IS tiptoed into the world of Italian fiction Linen Pillow. But in just over a decade it has become one of the most loved faces. It was 2011 when, after a long militancy in the theater, Guanciale appeared for the first time on television The silence of the water. Since then his presence in the series has multiplied and in the next season he will be the undisputed king of the homegrown series.
Lino Guanciale, three leading roles
There are three leading roles in which we will see Lino Guanciale in the next television season. The Abruzzese actor is in the cast of Survivors, a new European co-production. He will also return to being the Cilento investigator with the ability to see the ghosts of the victims of violent crimes, in the second season of Commissioner Ricciardi. He will also return in the shoes of another commissioner, Leonardo Cagliostro (or rather his ghost), in the third and final season of the series The red door.
Wethere will be no fourth season
For a while, however, he will not be able to play poker because will not go back to being Pietro Peirò, the protagonist of We. The Italian remake of This is us signed by Luca Ribuoli was canceled after just one season. The story of Pietro and Rebecca and their three children – Claudio, Caterina and Daniele – did not have the same success in Italy as the six seasons of the original series signed by Dan Fogelman in the world. “With pain I must say that the project We It has been closed. Even if the series went well on the RaiPlay platform, you have to deal with budget, time, strategy and vision of the future “, explained Maria Pia Ammirati, the director of Rai Fiction, presenting the offer of the future at the presentation of the 2022 schedules. / 23.
The bet of Survivors
Filed WeGuanciale points up Survivors. For the protagonist of Commissioner Ricciardi, this is an important bet because it will go beyond the Italian television scene. The Italian-led mystery series is a co-production of the European Alliance between Rai, France Télévisions and ZDF and it will also air in France and Germany.
Guanciale plays one of the 7 survivors of Ariadne, a high-tech sailboat. Departing from Genoa with 12 passengers on board, she will disappear from the radar due to a storm to reappear after a year with only 7 people on board. At the center of the story is the return to life of the castaways and the weight of the secrets they are forced to keep. In the cast with Guanciale there are, among others, Barbora Bobulova, Pia Lanciotti, Alessio Vassallo, the French Stéfi Celma and the German Florian Fitz.
Lino Guanciale, who is the actor of the moment
«I am an Italian actor. I want to share with you a little of my work and my passions! I love #Teatro #Cinema #Television Testimonial @UNHCRItalia ». This is how the actor born in Avezzano, Abruzzo, on May 21, 1979, introduces himself on Twitter. As a boy he plays rugby even going so far as to wear the blue between the Under 16s and the Under 19s. But it is the acting that fascinates him. At 24 yes diploma from the Silvio D’Amico Academy of Dramatic Art. In the same year, 2003, he was directed by Gigi Proietti in the version of Romeo and Juliet which inaugurates the Silvano Toti Globe Theater in Rome, now named after Proietti. On the boards of the theaters of Italy he cuts his teeth with Luca Ronconi and Claudio Longhi. In 2009 his path crosses that of Michele Placido who, after having directed him in The facts of Fontamarahe wants him in the role of Nuncio in Vallanzasca – The angels of evil.
Cinema and fiction
For the actor from Avezzano, Vallanzasca – The angels of evil is the third film shot for the big screen. They had been there before I, Don Giovanni by Carlos Saura, in which he was a young Mozart and The first line by Renato De Maria. Since then Lino Guanciale has never stopped alternating between theater, cinema and, since 2011, also television. His debut is on Raiuno, in 2011, with The secret of water. The fame on the small screen comes with the role of Ruggero “Rutger” Benedetti Valentini who plays in all three seasons of A big family.
Pillow and success with God help us
Success for this young actor comes when in the second season of God help usenters the shoes of the lawyer Corsi who, after various vicissitudes, will marry Azzurra and then leave the scene definitively in the fourth season. From that moment on, for him the roles that arrive are only the protagonist.
Miriam Leone is next door The veiled lady (rerun on Raiuno in prime time from Sunday 24 July). Act with Vanessa Incontrada in Don’t tell my boss and with Alessandra Mastronardi in The pupil.
Cagliostro and Ricciardi, two somewhat special commissioners
In 2017 it becomes Leonardo Cagliostro, commissioner – killed during an action – who cannot pass into the afterlifein The red door, Rai2 fiction of which we will see the third and final season in the autumn. Of the last year also embodies the melancholy face of the introverted Luigi Alfredo Ricciardi, commissioner of the Flying Squad of the Royal Police Headquarters of Naples created by the pen of Maurizio De Giovanni Commissioner Ricciardi. Also in this case it is a very particular policeman because he sees the ghosts of the victims. Even the sliced Ricciardi will soon return with the second season on Rai1 after the public success of the first one which in the final episode touched 6 million viewers.
One award after another
Ricciardi’s interpretation also brought the Nastro d’Argento to the already crowded showcase by Lino Guanciale. He placed it next to the Golden Ciak for The worst awarded to him in 2017, and to the many awards for his theatrical activity including two Flaiano Awards and two Ubu. However, the success achieved in cinema and on television has not affected Lino Guanciale’s love for the theater, where he also returns as a director. From 2018 to today he has signed 4 shows and in 2022 he starred as an actor in two shows. The last of these, Zoo directed by Franco-Uruguayan playwright Sergio Blanco, received excellent reviews on his debut at the Piccolo Teatro in Milan.
Happy with wife and son
Guanciale is a reserved man. He doesn’t like sharing what’s beyond his professional life. After a relationship with his colleague Antonietta Bello, in 2020 he is married to Antonella Liuzzi, professor at Bocconi. To the wedding, the actor – despite the confidentiality that distinguishes him – has dedicated a post. Another post, on November 14, 2021, dedicated it at the birth of his son Pietro, “the greatest gift that life could give us”.
Social commitment for refugees
On the other hand, there are many posts by Lino Guanciale as testimonial ofUnhcr, tohe United Nations Commissioner for Refugees. Since 2016, the actor has been committed to reminding the world of the suffering of those who have to leave their homeland. “Being famous in itself is neither useful nor important. It can become a useful thing if through the following you have, you try to build knowledge in relation to certain situations, causes or humanitarian projects “, he declared in an interview with Interris. Hers is certainly a healthy relationship with celebrity.
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