Stefano Dionisi

Italian actor and producer; winner of an Italian award for young actors in 1994 and owner of his own production company. Well known in Italy, he played the main role in "Farinelli," 1995 and played roles in "Sostiene Pereira" with unforgettable Marcello Mastroianni, 1995, "La Tregue," 1997 and "L'albero Delle Pere," 1998. Stefano took his diploma di maturità in 1985, then when he was 20, studied theater for a year at "La Scaletta" in Rome. He has worked as a waiter in both Rome, where he grew up, and New York City, where he lived for a year in the late ‘80s. He loves to travel and visited India a few times between 1987 and 1991. He first appeared on television in 1987, and in cinema in 1990. In 1994, he won the David Di Donatello Speciale award for his excellence in Italian cinema. Dionisi is not afraid to push the envelope by taking on films with a social conscience or by altering his delicate good looks for a role. He has been called an instinctive, generous actor. In addition to acting, he owns a production company (Rats Produzioni), and collaborated on the play "Didone e Margherita Gautier," which starred his fiancée, actress Barbara Lerici, and was written by her father (the late playwright and director, Roberto Lerici). He says he might like to direct one day. He and Barbara live in Rome. Link to Wikipedia biography (Italian)