Renato Carpentieri (born 2 April 1943) is an Italian actor, stage director and playwright.

Life and career

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, Carpentieri studied architecture in

Naples Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's adminis ...

, where from 1965 to 1974 he was engaged in the organization and promotion of cultural events with the group Nuova Cultura. In 1975 he was co-founder of the stage company Teatro dei Mutamenti, in which he was active until 1980 as a director, an actor and a playwright. He made his film debut in 1990, almost fifty years old, in

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's ''

Porte aperte ''Open Doors'' ( it, Porte aperte) is a 1990 Italian film directed by Gianni Amelio. Set in Palermo in the 1930s, a judge who is morally against the death penalty is confronted with the case of a man who has murdered his wife and two colleagues in ...

''. In 1993 he won a

Nastro d'Argento The Nastro d'Argento, also known by its translated name Silver Ribbon, is an Italian film award awarded each year since 1946 by the Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists (Italian: ''Sindacato Nazionale Giornalisti Cinematografici Italian ...

for best supporting actor for his performance in

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 ...

' '' Puerto Escondido''. Since 1995 he has been the artistic director of the Neapolitan stage company Libera Scena Ensemble.

Partial filmography

*'' Open Doors'' (1990) *'' The Yes Man'' (1991) *'' The Stolen Children'' (1992) *'' Puerto Escondido'' (1992) *'' Death of a Neapolitan Mathematician'' (1992) *''

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'' (1993) *'' Caro diario'' (1993) *'' Fiorile'' (1993) *'' Law of Courage'' (1994) *'' The Council of Egypt'' (2002) *''

The Sweet and the Bitter ''The Sweet and the Bitter'' ( it, Il dolce e l'amaro) is a 2007 Italian crime-drama film directed by Andrea Porporati. It entered the competition at the 64th Venice International Film Festival. Cast * Luigi Lo Cascio as Saro Scordia * as Mimm ...

'' (2007) *''

Fort Apache Napoli ''Fort Apache Napoli'' ( it, Fortapàsc) is a 2009 Italian biographical film directed by Marco Risi about the fight against the Camorra and subsequent assassination of journalist Giancarlo Siani, played by Libero De Rienzo. Plot The film tells t ...

'' (2009) *''

Noi credevamo ''We Believed'' ( it, Noi credevamo) is a 2010 Italian drama film directed by Mario Martone, based on a screenplay by Martone and Giancarlo De Cataldo inspired by events around the 19th-century Young Italy political movement and based on the nov ...

'' (2010) *'' The Jewel'' (2011) *'' Heavenly Body'' (2011) *'' Discovery at Dawn'' (2012) *'' Leopardi'' (2014) *'' Tenderness'' (2017) *'' Cinderella the Cat'' (2017) *''Una storia senza nome'' (2018) *''

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'' (2019) *'' Ordinary Happiness'' (2019) *'' Hammamet'' (2020) *''

The Life Ahead ''The Life Ahead'' ( it, La vita davanti a sé) is a 2020 Italian drama film directed by Edoardo Ponti, from a screenplay by Ponti and Ugo Chiti. It is the third screen adaptation of the 1975 novel ''The Life Before Us'' by Romain Gary. It st ...

'' (2020) *''

Io sto bene ''Io sto bene'' (English: ''I'm Fine'') is a 2020 Luxembourgian drama film directed by Donato Rotunno. It was selected as the Luxembourgian entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 94th Academy Awards. Cast * Renato Carpentieri ...

'' (2020)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Carpentieri, Renato 1943 births People from the Province of Avellino Italian male stage actors David di Donatello winners Nastro d'Argento winners Italian male film actors Italian male television actors Living people Italian theatre directors Theatre people from Naples