Draft:Fabio Grossi (actor)

Fabio Grossi (born 29 January 1958 in Rome) is an Italian actor, playwright and director.

Biography
Since 1980 he has been the partner of the actor Leo Gullotta, who subsequently married.

Cinema
Born in Rome, he made his film debut in 1981 in the film Mia moglie torna a scuola, and subsequently took part in numerous sexy comedy films including cult films I fichissimi by Carlo Vanzina, W la foca, Pierino colpisce ancora, I carabbimatti, The Honorable with the Lover under the Bed, for which he was directed by the major directors of the genre such as Mariano Laurenti, Nando Cicero, Giorgio Capitani, Giuliano Carnimeo and Marino Girolami.

In 1988 he starred in Scugnizzi by Nanni Loy, later dedicating himself to a more involved cinema in films such as Vajont, Facts of the Magliana gang and The family friend by Paolo Sorrentino.

In 2014 he participated in Sebastiano Riso's film Darker than Midnight, present at the Cannes Film Festival in the Semaine de la Critique section.

Television
In the eighties he took part in numerous television programs, working, among others, with Romolo Siena, Giancarlo Nicotra, Nanni Loy and Renzo Arbore.

He made his debut in 1980 with Giancarlo Nicotra in the program Black Out, continuing with Signori si parte, Happy Circus, What are you doing... laughing?, Under the stars, Crazy Boat, Candid Camera Show and many others.

He was also very active in fiction: he worked in The girls from the Spanish Steps, Doctor Giò, Jobs 2, The Taxi Driver and in some TV films such as The Treasure of Damascus, Game of Mirrors, God Made Us Free.

In the 2002/2003 television season he participated in the eighty-third episode of The team, for Rai 3, and as a regular character in the role of Tancredi from the TV series Rai 2 Cinecittà, directed by Alberto Manni.

In 2004, directed by Carlo Vanzina, he starred in the television series Un ciclone in famiglia.

In 2005 he took part in the production of the Spanish television network Antena 3 Los Borgia (the Borgias), directed by Antonio Hernández, playing the role of Cardinal Riario, also distributed in cinemas.

In 2008 he starred in the Canale 5 TV film 'O professore, directed by Maurizio Zaccaro, in which he plays the role of Professor Picone.

Theater
He began acting as a young man, taking private lessons. In 1977 he made his theater debut with Man, the Beast and Virtue, directed by Edmo Fenoglio, with whom he also worked in The Pills of Hercules in 1978.

In 1979 he was directed by Luca Ronconi in The Blue Bird and, in the following two decades, he took part in numerous shows as an actor: I'll wait for you tonight, Le prix Martin, Splendours and miseries of dressing room number 1, Pamela, Old variety script, Beautiful Misery, War, Three Poisons Remix, Peace, Vaudeville, Mr. Popkin, directed by directors such as Virginio Puecher, Beppe Navello and many others.

In 1997 he starred in Hamlet directed by Alberto Di Stasio, and in Edipo re, for the same director.

In the 2003/2004 season, he participated in the show Chatter and Blood – the facts of the Magliana band, directed by Daniele Costantini, in the role of er Palletta, a theatrical work which inspired the making of the film Fatti della banda della Magliana.

In the 2007 season he acted at the Teatro Globe in Rome, directed by Riccardo Cavallo, playing the role of Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare.

Theater direction
In the early 2000s he began to concentrate more on his work as a director and playwright. His first literary production was a passion play, entitled Ecce Homo, built on an Umbrian laude from the 1200s.

In 2000 in Rome, he wrote and directed for the Piccolo Eliseo, a show on the Sophoclean tragedy of Oedipus and Jocasta entitled Son of a widowed mother.

In June 2003 he staged the show Lapilli – Sounds and voices from the island, starring Leo Gullotta, together with the musical ensemble Al Qantarah.

In the summer of 2004 he oversaw the staging of Giuseppe Manfridi's theater show Prima dellawar, of which he was the creator of the multimedia project of the same name, which debuted in the archaeological site of the Polo Museum of Trajan's Markets. In the autumn of the same year he curated Gadda 70 years later in Abruzzo, an evening show inspired by the entire literary work of Carlo Emilio Gadda, with Leo Gullotta accompanied by the maestro Luis Bacalov.

For the 2005/2006 theater season he directed Man, the Beast and Virtue by Luigi Pirandello, with Leo Gullotta for the Teatro Eliseo.

In the 2008 season of the Globe Theater of Villa Borghese, under the artistic direction of Gigi Proietti, he directed Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors, and in the same year, The pleasure of honesty by Luigi Pirandello, season opening show at the Eliseo Theatre, starring again Leo Gullotta: in the 2009/2010 season, the show was on tour throughout Italy.

For the summer of 2009 he created Minnazza, a journey into Sicilian literature, starring Leo Gullotta and an ensemble of three master accordionists on stage.

In March 2010 he wrote and directed Papageno and the Magic Flute, a personal reinterpretation of the work by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

In the summer of 2010 he directed William Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor, which saw Leo Gullotta in the role of Falstaff, a show which received numerous awards and commercial success. In 2012, produced with the Teatro Stabile di Catania, he directed A Midsummer Night's Dream with Leo Gullotta.

For the 2013/2014 season he staged, at the Eliseo Theatre, Prima del silence by Giuseppe Patroni Griffi and The enigma of love, a monographic show on Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, for which he oversaw, in addition to directing, also the dramaturgy together with Saverio Aversa.

In the same year he directed the documentary A dream in Sicily, which addresses the youth artistic and employment situation in the region.

Filmography

 * Mia moglie torna a scuola, directed by Giuliano Carnimeo (1981)
 * L'onorevole con l'amante sotto il letto, directed by Mariano Laurenti (1981)
 * Pierino contro tutti, directed by Marino Girolami (1981)
 * I fichissimi, directed by Carlo Vanzina (1981)
 * Teste di quoio, directed by Giorgio Capitani (1981)
 * I carabbimatti, directed by Giuliano Carnimeo (1981)
 * W la foca, directed by Nando Cicero (1982)
 * Scugnizzi, directed by Nanni Loy (1989)
 * S.P.Q.R. - 2000 e ½ anni fa, directed by Carlo Vanzina (1994)
 * Una donna in fuga, directed by Roberto Rocco (1996)
 * Il segreto del giaguaro, directed by Antonello Fassari (2000)
 * Vajont, directed by Renzo Martinelli (2001)
 * Fatti della banda della Magliana, directed by Daniele Costantini (2004)
 * L'amico di famiglia, directed by Paolo Sorrentino (2006)
 * Los Borgia, directed by Antonio Hernández (2006)
 * Più buio di mezzanotte, directed bySebastiano Riso (2014)

Television

 * '' Happy Circus (1982)
 * Le ragazze di piazza di Spagna, directed by José María Sánchez - tv series (1997)
 * La dottoressa Giò, directed by Filippo De Luigi - tv series (1997-1998)
 * Dio ci ha creato gratis, directed by Angelo Antonucci - tv series (1998)
 * S.P.Q.R., directed by Claudio Risi - sit-com (1998)
 * Il tesoro di Damasco, directed by José María Sánchez - film TV (1998)
 * Gioco di specchi, directed by José María Sánchez - film TV (2000)
 * Commesse 2, directed by José María Sánchez - tv series (2001-2002)
 * La squadra, directed by José María Sánchez - tv series (2003)
 * Cinecittà, directed by Alberto Manni - tv series (2003)
 * La tassista, rdirected by José María Sánchez - tv series (2004)
 * Un ciclone in famiglia, directed by Carlo Vanzina - tv series (2005)
 * La stagione dei delitti, directed by Daniele Costantini - tv series (2007)
 * 'O professore, directed by Maurizio Zaccaro - tv series (2008)

Dubbing

 * Cookie the Ogre in Shrek Forever After
 * Donovan Scott in Police Academy