Massimo Popolizio (born July 4, 1961) is an Italian actor and voice
actor.Massimo Popolizio studied at the Silvio D'Amico National Academy
of Dramatic Arts in Rome in 1984, Popolizio started his career as a
stage actor and, after graduation, started a fruitful artistic
collaboration with theater director Luca Ronconi. In 1995 he won a UBU
Award as Best Actor for his work in Shakespeare's King Lear and
Towards Peer Gynt inspired by Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen, and again in
2001 for his role in Carlo Goldoni's 1747 play The Venetian Twins. In
2006 he won the Golden Aeschylus, conferred by the National Classic
Drama Institute (INDA). In 2012, Popolizio returned to Ibsen in the
title role of the stage work John Gabriel Borkman, with Lucrezia Lante
della Rovere and Manuela Mandracchia. In 2013 he played Don Palma in
the TV show Una grande famiglia.Popolizio lent his voice for the
Italian dubbing of Lord Voldemort in the Harry Potter films, to Tom
Cruise (Dr. William "Bill" Harford) in Eyes Wide Shut and to the voice
of Lionel Abelanski (Shlomo) in Train of Life. He acquired visibility
with his more recent film roles in Crime Novel, Black Sea and My
Brother Is an Only Child, as well as in the role of Victor Sbardella
in Il Divo by Paolo Sorrentino. In 1998 he won the Silver Ribbon for
the dubbing of the film Hamlet, directed by Kenneth Branagh. In 1998
he voiced Tim Roth in the role of Danny Boodman TD Lemon 1900 in the
film The Legend of 1900. In 2009 he was the Italian voice of actor Cal
Lightman, the protagonist of the series Lie to Me (also played by Tim
Roth). In 2013, he returned to the cinema with Hello President! and
The Great Beauty.
actor.Massimo Popolizio studied at the Silvio D'Amico National Academy
of Dramatic Arts in Rome in 1984, Popolizio started his career as a
stage actor and, after graduation, started a fruitful artistic
collaboration with theater director Luca Ronconi. In 1995 he won a UBU
Award as Best Actor for his work in Shakespeare's King Lear and
Towards Peer Gynt inspired by Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen, and again in
2001 for his role in Carlo Goldoni's 1747 play The Venetian Twins. In
2006 he won the Golden Aeschylus, conferred by the National Classic
Drama Institute (INDA). In 2012, Popolizio returned to Ibsen in the
title role of the stage work John Gabriel Borkman, with Lucrezia Lante
della Rovere and Manuela Mandracchia. In 2013 he played Don Palma in
the TV show Una grande famiglia.Popolizio lent his voice for the
Italian dubbing of Lord Voldemort in the Harry Potter films, to Tom
Cruise (Dr. William "Bill" Harford) in Eyes Wide Shut and to the voice
of Lionel Abelanski (Shlomo) in Train of Life. He acquired visibility
with his more recent film roles in Crime Novel, Black Sea and My
Brother Is an Only Child, as well as in the role of Victor Sbardella
in Il Divo by Paolo Sorrentino. In 1998 he won the Silver Ribbon for
the dubbing of the film Hamlet, directed by Kenneth Branagh. In 1998
he voiced Tim Roth in the role of Danny Boodman TD Lemon 1900 in the
film The Legend of 1900. In 2009 he was the Italian voice of actor Cal
Lightman, the protagonist of the series Lie to Me (also played by Tim
Roth). In 2013, he returned to the cinema with Hello President! and
The Great Beauty.
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