Actor, director, and now also producer, husband of actress Luisa Ranieri known on the set of the tv movie Cefalonia, father of two girls (Emma and Bianca). It is with them that Luca Zingaretti, one of the most loved and popular artists on the Italian scene, will celebrate his 60th birthday on 11 November. His career includes a roundup of different roles, with a character who identified him for 21 years in the eyes of the general public, ‘Il commissario Montalbano’.
Always divided between TV, cinema and theater, Luca Zingaretti has shown many faces, from the traitor father, passing through the fraudulent lawyer and the drug dealer, to Father Pino Puglisi, or Perlasca, up to the criminal lawyer and entrepreneur Olivetti . He has finished shooting for Sky of the series “Il Re” (broadcast in 2022), eight episodes in which he is the director of a prison, Bruno Testori, in dark shades with an overbearing dark side. We will hear the beautiful voice of Zingaretti in the hall from November 24 in the new animated film Encanto, by Walt Disney, by Jared Bush and Byron Howard: it is Bruno, Mirabel’s uncle with the gift of foreseeing the future. Asked several times about the possibility that he will return to take on the role of Montalbano (at the moment the very successful series, which after 20 years continues to play in reruns and rejoinders, does not appear in the schedules and there are no traces of a set under construction), of which among other things, he directed the last episodes, after the death of Andrea Camilleri and the historical director Sironi, he always replied more or less in a similar way, “it was a wonderful professional and human adventure”, expressing uncertainty about the continuation of the adventure because of the many goodbyes that have followed one another over the last few years and that have studded the TV series with mourning. Luca Zingaretti’s first film roles arrive at the turn of the Eighties and Nineties, among others Giuliano Montaldo’s Golden Glasses, Marco Risi’s The Pack and Ricky Tognazzi’s Strangled Lives. On TV in 1997 he played the mafia boss Pietro Favignana in Giacomo Battiato’s miniseries La piovra 8 – The scandal, but it was in 1999 that, playing the role of Salvo Montalbano – the Vigata commissioner created by the writer Andrea Camilleri – he obtained great popularity, in Italy and abroad. With his sense of justice and his human piety, this commissioner has immersed himself in pain since 1999, putting things in order without accepting comfortable truths. And the ratings will be mind-boggling: an example for everyone, The carousel of exchanges (2018) collected 11 million 386 thousand spectators (45.1%).
At the end of the nineties he was in the cast of the films Tu ridi by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani and The anniversary of Mario Orfini, with the nominations for the 1999 Silver Ribbons (as supporting actor) and 2000 (as best actor) . In the same year he also made his debut as a director in the documentary Gulu. Subsequently Zingaretti continues to divide successfully between small and large screen. At the cinema he takes part in Texas 46 by Giorgio Serafini, First give me a kiss by Ambrogio Lo Giudice, The days of abandonment by Roberto Faenza, In our house by Francesca Comencini, My brother is the only child of Daniele Luchetti and Sanguepazzo by Marco Tullio Giordana .
In 2010 he won his first Silver Ribbon as Best Supporting Actor thanks to the roles in Our Life by Luchetti and The Youngest Son by Pupi Avati. Starting from 2011, among other roles he plays in La Kryptonite in the bag by Cotroneo, Novel of a massacre by Marco Tullio Giordana, Les vacances du petit Nicolas by Laurent Tirard, Perez by Edoardo De Angelis (a role particularly dear to Zingaretti), Il Vegetale by Gennaro Nunziante and The Incredible Story of Sydney Sibilla’s Isle of Roses.
In his career there is no shortage of biopics: from Pietro Nenni in the miniseries The young Mussolini, Giorgio Perlasca in An Italian hero, Paolo Borsellino in The 57 days and Adriano Olivetti in The strength of a dream. At the cinema, on the other hand, he gave his face to Don Pino Puglisi in In the light of the sun of Faenza, which earned him an award at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival and a 2005 David di Donatello nomination (for best actor). In 2018 to commemorate the anniversary of one of the most crucial events in contemporary Italian history, the Moro kidnapping, Zingaretti brought the civil prayer “55 Days. Italy without Moro” to Rai1.
The theater has always accompanied his professional career which sees him engaged in the dual role of actor and director and after concluding the tour of La Torre IVORY in 2013, he returns to confirm in 2015 the sold out throughout Italy with the show. The Pride. In the 2018/2019 season and in 2020 he is engaged as director for the show The Deep Blue Sea. Between 2020 and 2021 the last three episodes of “Montalbano” are broadcast, of which Luca Zingaretti is not only the protagonist, but also the director.
.
Source From: Ansa
I have been working in the news industry for over 10 years now and I have worked for some of the biggest news websites in the world. My focus has always been on entertainment news, but I also cover a range of other topics. I am currently an author at Global happenings and I love writing about all things pop-culture related.
