Gian Marco Tognazzi Wiki, Biography, Age, Net Worth, Contact & Informations

Gian Marco Tognazzi
Wiki, Biography, Age, Net Worth, Contact & Informations

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PERSONAL DATA OF GIAN MARCO TOGNAZZI

Age: 53 years old
Height: 179 cm
Born in: Rome Italy
Born on: 11/10/1967

BIOGRAPHY OF GIAN MARCO TOGNAZZI

Born in Rome11 October 1967, Gian Marco Tognazzi he is the son of art by both parents, he is, in fact, the second son of the actor and director of the Italian comedy Ugo Tognazzi, had from the marriage with the Roman actress Franca Bettoja. The first steps on the set Gianmarco moves them precisely following his father, where he comes into contact with that world that already absorbs him completely from childhood; in fact, his film debut took place very early: in 1974, at the age of seven, he appeared in Don’t touch the white woman, Italian-French film with Catherine Deneuve is Marcello Mastroianni, as well as Ugo himself. Participations in other films in which the father appears, such as Popular novel (1974) by Mario Monicelli, until 1984, when he detached himself from the parental figure, he took part in the comedy of Carlo Vanzina Holidays in America, next to Jerry Calà, Christian De Sica is Claudio Amendola. These are the years of Tognazzi’s professional training and his youth favors him important roles in adolescent characters, such as that of Cody in the sentimental comedy. I will marry Simon Le Bon (1986).

Although he soon separated from his father to pursue a career of his own, in 1988 he found himself on the set of Goodbye and thanks of Giorgio Capitani for a family reunion with his father and Ugo and his brother Ricky, where they play a father with his two sons. In 1989 he was given a great television opportunity with the conduct of the Sanremo Festival with Danny Quinn, Rosita Celentano is Paola Dominguin; possibility that confirms his fame in that period as a face known to the Italian public. In the same year he began studying acting and devoted himself to the theater, performing first for clubs, and then dedicating himself in the new millennium in particular to musicals.

In the meantime, he continues his commitment to cinema, delivering to the 90s, after the death of his father, various interpretations ranging from the drama of Crack (1991) of Giulio Base to the lighter one of Ultra (1991) directed by his brother Ricky, passing through the violence of Shaved heads (1993) up to comedy with The graduates (1995) of Leonardo Pieraccioni. In recent years he has been directed twice by Angelo Longoni in the comedies in Men without women (1996) and Let’s have a fiesta (1997), where he meets his colleague Alessandro Gassman, with whom he will collaborate at other times over the years. Later he is again directed by his brother in the political drama The decision maker (1997) and in the comedy Not me, which Ricky shoots with his wife Simona Izzo in 2003; in the same year he is also one of the protagonists of his sister’s directorial debut Maria Sole Tognazzi with Present perfect (2003).

The 2000s saw him alternate between more committed and demanding films, like the historians Chechnya (2004) and Guido challenged the Red Brigades (2007), to others of a purely comic nature, such as Former (2009), Christmas in Beverly Hills (2009), The Usual Idiots – The Movie (2011) and Poor but rich (2016). These are also years, in which his value as an actor is recognized not only in Italy, where he is nominated for the Silver Ribbons for his interpretation in Criminal novel (2005), but also internationally with the participation, albeit small, a To Rome with Love (2012) of Woody Allen.

The television commitment is also important in the new millennium, which sees Tognazzi on the set of some biographical miniseries, such as Francis (2002) and Pietro Mennea – The arrow of the South, and others of a detective genre, including Good and evil (2009) and Anti-mafia team – Palermo today (2011). In 2013 he returned again on the Sanremo stage of the Ariston as a guest of the Festival, but also in 2018 together with the cast of At home everyone is fine (2018) and the director Gabriele Muccino, to whom he plays the son of Sandra Milo and companion of Giulia Michelini, actress with whom he often shared the scene on TV.