Emilio Solfrizzi

Italian actor and comedian

Emilio Solfrizzi

Born	(1962-04-05) 5 April 1962 (age 62) Bari
Occupation	actor
Height	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)

Emilio Solfrizzi (born 5 April 1962) is an Italian actor and comedian.

Life and career

Born in Bari, in 1985 Solfrizzi graduated in performing arts at the Bologna University.^[1]^[2] Shortly later he formed a comedy duo with his former classmate Antonio Stornaiolo, Toti e Tata, who had a good success on stages all over Italy.^[1]^[2] In the second half of the 1990s he appeared, still in couple with Starnaiolo, in the variety show Striscia la notizia with the successful character of Linguetta, then he started a solo career as actor and comedian.^[1]

In 2011, Solfrizzi won the Nastro d'Argento for best original song as the composer and singer of "Amami di più", main theme of the comedy film Se sei così ti dico sì.^[3]

Selected filmography

La stazione (1990)
Selvaggi (1995)
Marriages (1998)
Outlaw (1999)
Free the Fish (2000)
El Alamein: The Line of Fire (2002)
Forever (2003)
Agata and the Storm (2004)
Luisa Sanfelice (2004)
Our Land (2006)
2061: An Exceptional Year (2007)
Men vs. Women (2010)
Women vs. Men (2011)
Se sei così, ti dico sì (2011)
Mi rifaccio vivo (2013)
A Fairy-Tale Wedding (2014)

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Enrico Lancia, Roberto Poppi. Dizionario del cinema italiano: Gli artisti. Gli attori dal 1930 ai giorni nostri. Volume 3. Gremese Editore, 2003. ISBN 8884402697.
^ ^a ^b Giorgio Dell’Arti, Massimo Parrini. Catalogo dei viventi. Marsilio, 2009. ISBN 978-88-317-9599-9.
^ "Habemus Nastri". Il Sole 24 Ore. 25 June 2011. Retrieved 9 January 2014.