Luca Calvani

{{Short description|Italian actor (born 1974)}}

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{{Infobox person

|name = Luca Calvani

|image = Luca Calvani 2007 cropped.jpg

|caption = Calvani in 2007

|birth_date = {{birth date and age|1974|8|7|df=y}}

|birth_place = Prato, Tuscany, Italy

|occupation = Actor

|years_active = 2000–present

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Luca Calvani (born 7 August 1974) is an Italian actor.{{Cite web|url=https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/meet-italian-hearthrob-the-man-from-uncle-127493416508.html|title=Meet Italian Hearthrob & The Man From U.N.C.L.E. Star Luca Calvani|website=www.yahoo.com|date=25 August 2015 }}{{Cite web|url=http://www.digitalspy.com/movies/a515048/the-man-from-uncle-casts-luca-calvani-as-villain/|title='Man from U.N.C.L.E.' casts Luca Calvani|first=Hugh|last=Armitage|date=September 13, 2013|website=Digital Spy}}

Calvani was born in Prato, Tuscany, Italy. Luca was a model during his teen years, working with top names in the world of fashion, including Giorgio Armani. Spent his twenties in New York City, where he first studied acting with Ron Stetson then with Susan Batson. Among his American TV roles, the HBO series Sex and the City (2001) where he starred opposite Alan Cumming and Sarah Jessica Parker, and as the villain Dante Grimaldi on CBS TV's daytime drama As the World Turns. In Europe, he worked in theatre, TV and film, among them Ferzan Özpetek's award-winning His Secret Life a.k.a. Le Fate Ignoranti. Calvani is trilingual, he speaks French and English in addition to his native Italian. In 2007 he shot Il Commissario Manara directed by Davide Marengo for the Italian network Raiuno. He co-starred as Enzo Calvini opposite Clive Owen in Tom Tykwer's movie The International and the upcoming Italian TV series Questo è Amore directed by Riccardo Milani opposite Stefania Rocca.