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

Life and career

Born in

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, Di Gregorio trained as a stage actor and director in the Drama School of

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. He started his professional career as a screenwriter in the second half of the 1980s. In the 1990s Di Gregorio started collaborating with

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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 in; he followed that up with other films in the same vein.

Filmography

* ''

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'' (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) * '' Citizens of the World'' (2019, director and co-writer) * '' Never Too Late for Love'' (2022, director and co-writer)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Di Gregorio, Gianni 1949 births 20th-century Italian people Living people European Film Award for Best Screenwriter winners Italian film directors Italian male film actors Italian male screenwriters Italian screenwriters Film people from Rome Male actors from Rome