Sergio Castellitto is an Italian

Italian people

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 actor

Actor

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 and director

Film director

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Castellitto attended the academy of dramatic art and dedicated himself to theatre soon after, working with many famous actors such as Luigi Squarzina, Aldo Trionfo and Enzo Muzii. He interpreted many films like Sembra morto...ma è solo svenuto directed by Felice Farina

Felice farina

Felice Farina is an Italian director.Felice Farina is a Rome based artist. He grew through the ferment of Roman avant-garde theatre, both as an actor and backstage, developing - at the same time - a strong interest in animation and special/optical effects for film making...

, Piccoli equivoci by Ricky Tognazzi

Ricky Tognazzi

Riccardo Tognazzi is an Italian actor and film director. He has appeared in 50 films and television shows since 1963. His film The Escort was entered into the 1993 Cannes Film Festival...

 and Stasera a casa di Alice by Carlo Verdone

Carlo Verdone

Carlo Verdone is an Italian actor, screenwriter and film director.-Early life:Carlo Verdone was born in Rome to Mario Verdone, an important Italian film critic, and during his youth he earned a degree in Modern Literature at Sapienza University of Rome and a degree in Film Direction at the Centro...

. He became more famous with the films The Great Pumpkin by Francesca Archibugi

Francesca Archibugi

Francesca Archibugi is an award-winning Italian film director and scriptwriter.- Biography :Born and raised in Rome in an intellectual family , she started to study acting with Alessandro Fersen and graduated in Film Direction from the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia Cinecittà...

 and The Star Maker

The Star Maker

The Star Maker is a 1995 Italian language motion picture. It was produced by Rita Cecchi Gori, Vittorio Cecchi Gori, directed by Giuseppe Tornatore, while the title role was played by Sergio Castellitto.It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.-Plot:In 1953, Joe...

 by Tornatore.

Success arrived with the films La famiglia

La famiglia (1987 film)

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, L'ultimo bacio

L'ultimo bacio

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, Caterina in the Big City

Caterina in the Big City

Caterina va in città is an Italian movie directed by Paolo Virzì and written by Virzì and Francesco Bruni.-Plot:...

, My Mother's Smile

My Mother's Smile

My Mother's Smile is an Italian film released in 2002 and directed by Marco Bellocchio. The original Italian title is L'ora di religione .-Summary:...

, Mostly Martha

Mostly Martha (film)

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, and especially with Don't Move, written by his wife Margaret Mazzantini

Margaret Mazzantini

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. The last films that he interpreted were Il regista di matrimoni by Marco Bellocchio and La stella che non c'è by Gianni Amelio

Gianni Amelio

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The first film that he directed is Libero burro and the last is Don't Move. He played the role of the antagonist, King Miraz

Miraz

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, in the film The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian

The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian

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In France Castellitto played the male lead opposite Jeanne Balibar in Jacques Rivette's "Va savoir" (2001).

His most recent accomplishment as actor has been in his role as Padre Pio: Miracle Man, arguably the defining role of his career.

Castellitto is married with four children.

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