Valerio Binasco
{{Short description|Italian actor, stage director, and playwright}}
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| birth_date = {{Birth-date and age|20 June 1964}}
| birth_place = Paderna, Italy
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}}Valerio Binasco (born 20 June 1964) is an Italian actor, stage director, and playwright.
Life and career
Born in Paderna, Binasco graduated at the drama school of the Stabile di Genova, where he made his professional debut in 1987.{{cite news|last1=Fabio Secchi Frau|title=Valerio Binasco: Alla bestia nel cuore|url=http://www.mymovies.it/biografia/?a=53927|access-date=16 April 2016|work=MyMovies}}{{cite news|last1=Nico Garrone|title=E la nuova star è Valerio Binasco|url=http://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/2005/02/21/la-nuova-star-valerio-binasco.html|access-date=16 April 2016|work=La Repubblica|date=21 February 2005}} He won two Ubu Awards, in 1999 for playing Hamlet in an adaptation directed by Carlo Cecchi and in 2004 for playing Polynices in a stage adaptation of Oedipus at Colonus directed by Mario Martone.{{cite news|last1=Nico Garrone|title=E la nuova star è Valerio Binasco|url=http://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/2005/02/21/la-nuova-star-valerio-binasco.html|access-date=16 April 2016|work=La Repubblica|date=21 February 2005}} Also active in films, in 2016 Binasco was nominated for David di Donatello for Best Supporting Actor thanks to his performance in Alaska.{{cite news|last1=Chiara Ugolini|title=Sorpresa David: pieno di nomination "Jeeg Robot" e "Non essere cattivo"|url=http://www.repubblica.it/spettacoli/cinema/2016/03/22/news/david_di_donatello-136058630/|access-date=16 April 2016|work=La Repubblica|date=22 March 2016}}
Selected filmography
- This Is Not Paradise (2000)
- Domenica (2001)
- Two Friends (2002)
- Working Slowly (Radio Alice) (2004)
- The Beast in the Heart (2005)
- Texas (2005)
- Don't Make Any Plans for Tonight (2006)
- A Perfect Day (2008)
- Blood of the Losers (2008)
- We Believed (2010)
- Leopardi (2014)
- Alaska (2015)
- A Woman's Name (2018)
- Darkness (2019)
- Lord of the Ants (2022)
References
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External links
- {{Official|http://www.valeriobinasco.com/}}
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Category:20th-century Italian male actors
Category:21st-century Italian male actors
Category:Italian male film actors
Category:Italian male television actors
Category:Italian male stage actors
Category:Italian theatre directors
Category:Italian dramatists and playwrights
Category:People from the Province of Alessandria