Joseph Battiston Wiki, Biography, Age, Net Worth, Contact & Informations

Joseph Battiston
Wiki, Biography, Age, Net Worth, Contact & Informations

Here you can learn about Giuseppe Battiston’s career and curiosities about the private life, read the latest news, find all the awards won and watch photos and videos.

PERSONAL DATA OF GIUSEPPE BATTISTON

Age: 52 years old
Height: 176 cm
Born in: Udine, Italy
Born on: 07/22/1968

BIOGRAPHY OF GIUSEPPE BATTISTON

Born the July 22, 1968 in Udine, Joseph Battiston he graduated in Milan from the Paolo Grassi School of Dramatic Art. He immediately distinguished himself for his acting skills in the theater, where in 1996 he won the Ubu Award for Best Supporting Actor in the play Petito Strenge. The film debut comes only a few years later with Italy – Germany 4-3 (1990), comedy with Massimo Ghini is Fabrizio Bentivoglio. Just as he steps onto the stage he is noticed by Silvio Soldini, director with whom he will establish a long artistic partnership, started in 1993 with A soul divided in two. It is, in fact, under the direction of Soldini in the comedy Bread and Tulips (1999) that Battiston won his first David di Donatello as Best Supporting Actor in 2000. In the same year he was also at the cinema with ask me if I’m happy, next to the trio of Aldo, John is Giacomo, while in 2001 he received his first role on the small screen in the miniseries Heart, which will be followed by the series The boys of via Pal (2003), Beyond the borders (2004) and A family in yellow (2005).

The strong point of Battiston’s career, however, remains the cinema, already in 2004 he received another nomination for David, this time as a leading actor in Agata and the storm, also by Soldini, where he finds many performers with whom he had already worked in Pane e tulipani. More or less secondary roles follow in various films, in which he manages to highlight his abilities in any case – an example is the nomination for the Silver Ribbons for Best Supporting Actor The beast in the heart (2005). Joined the cast of The tiger and the snow (2005) by and with Roberto Benigni, has the opportunity to act alongside international stars such as Jean Reno is Tom Waits. These are the years in which he measured himself with different genres, from the drama of At our home (2006) with Luca Zingaretti is Valeria Golino to comedy Forget about it (2007) with Valerio Mastrandrea, for which he wins a David, up to the most light-hearted tones of Love, lies & soccer (2008).

Battiston closes the first decade of the 2000s with Accomplices of silence (2009), where he supports Alessio Boni, and opens 2010 with Passion, with which he won both the David di Donatello and the Nastro d’Argento as Best Supporting Actor; in truth, this latter prize is also conferred on him for two other interpretations of that period, in Stars sons (2010) and Without art or part (2011). The roles covered by Battiston often see him as an intellectual or artist, usually with the task of dispensing advice – sometimes precisely to the protagonists – as in The commander and the stork (2012), the result of the seventh collaboration with Soldini, or in the role of Doctor Freiss in the TV series All crazy for love (2008). The Friulian actor, however, is extremely eclectic and has demonstrated his versatility several times during his career, both in the cinema with lighter roles, as in Pitza and dates (2015), or darker shades, as in Zoran, my stupid nephew (2013) and Happiness is a complex system (205), which on TV with the miniseries The girls of the swing (2010).

In 2016 he was in the cast of the direct hit comedy of Paolo Genovese, Perfect strangers, in which Battiston plays one of the friends seated at the table, the gay teacher Peppe. This is where he meets one of the interpreters, Edoardo Leo, with whom he will share the set of I am there (2018), where he is a writer who will help Leo found a new religion, Ionism.