Gianni Di Gregorio

Gianni Di Gregorio (born 19 February 1949) is an Italian director, screenwriter and actor.

Gianni Di Gregorio
Gianni Di Gregorio
Born19 February 1949 (1949-02-19) (age 71)
Rome, Italy
OccupationDirector
Screenwriter

Life and career

Born in Rome, Di Gregorio trained as a stage actor and director in the Drama School of Alessandro Fersen. He started his professional career as a screenwriter in the second half of the 1980s.[1]

In the 1990s Di Gregorio started collaborating with Matteo Garrone as a screenwriter, an actor and an assistant director, their most famous work being the 2008 award winning film Gomorrah. He made his directorial debut in 2008, with the critically acclaimed Mid-August Lunch, which he also wrote and starred; he followed that up with three other films in the same vein The Salt of Life (2011), Good for Nothing (2014) & Citizen of the World (2019).[1][2]

Filmography
  • Giovanni Senzapensieri (1986, co-writer)
  • Sembra morto... ma è solo svenuto (1986, co-writer)
  • Stazione di servizio (1989, co-writer, 2 episodes)
  • Affetti speciali (1989, co-writer)
  • Naufraghi sotto costa (1991, co-writer)
  • Ospiti (1998, actor as Giacomo)
  • Estate romana (2000, actor as Lodeger)
  • Viva la scimmia (2002, co-writer)
  • Gomorrah (2008, co-writer)
  • Mid-August Lunch (2008, director and co-writer)
  • The Salt of Life (2011, director and co-writer)
  • Good for Nothing (2014, director and co-writer)
  • Citizen of the World (2019, director and co-writer)

References
  1. Fabio Secchi Frau. "Gianni Di Gregorio: Gianni e il cinema". MyMovies. Retrieved 11 September 2015.
  2. Wally Hammond. "Gianni Di Gregorio: interview". Time Out. Retrieved 14 May 2016.
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