Edoardo Pesce (born 12 September 1979) is an Italian actor.
Biography
A student of the actor
Enzo Garinei, Pesce began his career on stage, but gained notoriety with the
TV series
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''
Romanzo criminale
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'' and ''
I Cesaroni
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''.
He received critical acclaim for his performance of the violent thug Simoncino in
Matteo Garrone
Matteo Garrone (born 15 October 1968) is an Italian filmmaker. Born in Rome, the son of a theatre critic, Nico Garrone and a photographer, in 1996 Garrone won the ''Sacher d'Oro'', an award sponsored by Nanni Moretti, with the short film ''Silh ...
's ''
Dogman'', for which he won the
David di Donatello for Best Supporting Actor and tied a
Nastro d'Argento for Best Actor with the protagonist
Marcello Fonte
Marcello Fonte is an Italian actor. He received the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor for his role in the film '' Dogman''.
Early life and education
Fonte lived his childhood and adolescence in the suburbs of Reggio Calabria, where at ...
.
Filmography
Films
Television
Awards and nominations
References
External links
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1979 births
Living people
Male actors from Rome
Italian male film actors
20th-century Italian male actors
21st-century Italian male actors