At 19, after graduating from high school, he leaves his job as a tiler and Lake Iseo, where he was born. He doesn’t imagine that he will never return and that, from that moment on, he will never stop. He doesn’t know what his dream is yet. He looks for it in Milan (in the police force), in America (where he does everything: newspaper delivery boy, dishwasher, babysitter), then in tourist villages (as an entertainer).
He finally finds it at 22, the first time he goes to the theater. He sees La Gatta Cenerentola by Roberto De Simone, which changes his life. From there, admission to the Silvio D’Amico Academy of Dramatic Arts in Rome; important meetings with masters such as Andreas Rallis, Orazio Costa Giovangigli, Peter Stein; the years of theater touring with Giorgio Strehler and Luca Ronconi; his debut on the small screen with La donna del treno directed by Carlo Lizzani, and on the big screen with La meglio gioventù by Marco Tullio Giordana. The interpretation of Matteo Carati is his springboard. His professional career takes flight and, role after role, he discovers new worlds in which to dream: he plays Caravaggio, Giacomo Puccini, Prince Andrej Bolkonskij, Walter Chiari, Ulysses and even God in the theatrical show Il visitatore directed by Valerio Binasco. In 2021 he tells these and other worlds dreamed and lived in his first book, Mordere la nebbia (ed. Solferino).
In 2023 he was at the cinema with the film about the Holocaust Terezin by Gabriele Guidi and on TV in the series Il metodo Fenoglio based on the book by Gianrico Carofiglio.
At the beginning of 2024 we saw him on Raiuno in the role of Dino Grandi, protagonist of the historical fiction La lunga notte – La caduta del Duce.
At the same time, after about 30 years spent between stage and set, curiosity also took him “to the other side of the barricade”. In 2015 he made his debut as a theatre director with the show I duellanti. In 2019 he staged Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes.
And now he has just concluded the theatre tour of Iliade, Il gioco degli dei in which he is director and protagonist, in the dual roles of Zeus and the divine Achilles.
