Biography of Luca Barbareschi

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July 28, 1956 Luca Barbareschi was born in Montevideo, capital of Uruguay, on 28 July 1956. His intense and lasting public activity ranges from film, theater, television, and in recent years, politics. In fact, 2008 was elected in the lists of the Pdl, and entered Parliament as a Deputy. Baba spent his childhood and most of his teenage years in Milan, where he attended one of the most important and prestigious private schools in the city, the Istituto Leone XIII, reaching school diploma. In these years, the little Luke is victim of severe and repeated episodes of sexual abuse by a teacher. Only after many years, he decided to go public with this painful affair and on 19 April 2007 creates the "Luca Barbareschi Foundation", a non-profit association that aims to protect children victims of child abuse. Also from Parliament, it should be added, it is proposed in the field of child abuse, with targeted interventions and legislative proposals. Beyond politics, arrived only recently, Luca Barbareschi begins from his brilliant career as a showman. In the years ' 70, little more than twenty years old, he took his first steps to studying Fersen in Rome, where he studied acting. A few years later, however, is located in Verona, where he begins to face the stage in a more visceral, alongside well-known theater director Virginio Puecher, so does your assistant. These are the years of production of Henry V and are of great importance to Baba which, artisticamente, binds to Puecher, and decides to follow him even after, stateside. The activity of Assistant Director leads him to Chicago, where Puecher must work at the opera "the tales of Hoffman", by Offenbach. He collaborated with the Chicago Lyric Opera Theatre for three theatre productions such as first aid, then chose to move to New York. The experience in the "Big Apple" is very formative for Baba who, for four years, he studied Theater in tow of the best acting couches of those years: Lee Strasberg, Nicholas Ray (the Director of "rebel") and Stella Adler. In addition, she took part for a year or so, to the Metropolitan Opera Theatre productions directed by Frank Corsaro. In 1983 Baba puts his signature on the movie "Summertime", directed by Mazzucco, overseeing the screenplay and playing a role. The film gets awards at Venice Film festival, Sydney, London, Annecy and Nice. Also in 1983, plays the lead role in the film by Nino Marino, "an American man," another movie that gets a good success with critics and audiences. Also in Rome, now his hometown, Luca Barbareschi is being done in the world of cinema and television. Her film debut in the Italian camp takes place in 1979, under the direction of Director Umberto Lenzi. The movie is titled "Da Corleone a Brooklyn", and the cast there is also Mario Merola. After the film by Ruggero Deodato "Cannibal Holocaust" of 1980 and running some nudity, Luca Barbareschi gets the part of Lysander Gabriele Salvatores's film "a Midsummer night's dream", 1983, thanks to previous participation in the film "Hanna k." by Costa-Gravas, featuring alongside Gabriel Byrne. The following year, 1984, the most notorious filmmakers want his performances and Pupi Avati chose him to a part in the movie "Clerks". In 1986 the Director Carlo Vanzina's turn in "Montenapoleone" and directed by Dino Risi in "Teresa", next to Serena Grandi. Are very important years in the future, "chameleon", which also launches on the small screen. His television career began with the participation, in 1984, Four Network's show "Quo vadiz". The large television audience, however, knows him only in 1989 thanks to the famous tv show "c'eravamo tanto amati" (namesake of the famous film by Ettore Scola), Luke leads very successfully for five years. Within this five-year period, Baba has time to take part in a production of author, alongside the likes of Alberto Sordi, Nino Manfredi and Jacques Perrin. Is the movie "In the name of the sovereign people" by Luigi Magni. In 1991 then, back on tv, and leads the show musically themed "Sapore di mare". In recent years, however, the future Congressman also opens to other experiences, not all in the entertainment world. He founded a company in the computer industry, the Glamm Interactive, and together with Nichi Grauso, gives life to Online Video. Faces and also within production and creates the "Casanova Multimedia", which deals with the content and format for movies and television, including the miniseries "Zodiac" and "swing girls". He is creator and artistic director of the first two editions of the "Futurshow" of Bologna, who subsequently manages to attract a large number of interested parties in the city of Romagna, as well as media of all kinds. He founded Four Point Entertainment, another production company but based in Los Angeles, which is also a shareholder. On behalf of the California home, for all the years ' 90 produces and leads well one hundred and ten episodes of "That's amore", the hugely successful tv show. He also works for Fox in America and Think Entertainment in London. In 1994, in Italy, interprets and produces the film the "Delegation", but receives a more than modest welcome from the public and, above all, by the critics. Three years later, for the first time, facing in the direction and turns "Ardena", his first film. Even here, it doesn't get much success, like the "quick change", which also plays the title role and that was released in 2002, with a passage like the tv movie in 2011, but with little result. Meanwhile, Baba carves out the fame of "guastatore" on tv, with the program "the big bluff" in which he takes aim at successful transmission conductors staging fake characters that are intended to alienate the audience. In 2008 is candidate in Sardinia for the people of freedom, and was elected to Parliament. His first assignment is to transport, posts and Telecommunications Commission Vice President. Despite its stated commitment, in 2009 totals less than half the attendance at parliamentary sessions, becoming one of the main "protagonists" of criticisms on absenteeism of Italian parliamentarians. In addition, previously said to have sold its own company to dedicate himself to parliamentary activities, although some journalists States otherwise. During his political experience, it also drew from his party, when in May 2008 during a television broadcast Rai, is in favour of marriage and gay adoptions. In 2010 leaves the parliamentary group of the Pdl in the House and decides to follow Gianfranco Fini, who has just founded a new political party "future and Freedom". In February 2011, after just one week in the course of the first Congress of future and Freedom to leave and enter the mixed group. He was married to Patricia Fachini, with whom he had three daughters, and has been for years the companion of actress lahz.
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