After his success he became one of the most in-demand dramatic actors in Italy appearing in such films as: In 2008 he appeared in four new Montalbano films, and in the same period adapted and directed the play La Sirena, from a story by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa. He has been married to Luisa Ranieri since May 23, 2012.
Edoardo De Angelis, together with Marco D'Amore moreover the same year he returned to TV with the mini-series Il giudice meschino – (The Indolent Judge), dir.
In 2009 he continued to appear in the theatre and also worked on the film Noi credevamo, directed by Mario Martone, and set during the reunification of Italy in which he played Francesco Crispi. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Zingaretti studied at the prestigious National Academy of Dramatic Art Silvio D' Amico, graduating in 1984, and began his acting career in the theatre, often working with director Luca Ronconi, appearing in such diverse plays as Chekhov's Three Sisters, Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus, and Martin Sherman's Bent.
Luca Zingaretti (Italian pronunciation: born 11 November 1961) is an Italian actor, known for playing Salvo Montalbano in the Inspector Montalbano mystery series based on the character and novels created by Andrea Camilleri.
Autoplay When autoplay is enabled, a suggested video will automatically play next. Laurent Tirard in which he played a Roman general, and participated in a minor role in Romanzo di una strage – (Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy), dir. During the 1990s, Padre Pino Puglisi returned to Palermo, Sicily, and found his former hometown in shambles. Get a sneak peek of the new version of this page. Take a look back at these Hollywood icons in their early days to see how far they've come in their careers-and how little they've visibly aged. Luca Zingaretti was born on Novemin Rome, Lazio, Italy. However, stardom arrived with his leading role as Commissario Salvo Montalbano, in the Inspector Montalbano series of TV films, initially shown on RAI Two, and then RAI One, as well as many other European TV channels and SBS in Australia. He founded and ran a Center for the children and the teenagers, giving them both an alternative to their native environment and a way to escape to Mafia enrollment. He continues his solitary fight until the bitter end. He is an actor and director, known for Alla luce del sole (2005), Finding Nemo (2003) and Perez. LONDON – Luca Zingaretti, the Italian actor and director famous for his role as Inspector Montalbano in 1999, landed in London yesterday and is already having a busy schedule he came to the UK to perform in both Oxford (today) and London (tomorrow) with his famous reading-monologue of “La Sirena”, also known as “Lighea”, a story written by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, an author from … Written by Listen Now Buy MP3 Album £10.99.
The couple married on 23 June 2012 in a civil ceremony at the Donnafugata castle in Sicily. He was murdered on his 56th birthday on September 15th,1993 by Mafia killers.
In addition to Italy, the tv series was shown in Australia, Germany, France, Spain, the UK and the US, while the Inspector Montalbano novels have been translated into 32 different languages.Two brothers come of age in a small Italian town in the '60s and '70s. The final episode of Il commissario Montalbano The entire Montalbano series had been directed by Alberto Sironi, who died suddenly in August 2019, a few weeks after Camilleri, with Zingaretti then stepping in as director. One person commented on Twitter: "It's the trashiest thing I've ever seen" while another described the "unfortunate" decision by RAI to air the episode on International Women's Day. Salvo Montalbano (Luca Zingaretti) with Antonia (Greta Scarano). Montalbano fans took to social media last night to voice their "disappointment" in the central character who betrayed his partner of 20 years Livia (played by Sonia Bergamasco), dumping her over the phone after having a fling with his much younger colleague Antonia, played by Greta Scarano. The series was based on the detective novels of the late Sicilian writer Andrea Camilleri who died in Rome two years ago. The series first aired on Italian television in 1999 and starred Luca Zingaretti as Salvo Montalbano, the police chief of Vigàta, a fictional town in Sicily. Titled Il metodo Catalanotti, it was however only the eighth most-watched episode in the two-decade series which attracted a record 11.2 million viewers in 2018. The final episode of the police television series Il Commissario Montalbano was aired last night on Italy's national broadcaster RAI, attracting an audience of more than nine million viewers. Nine million people in Italy tuned in to see last episode of Il Commissario Montalbano.