JULY 23
Biography
After graduating from the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia (Experimental Centre of Cinematography), Carolina Crescentini made her debut in cinema in 2006 with Fausto Brizzi's film Notte prima degli esami - Oggi. In the same year, she also became known to television audience thanks to Boris, a cult sitcom directed by Luca Vendruscolo and broadcast on SKY’s Fox channel.
At the beginning of 2007, she took part in the film I demoni di San Pietroburgo (The Demons of St. Petersburg), directed by Giuliano Montaldo; she then worked on Cemento Armato (Concrete Romance), directed by Fausto Brizzi and Marco Martani, and on Parlami d'amore. In 2008, she appeared in the second season of the sitcom Boris and starred in two feature films: Due Partite (The Ladies Get Their Say), directed by Enzo Monteleone, and Generazione Mille Euro (The 1000 Euros Generation), directed by Massimo Venier. In 2009, she was featured in a number of films, such as Alessandro Piva's Henry, Luca Lucini's Oggi Sposi (Just Married), Aureliano Amadei's 20 sigarette (20 cigarettes), a film about the 2003 terrorist attack on the Italian military base in Nasiriyah, and Ferzan Ozpetek's Mine Vaganti (Loose Cannons).
2010 was a busy year for Crescentini, who divided her time between film and television. As for cinema, she starred in Ti amo troppo per dirtelo, directed by Marco Ponti, and as Corinna in Boris, directed by Vendruscolo, Ciarrapico and Torre. As regards television, she took part in the third series of Boris, in Giulio Base’s Un Cane per Due and in Marco Pontecorvo's Ragazze in web, in which she was Claudia. In 2011, she filmed Breve Storia di lunghi tradimenti (The Lithium Conspiracy), directed by Davide Marengo and L'Industriale (The Entrepreneur), by Giuliano Montaldo; in the same year, she won the Nastro d'Argento as "Best Supporting Actress" for Boris – the film and for 20 sigarette, and the Ciak d'Oro again for Boris.
In 2012, she starred in Niente può fermarci (Nothing can stop us), directed by Luigi Cecinelli, and in Una Famiglia Perfetta (A Perfect Family), directed by Paolo Genovese, where she played the role of Sole. The following year, she received the Rodolfo Valentino Award at the Magna Grecia Awards, and was in cinemas with Allacciate le cinture (Fasten your seatbelts), directed by Ferzan Ozpetek.
In 2014, she worked on several TV productions such as Max & Helene by Giacomo Battiato and Due di noi by Ivan Cotroneo, as well as on many productions for cinema, such as Fratelli unici (Unique Brothers) by Alessio Maria Federici, Maraviglioso Boccaccio (Wondrous Boccaccio) by the Taviani brothers, Tempo instabile con probabili schiarite (Partly Cloud with Sunny Spells) by Marco Pontecorvo and Accabadora by Enrico Pau. In 2015, she took part in Alberto Caviglia's documentary film Pecore in erba (Burning Love) and played herself on the international set of Zoolander 2, directed by Ben Stiller, after which she went on to work alongside Laura Morante in Assolo (Solo). In 2016, she was back on TV with Alessandro Gassman in the series I Bastardi di Pizzofalcone (The Damned of Pizzofalcone), directed by Carlo Carlei. She ended the year on the film sets of Max Croci's La verità vi spiego sull'amore (The Truth about Love is...) and Massimiliano Bruno's Beata Ignoranza (Ignorance is Bliss). At the beginning of 2017, she starred as Lady Hester in the international film Il sogno del califfo, directed by Souheil Benbarka and shot in Morocco.
Among Carolina's other projects are the dubbing of the animated film Astro Boy and a column on the Rolling Stone magazine entitled Quando fiori piove (When it's raining outside).
In 2018, we saw her in cinemas in Gabriele Muccino's film A casa tutti bene (There’s no place like home), which won the 2019 David Viewers' Award, a special prize of the David di Donatello Awards. Still in 2018, she appeared in the comedy Sconnessi, directed by C. Marazziti, and in the documentary film Illuminate – Krizia, by Gianfranco Giagni.
She attended the 75th Venice International Film Festival as a juror for the Premio Venezia Opera Prima Luigi De Laurentiis (Luigi de Laurentiis Award for a Debut Film).
In 2019, we saw her in Rai’s TV film Non ho niente da perdere by Fabrizio Costa, together with Edoardo Pesce, and in the second season of I Bastardi di Pizzofalcone, aired on Rai 2.
In the summer of 2020, she starred in Milena Cocozza's debut horror film Letto N. 6, broadcast on Sky. In October of the same year, she was in the Rai 2 series Mare fuori (The Sea Beyond), directed by Carmine Elia Cocozza, in which she played the role of Paola Vinci, director of Naples’ Youth Detention Centre. Immediately afterwards, she began filming La Bambina che non voleva cantare, a Rai 1 film on the life of singer Nada, directed by Costanza Quatriglio.
While waiting to see her at the cinema in Paolo Costella's film Per tutta la vita and in Massimiliano Bruno's sequel Finché c'è crimine, c'è speranza, she is now filming the second season of Mare Fuori.