Carlo Buccirosso

{{Short description|Italian actor, theatre director, and playwright}}

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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1954|7|7|df=y}}

| birth_place = Naples, Italy

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| occupation = Actor, theatre director, playwright

| years_active = 1976–present

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Carlo Buccirosso (born 7 July 1954{{cite podcast|url=http://www.radio2.rai.it/dl/portaleRadio/media/ContentItem-0e4dce03-aff0-45b6-9182-77019478804f.html|title=Radio2 come voi|website=Rai.it|date=December 26, 2016|time=72:40|access-date=December 26, 2016|language=Italian}}) is an Italian actor, theatre director and playwright.{{cite web|url=http://www.foggiatoday.it/eventi/teatro/carlo-buccirosso-lucera-16-17-febbraio-2012-teatro-dell-opera.html|access-date=May 5, 2018|website=FoggiaToday|title=Napoletani a Broadway: Carlo Buccirosso in Lucera|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120609071245/http://www.foggiatoday.it/eventi/teatro/carlo-buccirosso-lucera-16-17-febbraio-2012-teatro-dell-opera.html|archivedate=June 9, 2012|language=Italian}}

As an actor, he's best known for his roles in comedy films, especially the ones by Vincenzo Salemme and Carlo Vanzina, in which he's often typecast as a stereotypical lower middle-class Neapolitan man. For his performance as corrupt politician Paolo Cirino Pomicino in Paolo Sorrentino's Il Divo (2008) he received critical praise and was nominated to David di Donatello for Best Supporting Actor.{{cite web|title=David di Donatello 2009: tutte le candidature|url=https://www.comingsoon.it/cinema/news/david-di-donatello-2009-tutte-le-candidature/n733/|accessdate=5 November 2015|work=Comingsoon.it|date=April 9, 2009|language=Italian}} Buccirosso also appeared in Sorrentino's The Great Beauty (2013) and in popular TV series Un ciclone in famiglia (2006—2008) as Peppino Esposito.

In 2014, he won the Nastro d'Argento for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in crime-comedy Song'e Napule (2013).{{cite news|last1=Arianna Finos|title=Nastri d'argento, trionfo di Virzì ma tanto spazio ai giovani|url=http://www.repubblica.it/spettacoli/cinema/2014/06/28/news/nastri_d_argento-90209323/|accessdate=5 November 2015|work=La Repubblica|date=June 29, 2014|language=Italian}} The following year, he won the David di Donatello for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in comedy The Legendary Giulia and Other Miracles (2015).{{cite web|title=Premi David di Donatello 2015: ecco tutti i vincitori|url=https://www.comingsoon.it/cinema/news/premi-david-di-donatello-2015-ecco-tutti-i-vincitori/n46979/|accessdate=5 November 2015|work=Comingsoon.it|date=June 12, 2015|language=Italian}}

Filmography

=Film=

class="wikitable sortable"
Year ! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" \| Notes
1989 \| L'ultima scena \| \|
1993 \| Daddy Don't Blush \| Brigadier Scarrafone \|
rowspan="2"\| 1998 \| My Best Friend's Wife \| Michelino Seta \|
Premiata pasticceria Bellavista \| Ermanno Bellavista \|
1999 \| Amore a prima vista \| Peppino \|
rowspan="2"\| 2000 \| Il grande botto \| Michele Caldarulo \|
Freewheeling \| Mario Pecorella \|
rowspan="2"\| 2002 \| Horse Fever: The Mandrake Sting \| Antonio Faiella \|
Il mare non c'è paragone \| Professor Serapide \|
rowspan="2"\| 2004 \| The Jokes \| Rossi / Maniac \|
In questo mondo di ladri \| Fabio \|
2006 \| Really SSSupercool: Chapter Two \| Beniamino \|
2008 \| Il Divo \| Paolo Cirino Pomicino \| Golden Ciak for Best Supporting Actor Nominated—David di Donatello for Best Supporting Actor
rowspan="2"\| 2009 \| The New Monsters Today \| Carlo / Michele / Gregorio / Sotto \|
Un'estate ai Caraibi \| Roberto De Paola \|
2011 \| Petty Letters and Love Crimes \| Warden \|
rowspan="3"\| 2013 \| The Great Beauty \| Lello Cava \|
Song'e Napule \| Commissioner Vitali \| BIFEST Award for Best Supporting Actor Nastro d'Argento for Best Supporting Actor
Guess Who's Coming for Christmas? \| Antonio \|
rowspan="2"\| 2014 \| People Who Are Well \| Carabinieri Marshall \|
... E fuori nevica! \| Stefano Righi \|
2015 \| The Legendary Giulia and Other Miracles \| Vito \| David di Donatello for Best Supporting Actor
rowspan="2"\| 2016 \| Se mi lasci non vale \| Alberto \|
Un paese quasi perfetto \| Nicola \|
rowspan="4"\| 2017 \| Mom or Dad? \| Bertelli \|
La banda dei tre \| Di Gaetano \|
Love and Bullets \| Don Vincenzo / Francesco De Rosa \| Nominated—David di Donatello for Best Supporting Actor
Caccia al tesoro \| Ferdinando \|
rowspan="2"\|2019 \| 5 Is the Perfect Number \| Totò o' Macellaio \|
Sono solo fantasmi \| Carlo \|

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Year

! Title

! Role

! class="unsortable" | Notes

1989

| L'ultima scena

1993

| Daddy Don't Blush

| Brigadier Scarrafone

rowspan="2"| 1998

| My Best Friend's Wife

| Michelino Seta

Premiata pasticceria Bellavista

| Ermanno Bellavista

1999

| Amore a prima vista

| Peppino

rowspan="2"| 2000

| Il grande botto

| Michele Caldarulo

Freewheeling

| Mario Pecorella

rowspan="2"| 2002

| Horse Fever: The Mandrake Sting

| Antonio Faiella

Il mare non c'è paragone

| Professor Serapide

rowspan="2"| 2004

| The Jokes

| Rossi / Maniac

In questo mondo di ladri

| Fabio

2006

| Really SSSupercool: Chapter Two

| Beniamino

2008

| Il Divo

| Paolo Cirino Pomicino

| Golden Ciak for Best Supporting Actor
Nominated—David di Donatello for Best Supporting Actor

rowspan="2"| 2009

| The New Monsters Today

| Carlo / Michele / Gregorio / Sotto

Un'estate ai Caraibi

| Roberto De Paola

2011

| Petty Letters and Love Crimes

| Warden

rowspan="3"| 2013

| The Great Beauty

| Lello Cava

Song'e Napule

| Commissioner Vitali

| BIFEST Award for Best Supporting Actor
Nastro d'Argento for Best Supporting Actor

Guess Who's Coming for Christmas?

| Antonio

rowspan="2"| 2014

| People Who Are Well

| Carabinieri Marshall

... E fuori nevica!

| Stefano Righi

2015

| The Legendary Giulia and Other Miracles

| Vito

| David di Donatello for Best Supporting Actor

rowspan="2"| 2016

| Se mi lasci non vale

| Alberto

Un paese quasi perfetto

| Nicola

rowspan="4"| 2017

| Mom or Dad?

| Bertelli

La banda dei tre

| Di Gaetano

Love and Bullets

| Don Vincenzo / Francesco De Rosa

| Nominated—David di Donatello for Best Supporting Actor

Caccia al tesoro

| Ferdinando

rowspan="2"|2019

| 5 Is the Perfect Number

| Totò o' Macellaio

Sono solo fantasmi

| Carlo

=Television=

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Year ! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" \| Notes
2006—2008 \| Un ciclone in famiglia \| Peppino Esposito \| 17 episodes
2007 \| Two Cheaters and a Half \| Commissioner Di Mauro \| Television movie
2008 \| VIP \| Concierge \| Television movie
2010 \| Due imbroglioni e mezzo \| Commissioner Di Mauro \| 4 episodes
2019—2023 \| Imma Tataranni: Deputy Prosecutor \| Alessandro Vitali \| 18 episodes

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Year

! Title

! Role

! class="unsortable" | Notes

2006—2008

| Un ciclone in famiglia

| Peppino Esposito

| 17 episodes

2007

| Two Cheaters and a Half

| Commissioner Di Mauro