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- Lilli Carati was born on 23 September 1956 in Varese, Lombardy, Italy. She was an actress, known for Skin Deep (1979), A Lustful Mind (1986) and L'alcova (1985). She died on 20 October 2014 in Besano, Lombardy, Italy.
- Music Artist
- Actress
- Music Department
Very famous Italian singer. In the sixties she had a love affair with actor Corrado Pani who was married to another woman at the time and gave birth to a son. Because of this she was banned from TV studios for many years. During the last 20 years she has not shown her face in public and has not appeared in any film or television show.- Actor
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Edoardo Cicorini (born August 7, 1967), better known as Edoardo Costa, is an Italian actor, entrepreneur and former model. His career began in the fashion industry as a model in the early 1990s for the modeling agency Why Not. Desiring something more, he began studying acting in Paris and Milan as well as in Los Angeles at The Actors Studio. He soon made television appearances on various American television series including Baywatch, Arliss, The Bold and the Beautiful.
Costa also made a variety of independent American films leading to his debut in a first major feature as the terrorist Emerson, in the final installment of the Die Hard series, Live Free or Die Hard, with Bruce Willis, Timothy Olyphant, Justin Long, and Mary Elizabeth Winstead. His first major role in an American film was in the soon to be released drama Kiddie Ride, directed by Harold Guskin and starring James Gandolfini and Famke Janssen.
Costa continues to work in both the United States and Italy. He has made forays into theater in the plays, Bread Love Fantasy and Very Old Man, alongside Italian acting legend Marcello Mastroianni (Federico Fellini's La Dolce Vita) and worked on numerous Italian soap operas, television series, films and reality shows.
Costa was born in Varese, northern Italy, the son of a Rosangela, who worked at the local electric company and Pietro Cicorini, a transport business owner. Costa is the eldest of two children, he and his sister Monica. Costa attended Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore where he studied philosophy. He served his military service as a Carabinieri in the mid 1980s. It was during this that he was discovered in a local Milanese restaurant bar by a modeling scout.
Costa's modeling has seen him work in Paris, Moscow, Los Angeles and Tokyo. He has appeared in print and television commercials for brands including Giorgio Armani, Laura Biagiotti, Versace, Tissot, Cerutti, Diet Coke and Toyota. In 1999, he began his acting career with a part in a popular Italian television series, going on to appear in further television programs and several Italian films.
In 2007 Costa took control of Beatrice International Models, an agency with forty years experience in the fashion industry on a par with Ford Models, Elite and Next. Former models include Iman and Stephanie Seymour. The venture catapulted Costa into the international spotlight. The modeling agency also recently began a formal dialogue with The National Eating Disorders Association and its CEO, Dr. Lynne Grefe. Beatrice International Models will be the first international modeling agency that will work together with the association to spread awareness and positive prevention about the diseases that have plagued the industry for decades. In 2007, Costa also opened The Actor's Academy Milano. Inspired by his experience at The Actor's Studio, Costa began one of the first schools in Europe to exclusively recruit Lifetime Members of the Actor's Studio as well as teachers from the Stella Adler Studio of Acting, the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute, all of whom specialized in method acting using the system created by Constatin Stanislavski. The Actor's Academy Milano hosted acclaimed actors such as Academy Award winner Martin Landau and Oscar nominated actor Mickey Rourke. The Actor's Academy Milano has asked Gary Swanson to play a pivotal role in its development. Swanson was one of the first teachers to start "Inside the Actor's Studio" hosted by James Lipton. Swanson was among the few personally chosen by the executive committee that includes the late Paul Newman, Ellen Burstyn, and Arthur Penn.
Costa began charitable work in the mid 1990s while still a model. Through a friendship with Quincy Jones, Costa has used his celebrity to support projects in Afghanistan, Brazil and Africa. Costa states that it was Nelson Mandela who encouraged him to become more actively involved in philanthropic work.- Laura Troschel was born on 3 November 1944 in Varese, Lombardy, Italy. She was an actress, known for Se un giorno busserai alla mia porta (1986), Delitti (1987) and Ciao marziano (1980). She was married to Pippo Franco. She died on 29 September 2016 in Rome, Italy.
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Renato De Maria was born in 1958 in Varese, Italy. He is a director and writer, known for Hotel paura (1996), The Front Line (2009) and Italian Gangsters (2015). He has been married to Isabella Ferrari since April 2002. They have two children.- Luisa Rivelli was born on 10 February 1931 in Ternate, Varese, Lombardy, Italy. She was an actress, known for Jane Eyre (1957), È mezzanotte... butta giù il cadavere (1966) and The Stone Forest (1965). She died on 12 June 2013 in Guidonia Montecelio, Italy.
- Actor
- Writer
- Producer
Didier Casnati is the founder and leader of the famous private party band "The Gypsy Queens". Casnati started his acting career with a Monte-Carlo based soap opera "Monaco Blue" written and directed by Belgian singer Ivan Heylen. He has worked on set with Michael Caine (Quicksand, 2003), with Mathew Modine and Roma Downey (Funky Monkey, 2004), with Billy Zane (Big Kiss, 2004), and more recently Tony Danza, Joe Pantoliano, John Patrick Shanley. Didier Casnati speaks 4 languages and plays 4 music instruments, The Gypsy Queens music is world famous for songs such as "(tu vo fa) l'Americano" (Love in the Villa, 2022) and "L'Italiano" (2013). Didier Casnati is a Lee Strasberg method trained actor.- Director
- Writer
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Giacomo Campiotti was born on 8 July 1957 in Varese, Lombardy, Italy. He is a director and writer, known for Il tempo dell'amore (1999), Corsa di primavera (1989) and Come due coccodrilli (1994).- Massimo Bulla was born on 30 April 1971 in Busto Arsizio, Varese, Italy. He is an actor, known for Don Matteo (2000), As You Want Me (1996) and Incantesimo (1998).
- Tecla Insolia was born on 13 January 2004 in Varese, Lombardy, Italy. She is an actress, known for Vite in fuga (2020), The Art of Joy and L'Albero (2024).
- Cristina Del Basso was born on 3 May 1987 in Varese, Lombardy, Italy. She is an actress, known for Cosi fan tutte (2008), Balla con noi - Let's Dance (2011) and Una cella in due (2011).
- Actress
- Director
- Additional Crew
Mietta Albertini was born on 7 March 1949 in Varese, Lombardy, Italy. She is an actress and director, known for The Working Class Goes to Heaven (1971), Il gioco degli inganni (1980) and Haus im Süden (1984).- Giuseppe Pambieri was born on 18 November 1944 in Varese, Lombardy, Italy. He is an actor, known for To Rome with Love (2012), The Legend of Sea Wolf (1975) and Mathias Sandorf (1979). He is married to Lia Tanzi. They have one child.
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
- Director
- Writer
Ciro Visco was born on 20 July 1979 in Varese, Italy. He is an assistant director and director, known for Blocco 181 (2022), Gomorrah (2014) and DOC - Nelle tue mani (2020).- Aldo Ossola was born on 13 March 1945 in Varese, Lombardy, Italy.
- Cinematographer
- Camera and Electrical Department
- Editor
Luigi Benvisto is an Italian cinematographer born in Varese, Italy.
His enthusiasm for films was inspired by his father who took him to the theater weekly, cementing his zest for movies. When he was only a few years old he started to lose his hearing. With time more and more frequencies were gone and he had to wear hearing aids since then. Unable to rely on sound, his eyes became the most powerful tool. What he couldn't glean from the auditory conversations, he picked up from visual clues, capturing the slightest changes and facial expressions, diving deep into details and discovering that what you see tells more than what you hear.
Later in life his parents gifted him with a small SD camera and Luigi started shooting short movies and small projects, educating himself to filmmaking and cinematography.
At the age of 25, Luigi's work was noticed by an Italian producer. He moved to Rome to fulfill his passion, where he lived in a garage and worked on movie sets for free.
In 2008 he received a 2-years scholarship to study filmmaking at NYFA. Less than three months later he was in New York City, with very little knowledge of the English language and nowhere to reside.
Having established himself since those years, with a full understanding of the English language, Luigi worked on countless projects, shooting music videos, commercials, features, documentaries and fashion films all around the world. He traveled from Atlanta to Alaska, from Los Angeles to London, from Seattle to New York.
In 2016 he was the cinematographer for the short movie "Cloud Kumo" shot in Hiroshima, Japan, which won the Student Academy Silver Prize and the Golden Eagle Award, fulfilling the dream of visiting the ASC Clubhouse and meeting masters like Dean Cundey, Richard Crudo, Robert Primes and Michael Goi.
In 2018 he briefly returned in Italy to shoot two television series: the first season of "Il Salone delle Meraviglie" for RealTime Discovery and a series of documentaries for "Le Ragazze", hosted by Gloria Guida and airing on RAI 3 during prime time.
He has worked on several movies screened at the most prestigious festivals in the world such as Cannes, TriBeCa, Sundance and David of Donatello.
Luigi is a member of the International Cinematographers Guild IATSE Local 600, the AIC (Association of Italian Cinematographers) and the Imago (European Federation of Cinematographers).
He's also the jury member of the Miami Independent Film Festival.
He lives in the United States since 2008.- Actress
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Gianna Maria Garbelli was born in Varese, Lombardy, Italy. She is known for Portagli i miei saluti... avanzi di galera (1993), Boutique (1989) and La galette du roi (1986).- Actor
- Soundtrack
Den Harrow was born on 4 June 1962 in Varese, Italy. He is an actor, known for Welcome to the 80's (2009), Den Harrow: A Taste of Love (1983) and Den Harrow: Mad Desire (1984). He is married to Annalisa Orlandi. He was previously married to Federica Bertoni.- Ilenia Lazzarin was born on 6 September 1982 in Busto Arsizio, Varese, Italy. She is an actress, known for Liberiamo qualcosa (2009), Un passo dal cielo (2011) and Un posto al sole (1996). She was previously married to Roberto Palmieri.
- Elena Ossola was born on 8 August 1983 in Varese, Lombardy, Italy. She is an actress, known for Trappola d'autore (2009), Don Matteo (2000) and I misteri di Laura (2015).
- Mario Monti, OMRI is an Italian economist and academic who served as the Prime Minister of Italy from 2011 to 2013, leading a technocratic government in the wake of the Italian debt crisis. Monti served as a European Commissioner from 1995 to 2004, with responsibility for the Internal Market, Services, Customs and Taxation from 1995 to 1999 and for Competition from 1999 to 2004. Monti has also been rector and president of Bocconi University in Milan for many years. On 12 November 2011, in the midst of the European sovereign debt crisis, Monti was invited by President Giorgio Napolitano to form a new technocratic government following the resignation of Silvio Berlusconi. Monti was sworn in as Prime Minister on 16 November 2011, just a week after having been appointed a Lifetime Senator by President Napolitano, and initially became Minister of Economy and Finances as well, giving that portfolio up the following July.
- Actor
- Producer
Nicola Acunzo was born on 28 July 1976 in Varese, Lombardy, Italy. He is an actor and producer, known for The Two Popes (2019), Angel of Evil (2010) and Global Harmony (2024).- Editor
- Editorial Department
Marco Denna was born on 11 May 1955 in Busto Arsizio, Varese, Lombardy, Italy. He is an editor, known for Julia and Julia (1987), Suor Jo (2005) and Die Walküre (1996).- Massimo Buscemi was born on 1 October 1947 in Laveno-Mombello, Varese, Lombardy, Italy. He is an actor, known for Un povero ricco (1983), Lettomania (1976) and I Made a Splash (1980).
- Writer
- Actress
- Costume and Wardrobe Department
Liliana studied acting at Santa Monica College in Los Angeles and was previously part of the theatrical company TeatrObliquo in Milan where she played mostly characters from Tennessee Williams' plays. She wrote and co-produced Lilly and James, a short ballet drama adapted from a bestselling novel by James Frey. The movie has been directed by Academy Award nominated director Matia Karrell. She writes poems, short fiction and screenplays and is a trained ballerina.- Francesco Scardamaglia was born on 23 February 1945 in Varese, Lombardy, Italy. He was a writer and producer, known for Uno sceriffo extraterrestre... poco extra e molto terrestre (1979), Watch Out, We're Mad (1974) and Goliath and the Sins of Babylon (1963). He died on 17 October 2010 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.
- Daniela Bello was born on 4 March 1975 in Varese, Lombardy, Italy.
- Director
- Editor
- Writer
Born in Cittiglio (Varese, Italy) he now lives in Como, Italy. In 2004 he graduated in Politecnico of Milan in Industrial Design, with a Master degree in Movie Design. He then moved to New York in 2004 and obtained a diploma as cinematographer and film director at New York Film Academy. In January 2005 he opened with Mattia Amadori and Andrea Corti a video production company in Como, named OLO creative farm. He wrote and directed shorts, movies, music videos, visuals and video art installations, working with Italian and international institutions, brands, museums and music bands, such as Muse, Jet, The City of Milan, Art Science Museum in Singapore, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Tsinghua University Museum in Beijing, MITO music festival, the Milan Film Festival, the Biblioteca Ambrosiana and MuDeC Museum. He wrote and directed his first feature length documentary "The Genius of a Place" (www.thegeniusofaplace.com) and he's involved with Mattia Amadori in writing the screenplay for his first feature movie "Prologue" and the screenplay for a TV series "11 days".- Director
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- Producer
Max Croci was born on 11 October 1968 in Busto Arsizio, Varese, Lombardy, Italy. He was a director and writer, known for Marameo (2000), Queen Be (1995) and Rosso tigre (1996). He died on 8 November 2018 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy.- Max Cavallari was born on 8 July 1963 in Varese, Lombardy, Italy. He is an actor, known for Pinocchio (2002), Amici ahrarara (2001) and La fidanzata di papà (2008). He was previously married to Ilaria Pagni.
- Tamara Donà was born on 5 December 1973 in Cittiglio, Varese, Italy. She is an actress, known for Le retour d'Arsène Lupin (1989), E (2003) and I'll Leave It All Behind Me (1995).
- Gigi Riva was born on 7 November 1944 in Leggiuno, Province of Varese, Lombardy, Italy. He was an actor, known for Nel nostro cielo un rombo di tuono (2022), 1970 FIFA World Cup (1970) and Sfide (1998). He died on 22 January 2024 in Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy.
- Gianluigi Paragone was born on 7 August 1971 in Varese, Italy. He is a writer, known for La gabbia (2013), Alla lavagna!!! (2018) and Quelli che... il calcio (1993).
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- Cinematographer
Carlo Prevosti was born on 16 July 1978 in Varese, Italy. Carlo is a director and writer, known for Çapulcu: Voices from Gezi (2013), Sentire il mio passo sul sentiero (2010) and Vale - L'ultimo incontro (2022).- Editor
- Director
- Writer
Michele Rocchi was born on May 31, 1997 in Varese, Italy. Is a Film Director, writer and cinematographer. He graduated in summer 2016 from an Italian artistic high school, where he has acquired a great sensitivity for art and philosophy. He studied history of art, graphic design and painting techniques; while he nurtured his dream of becoming a Film Director. He started studying self-taught cinema history and cinematic grammar when he was 16, up to direct and produce his first feature film "John Blazer" at the age of 18. Since 2015 he collaborates with the Cortisonici Short Film Festival as a selector of the international competition. In 2018 he started working for the production company Gruppo Editoriale Jedi, first as an assistant director of Namas Acerboni and then as a television director and author. In June 2020 he decides to leave the company because he disagrees with their way of working which he considers to be "incorrect, reprehensible and dishonest". After this experience, he immediately started working with Namas Acerboni's NST Production to make a making-of documentary for the TV series "3.33". In 2021, together with 2 partners, he founded the production company Landing 2 Studios Srl in Milan to make documentaries. An experience that soon ends because early in 2022 he is forced to close the company due to bankruptcy. He thus begins to devote himself to automation, Web3 and artificial intelligence, planning to create his next films using these technologies.- Flavio Vanetti was born on 26 November 1959 in Varese, Lombardy, Italy.
- Actor
- Additional Crew
Franco Morgan was born on 7 November 1930 in Castellanza, Varese, Lombardy, Italy. He was an actor, known for The Gestapo's Last Orgy (1977), Le mie prigioni (1968) and Delitto d'amore (1974). He died on 1 September 2010 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy.- Director
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- Writer
02.03.1996 Thanks to a vivid imagination, since childhood he spends a lot of time writing and watching movies, spending sleepless nights and accumulating cassettes and DVDs over the years. Creating stories, playing with the viewer and somehow deceiving him have always been his strength. Almost for fun, he starts filming his friends in comic situations and uploading them to YouTube. Following economic studies, in 2016 he enrolled at the Istituto Cinematografico Michelangelo Antonioni in Busto Arsizio (VA), where he graduated in 2019 in Film Direction. During his studies he has the opportunity to make short films such as LMDB (2018) and Endless (o Natale con gli occhiali da sole) (2018), which allow him to experiment and have fun with storytelling. In 2019 he wrote and directed Simmetria (2019) starring Leonardo Nenna and Noemi Bertoldi, a short film that won over 20 national and international awards. At the beginning of 2020, before the Covid-19 epidemic, he was hired by Independent Movie Productions to direct the feature film Traces of Madness (2021), starring Daniele Marcheggiani, Fabrizio Rocchi and Mauro Negri. Shot between June and September of the same year, the film participates in the Berlin and Cannes film market. Emera Film released it in theaters from December 6th 2021. In 2021 he directed two new short films: "Rocks", produced by Creative For You Productions, and "Gas Station" with Alessandro Gessaga. Fascinated by Christopher Nolan's cinema and his brother Johnatan's writing, which soon became two models to follow, he has always tried to create products that dissociate themselves from the more classic storytelling. Whether it's commercial or narrative videos, he always tries to follow his own pattern and to get the viewer to the solution after unexpected twists. All this in 2,40:1 aspect.- Laura Bono was born on 14 January 1979 in Varese, Lombardy, Italy.
- Actor
- Producer
Emanuele Cariati was born on 16 November 1999 in Varese, Italy. He is an actor and producer, known for Il volto della follia (2018) and Cuore trafitto (2017).- Fiorella Pierobon was born on 18 March 1960 in Somma Lombardo, Varese, Italy. She is an actress, known for Oltre la quarta dimensione (1996), Missione d'amore (1993) and Festivalbar (1986).
- Giampiero Bianchi was born in 1945 in Varese, Italy. He was an actor, known for La freccia nera (1968), La piovra (1984) and Morte a passo di valzer (1979). He died on 16 July 2005 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.
- Giuseppe Zamberletti was born on 17 December 1933 in Varese, Lombardy, Italy. He died on 26 January 2019 in Varese, Lombardy, Italy.
- Visual Effects
- Editorial Department
- Producer
Andrea Maggiolo was born on 16 June 1985 in Varese, Italy. He is a producer, known for La spirale (2011) and Lo scherzo (2016).- Roberto Maroni was born on 15 March 1955 in Varese, Lombardy, Italy. He was married to Emilia Macchi. He died on 22 November 2022 in Lozza, Lombardy, Italy.
- Writer
- Actor
- Producer
Paolo Franchini was born on 8 November 1970 in Varese, Italy. He is a writer and actor, known for Gli anziani oggi (2011), Scherzi (2012) and Scherzi: il film (2014).- Chiara Leoncini was born on 10 August 1990 in Tradate, Varese, Lombardy, Italy. He is an actor, known for Verdetto finale (2008), Dragonero - I paladini (2022) and La dame sans titre (2013).
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Born in Varese, he began studying classical piano study continues privately until 2003.
From 2001 to 2008 is part of the amateur theater company OR.MA. Malnate, with whom he collaborated on several musicals, both as actor-singer who set designer and technical sound and lighting equipment.
In 2002 he began the study of modern singing at the Music Academy of St. Augustine, the first with the teacher Massimiliano Broglia and later with singer Dorothy Mele.
In 2005 he joined the Rainbow Voices Choir, Varese. In 2006 he founded, together with Ena, who would become his wife in 2010, the musical duo "ale & ena."
In 2009, he graduated in Architecture at the Academy of Mendrisio (University of Italian Switzerland), where he also some courses on the history and techniques of film held by prof. Marco Müller.
Since 2010 is entered S.I.A.E. as author and composer.
In 2011, Paul knows Franchini, Varesino well-known writer, with whom he collaborated on his first short film with a social background, titled "The elderly today."
In 2012, again with Franchini, directed the short film horror-thriller "Jokes (Jokes)", for which also composed the song "Moments and Clouds", sung by Ena (Serena Guerini), wife of the same Damiani.
In the same year also runs the video clip of the same song, which incorporates part of the story and characters of the short.- Liliano Frattini was born on 3 February 1934 in Varese, Lombardy, Italy. He died on 7 June 2015 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.
- Music Department
Maurizio Camagna was born on 13 May 1963 in Varese, Italy. Maurizio is known for Puerto Escondido (1992), Stefano Quantestorie (1993) and Topo Galileo (1988).