Gianni Di Gregorio

Gianni Di Gregorio
Gianni Di Gregorio
Born	19 February 1949 (1949-02-19) (age 75) Rome, Italy
Occupation(s)	Director Screenwriter

Gianni Di Gregorio (born 19 February 1949) is an Italian director, screenwriter and actor.

Life and career

Born in Rome, Di Gregorio trained as a stage actor and director in the Drama School of Alessandro Fersen. He started his professional career as a screenwriter in the second half of the 1980s.^[1]

In the 1990s Di Gregorio started collaborating with Matteo Garrone as a screenwriter, an actor and an assistant director, their most famous work being the 2008 award-winning film Gomorrah. He made his directorial debut in 2008, with the critically acclaimed Mid-August Lunch, which he also wrote and starred in; he followed that up with other films in the same vein.^[1][2]

Filmography

• Giovanni Senzapensieri (1986, co-writer)
• Sembra morto... ma è solo svenuto (1986, co-writer)
• Stazione di servizio (1989, co-writer, 2 episodes)
• Affetti speciali (1989, co-writer)
• Naufraghi sotto costa (1991, co-writer)
• Ospiti (1998, actor as Giacomo)
• Estate romana (2000, actor as Lodeger)
• Viva la scimmia (2002, co-writer)
• Gomorrah (2008, co-writer)
• Mid-August Lunch (2008, director and co-writer)
• The Salt of Life (2011, director and co-writer)
• Good for Nothing (2014, director and co-writer)
• Citizens of the World (2019, director and co-writer)
• Astolfo (2022, director and co-writer)

References

External links

• Gianni Di Gregorio at IMDb