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Nadia Lanfranconi is a singer-songwriter and actress born and raised in Lake Como, Italy, based in Los Angeles CA. Her diverse career spans across music and notable appearances in television and film, including roles in Showtime's "American Gigolo," the Netflix hit, Hollywood", and "Criminal Minds" to name a few. Nadia also shines in her native language on projects like the Fiat-sponsored "Neighbors" and "Entourage" special, "Ari Gold is Back," presented by Cadillac.- Luisella Boni was born on 24 July 1935 in Como, Lombardy, Italy. She is an actress, known for Land of the Pharaohs (1955), L'angelo delle Alpi (1957) and Pride and Prejudice (1957). She was previously married to Daniele D'Anza.
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After graduating from high school in 1998, he co-hosted some MTV Italy shows (Tokusho) and Radio DJ shows, along with fellow VJ Andrea Pezzi. In 1999, he co-hosted the MTV Italy program "Sushi", with VJ Andrea Pezzi. In the meantime, he studied at the University, planning on majoring in Psychology. He also hosted "Select", a 2-hour daily program. In 2000, after hosting "Select" in Gardaland (famous leisure park in Northern Italy), he co-hosted "Romalive" along with VJ Mao and "MTV Mad" along with VJs Biggio and Gip. Since 2001 he's brilliantly hosted "Videoclash", the live MTV Italy program in which the videos actually challenge one another and the audience at home chooses the winner. He also finds time for playing with his group, the "Orange". At the beginning, they were a cover band for Oasis, but now they've developed their own sound and style.- Stefano Casiraghi was born on 8 September 1960 in Como, Lombardy, Italy. He was married to Princess Caroline of Monaco. He died on 3 October 1990 in Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, Alpes-Maritimes, France.
- Nicola Pannelli was born on 26 May 1966 in Como, Lombardy, Italy. He is an actor, known for The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), The Invisible Witness (2018) and Thou Shalt Not Kill (2015).
- Luca Di Martino was born on 25 November 1986 in Como, Lombardy, Italy. He is an actor, known for Arte (2023), Vostro onore (2022) and Arthur (2015). He has been married to Milcah R. Marcelo since 30 September 2016.
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Cesare Ferrario was born on 27 September 1948 in Como, Italy. He is an actor and writer, known for The Monster of Florence (1986), La più bella del reame (1989) and La bella di Mosca (2001).- Angelo Rizzoli Jr. was born on 12 November 1943 in Como, Lombardy, Italy. He was a producer, known for The Stolen Children (1992), Open Doors (1990) and We Can Do That (2008). He was married to Melania De Nichilo and Eleonora Giorgi. He died on 12 December 2013 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.
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Micaela Giustiniani was born on 19 January 1929 in Bellagio, Como, Lombardy, Italy. She is an actress, known for Il nemico (1943), Occhio nero, occhio biondo e occhio felino (1983) and Mashamal - ritorno al deserto (1998).- Director
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Mattia Amadori was born on 27 September 1979 in Como, Lombardy, Italy. He is a director and actor, known for Buio (2004), Il mercante di sogni (2009) and Hai paura del buio? Il film (2014).- Giorgio Perlasca was born on 31 January 1910 in Como, Italy. He died on 15 August 1992 in Padova, Italy.
- Sidney Laen was a childhood stage name for Jon Luvelli an Italian-American Artist, street photographer, actor and writer best known for his black-and-white images depicting idiosyncrasies of people in rural areas. His work conveys social messages addressing economical and civil issues. He's noted for his macabre candid photography. He coined the title Fine Art Documentarian for photographers merging documentary and art photography. His work of rural life, social and environmental issues are exhibited and held in prominent museums, galleries, private collections and published worldwide.
Born in Italy to an Italian father and an African-American mother, Luvelli was adopted at 6 days old, moved to the USA to live with English parents on a small town farm. His mother was a College Professor and father a Land Developer. Sidney Laen was the name his adoptive mother gave him as a child actor and writer. Luvelli is now using his birth name Jon Luvelli and known to most as Luvelli .Luvelli is ambidextrous and could write with both hands in cursive before the 1st grade. Most of his childhood consisted of studying with the strict influence of his mother, but he loved what he studied and particularly loved archaeology. He was taken to see the King Tutankhamun Exhibition, which he says is what sparked his interest in the field. The theatrical side showed as he put together his own play for his family at age 8 instructing childhood friends to play specific characters of his creation. In grade school he performed and won several times for his speeches some created by Bill Cosby. "Noah's Ark", "The Big Nose", etc. He then found his love of writing which had kept him very private, not releasing anything for publishing but a few poems, mostly interested in the study of the mind and social behavior. Luvelli also has done voice overs, appeared in commercials, films, designed art for Warner Bros., Nike and many more. He has written songs for many artists as a ghost writer, and some for his own music career.
In 1998 Luvelli was diagnosed with L.L.I. Low Latent Inhibition. His art has always been private and behind the scenes as he wished. Spending most of his time working on writings as well as inventions. After the death of his mother in 2001, Luvelli suffered from severe panic attacks which kept him isolated and even more reclusive. In 2012 Luvelli stated he was opening up more to the public and started releasing private artwork as well as the long awaited book "One Block". He is also working on several film projects that will follow including the controversial documentary "The Transient Project" and musical album "Skitz". - Cosima Wagner was born on 25 November 1837 in Bellagio, Lombardy, Austrian Empire [now Como, Italy]. She was married to Richard Wagner and Hans von Bülow. She died on 1 April 1930 in Bayreuth, Bavaria, Germany.
- Luca Severini is an actor, was born in Como, Italy on July 29, 1999. Since childhood is fond of cinema, he loves acting, directing and writing. In fact, he made many shorts amateurs films and between these, he made two reboots of Cabin Fever. The first based on the movie of Eli Roth and the second based on that of Travis Zariwny. Jordan Ladd, Eli Roth and Travis Zariwny congratulated him and for this, Luca is increasingly eager to make films.
- Emanuele Vezzoli was born on 4 October 1958 in Como, Lombardy, Italy. He is an actor, known for Titus (1999), L'affare Bonnard (2010) and L'amor fuggente.
- Elisa Meneghini was born on 24 July 1997 in Como, Italy.
- Jeff Hockenheimer was born on 17 September 1952 in Como, Mississippi, USA. He is an actor, known for The Oldest Story Ever Told (2010), Cut Up (1994) and Lucinda's Spell (1998).
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Gil Baroni was born on 13 March 1937 in Rebbio [now Como], Lombardy, Italy. He was an actor, known for Life Is Beautiful (1997), La piovra (1984) and The Monster of Florence (1986). He died on 26 April 2020 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.- Script and Continuity Department
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Roberta Butti was born on 15 November 1975 in Como, Italy. She is known for Murder Mystery (2019), The King's Man (2021) and She Said (2022).- Actor
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Tommaso Matelli was born on 21 November 1985 in Como, Italy. He is an actor and producer, known for When in Rome (2010), How to Be Cute and Break Hearts (2014) and Come Home Raquel (2011).- Pliny the Younger was a magistrate of equestrian rank in the Roman empire under emperor Trajan. His claim to fame are his many letters which he wrote during his career. Most famously he wrote two accounts to Tacitus of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in the disaster that swallowed up Pompeii - making it the oldest eyewitness account of a volcano eruption. (His lengthy letter to Trajan on the new religion of Christianity only elicited a very short reply from the emperor though.)
- Arturo Merzario was born on 11 March 1943 in Civenna, Como, Italy.
- Gianluca Zambrotta was born on 19 February 1977 in Como, Italy. He has been married to Valentina Liguori since 2004. They have one child.
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He began his career in cinema as an assistant director in France. Upon returning to Italy, he directed together with Corrado D'Errico his first film, Freccia d'oro. Subsequently he directs other feature films of little interest. He is one of the few directors who adhere to the Italian Social Republic: in the autumn of 1943 he moved to Venice, where two film studios were hastily installed in those months. He is the director of Fatto di cronaca, the latest film starring Osvaldo Valenti and Luisa Ferida. After the war he resumed his activity as director and screenwriter. He was married to actress Milena Penovich.- Producer
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Anwar Maggi was born on 30 May 1975 in Como, Lombardy, Italy. He is a producer and actor, known for Tevenisse: Evidentemente (2019), Tevenisse: Energicamente (2018) and Tevenisse: Love Is All Online (2015).- Soundtrack
R.L. Boyce was born on 15 August 1955 in Como, Mississippi, USA. He died on 9 November 2023 in Como, Mississippi, USA.- Gianfranco Mauri was born in 1928 in Erba, Como, Lombardy, Italy. He was an actor, known for Il signor Rossi cerca la felicità (1976), I promessi sposi (1967) and Piccolo mondo antico (1983). He died on 17 December 2000 in Brescia, Lombardy, Italy.
- Massimo Bontempelli graduated from the University of Turin in 1903. He taught elementary school for seven years, doing his writing on the side, but abandoned teaching for journalism when he could not secure a position at a secondary school. He served as a war correspondent during World War I. After the war, he settled in Milan and became interested in the literary styles of futurism and magical realism. In 1926, he, along with Curzio Malaparte, founded the journal "900". James Joyce, Max Jacob, and Rainer Maria Rilke sat on the editorial committee. Virginia Woolf and Blaise Cendrars were among the contributors.
During the late 1920s and early 1930s, Bontempelli was an active fascist. He served as a secretary of the fascist writers' union and spent time abroad lecturing on Italian culture and spreading propaganda. In 1938, he refused to accept a university post formerly held by a Jewish professor and was expelled from the fascist party. After World War II, Bontempelli won a Senate race but the results were voided when his fascist ties were discovered. In 1953, Bontempelli's "L'amante Fedele" won the Strega Prize, Italy's most prestigious literary award. After years of declining health, Bontempelli died in Rome in 1960 - Raffaella Masciadri was born on 30 September 1980 in Como, Lombardy, Italy.
- Lightnin' Chance was born on 21 December 1925 in Como, Mississippi, USA. He was an actor, known for That Tennessee Beat (1966) and Living Proof: The Hank Williams, Jr. Story (1983). He died on 11 April 2005 in Madison, Tennessee, USA.
- Roberto Colombo was born on 18 July 1943 in Como, Lombardy, Italy. He is an actor, known for Cri Cri (1990) and The Legend of Snow White (1994).
- Emiliano Mascetti was born on 11 March 1943 in Como, Lombardy, Italy. He died on 6 April 2022 in Verona, Veneto, Italy.
- Carla Porta Musa was born on 15 March 1902 in Como, Italy. She died on 10 October 2012 in Como, Italy.
- Federico Roncoroni was born on 2 October 1944 in Como, Lombardy, Italy. Federico was a writer, known for The Pretor (2014). Federico died on 31 January 2021 in Como, Lombardy, Italy.
- Alessandro Sallusti was born on 2 February 1957 in Como, Lombardy, Italy. He is an actor, known for Servizio pubblico (2011), Io, Vittorio Feltri (2020) and Mani pulite (1997). He has been married to Patrizia Groppelli since 1 June 2023.
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Aldo Buzzi was born on 10 August 1910 in Como, Italy. He was an assistant director and writer, known for America pagana (1955), Love in the City (1953) and Giacomo l'idealista (1943). He died on 9 October 2009 in Milan, Italy.- Ian Britza was born on 7 May 1954 in Como, Perth, Western Australia, Australia. He has been married to Penny Kay Pearson since 12 July 2003. They have three children.
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Antonello Piroso was born on 7 December 1960 in Como, Lombardy, Italy. He is an actor and writer, known for Omnibus (2002), Unlikely Revolutionaries (2010) and Gole ruggenti (1992).- Martina Rizzelli was born on 24 March 1998 in Como, Italy.
- Mathilde Krim was born on 9 July 1926 in Como, Italy. She was married to Arthur Krim. She died on 15 January 2018 in Kings Point, New York, USA.
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Ludovico Peregrini was born on 27 June 1943 in Como, Lombardy, Italy. He is a writer, known for Il gran simpatico (1975), Il Quizzone (1994) and Tout doit disparaître (1997). He has been married to Monique since 1967. They have two children.- Director
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Alberto Anzani, writer actor and director was born in Como, Italy in 1973. He published a book of poems in Spanish "Nahual" 1994 in Guatemala and in Italy "Saudade" - travel's notes 1995. After an year with the United Nations in Mozambique, working at the Italian Embassy in Maputo, he published "Joia" 2002. In 2004 "Sul confine", a historical romance about the smuggling through the Alps mountains from the post-war until the seventies. In 2005 the book has been adapted for the Theatre, translated and published in English with the title "On the border". In 2006 with the noir "L'ambasciata chiude", he took part to lots of international prizes. After four editions (11 thousand copies sold) with Sax Editore the book Sul confine has been adapted for the movie and the screenplay enlisted the Solinas'prize for the cinema. In 2007 he directed his first movie "SUL CONFINE" that competed at Trento and Orobie in Italy, Bansko in Bulgaria and Katmandu in Nepal film festivals. In 2009 he directed and interpreted as actor the comedy "JOGO DUPLO" shot between Italy and Portugal. In 2010 he published "Doppio Gioco" and the Portuguese version of the book "Jogo Duplo". In 2016 the release of the docufilm "My friend TENZIN NORBU" shot in Nepal. He acted small roles in national and international production as "Murder Mystery", "Amici come prima" ,"Futura", the fiction "Made in Italy" and with many international brands in Television Advertisements as actor.- Amanda Fagiani was born on 26 November 1977 in Como, Lombardy, Italy. She is an actress, known for Twisted Path (2010).
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Argeo Quadri was born on 23 March 1911 in Como, Lombardy, Italy. He is known for Schwester Angelica (1959), Gianni Schicchi (1960) and Otello (1965). He died on 14 April 2004 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy.- Max Papis was born on 3 October 1969 in Como, Italy. He is an actor, known for Driven (2001), The Pretender (1996) and NASCAR on Speed (2003). He is married to Tatiana Papis. They have two children.
- Mary Lou Gravitt was born on 16 December 1937 in Lake Como, Florida, USA. Mary Lou was a producer, known for Miss Florida Teen USA 2013 (2012), Miss Florida Teen USA 2004 (2003) and Miss Florida USA 2004 (2003). Mary Lou was married to Grant H. Gravitt. Mary Lou died on 5 September 2023 in Miami, Florida, USA.
- Bernardo Malacrida was born on 5 December 1925 in Como, Lombardy, Italy. He was an actor, known for Madly in Love (1981), Sotto il ristorante cinese (1987) and Un eroe del nostro tempo (1982). He died on 16 June 2003 in Erba, Lombardy, Italy.
- Simone Tomassini was born on 11 May 1974 in Como, Lombardy, Italy.
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Jeremy Lia was born on June 28, 1998 in Como, Italy as Jeremy Carlos Lia, and raised in a small town near the Swiss border. He is a composer, visual effects artist and editor, known for Metamorfosi (2018), EGO (2016) and Il Formichiere (2016). Since 2018 he is studying Film Composition at Leeds College of Music in England.- Paolo Sesana was born on 17 June 1970 in Como, Lombardy, Italy. He is an actor, known for Baci Perugina: Operazione fai sciogliere il suo cuore (2019), Warcraft III: Reforged (2020) and Fontane di Roma (2020).