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name: "Carlo Verdone"
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born: "17 November 1950"
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# Carlo Verdone

Actor. Born 17 November 1950 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 17 November 1950, Rome, Lazio, Italy
- **Also known as:** Carlo Gregorio Verdone
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q53046, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0893872/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/89193

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*The Great Beauty*](https://film.one/film/the-great-beauty.md) (83)

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## Biography

Carlo Verdone is an Italian actor, screenwriter and film director. Born in Rome, he studied modern literature at Sapienza University of Rome and film direction at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia.

He made his directorial debut with *Fun Is Beautiful* (1980), in which he also starred, and followed it with *Bianco, rosso e Verdone* (1981) and *Talcum Powder* (1982). He has directed and written numerous comedies, later incorporating more serious themes in films such as *My Best Enemy* (2006) and *Me, Them and Lara* (2010). He played Romano in Paolo Sorrentino's *The Great Beauty* (2013).

Verdone is the brother-in-law of actor Christian de Sica.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Great Beauty* (2013), Fi1m 83, as Romano — [page](https://film.one/film/the-great-beauty.md)

## Also known for

- *Bianco, rosso e Verdone* (1981), Screenplay, Story, Director
- *Honeymoon Trips* (1995), Director, Story, Screenplay
- *Talcum Powder* (1982), Director, Story, Screenplay
- *Fun Is Beautiful* (1980), Screenplay, Story, Director
- *Compagni di scuola* (1988), Story, Screenplay, Director
- *Blessed Madness* (2018), Writer, Director
- *Grande, grosso e... Verdone* (2008), Director, Screenplay, Story
- *Soap and Water* (1983), Screenplay, Story, Director

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