Gianni Di Gregorio Explained

Gianni Di Gregorio
Birth Place:	Rome, Italy
Occupation:	Director Screenwriter

Gianni Di Gregorio (born 19 February 1949) is an Italian director, screenwriter and actor.

Life and career

Born in Rome, Di Gregorio trained as a stage actor and director in the Drama School of Alessandro Fersen. He started his professional career as a screenwriter in the second half of the 1980s.^[1]

In the 1990s Di Gregorio started collaborating with Matteo Garrone as a screenwriter, an actor and an assistant director, their most famous work being the 2008 award-winning film Gomorrah. He made his directorial debut in 2008, with the critically acclaimed Mid-August Lunch, which he also wrote and starred in; he followed that up with other films in the same vein.^[2]

Filmography

• Giovanni Senzapensieri (1986, co-writer)
• Sembra morto... ma è solo svenuto (1986, co-writer)
• Stazione di servizio (1989, co-writer, 2 episodes)
• Affetti speciali (1989, co-writer)
• Naufraghi sotto costa (1991, co-writer)
• Ospiti (1998, actor as Giacomo)
• Estate romana (2000, actor as Lodeger)
• Viva la scimmia (2002, co-writer)
• Gomorrah (2008, co-writer)
• Mid-August Lunch (2008, director and co-writer)
• The Salt of Life (2011, director and co-writer)
• Good for Nothing (2014, director and co-writer)
• Citizens of the World (2019, director and co-writer)
• Astolfo (2022, director and co-writer)

Notes and References

1. News: Fabio Secchi Frau. Gianni Di Gregorio: Gianni e il cinema. MyMovies. 11 September 2015.
2. News: Wally Hammond. Gianni Di Gregorio: interview. 14 May 2016. Time Out.