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GIFFONI EXPERIENCE 2015 - 17.26 July

SERGIO ASSISI

JULY 26

BIOGRAPHY:

Sergio Assisi began acting at the Bellini Theatre, Naples, at the age of 16. He performed a wide range of roles dealing with a variety of genres, until his debut as a theatre director with C'è folla al castello by Jean Tardien.

In 1998 he made his big screen debut as the male lead of Ferdinando and Carolina by Lina Wertmuller, who cast him as King Ferdinad IV of Bourbon among 3.000 auditioners. In 2000 he landed another leading role in the comedy L'uomo della fortuna, based on the lotto game in Naples, a city  suspended between sweetness and despair. In 2004 he co-starred in the film Guardiani delle nuvole.

He also played a number of TV characters, easily ranging from costume dramas to contemporary fictions, from dramatic roles (such as in Graffio di tigre, a miniseries set during the Italian Resistance) to comic ones (such as the well-known viveur Umberto, in the first two seasons of the hit series Capri),  portraying both villains (such as social climber court clerk Federico Funelli in the miniseries Assunta Spiana) and positive characters (such as Antonio, the protagonist of Mannaggia alla Miseria by Lina Wertmuller).

He published the photobook S/Pazza Napoli, a tribute to Neapolitan people’s genius, which has always been their trademark, San Giuseppe, facci vincere lo scudetto fino al 3000, a collection of the most amusing God’s favours seeked by Neapolitans, Strapazza Napoli, an ironic photo journal of Naples, and the novel Quando l'amore non basta (Cairo Publishing).

In 2014 he made his film directing and screenwriting debut with A Napoli non piove mai, where he also played the main character. In 2015 he came back on stage with the comedy Oggi sto da Dio, which he scripted and produced. Last 8 June they started shooting Rimbocchiamoci le maniche, a new Canale 5 fiction set to be broadcast next season, starring Assisi and beautiful actress Sabrina Ferilli.

  • Filmography:

    Theatre
    George Dandin, by Molière – directed by Livio Galassi (1993)
    Il sangue degli Atridi, by Euripides - directed by Mario Santella (1993)
    Romeo e Giulietta, by William Shakespeare - directed by Livio Galassi (1995)
    La Tabernaria, by Giambattista Della Porta - directed by Lucio Allocca (1995)
    La figlia di Iorio, by Gabriele D'Annunzio - directed by Livio Galassi (1995)
    Ifigenia, by Euripides - directed by Mario Santella (1995)
    Arlecchino servitore di due padroni, by Carlo Goldoni - directed by Lucio Allocca (1996)
    Storia di una rivoluzione, directed by Pasquale Della Monaco (1996)
    Un turco napoletano, by Eduardo Scarpetta - directed by Livio Galassi (1996)
    Le Troiane, by Euripides – directed by Livio Galassi (1996)
    García Lorca, directed by Giovanni Sirano (1996)
    Ritratti, directed by Barbara De Luca (1996)
    Lo Scarfalietto, by Eduardo Scarpetta - directed by Mario Scarpetta (1997)
    La fortuna bussa all'armadio, by Scarnicci and Tarabusi - directed by Benedetto Casillo (1997)
    Masaniello, by Tato Russo - directed by Tato Russo (1998)
    Il 68, by Tato Russo – directed by Lucio Allocca (1998)
    Sogno di una notte di mezza estate, by William Shakespeare - directed by Tato Russo (2002)
    C'è folla al castello, by Jean Tardieu - directed by Sergio Assisi (2003)
    L'amico ritrovato, by Fred Uhlman - directed by Gianbattista Assanti (2013)
    Oggi sto da Dio, directed by Mauro Mandolini (2015)

    Cinema
    Ferdinando e Carolina, by Lina Wertmuller (1999)
    L'uomo della fortuna, by Silvia Saraceno (2000)
    Guardiani delle nuvole, by Luciano Odorisio (2004)
    Amore e libertà - Masaniello by Angelo Antonucci (2005)
    C'è sempre un perché, by Dario Baldi (2012)
    Ultima fermata, by Giambattista Assanti (2013)
    Fratelli unici, by Alessio Maria Federici (2014)
    A Napoli non piove mai, by Sergio Assisi (2014) 

    TV Series
    La squadra, (2000)
    L'attentatuni, by Claudio Bonivento (2001)
    La casa dell'angelo, by Giuliana Gamba (2002
    Ics - L'amore ti dà un nome, by Alberto Negrin (2003
    La contessa di Castiglione, by Josée Dayan (2005)
    Imperia, la grande cortigiana, by Pier Francesco Pingitore (2005)
    Elisa di Rivombrosa 2, regia by Cinzia TH Torrini and Stefano Alleva (2005)
    Capri, by Francesca Marra and Enrico Oldoini (2006)
    Assunta Spina, by Riccardo Milani (2006)
    Graffio di tigre, by Alfredo Peyretti (2007)
    Capri 2, by Andrea Barzini and Giorgio Molteni (2008)
    Mannaggia alla miseria, by Lina Wertmuller (2009)
    Le ragazze dello swing, by Maurizio Zaccaro (2010)
    Zodiaco - Il libro perduto, by Tonino Zangardi (2012)
    Il commissario Nardone, by Fabrizio Costa (2012)
    Una coppia modello, by Fabrizio Costa (2014)
    Rimbocchiamoci le maniche (2015)


  • Works:

    Books
    S/Pazza Napoli, by Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 2008
    San Giuseppe, facci vincere lo scudetto fino al 3000 (e pure una decina di coppe internazionali), by Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 2009
    Strapazza Napoli Vol.2, by Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 2012
    Quando l'amore non basta, by Cairo Editore, 2013
    Noi speriamo che ce la caviamo, by Cairo Editore, 2014