pasolini (2014)
The Complexity of Happiness (2015)
Perfect Strangers (2016)
Sweet Dreams (2016)
Fiore (2016)
The Place (2017)
Troppa grazia (2018)
Euphoria (2018)
The King's Musketeers (2018)
Domani è un altro giorno (2019)
Figli (2020)
Diabolik (2021)
Dry (2022)
Diabolik: Ginko Attacks! (2022)
The First Day of My Life (2023)
There's Still Tomorrow (2023)
Diabolik: Who Are You? (2023)
Adagio (2023)

TV

Tear Along the Dotted Line (2021, TV series)

References

^ ^a ^b Poppi, Roberto; Lancia, Enrico (2003). Dizionario del cinema italiano. Gli attori (in Italian). Gremese Editore. p. 31. ISBN 8884402697.
^ "Virzì's The First Beautiful Thing sets out to conquer Hollywood". cineuropa. 29 September 2010. Retrieved 3 October 2010.
^ "David di Donatello, il trionfo di Tornatore". Corriere della Sera (in Italian). 15 June 2013. Retrieved 17 July 2016.

External links

Valerio Mastandrea at IMDb

v t e David di Donatello Award for Best Actor
1956–1975	Vittorio De Sica (1956) Vittorio Gassman / Alberto Sordi (1960) Alberto Sordi (1961) Raf Vallone (1962) Vittorio Gassman (1963) Marcello Mastroianni (1964) Vittorio Gassman / Marcello Mastroianni (1965) Alberto Sordi (1966) Vittorio Gassman / Ugo Tognazzi (1967) Franco Nero (1968) Nino Manfredi / Alberto Sordi (1969) Nino Manfredi / Gian Maria Volonté (1970) Ugo Tognazzi (1971) Giancarlo Giannini / Alberto Sordi (1972) Alberto Sordi (1973) Nino Manfredi (1974) Vittorio Gassman (1975)
1976–2000	Adriano Celentano / Ugo Tognazzi (1976) Alberto Sordi (1977) Nino Manfredi (1978) Vittorio Gassman (1979) Adriano Celentano (1980) Massimo Troisi (1981) Carlo Verdone (1982) Francesco Nuti (1983) Giancarlo Giannini (1984) Francesco Nuti (1985) Marcello Mastroianni (1986) Vittorio Gassman (1987) Marcello Mastroianni (1988) Roberto Benigni (1989) Paolo Villaggio / Gian Maria Volonté (1990) Nanni Moretti (1991) Carlo Verdone (1992) Sergio Castellitto (1993) Giulio Scarpati (1994) Marcello Mastroianni (1995) Giancarlo Giannini (1996) Fabrizio Bentivoglio (1997) Roberto Benigni (1998) Stefano Accorsi (1999) Bruno Ganz (2000)
2001–present	Luigi Lo Cascio (2001) Giancarlo Giannini (2002) Massimo Girotti (2003) Sergio Castellitto (2004) Toni Servillo (2005) Silvio Orlando (2006) Elio Germano (2007) Toni Servillo (2008) Toni Servillo (2009) Valerio Mastandrea (2010) Elio Germano (2011) Michel Piccoli (2012) Valerio Mastandrea (2013) Toni Servillo (2014) Elio Germano (2015) Claudio Santamaria (2016) Stefano Accorsi (2017) Renato Carpentieri (2018) Alessandro Borghi (2019) Pierfrancesco Favino (2020) Elio Germano (2021) Silvio Orlando (2022) Fabrizio Gifuni (2023)