Alessandro Benvenuti
Alessandro Benvenuti ( born January 31, 1950 in Pelago ) is an Italian actor, screenwriter and film director.
Life
Benvenuti joined with Athina Cenci and Francesco Nuti as I Giancattivi since the late 1960s cabarets on. A decade later he played leading roles for television and introduced in 1981 for the first time direct a feature film, Ad Ovest di Paperino, for which he not only wrote the script and music, but with next to his colleagues Nuti and Cenci also played a starring role. He was awarded a Nastro d' Argento. After a second film in 1984, he focused again on the work in front of the camera, with which he recorded many themes and elements of his time with I Giancattivi and advanced until it in casa Gori staged a personal film with Benvenuti, who - for the actress Ilaria Occhini - was also awarded a Nastro d' Argento. Now until 2003 comedies that were equally successful with both critics and audiences came regularly films, mostly.
Since then Benvenuti played again preferably in films by other directors and directed several episodes of television series for television. Also in Theater Benvenuti his career was time again active. Since 2006 he has been artistic director of the Teatro Dante di Campi Bisenzio.
Benvenuti is not to be confused with the musician.