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Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1972-12-15

Place of Birth

Rome, Italy

Andrea Di Stefano

Biography

Andrea Di Stefano (born 15 December 1972) is an Italian actor. Born in Rome, he moved to New York City to study acting at the Actor's Studio. In the U.S. he played in Smile, an independent movie directed by Andrew Hunt. He played the leading role in the 1997 film Il principe di Homburg directed by Marco Bellocchio and entered into the 1997 Cannes Film Festival. He has played in films such as Il fantasma dell'opera by Dario Argento, Almost blue by Alex Infascelli, and Angela by Roberta Torre. Lately he played the role of Giancarlo in the movie Cuore Sacro directed by Ferzan Özpetek. Andrea Di Stefano has also appeared in many TV episodes. In 1999 with the role of Fabrizio Canepa in Ama il tuo nemico by Damiano Damiani. In 2006 he played in the TV movie I colori della gioventù directed by Gianluigi Calderone and in the most recent Medicina generale broadcast in the spring 2007 in which he played Giacomo Pogliani, a talented doctor in a big Roman hospital.

Known for

Life of Pi

Life of Pi

The story of an Indian boy named Pi, a zookeeper's son who finds himself in the company of a hyena, zebra, orangutan, and a Bengal tiger after a shipwreck sets them adrift in the Pacific Ocean.

In the Hand of Dante

In the Hand of Dante

A Vatican priest discovers Dante's original Divine Comedy manuscript. When asked to authenticate it, writer Nick Tosches steals it, while a parallel story follows Dante's quest to create his masterpiece.

Eat Pray Love

Eat Pray Love

A married woman realizes how unhappy her marriage really is, and that her life needs to go in a different direction. After a painful divorce, she takes off on a round-the-world journey to "find herself".

I Hate Christmas

I Hate Christmas

A nurse who is happily single the rest of the year is sick of being shamed for being alone at the holidays, so vows on December 1 to find someone to take home for Christmas.

Nine

Nine

Arrogant, self-centered movie director Guido Contini finds himself struggling to find meaning, purpose, and a script for his latest film endeavor. With only a week left before shooting begins, he desperately searches for answers and inspiration from his wife, his mistress, his muse, and his mother.

Don't Look Back

Don't Look Back

Panic attacks and memory loss signal the plight of a writer whose body is inexplicably being taken over by another woman.

Before Night Falls

Before Night Falls

Spanning several decades, this powerful biopic offers a glimpse into the life of famed Cuban poet and novelist Reinaldo Arenas, an artist who was vilified for his homosexuality in Fidel Castro's Cuba.

The Phantom of the Opera

The Phantom of the Opera

A series of terrifying accidents and brutal murders leave a bloody trail into the subterranean caverns of an Opera house. Below the theatre stalks a man raised by creatures of the underworld.

Ama il tuo nemico

Ama il tuo nemico

At War for Love

At War for Love

It's 1943 and World War II is raging in Europe. In New York, Arturo and Flora the daughter of a restaurant owner are in love, but she is promised in marriage to the son of a Mafia boss. There is a way around this, but to be able to marry Flora, Arturo needs to get permission from her father, who lives in a village in Sicily. Arturo doesn't have any money, so the only way he can get to Sicily is to enlist in the U.S. Army, which is preparing for a landing on the island.

The colors of Youth

The colors of Youth

A biopic about the life of Umberto Boccioni, an italian futurist painter (1882-1916).

A luci spente

A luci spente

Vendetta

Vendetta

Based on a true story, Vendetta tells the shocking and tragic story of a group of Sicilian immigrants working on the New Orleans docks in the 1890's. After the Chief of Police was brutally murdered, much of the city's Sicilian population was rounded up and brought in for questioning. Eventually, thirteen were formally tried for murder and nine went to trial, and while they were acquitted, a series of brutal lynchings showed they had as much to fear from the city's general populace as they did from the corrupt police force.

Contronatura

Contronatura

"Contronatura" could be described a bit too simply as a romance between a rural woodsman and a suburban pharmacist's wife playing out the struggle between civilization and nature.

Hotel

Hotel

A sex worker, a hired killer, and a movie crew cross paths in a Venice hotel where human meat is on the menu.