Alessandro Haber is an Italian

Italian people

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 actor, film director and singer.

Haber was born in Bologna

Bologna

Bologna is the capital city of Emilia-Romagna, in the Po Valley of Northern Italy. The city lies between the Po River and the Apennine Mountains, more specifically, between the Reno River and the Savena River. Bologna is a lively and cosmopolitan Italian college city, with spectacular history,...

 in a Jewish

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 family of mixed ancestry (his father was Romanian

Romanians

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 and his mother Italian) and spent his childhood in Israel

Israel

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. His movie debut was in 1967 with La Cina è vicina by Marco Bellocchio. His first leading role was in Pupi Avati

Pupi Avati

Giuseppe Avati, better known as Pupi Avati is an Italian film director, producer, and screenwriter.-Early life and career:...

's Regalo di Natale.

Haber directed his only movie in 2003 with Scacco pazzo.

He is also a distinguished theatre actor, having performed amongst others in Orgia by Pier Paolo Pasolini

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Pier Paolo Pasolini was an Italian film director, poet, writer, and intellectual. Pasolini distinguished himself as a poet, journalist, philosopher, linguist, novelist, playwright, filmmaker, newspaper and magazine columnist, actor, painter and political figure...

, Woyzeck

Woyzeck

Woyzeck is a stage play written by Georg Büchner. He left the work incomplete at his death, but it has been variously and posthumously "finished" by a variety of authors, editors and translators. Woyzeck has become one of the most performed and influential plays in the German theatre...

by Georg Büchner

Georg Büchner

Karl Georg Büchner was a German dramatist and writer of poetry and prose. He was the brother of physician and philosopher Ludwig Büchner. Büchner's talent is generally held in great esteem in Germany...

, L'avaro by Molière

Molière

Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known by his stage name Molière, was a French playwright and actor who is considered to be one of the greatest masters of comedy in Western literature...

, Zio Vania

Uncle Vanya

Uncle Vanya is a play by the Russian playwright Anton Chekhov. It was first published in 1897 and received its Moscow première in 1899 in a production by the Moscow Art Theatre, under the direction of Konstantin Stanislavski....

by Anton Chekhov

Anton Chekhov

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, Dialogo by Natalia Ginzburg

Natalia Ginzburg

Natalia Ginzburg née Levi was an award-winning Italian author whose work explored family relationships, politics during and after the Fascist years and World War II, and philosophy. She wrote novels, short stories and essays, for which she received the Strega Prize and Bagutta Prize...

 and Arlecchino by Carlo Goldoni

Carlo Goldoni

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He has been touring theatres since 2006 with Tango d'amore e di coltelli, with musics by Ástor Piazzolla

Ástor Piazzolla

Ástor Pantaleón Piazzolla was an Argentine tango composer and bandoneón player. His oeuvre revolutionized the traditional tango into a new style termed nuevo tango, incorporating elements from jazz and classical music...

 on a text by Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges

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He has won three Nastro d'Argento

Nastro d'Argento

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, one David di Donatello

David di Donatello

David di Donatello, named after Donatello's David, is a movie award assigned each year for cinematic performances and production by Ente David di Donatello, part of Accademia del Cinema Italiano. It is the Italian equivalent to the Academy Award. There are 24 categories as of 2006.- History :The...

, one Premio Gassman, one Premio IDI and one theatre critics' award.

As a singer, he has released three albums: Haberrante, Qualcosa da dichiarare and Il sogno di un uomo. His greatest success was the single "La valigia dell'attore", written for him by Francesco De Gregori

Francesco De Gregori

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In June, 2011 Haber attempted to kiss actress Lucia Lavia onstage during a rehearsal for "Othello" at the Teatro Romano di Verona. She responded by slapping him and he immediately slapped her back while accusing her of being "cold." After the intervention of both their lawyers, the theater forced Haber to leave the production and he was replaced by Franco Branciaroli.

As an actor

• 1967 - La Cina è vicina
• 1970 - Il Conformista
  The Conformist (film)
  The Conformist is a 1970 political drama film directed by Bernardo Bertolucci. The screenplay was written by Bertolucci based on the 1951 novel The Conformist by Alberto Moravia. The film features Jean-Louis Trintignant and Stefania Sandrelli, among others...
  
  
• 1972 - Chi L'ha vista morire?
• 1976 - Come una rosa al naso
• 1978 - Duri a morire
• 1981 - Sogni d'oro
• 1982 - Amici miei atto II
  Amici miei Atto II
  All My Friends Part 2 is a 1982 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Monicelli. It is the sequel to Amici miei of 1975. The movie features Paolo Stoppa in one of his last roles.-Plot summary:...
  
  
• 1983 - Fantozzi subisce ancora
• 1983 - Flirt
  Flirt (1983 film)
  Flirt is a 1983 Italian-French drama film directed by Roberto Russo. It was entered into the 34th Berlin International Film Festival where Monica Vitti won the Silver Bear for an outstanding single achievement.-Cast:* Jean-Luc Bideau as Giovanni Landini...
  
  
• 1985 - Le due vite di Mattia Pascal
• 1986 - Regalo di Natale
• 1986 - Grandi Magazzini
• 1987 - Da grande
  Da grande (film)
  Da grande is a 1987 Italian romantic comedy film directed by Franco Amurri, starring Renato Pozzetto, Ottavia Piccolo and Alessandro Haber....
  
  
• 1987 - Man on Fire
  Man on Fire (1987 film)
  Man on Fire is a 1987 French-Italian film based on the 1980 novel of the same name by A. J. Quinnell. Another film based on the same novel was filmed in 2004.-Plot:...
  
  
• 1988 - Il volpone
  Il volpone
  Il volpone is an Italian movie directed in 1988 by Maurizio Ponzi, inspired by Ben Jonson's comedy with the same name.Set in the Ligurian Riviera during the 1980s, it features Paolo Villaggio as Ugo Maria Volpone, a rich but apparently ill ship company owner...
  
  
• 1989 - Willy Signori e vengo da lontano
• 1991 - Les secrets professionnels du Dr Apfelglück
• 1993 - Pacco, doppio pacco e contropaccotto
• 1993 - Per amore, solo per amore
• 1994 - La vera vita di Antonio H.
• 1995 - Il cielo è sempre più blu
• 1995 - I laureati
• 1996 - Il ciclone
• 1997 - Fuochi d'artificio
• 1998 - L'ultimo Capodanno
• 1999 - Falkehjerte
• 2002 - Un viaggio chiamato amore
• 2003 - Scacco pazzo
• 2004 - La rivincita di Natale
• 2006 - La sconosciuta
  La sconosciuta
  La sconosciuta also The Unknown Woman or The Other Woman is an enigmatic Italian psychological thriller mystery film, directed by Giuseppe Tornatore that depicts a woman alone in a foreign country, haunted by a horrible past, and in search of a lost daughter.- Plot :Irena , a Ukrainian...
  
  
• 2006 - Le rose del deserto
• 2007 - Peopling the Palaces at Venaria Reale
• 2008 - Albakiara

Discography

• 1995 - Haberrante
• 1999 - Qualcosa da dichiarare
• 2003 - Il sogno di un uomo

Awards

• Premio IDI (best actor) 1980 (Dialogo)
• Nastro d'Argento
  Nastro d'Argento
  The Nastro d'Argento is a movie award assigned each year, since 1946, for cinematic performances and production by Sindacato Nazionale dei Giornalisti Cinematografici Italiani, the association of Italian film critics...
  
   (best supporting actor) 1990 (Willy Signori e vengo da lontano)
• Nastro d'Argento (best supporting actor) 1994 (Per amore, solo per amore)
• David di Donatello
  David di Donatello
  David di Donatello, named after Donatello's David, is a movie award assigned each year for cinematic performances and production by Ente David di Donatello, part of Accademia del Cinema Italiano. It is the Italian equivalent to the Academy Award. There are 24 categories as of 2006.- History :The...
  
   (best supporting actor) 1994 (Per amore, solo per amore)
• Nastro d'Argento (best actor) 1995 (La vera vita di Antonio H.)
• Theatre critics' award 1996 (Arlecchino)
• Premio Gassman (best theatre actor) 2006 (Zio Vania)

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