Raoul Bova
Birthday: Born in 1971-08-14 in Roma
Deathday: Alive
Raoul Bova (born 14 August 1971) is an Italian actor. Bova was born in Rome to Calabrian parents. At the age of 16 he became a local champion in the 100 meter backstroke. At the age of 21 he joined the Italian Army and performed his military duty in the Bersaglieri (sharpshooters) corps. He enrolled in the ISEF, the Italian Institute of Physical Education, but dropped out to pursue a career in acting. He studied at the school Beatrice Bracco in Rome and also studied acting with Michael Margotta. In March 2000, he married Chiara Giordano. They have three children, Alessandro Leon, Francesco and Sophia. On 15 October 2010, Raoul Bova was nominated Goodwill Ambassador of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). Description above from the Wikipedia article Raoul Bova, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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Domenica In
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The Company
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Buongiorno, mamma!
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Ultimo
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Fuoco Amico
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Attacco allo Stato
Character: Diego Marra
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Nassiryia - Per non dimenticare
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Festival di Sanremo
Character: Self - Special Guest
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Felicissima Sera
Character: Self
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Celebrity Hunted: Caccia all'uomo
Character: Self
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What About Brian
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Emily in Paris
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When ambitious Chicago marketing exec Emily unexpectedly lands her dream job in Paris, she embraces a new life as she juggles work, friends and romance....
La Piovra
Character: Vice commissario Gianni Breda
An epic crime saga of power, money, violence and corruption. The mafia controls everything through local and international networks like an octopus, and anyone who tries to bring them down pays the ultimate price....
Belve
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Don Matteo
Character: Don Massimo
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AVP: Alien vs. Predator
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When scientists discover something near Antarctica that appears to be a buried Pyramid, they send a research team out to investigate. Little do they know that they are about to step into a hunting ground where Aliens are grown as sport for the Predator race....
Under the Tuscan Sun
Character: Marcello
After a rough divorce, Frances, a 35-year-old professor and writer from San Francisco takes a tour of Tuscany at the urgings of her friends. On a whim she buys Bramasole, a run down villa in the Tuscan countryside and begins to piece her life together starting with the villa and finds that life sometimes has unexpected ways of giving her everything she wanted....
Sbirri
Character: Matteo Gatti
"Sbirri", Italian slang for the police, is the story of a well-known TV journalist who after the death of his son through ecstasy, decides to follow the drug squad in their fight against drug trafficking in Milan. The film takes us on his "real" journey in the world of drugs and his desperate search to find a valid reason, someone to blame for his son's pointless death and at the same time, for his sense of inadequacy as a parent. It's a journey in this incredible underworld where people from al...
Baaria
Character: giornalista romano
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Avenging Angelo
Character: Marcello/Gianni Carboni
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Sorry if I Love You
Character: Alessandro 'Alex' Belli
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Sorry if I Want to Marry You
Character: Alessandro 'Alex' Belli
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Carlo Vanzina - Il cinema è una cosa meravigliosa
Character: Self
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Milan – Palermo: The Return
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Palermo – Milan One Way
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Facing Windows
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La lupa
Character: Nanni
She was tall, dark and thin, with a proud and voluptuous bust. They called her "The she-wolf" because she seemed never to be satisfied. All the men were obsessed with her but one day the she-wolf fell madly in love with young Nanni....
Knights of the Quest
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Aspettando il sole
Character: Enea Chersi
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Ti stramo - Ho voglia di un'ultima notte da manuale prima di tre baci sopra il cielo
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Friedberg/Seltzer-like spoof about popular Italian teen romance movies of the aughts (such as Tre metri sopra il cielo, Come tu mi vuoi, Ho voglia di te, Notte prima degli esami, Melissa P., etc)....
La bella società
Character: Romolo
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Still Fabulous
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Our Life
Character: Piero
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Pretty Princess
Character: Marco
A princess from a Nordic European country is obligated to marry the boy her family chose. She escapes and discovers love in the arms of a beautiful swimming teacher....
Treasure Guards
Character: Angelo
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The Immature
Character: Giorgio
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The Immature: The Trip
Character: Giorgio
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Meet My Friend
Character: Marco
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Escort in Love
Character: Giulio
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I, the Other
Character: Giuseppe
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Viva l'Italia
Character: Riccardo Spagnolo
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The Nymph
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Terra bruciata
Character: Francesco Loreano / Tom Grasso
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Out of the Blue
Character: Andrea Manfredini
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Killer Couple
Character: Dario
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Rewind
Character: Paul Mansart
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Francesca and Nunziata
Character: Federico Montorsi
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Indovina chi viene a Natale?
Character: Francesco
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Ancora un'altra storia
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Political Target
Character: Diego Marra
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Il testimone
Character: Marco Basile
Italian thriller...
Capitano Ultimo - Le ali del falco
Character: himself
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Quando eravamo repressi
Character: (non accreditato)
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Unique Brothers
Character: Pietro
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Do You See Me?
Character: Francesco
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The Fourth King
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All Roads Lead to Rome
Character: Luca
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Ever Been to the Moon?
Character: Renzo
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Cominciò tutto per caso
Character: Romolo
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The Choice
Character: Giorgio
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Torno indietro e cambio vita
Character: Marco Damiani
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Come un delfino
Character: Alessandro Dominici
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The Tourist
Character: Conte Filippo Gaggia
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Madame De...
Character: Vittorio
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La fiamma sul ghiaccio
Character: Fabrizio
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Francesco
Character: Francesco
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Crazy Underwear
Character: Rocco
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Stasera lo faccio!
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Il Sindaco
Character: Rafiluccio Santaniello
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Karol: The Pope, The Man
Character: Padre Thomas
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Karol: A Man Who Became Pope
Character: padre Tomasz Zaleski
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In love with an angel
Character: Claudio
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Calabria, terra mia
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The Christmas Show
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Jan Paweł II: Szukałem Was...
Character: Self
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La frontiera
Character: Emidio Orlich
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Ultima gara
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Io sono un po' matto... e tu?
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