Gianni Capaldi

Gianni Capaldi is a Scottish actor and film and television producer.

Personal life and education

Capaldi was born in Hamilton, South Lanarkshire to parents Tony and Maria. He attended St Mary's Primary School and Hamilton College before continuing his education at Glasgow Caledonian University. He played youth football for Motherwell.

Capaldi is related to Scottish entertainers Jimmy Logan, Lewis Capaldi and Peter Capaldi.

Capaldi lives in Los Angeles, California. He is married to former NFL San Diego Chargers cheerleader Amanda Fitz.Actor Gianni Capaldi marries former American cheerleader
, Daily Record, 6 June 2015

Controversy

On 18 April 2022, TV presenter Jean Johansson accused Capaldi of using "abusive" language during a private message exchange with her on the social media platform Twitter. In June 2022, a video emerged of Capaldi singing in support of the New IRA paramilitary organisation at a Celtic convention in Las Vegas.

Career

Capaldi has starred in various genres, from drama to horror, he is mostly known in the action world appearing in films such as '' Blood of Redemption'' (2013), ''Puncture Wounds'' (2014), and '' Nightworld'' (2017).

Capaldi's first major role, portraying a British gangster called English, saw him star alongside Brian Austin Green, Michael Clarke Duncan, Vinnie Jones, Danny Trejo and Tom Sizemore in the action Sony picture film ''Cross''. Capaldi worked alongside Morgan Freeman in the children's film, ''Wish Wizard'', a film made in collaboration with the Make-A-Wish Foundation. then in the paranormal moralistic drama ''The Between'', with Isabelle Fuhrman, Joel Courtney and Peter Bogdanovich.

Capaldi briefly expanded into television with appearances as himself in the HDnet reality television series ''Hollywood Royale''.

Capaldi's acting credits include ''Crossroads'' and romantic drama ''Don't Pass Me By'', before teaming up with Jason Mewes for a web series, ''Vigilante Diaries''. He went onto star in ''Devil's Dozen'', a horror feature directed by Jeremy London and also starring C. Thomas Howell and Eric Roberts, which premiered at Graumann's Chinese Theater, Hollywood, in 2013.

Capaldi starred in a trio of action films directed by Giorgio Serafini. In ''Ambushed'', Capaldi portrays an uncontrollable Scottish gangster alongside Dolph Lundgren, Vinnie Jones and Randy Couture. '' Blood of Redemption'' showcases the softer side of Capaldi as an American FBI agent, and brother to Billy Zane and nephew to Robert Davi, in a constant struggle to vindicate his fathers murder with Dolph Lundgren and Vinnie Jones, on opposite sides of the fence. Capaldi also produced ''A Certain Justice'', starring alongside martial arts specialist, Cung Le, Dolph Lundgren, Vinnie Jones and Briana Evigan.

Capaldi filmed a theatrically released horror feature in Italy about an urban witch legend ''Janara'' (2014) where he played an American priest. He continued with filming in Europe in the BBC comedy short film ''Gasping'', set in Scotland with director Greg Hemphill and comedian Frankie Boyle. Gasping was nominated for Best Short Film at the 2015 Edinburgh Film Festival. Capaldi starred in Mickey Rooney's last film ''Jeckyl and Hyde'', leading the cast as Edward Hyde. He then went on to work on ''Last Man's club'', a family film alongside Jake Bussey, Richard Riedle and Kate French.

In 2015, Capaldi starred in ''Bite'', an action horror film shot in Rome, alongside Costas Mandylor and Vinnie Jones, directed by Alberto Sciamma. Capaldi filmed ''Ghosts of Garip'' in Turkey playing the lead in an action adventure vampire driven horror alongside Selma Ergeç. ''Wicked Within'', a gothic thriller showed Capaldi's soft side as husband to a possessed wife, Sienna Guillory.

Capaldi costarred in ''Nightfall'', shot in Bulgaria, alongside Robert Englund, before joining up with Lindsay Lohan in Belgium and starring with her in ''The Shadow Within'' as a Lieutenant mixed up in a political world of vampires and werewolves. Capaldi led the cast alongside Dominique Swain in the film ''Deprivation'', shot in Rome and directed by Brian Skiba. Capaldi went on to film ''Chokehold'' in Canada, starring with Casper Van Dien before heading to Turin, Italy, to film the thriller ''Ulysses'' with Danny Glover. Capaldi filmed ''Paper Empire'' in Miami, a television show alongside Wesley Snipes, Steve Guttenberg and Val Kilmer.

Capaldi filmed festival bound ''Cranley Gardens'' in December in London then he began filming in Alabama, on the Western '' Hell On The Border'' alongside Frank Grillo, Ron Perlman and Rudy Youngblood where he portrayed Tom Pinkerton.

In 2018 Capaldi shot ''Robert The Bruce'' in Scotland, ''Astro'' in Los Angeles, ''Becoming'' in Kentucky, a Universal Christmas movie ''Adventures of Santa'' in Connecticut alongside Denise Richards and film horror ''Circus Road''. ''River Runs Red'' which Capaldi shot last December in Kentucky alongside John Cusack, Luke Hemsworth, Taye Diggs and George Lopez came out theatrically in January 2019 across the USA. Capaldi plays a cop alongside Hemsworth who find themselves in a precarious position.

Capaldi appeared alongside Michael Jai White and Mickey Rourke in action film ''The Commando'' (2020).

''Deadline Hollywood'' announced that Capaldi was cast alongside Bruce Willis and Frank Grillo in the movie '' A Day to Die''.

Films

Television

Producer

References

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20th-century Scottish male actors
21st-century Scottish male actors
British people of Italian descent
Living people
People educated at Hamilton College, South Lanarkshire
Scottish expatriate male actors in the United States
Scottish male film actors
Scottish male television actors
Scottish film producers
Scottish people of Italian descent
Male actors from Hamilton, South Lanarkshire
Alumni of Glasgow Caledonian University
Date of birth missing (living people)