Paolo Calabresi
Birthday: Born in 1964-06-17 in Rome, Italy
Deathday: Alive
Oltre alle produzioni teatrali, ha preso parte a fiction televisive come Nati ieri, R.I.S. - Delitti imperfetti, Distretto di Polizia, La squadra e ai film tv Don Bosco, Padre Pio e Maigret. Nel 2008 ha condotto il programma televisivo Italian Job, su LA7, nel quale si è calato nei panni di numerosi personaggi famosi. Interprete di svariati spot pubblicitari, dal 2007 è lo scorbutico elettricista Augusto Biascica nella "fuoriserie italiana" Boris. Dal 2008, diventa una "iena" ufficiale de Le Iene su Italia 1; nei suoi servizi è solito travestirsi.
TV Credits
Deal with it - Stai al gioco
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Speravo de morì prima
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L'ultimo Papa Re
Character: master Pietro
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Una pezza di Lundini
Character: Self
A patch is something commonly used to cover a hole in a dress. Valerio Lundini is a Roman surrealist comedian, who is called every night to replace a programme that, for various reasons, cannot go on air -- he basically puts "a patch" in a TV schedule. But can he?...
Luna Park
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In 1960s Rome, a meeting between a free-spirited young woman who grew up in her family's circus and a girl of wealthy descent leads to secrets, intrigue, and unexpected loves....
Boris
Character: Augusto Biascica
Boris is an Italian television series created by Luca Manzi and Carlo Mazzotta, initially produced from 2007 to 2010, with a revival season premiered in 2022. The show brings to the stage the behind the scenes of a television set where a troupe is shooting Gli occhi del cuore 2 (The eyes of the heart 2), a satirical portrait of the many fictions airing on the Italian TV networks....
Il Gattopardo
Character: Father Perrone
Don Fabrizio Corbera, the Prince of Salina, leads a life surrounded by beauty and privilege. But as Italy moves towards unification and the old aristocratic order is threatened, he realizes that his family's future is in jeopardy. New allegiances must be made, each one a threat to his principles....
Le Iene
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Comedy/satirical show, with sketches and reports into political affairs and consumer issues. Recurring features of the show, besides the reportage, are the double interviews in which two famous people are asked the same questions, and are edited together on a split screen, side by side so that they answer one after the other....
Sei pezzi facili
Character: Claudio
Six plays staged for TV, under the artistic direction and direction of Paolo Sorrentino. A project dedicated to the genius of Mattia Torre, played by actors-friends, companions of many adventures in cinema, theater and fiction....
Gli anni spezzati
Character: Giuseppe Pinelli (Il commissario)
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La linea verticale
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Heartfelt Italian comedy-drama about the patients and staff of a hospital oncology ward....
Romanzo Siciliano
Character: Procuratore Matteo Fusi
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Immaturi - La serie
Character: Gigi Ferone
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Baby
Character: Saverio
Fed up with their families and classmates, two teen girls from a wealthy part of Rome are drawn to the city's underworld and start leading double lives....
Distretto di Polizia
Character: Otello Gagliardi
Distretto di Polizia is an Italian television series....
L'ispettore Coliandro
Character: Omero Ravazzini
Italian police inspector Coliandro — an ignorant, boorish, but fundamentally kind-hearted oaf, whose entire worldview is informed by American cop movies — protects the good citizens of Bologna, routinely saving the day and foiling the plans of evildoers of all sorts by a combination of dumb luck and genuine bravery, while always falling hopelessly in love with the woman at the center of the case....
Stasera c’è Cattelan su Raidue
Character: Self
A Late Show with a strong identity that bears the name of Alessandro Cattelan: surprising interviews, monologues, music and guests who face all the challenges, even the most unlikely, but without ever taking themselves seriously....
Sono Lillo
Character: Agenore
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Zio Gianni
Character: Zio Gianni
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Il restauratore
Character: Arturo Petrucci
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Movie Credits
Diabolik - Who Are You?
Character: King
Captured by a ruthless gang of bank robbers, foes Diabolik and Ginko find themselves facing certain death. While Eva Kant and Altea forge an unlikely alliance to rescue their lovers, Diabolik reveals his mysterious past to the Inspector....
Moses
Character: Palti
When Pharaoh Rameses II begins to tighten the noose on his Jewish slaves, Israelite Moses, called upon by God, leads his people to freedom....
All'alba perderò
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The film recounts failure in a fun and constructive way, often experienced as an indelible shame and almost never as a precious opportunity for growth....
Bets & Wedding Dresses
Character: Vittorio
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Night Bus
Character: Paolo
Valerio Mastandrea is Franz, a night bus driver on the airport route who owes a lot of money from poker debts. He's stumbled upon by the variously named Leila, a thief who has accidentally become wrapped up in a secretive blackmail deal involving the President. As the film unfolds, a secret war between factions of the Security Services, a series of confusions among the various criminal fraternities whose activites have been touched upon by the deal, and Leila's past all complicate the situation....
Amore 14
Character: Umberto
Come ogni 14enne Carolina, detta Caro,è impegnata a districarsi tra la scuola, gli amici e il rapporto spesso conflittuale con i genitori, si trova improvvisamente alle prese con i turbamenti legati al primo amore che ha il nome e il volto di Massimiliano. Ad aiutarla nel suo cammino verso la scoperta delle gioie e dei dolori sentimentali ci saranno le sue amiche del cuore e la sua famiglia...
La guerra del Tiburtino III
Character: Leonardo De Sanctis
In the Tiburtino III neighbourhood, in the outer suburbs of Rome, a small asteroid falls from the sky. In the following days, almost everyone in the suburb starts behaving inexplicably oddly: they all suck AA batteries. An improbable group of young characters finds out that many have been infected by some parasites and the aliens intend to conquer the whole world....
Kidnapped
Character: Sabatino Scazzocchio
The story of Edgardo Mortara, a young Jewish boy living in Bologna, Italy, who in 1858, after being secretly baptized, was forcibly taken from his family to be raised as a Christian. His parents’ struggle to free their son became part of a larger political battle that pitted the papacy against forces of democracy and Italian unification....
Boris: The Film
Character: Augusto Biascica
A director and his crew attempt to make the transition from the small to the big screen....
Una famiglia perfetta
Character: Doctor
Leone is a rich and powerful man whose loneliness drives him to hire a cast of actors to play the family he never had. On Christmas Eve, reality and make-believe start to get blurred....
Arlecchino servitore di due padroni
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Saint John Bosco Mission to Love
Character: Don Lorenzo Fassati
Piedmont (Italy), nineteenth century. In Turin, the priest Don Bosco, a man from a humble farming family, he gave himself totally and passionately to the task of collecting from the streets to marginalized children and care for them. Not only out of poverty, ignorance and social distress, but it got for the first time, to feel loved. He fought with extraordinary faith and tenacity to overcome obstacles and snares that both the civilian and ecclesiastical authorities, they put in their path to pr...
Diaz - Don't Clean Up This Blood
Character: Francesco Scaroni
On July 19–21, 2001, over 200,000 people took to the streets of Genoa to protest against the ongoing G8 summit. Anti-globalization activists clashed with the police, with 23-year-old protester Carlo Giuliani shot dead after confronting a police vehicle. In the aftermath, the police organized a night raid on the Diaz high school, where around a hundred people between unarmed protesters—mostly students—and independent reporters who documented the police brutality during the protests had took shelt...
Ti ricordi di me?
Character: Francesco
Sharing the same psychologist, kleptomaniac Roberto, who writes stories a bit too realistic and scary for kids, and a narcoleptic Beatrice, who documents everything in her life, begin to think that love could be the cure for their problems. But nothing comes easy to either of them, and, just like in one of Roberto's stories, the happy ending really needs to be sought after. Will they find their own?...
A Freaking Wedding!
Character: Zio Nanni
Vladimiro and Brunilde are grappling with the disappearance of Nando, the head of the family. The sad event brought together the human family of Luna, daughter of Nando, and the monstrous one of her husband Adalberto. Humans, vampires, witches, werewolves and ghosts will find themselves in the throes of a new monstrous marriage......
I Can Quit Whenever I Want
Character: Arturo Frantini
A university researcher is fired because of the cuts to university. To earn a living he decides to produce drugs recruiting his former colleagues, who despite their skills are living at the margins of society....
La trappola di Maigret
Character: Comeliaeu
A serial killer is stalking the streets of Paris and Maigret has to resort to setting a trap in order to catch him....
Ricomincio da TAAAC
Character: Brusini
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Tutto molto bello
Character: Marcello
Antonio and Giuseppe meet at the hospital, while awaiting the birth of their respective first children. The two leave together for a quick lunch, ending up involved against their will in an odyssey of amusing setbacks and bizarre characters....
The Talented Mr. Ripley
Character: Customs Officer
Tom Ripley is a calculating young man who believes it's better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody. Opportunity knocks in the form of a wealthy U.S. shipbuilder who hires Tom to travel to Italy to bring back his playboy son, Dickie. Ripley worms his way into the idyllic lives of Dickie and his girlfriend, plunging into a daring scheme of duplicity, lies and murder....
Un Natale stupefacente
Character: Giustino
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Doppio agguato
Character: Infermiere
Italy, 1989. After a prominent coffee industrialist is kidnapped by elusive Sardinian bandits, authorities turn to NOCS (Central Security Operative Unit) commander Valerio Attico, who hastily assembles a task force made of rookies. Based on the true story of the Dante Belardinelli kidnapping....
L'ombra cinese
Character: Comeliaeu
Maigret investigates the murder of a philandering businessman found dead in an apartment building full of colorful tenants....
I migliori giorni
Character: Alberto (segment "Capodanno")
A quartet of stories unfold across four holidays as family members, friends and colleagues face hard decisions, career setbacks and life-changing events....
Se mi lasci ti sposo
Character: Ruben Corazza
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Dicono di te
Character: Bernardo
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The Lithium Conspiracy
Character: Agente WBI 1
In the 21th century getting hold of natural resources of emerging countries, is no matter of war--it is a matter of complex financial actions. And the power of governments behind the events has been replaced by the power of holding companies. Nowadays you don't conquer a country. You buy it. "Short story of long betrayals" is again set in the Republic of Queimada, where in the "Salar de Queimada" (a salt lake) lies 50% of lithium in the whole world. Not surprisingly, there is an international in...
Se mi lasci non vale
Character: Paolo D'Ambrogio
Two aging men bond over their respective heartbreaks, but it may not be over yet......
Cortina Express
Character: Alexei Smirnoff
During Christmas holidays in Cortina d'Ampezzo, bon vivant Lucio tries to save his nephew from a marrying; faded rock sensation Dino wants his daughter's love back; and record producer Patrizia struggles with bankruptcy and a lazy husband....
Two Stepmoms
Character: Stefano
What would happen if two sworn enemies, two opposed women in temperament and lifestyle find out to share the most incredible legacy: the child of their ex-husband?...
Tutta colpa di Freud
Character: Enrico
Francesco is a psychoanalyst grappling with three hopeless causes: a bookseller in love with a book thief, a lesbian hell-bent on becoming straight after a heartbreak, and an 18-year-old in a relationship with a much older married man. Unfortunately, these patients are also his three beloved daughters!...
I Can Quit Whenever I Want 2: Masterclass
Character: Arturo Frantini
Pietro Zinni is asked by the police to revive the old gang to create a task force that will stop the spread of smart drugs....
Correspondence
Character: Prescatore Ottavio
The relationship between Ed, a married astronomer and Amy, his lover, who spend their years apart, is based only on phone calls and texts. One day Amy begins noticing something strange in Ed's messages....
L'anima salva
Character: Vanni
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The Great Ambition
Character: Ugo Pecchioli
Secretary of the most influential Communist Party in the Western world, Enrico Berlinguer challenged the international balance by seeking to bring the Communists to government in Italy and achieve socialism in a democratic country. From 1973, when he escaped an attack by the Bulgarian secret services, to the assassination of his main ally Aldo Moro in 1978, not forgetting his trips to Moscow and the covers of Time: the story of a man who wanted to change the world, but failed....
I Can Quit Whenever I Want 3: Ad Honorem
Character: Arturo Frantini
Has been an year since Pietro Zinni's gang got caught in the Sopox production laboratory and each of them locked up in different jails. From Regina Coeli jail, Pietro keep warning the authorities a fool syntetized nerve gas and he is ready to make a killing, but no one takes him seriously....
How to Grow Up Despite Your Parents
Character: Michele
More and more parents take competitive behavior towards the teachers of their children: deny votes and programs, vaneggiano of likes, dislikes, and conspiracies. So, instead of helping in the training of their children, they become insurmountable obstacles to their growth. Presumptuously they think: "We know better than anyone else our children and we know what they are worth and how and what you have to teach."...
I Vicerè
Character: Benedetto Giulente
In late 19th-century Sicily, the noble Uzeda family—whose lineage dates back to the ancient viceroys that ruled those lands—fights to preserve its waning power in the face of the newly unified Italian regime....
The Theft of St. Peter's Treasure
Character: Lumario
Rome is on the thresh-hold of the Holy year 1925, the city wishes to present itself as 'spotless' to the outside world. The appearance of a child's corpse puts an end to these aspirations. The police arrest a small time crook who has committed a robbery but has nothing to do with the murder of the child....
Amatemi
Character: Paolo
Married for most of her adult life, Nina plunges into depression after being suddenly deserted by her husband. Eventually, she'll find a way out by having multiple affairs with strangers....
La fiamma sul ghiaccio
Character: il malato
A sick young man lives an intense love story with a female tramp....
Nothing Can Stop Us Now
Character: Alceste
The training trip of 4 "special" boys, one narcoleptic, one internet-dependent, one suffering from Tourette's Syndrome and one obsessed with hygiene towards self-affirmation and acceptance of one's differences....
Meet My Friend
Character: Tony Martini
Marco Ferretti is an Italian manager who is young and beautiful, but he cannot stand the presence of women after a difficult affair. When Marco goes to London for an appointment, he meets four beautiful girls who disrupt his life with love....
Dreamfools
Character: Nando
Two lovers are stuck in stale relationships due to lean finances. But when one is duped into thinking he's suddenly rich, he takes very drastic action....
Hell of a Day
Character: Spacciatore
Gianni is a young criminal who is indebted to the nasty gang boss "Er Tajola". He must find a bunch of money by evening and he'll dive into absurd and dangerous situations....
L'agenzia dei bugiardi
Character: Maurizio
Fred works for a company that creates alibis for cheaters until Clio, the daughter of one of his client, falls in love with him....
Il pranzo della domenica
Character: Paolo
The life of Franca Malorni, exponent of the good bourgeoisie of the capital, suddenly changes when her husband dies suddenly. The woman begins to pour her attention on the three daughters, obliging them to have a Sunday lunch with their families....
Welcome Back Mr. President
Character: Teodoro Guerriero
Peppino, a provincial librarian who became the accidental President of Italy, is now a father and has returned to a peaceful, happy life as a woodsman. That is, until his wife Janis decides to return to politics. Peppino is forced to abandon his home in the mountains and return to Rome to win back his love and help her defeat a speculative plot intended to damage Italy. Together, they must fight against social media attacks of the opposition and get the country back on its feet....
Appena un minuto
Character: Ascanio
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Parents in Progress
Character: Aldo
Simona is a single mother in her early ‘40s who is wholly devoted to her son, Filippo. To get over her insecurities as a parent and make her son happy on his eighth birthday, she decides to throw him a birthday party in their small flat and invite over his school friends and their parents. For Simona, this birthday is about to pose quite the surprising dilemma between allowing her son to embrace his true self and a mother’s fierce desire to protect her child from their potentially cruel surround...
Kidz
Character: Il padre con mlolti figli
Sara and Nicola are married and in love. Their lives seem to be perfect: they have an angelic six-year-old daughter, thriving careers and a stable marriage. The birth of their second child, which disrupts the family balance, leads to tragicomic scenarios....
The Land of Dreams
Character: Vincent
The love story of Eva, a young immigrant who has always dreamed of becoming a singer but works as a dishwasher, and Armie, a very skilled pianist with a fervent imagination. Both will discover that fantasy, dream and life can instead mix and become the recipe for happiness. The background is New York after the Great War and before the Great Depression, in an era of music, hopes and great changes....
Help! My In-Laws Are Vampires!
Character: Zio Nanni
A loving young couple discover they're expecting a child, but the man isn't too keen on introducing her girlfriend to his family. Is it because he has a vampire father, a witch mother, a ghostly grandma, and a zombie uncle?...
Heartless
Character: News Anchorman
After a robbery gone awry, a young man breaks into an apartment and takes a wheelchair bound girl hostage....
School of Mafia
Character:
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Sangue e cemento
Character: Self - Presenter
One year after the earthquake that devastated Abruzzo, Sangue e Cemento retraces recent causes and remote responsibilities of those who built poorly to save on materials and techniques, of those who had to control but did not, of the administrators who favored speculation at the expense of the safety of citizens, who paid a price of 299 victims. Interviews and testimonies to seismologists, geologists, territorial and construction technicians, lawyers and judges enrich this film-document that was...
La bambina che non voleva cantare
Character:
Film inspired by the career of the Italian singer Nada....
Mollo tutto e apro un chiringuito
Character: Brusini
Mr. Imbruttito, a leading executive of a large multinational, lives the routine in his hectic Milan. Breaking this balance is Brusini, an eccentric entrepreneur at the head of an economic empire, who for an absurd reason blows up what for the Brutito is the business of life. For the first time, the Ugly one feels the pinch, falls into depression, can no longer find a reason to wake up in the morning. The turning point comes from Brera, a longtime friend, who proposes to the Bruttito the purchase...
Takeaway
Character: Padre
A racewalking athlete Maria runs a petrol station with a takeaway shop in a desolate mountain village, she is almost 30 years old, she may have little chance to fulfill her lifelong dream of success but at what cost?...
Nicholas’ Gift
Character: Hospital Interpreter
Fact based drama about an American couple on vacation in Italy in 1994 with their two children who are attacked and shot by highway bandits. Shortly they discover that their son is brain dead. The parents are then faced with the hard decision to donate the boy's organs which ultimately led to saving the lives of seven seriously ill Italian patients....
Trafficante di virus
Character: Sandro
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All Star - Ritorno al cinema
Character: Inserviente al bar
A short movie about coming back to the cinema after lockdowns....