ENRICO IANNIELLO

Profession: Actor

Gender: Man

Biography

After training at Vittorio Gassman's Bottega Teatrale in Florence, he worked in the theatre under the direction of Leo de Berardinis (100 actors), Federico Tiezzi (Adelchi and Il Paradiso), Andrea Renzi (Rosencrantz and Guildernstern are dead, Pinocchio, Betrayal, Magic People Show, Santa Maria d'America) and Toni Servillo (Misanthrope, Truffle, Saturday, Sunday and Monday). He has translated, from Castilian and Catalan, theatrical texts that have been successfully staged in Italy, including Jordi Galceran's The Grönholm Method and Pau Mirò's award-winning Chiòve and Players. He has also staged, in Italy and Spain, texts by Giuseppe Montesano (Magic People Show and Eternapoli) and continues to conduct a work of staging and comparison between Iberian and Italian dramaturgy. In the cinema, he starred in HabemusPapam and Mia Madre, by Nanni Moretti, and directed and starred in the TV film Players, based on the play of the same name, produced by Rai Fiction, Teatri Uniti and CPTV Rai of Naples, aired on Rai3. On television he has taken part in numerous projects, including the miniseries La vita che corre, I 57 giorni, Caruso, Studio Uno, and the long series Un passo dal Cielo 1,2,3 (where he plays Inspector Vincenzo Nappi) and Come fai sbagli, in the role of Paolo Piccardo. In 2015 his first novel, "The Prodigious Life of Isidoro Sifflotin", was published by Feltrinelli, winner of the Campiello Opera Prima, John Fante Opera Prima, Selezione Bancarella, Selezione Berto Opera Prima, Edoardo Kihlgren Opera Prima, a novel sold in Germany, Brazil, Serbia and South Korea.