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ADRIANO PANTALEO BIOGRAPHY :
Adriano Pantaleo (Naples, 9 September 1983) is an Italian actor. In 1992 he made his debut in cinema at a very young age with the films Ci hai rotto papà by Castellano and Pipolo (released the following year) and Io spero che me la cavo by Lina Wertmüller. He became famous playing the role of Spillo in the two seasons of the TV miniseries Amico mio (1993 and 1998), with Massimo Dapporto, with whom he returned to work in the two seasons of Casa famiglia (2001 and 2003); in the last year he also plays the role of Pino, a young bartender, in the TV series Il bello delle donne 3. In 2008 he acted at the theater with the show Gomorrah, based on the homonymous novel by Roberto Saviano. In 2008, 2010 and 2011 he took part in the three seasons of the TV series Tutti pazzi per amore, where he played Gennaro Capone (one of the water polo players coached by Paolo, Emilio Solfrizzi). He graduated from Sapienza – University of Rome, in “Performing Arts and Sciences”. He is married, with two children. He appeared in the television adaptation of Natale in casa Cupiello by Sergio Castellitto, where he plays Luca’s son.
Adriano Pantaleo (Naples, 9 September 1983) is an Italian actor. In 1992 he made his debut in cinema at a very young age with the films Ci hai rotto papà by Castellano and Pipolo (released the following year) and Io spero che me la cavo by Lina Wertmüller. He became famous playing the role of Spillo in the two seasons of the TV miniseries Amico mio (1993 and 1998), with Massimo Dapporto, with whom he returned to work in the two seasons of Casa famiglia (2001 and 2003); in the last year he also plays the role of Pino, a young bartender, in the TV series Il bello delle donne 3. In 2008 he acted at the theater with the show Gomorrah, based on the homonymous novel by Roberto Saviano. In 2008, 2010 and 2011 he took part in the three seasons of the TV series Tutti pazzi per amore, where he played Gennaro Capone (one of the water polo players coached by Paolo, Emilio Solfrizzi). He graduated from Sapienza – University of Rome, in “Performing Arts and Sciences”. He is married, with two children. He appeared in the television adaptation of Natale in casa Cupiello by Sergio Castellitto, where he plays Luca’s son.
ELIO GERMANO BIOGRAPHY :
Elio Germano (born 25 September 1980) is an Italian actor. He is the recipient of many accolades, including a Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor and a Silver Bear for Best Actor. Born in Rome to a Molisan family from Duronia, Province of Campobasso, Germano debuted aged twelve in Castellano e Pipolo’s movie Ci hai rotto papà (1992). During his studies at scientific lyceum, he received acting training at Teatro Azione in Rome. In 1999, he abandoned an opportunity to work in theatre with Giancarlo Cobelli in order to play in Carlo Vanzina’s film Il cielo in una stanza, which launched Germano as one of the most popular Italian actors. His big break came in 2007, when he was cast as the lead in the successful movies Fallen Heroes and My Brother is an Only Child by Daniele Luchetti. The following year he first received international recognition by winning the Shooting Stars Award at the 58th Berlin International Film Festival. Germano worked with numerous directors such as Ettore Scola (Concorrenza sleale), Emanuele Crialese (Respiro), Gianluca Maria Tavarelli (Liberi), Giovanni Veronesi (Che ne sarà di noi), Michele Placido (Romanzo criminale), Gabriele Salvatores (Quo Vadis, Baby?, Come Dio comanda), Paolo Virzì (Napoleon and Me, Tutta la vita davanti), Francesco Patierno (The Early Bird Catches the Worm), Daniele Vicari (Il passato è una terra straniera) and Ferzan Özpetek (Magnifica Presenza). For his role in the movie My Brother is an Only Child (2007), he won his first David di Donatello as best actor in a leading role. In 2010, he won the Best Actor Award, ex-aequo with Javier Bardem, at the Cannes Film Festival, for his interpretation in La Nostra Vita. Later that year, he played the son of Italian journalist Tiziano Terzani in The End Is My Beginning. For his portrait of 19th century poet Giacomo Leopardi in Mario Martone’s film Leopardi, Germano was praised at the 71st Venice International Film Festival.
