Claudia Gerini and Davide Marotta – Signed Blu-Ray Cover – The Passion of the Christ

Claudia Gerini (born 18 December 1971) is an Italian actress and showgirl. Born in Rome, Gerini won the National Competition of Miss Teenager in 1985. She got her first part in a film, La ballata di Eva, at 14. She subsequently played in Ciao mà, Roba da ricchi and Night Club, by Sergio Corbucci, and many others. At 19 she worked for the popular TV show Non è la Rai, a sort of academy with one hundred girls singing, dancing and gaming. Gerini’s first major role was in Il padre e il figlio, directed by Pasquale Pozzessere. She later moved to Paris to learn French for several months, travelling a lot between Italy and France without leaving off University. At 22 she returned to Italy and got a role as protagonist in Angelo e Beatrice, a theatrical work by Francesco Apolloni (writer and director) presented on the stage at the Theater Coliseum in Rome, where director and actor Carlo Verdone noticed her. The encounter with Verdone produced Viaggi di nozze and I’m Crazy About Iris Blond, both Christmas box-office successes. Gerini later collaborated with Leonardo Pieraccioni, Massimo Ceccherini, Antonio Rezza and Antonello De Leo, and moved both to Los Angeles, U.S. and Madrid, Spain to improve her English and Spanish, respectively. In Spain she starred in Desafinado by M. G. Pereira and La playa de Los Galagos by M. Camus. Other roles include Francesca e Nunziata, directed by Lina Wertmüller, Al cuore si comanda, Non ti muovere, La sconosciuta and the recent Nero bifamiliare, directed by her then-partner, singer-songwriter Federico Zampaglione (Tiromancino).

Davide Marotta (Naples, 20 November 1962) is an Italian actor. Suffering from dwarfism and other pathologies, he is 1.15 m tall; after some theatrical experiences, in 1985 he was chosen by Dario Argento to play the deformed son of Frau Brückner (Daria Nicolodi) in Phenomena. The following year he played a similar part in Dèmoni 2 by Lamberto Bava. From 1987 to 1997 he was the testimonial of Kodak in famous commercials in which he played the alien Ciribiribì. After various television experiences and small parts in the cinema, in 2001 he had for the first time an important role in Il ritorno di Cagliostro by Daniele Ciprì and Franco Maresco. In 2004 he played a small part in Mel Gibson’s Passion of the Christ, in the role of the Antichrist in the form of a child in Satan’s arms, played by Rosalinda Celentano. From 2008 to 2012 he played the part of a postman in the show Il miracolo di don Ciccillo by Carlo Buccirosso and, in the following year, in Fino morte non vi separi, by the same author, in the role of a sacristan. In 2015 he participated as a “pizzino” in the comedy program Il boss dei comici aired from October 18, 2015 on the LA7 television network. Also in 2015 he starred in Leonardo Pieraccioni’s film Professor Cinderella. In 2016 he participated in Made in Sud on Rai 2, while in 2019 he starred in Pinocchio by Matteo Garrone playing a triple role: the Talking Cricket, the puppet Pantalone and one of the gravedigger rabbits.