Corrado Fortuna
Born
Corrado Fortuna

(1978-03-31) 31 March 1978
Palermo, Sicily, Italy
Occupation(s)Actor, director
Years active2002–present

Corrado Fortuna (born 31 March 1978) is an Italian actor and director.

Career

Born in Palermo, Fortuna debuted in 2002 with the title role in the film My Name Is Tanino, directed by Paolo Virzi, with whom he then worked as assistant director on the film Caterina in the Big City in 2003. In the same year, he played the title role in an autobiographical drama film that marked the directorial debut by singer-songwriter Franco Battiato, Lost Love. Thanks to his performance in My Name Is Tanino and Lost Love, in 2004 Fortuna won the "Guglielmo Biraghi" prize awarded by Italian Film Journalists Union. In the same year, he had a role in the film Alla luce del sole (the biography of Father Pino Puglisi, a priest murdered by the Mafia), directed by Roberto Faenza with Luca Zingaretti. In 2009 Fortuna returned to the cinema to star in Baaria, directed by Giuseppe Tornatore. In 2012 he had a small role in the film To Rome with Love directed by Woody Allen. In 2014, he was among the lead actors in Scusate se esisto!, with Paola Cortellesi and Raul Bova. Over the years, he developed simultaneously his acting career and his work as a director of documentaries and video clips. In 2014 he published his first novel, Un giorno sarai un posto bellissimo, published by Baldini & Castoldi.

Cinema

Television

Director

  • Let Me Be - Videoclip of the Waines (2009)
  • Wooooo - Videoclip of the Waines (2010)
  • D'estate - Videoclip of Alessandro D'Orazi (2010)
  • Delicatamente - Videoclip dei MinikBros (2009) -
  • Isola Femmina - documentary (2005) - with Gaspare Pellegrino
  • Se penso a Casa - documentary (2010) - with Gaspare Pellegrino
  • La linea della palma - documentary (2012) - with Gaspare Pellegrino

Writer

Awards

  • Premio Guglielmo Biraghi for My Name Is Tanino and for Lost Love (2004)
  • Premio as best director to the Premio Italiano Videoclip Indipendente (Meeting degli Indipendenti di Faenza) videoclip Let me be (2009)

Notes

This article originated as a translation of this version of its counterpart in the Italian-language Wikipedia.
  1. ↑ as: Giuseppe Nunzio:
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