Pierfrancesco Favino (Italian pronunciation: [pjÉ›Ë rfranˈtʃesko
faˈviË no]; August 24, 1969) is an Italian actor. He has appeared in
more than fifty European and American movies and television series
since the early 1990s, including The Prince of Homburg (1997), The
Last Kiss (2001), El Alamein: The Line of Fire (2002), The Keys to the
House (2004), Romanzo Criminale (2005), The Unknown Woman (2006),
Night at the Museum (2006), Saturn in Opposition (2007), The
Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008), Angels & Demons (2009),
ACAB â€" All Cops Are Bastards (2012) Piazza Fontana: The Italian
Conspiracy (2012), World War Z (2013), Rush (2013), Suburra (2015) and
The Traitor (2019). In 2020, he won the Volpi Cup at Venice Film
Festival for his performance in Padrenostro.Favino was born in Rome,
Italy, to Apulian parents from Candela, a comune in the province of
Foggia. He has appeared in more than forty European films and
television series since the early 1990s, including Gabriele Muccino's
The Last Kiss, Gianni Amelio's The Keys to the House, Giuseppe
Tornatore's The Unknown Woman and Ferzan Özpetek's Saturn in
Opposition. In 1999 he starred in the HBO film Excellent Cadavers, an
adaptation of Alexander Stille's novel of the same name. In 2006 he
received the David di Donatello award - the Italian equivalent of the
Oscar - for his role in the crime film Romanzo Criminale, directed by
Michele Placido.In 2006 he portrayed Christopher Columbus in Twentieth
Century Fox's Night at the Museum. In 2008 he played General Glozelle,
the leader of Miraz's Telmarine troops in The Chronicles of Narnia:
Prince Caspian. He has worked with American director Ron Howard twice:
in the 2009 film Angels & Demons, the adaptation of the novel of the
same name by Dan Brown, in which he played the role of Inspector
Ernesto Olivetti, and in the 2013 film Rush, in which he played the
role of Formula One racing car driver Clay Regazzoni.Other significant
roles include the partisan leader Peppi Grotta in Spike Lee's Miracle
at St. Anna in 2008, the sadistic riot control force policeman Cobra
in Stefano Sollima's ACAB â€" All Cops Are Bastards in 2012, the
anarchist Giuseppe Pinelli in Marco Tullio Giordana's Piazza Fontana,
and the W.H.O. doctor in Marc Forster's apocalyptic-horror World War Z
(2013).
faˈviË no]; August 24, 1969) is an Italian actor. He has appeared in
more than fifty European and American movies and television series
since the early 1990s, including The Prince of Homburg (1997), The
Last Kiss (2001), El Alamein: The Line of Fire (2002), The Keys to the
House (2004), Romanzo Criminale (2005), The Unknown Woman (2006),
Night at the Museum (2006), Saturn in Opposition (2007), The
Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008), Angels & Demons (2009),
ACAB â€" All Cops Are Bastards (2012) Piazza Fontana: The Italian
Conspiracy (2012), World War Z (2013), Rush (2013), Suburra (2015) and
The Traitor (2019). In 2020, he won the Volpi Cup at Venice Film
Festival for his performance in Padrenostro.Favino was born in Rome,
Italy, to Apulian parents from Candela, a comune in the province of
Foggia. He has appeared in more than forty European films and
television series since the early 1990s, including Gabriele Muccino's
The Last Kiss, Gianni Amelio's The Keys to the House, Giuseppe
Tornatore's The Unknown Woman and Ferzan Özpetek's Saturn in
Opposition. In 1999 he starred in the HBO film Excellent Cadavers, an
adaptation of Alexander Stille's novel of the same name. In 2006 he
received the David di Donatello award - the Italian equivalent of the
Oscar - for his role in the crime film Romanzo Criminale, directed by
Michele Placido.In 2006 he portrayed Christopher Columbus in Twentieth
Century Fox's Night at the Museum. In 2008 he played General Glozelle,
the leader of Miraz's Telmarine troops in The Chronicles of Narnia:
Prince Caspian. He has worked with American director Ron Howard twice:
in the 2009 film Angels & Demons, the adaptation of the novel of the
same name by Dan Brown, in which he played the role of Inspector
Ernesto Olivetti, and in the 2013 film Rush, in which he played the
role of Formula One racing car driver Clay Regazzoni.Other significant
roles include the partisan leader Peppi Grotta in Spike Lee's Miracle
at St. Anna in 2008, the sadistic riot control force policeman Cobra
in Stefano Sollima's ACAB â€" All Cops Are Bastards in 2012, the
anarchist Giuseppe Pinelli in Marco Tullio Giordana's Piazza Fontana,
and the W.H.O. doctor in Marc Forster's apocalyptic-horror World War Z
(2013).
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