Lino Guanciale

He was born in Abruzzo from a doctor father and a teacher mother. He graduated from a scientific high school and then attended the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy at the "La Sapienza" University of Rome. His acting career starts in the theater: directed by Gigi Proietti, in Romeo and Juliet, a show that inaugurates the Silvano Toti Globe Theater in Rome. Among the names of the Italian stage with which he collaborates later: Franco Branciaroli, Luca Ronconi, and Michele Placido, who after directing him to Fontamara calls him to play Nunzio, one of the characters in the film Vallanzasca - The angels of evil. In 2009 he made his cinema debut with Io, Don Giovanni by Carlos Saura, as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. He works a lot on TV in the following years. At the cinema we remember his appearances in To Rome with Love by Woddy Allen and La faccia di un’altra by Pappi Corsicato both in 2012; Meraviglioso Boccaccio of the Taviani Brothers of 2016. In 2017 he received the Flaiano Prize as co-protagonist of the documentary Un’avventura romantica  by Davide Cavuti.