Alessandro Genovesi (born 10 January 1973) is an Italian director, screenwriter, playwright and actor.
Life and career
Born in
Milan
Milan ( , , ; ) is a city in northern Italy, regional capital of Lombardy, the largest city in Italy by urban area and the List of cities in Italy, second-most-populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of nea ...
, Genovesi started his professional career on stage, first as an actor and later as a playwright and a director.
He had his breakout in 2007, with the play ''Happy Family'' he wrote and directed; the play won several awards, and in 2010 it was adapted in
a film of the same title directed by
Gabriele Salvatores
Gabriele Salvatores (born 30 July 1950) is an Italian Academy Award-winning film director and screenwriter.
Biography
Born in Naples, Salvatores debuted as a theatre director in 1972, founding in Milan the Teatro dell'Elfo, for which he directe ...
in which Genovesi served as a screenwriter and assistant director.
Genovesi made his directorial film debut in 2011 with ''
The Worst Week of My Life'', which was a box office success and led to a sequel, still directed by Genovesi.
Filmography
References
External links
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1973 births
Living people
Italian film directors
Italian theatre directors
Italian screenwriters
Italian male screenwriters
Film people from Milan
Male actors from Milan
Italian male film actors
Italian male stage actors
Italian dramatists and playwrights
Theatre people from Milan