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Valerio Foglia Manzillo Profile |
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Birth Date: February 3, 1978
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Birth Place: Napoli, Italy
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Birth Name: Valerio Foglia Manzillo
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Biography |
Valerio Foglia Manzillo, born February 3, 1978, in Napoli,
is an Italian actor.
Valerio is Italy's equivalent of Brad Pitt. He was
discovered by film director, Matteo Garrone, working as a
model. The director then cast him in his first movie role in
The Embalmer as Valerio, a handsome young man who
apprentices with a dwarfish fifty-year-old taxidermist in
the director Matteo Garrone's unconventional romantic drama.
When the closeted older man falls for his pupil Valerio -
who's also being wooed by a beautiful woman-a taut battle of
wills develops. The movie is a gripping and obsessive work,
a look at loneliness and desire that's more about the con
than the kinkiness. The movie became a big hit in Italy.
Manzillo then starred in another Italian movie Without
Conscience (2005). |
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