Marco Leonardi is an Italian

Italy

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 actor

Actor

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.

Leonardi was born in Australia

Australia

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 to Italian

Italian people

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 parents. He moved to Italy

Italy

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 at the age of four and starred in the famous movie Cinema Paradiso and in the Mexican movie Like Water for Chocolate

Like Water for Chocolate

Like Water for Chocolate is a popular novel published in 1989 by first-time Mexican novelist Laura Esquivel.The novel follows the story of a young girl named Tita who longs her entire life to marry her lover, Pedro, but can never have him because of her mother's upholding of the family tradition...

(1993). He has made several movies in the United States

United States

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, such as Once Upon a Time in Mexico

Once Upon a Time in Mexico

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. Other appearances include the Canadian film The Five Senses.

Leonardi was engaged to Mexican actress Lumi Cavazos

Lumi Cavazos

Lumi Cavazos is a Mexican actress who won the Best Actress awards at the Tokyo Film Festival, and Brazil’s Festival de Gramado for her portrayal of "Tita" in the 1993 adaptation of Laura Esquivel’s Mexican novel, Like Water for Chocolate...

 from 1991 to 1999. Leonardi lived in Los Angeles

Los Ángeles

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 for 10 years.

Film

• La Sposa era Bellissima, directed by Pál Gábor (1986)
• Ultimo Minuto, directed by Pupi Avati (1987)
• Il Coraggio di Parlare, directed by Leandro Castellani (1987)
• Ciao Ma', directed by Giandomenico Curi (1988)
• Cinema Paradiso, directed by Giuseppe Tornatore (1988)
• Scugnizzi, directed by Nanni Loy (1989)
• Dimenticare Palermo, directed by Francesco Rosi (1990)
• Ferdinando, un uomo d'amore, directed by Mème Perlini (1990)
• Like Water for Chocolate
  Like Water for Chocolate (film)
  Like Water for Chocolate is a 1992 film based on the popular novel, published in 1989 by first-time Mexican novelist Laura Esquivel. It earned all 11 Ariel awards of the Mexican Academy of Motion Pictures, including the Ariel Award for Best Picture, and became the highest grossing Spanish-language...
  
  , directed by Alfonso Arau (1992)
• La Ribelle, directed by Aurelio Grimaldi (1993)
• Le Buttane
  The Whores
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  , directed by Aurelio Grimaldi (1994)
• Banditi, directed by Stefano Mignucci (1995)
• Viva San Isidro, directed by Alessandro Cappeletti (1995)
• La sindrome di Stendhal, directed by Dario Argento (1996)
• Una vacanza all'inferno (1997), directed by Tonino Valerii (1997)
• La frontiera, directed by Franco Giraldi (1996)
• Italiani, directed by Maurizio Ponzi (1996)
• I cinque sensi, directed by Jeremy Podeswa (1999)
• From Dusk Till Dawn 3: The Hangman's Daughter
  From Dusk Till Dawn 3: The Hangman's Daughter
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  , directed by P. J. Pesce (2000)
• I cavalieri che fecero l'impresa, directed by Pupi Avati (2001)
• Once Upon a Time in Mexico
  Once Upon a Time in Mexico
  Once Upon a Time in Mexico is a 2003 action film written, edited and directed by Robert Rodriguez. It is the final film in the "Mariachi Trilogy", which also includes El Mariachi and Desperado. Antonio Banderas reprises his role as El Mariachi...
  
  , directed by Robert Rodriguez (2002)
• Mary, directed by Abel Ferrara (2005)
• Maradona, La Mano de Dios, as Diego Armando Maradona (2007)
• Red Gold (2009)

Television

• Villa Maltraversi, directed by Fabrizio Laurenti (1993) - TV movie
• Pensando all'Africa, directed by Ruggero Deodato (1998) - TV miniseries
• Elisa di Rivombrosa, directed by Cinzia TH Torrini (2003) - TV series
• Don Matteo 4 (2004), directed by Andrea Barzini e Giulio Base (2004) - TV series - Episode: Vacche Grasse, vacche magre
• San Pietro, directed by Giulio Base (2005) - TV miniseries
• Il capo dei capi, directed by Enzo Monteleone e Alexis Sweet (2007) - TV miniseries
• L'ultimo padrino, directed by Marco Risi (2008) - TV miniseries

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