Biography of Luca Argentero

By the general public to the big screen

April 12, 1978 Luca Argentero was born in Turin on April 12, 1978 and grew up in Moncalieri. After high school he worked as a barman in a night club to keep his studies at the University, where in 2004 he obtained a degree in economics. The notoriety comes through participation in 2003 in the third edition of big brother, very popular reality show broadcast on Channel 5, whose casting had been proposed to her cousin showgirl Alessia Ventura. After the experience of big brother trying to ride the wave of Fame until you can: join as a guest as many broadcasts you can up to pose for a calendar: monthly Max that guesses first that Luca Argentero can become a sex symbol. He studied acting with determination and try your movie career: in 2005 she debuted then as an actor in tv series "Carabinieri", in which he plays, from IV to VI season, the role of Marco Tosi. In 2006 is the protagonist of the short film "the fourth sex". Also in 2006 comes a great opportunity to make his debut on the big screen: the film is "A casa nostra", directed by Francesca Comencini. The talent looks promising and in 2007 we find Luke Argentero film Saturno contro ", directed by bravo Ferzan Ozpetek. The convincing interpretation of the role of a homosexual boy earned him the Diamond Cinema Award for best supporting actor. We see him again in "Lezioni di cioccolato", directed by Claudio Cupellini, alongside Violante Placido. Appear on Rai Uno with the miniseries "La baronessa di Carini" (directed by Umberto Marino), where Luke is starring alongside Vittoria Puccini. In 2008 he was offered the lead role for a movie on the big screen, "just a dad" directed by Luca Lucini, Diane Fleri, Fabio Troiano and Claudia Pandolfi. Trona in theaters the following year with the film "different from who?" (2009), directed by Umberto Carteni, where returns to play the role of a homosexual, Piero, contended in a love triangle composed by his fellow Oar (Filippo Nigro) and Adele (Claudia Gerini). Now Luca Argentero is serious and does not have to prove anything anymore, so much so that his interpretation is the first nomination for Academy Awards as best actor. At the end of July of 2009 bride Myriam Catania, actress and voice actress, with whom he lives already for five years. In September 2009 released "the big dream", directed by Michele Placido, where Luke plays the role of a worker of Fiat of Turin. It is also starring in "just married" (with Moran Atias and Michele Placido), a play written by Fausto Brizzi and directed by Luca Lucini where Luke plays the role of a policeman next to the marriage with the daughter of a Puglia Indian Ambassador. Reads then in "La donna della mia vita" (by Luca Lucini, 2010) and "eat pray love" (by Ryan Murphy, 2010, starring Julia Roberts, James Franco, Javier Bardem). In 2011 is the protagonist of fiction Rai "the Boxer and the Miss," which chronicles the life of Tiberio Mitri (by Luca interpreted) and wife Fulvia Franco.