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Valeria Moriconi was born in Jesi, Marche region, in the centre of Italy. She was very young when she acted in an art company, but the success came with the movies "Gli Italiani si voltano" and "La Spiaggia". She won the Golden Grolla award for "Le soldatesse". She performed on stage in a lot of theatrical plays at Arlecchino Theater (now Flaiano), from "Girotondo" of Schnitzler and "Per un amore a Roma" of patti to "Arialda" of Testori and directed by Visconti. In the 60s she met the director Franco Enriquez and for him left her husband Aldo Moriconi, entwining a love affair. After Enriquez's death she loved Vittorio Spiga, a journalist of Bologna and at her death he was at her bed.
The president of Italian Republic, Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, elected her Great master of Republic. In 2000 she was the voice for Papa's comments during Via Crucis. In 1999 she took the Renato Simoni award. She worked until the end of her life, notwithstanding the illness, but on 7th of June 2005 she was forced to interrupt her theater tour with "Gli Spettri" of Ibsen.- Rafael Sabatini was born near the Adriatic seaport of Ancona, Italy to Anna Trafford, an Englishwoman, and Italian Vincenzo Sabatini, both of whom were well known opera singers. With their careers still in full swing and included much traveling, so baby Rafael was sent to her parents near Liverpool for a stable home life. After seven years they retired from opera and turned to being voice teachers and the boy rejoined them, first in Portugal where they set up their first music school, then back to Italy, where they settled in Milan.
By early adolescence Rafael had already been a voracious reader, with a particular fondness for romantic historical novels. He was schooled at Zug, Switzerland, but by 17 years of age he was well versed in some six languages and decided it was time to make his way in the world. His father stepped in and determined that Rafael's linguistic skill was best served in international commerce, so he was sent back to Liverpool in 1892--a logical decision, since he had family there and the city was Great Britain's largest commercial port. His knowledge of Portuguese came in especially useful in his company's dealings in Brazil, but after four years of business, Rafael's interest in writing was bubbling to the top. He was writing his own romance stories, which he believed to be more interesting than just reading the works of others. All of this work was in English, as he considered the best literature of the world to be in that language. Some of his work was submitted by an acquaintance to an editor and, and wound up being accepted and published by a Liverpool publisher. By 1899 he was selling short stories regularly to prominent magazines: Person's, London, and Royal. He also had a translation job as well, and by 1905 with two novels published, he decided to devote full time to writing. That same year he married Ruth Goad Dixon, the daughter of a Liverpool paper merchant. At that point Sabatini moved to London, the publishing hub of Britain.
Rafael produced, in addition to about a novel a year, a steady stream of short stories. By the time he published his first really interesting swashbuckler, "The Sea Hawk", in 1915 he had completed 12 novels and, although comfortable in his new living, he was not the success he had envisioned. Though he had a modest and loyal following and his historical research was of a high degree, Sabatini's earlier work could be rather uneven in subject matter, of special interest to him but not the public. For instance, his supposed illegitimacy may have led to his half-dozen books dealing with the illegitimate despot Cesare Borgia of early 16th-century Italy. He also sometimes hampered himself with heavy-handed historical constraints, dragged out with extraneous philosophizing, as well as stilted dialog--but some of these faults were characteristic of 19th- and early 20th-century novel writing style. He managed another novel for 1917, but through most of World War I he was working in as a translator for the British intelligence service--evidently of great import to the war effort (he had finally become a British citizen, due in no small part to Italy's continued threats to conscript him into the army).
Sabatini returned to his writing after the war but nothing was forthcoming until 1921. He had been writing professionally for nearly 25 years when he finished "Scaramouche" and tried, but failed, to interest several American publishers in it. It was, however, picked up in England for publishing, and then in America as well. The story of Andre Moreau in the period of the French Revolution became a runaway best-seller internationally. After the success of "Scaramouche", Sabatini was ready with a second to his 1-2 punch. In 1922 "Captain Blood" was published, to even greater success. Suddenly his earlier works were being rushed into reprints, the most popular being "The Sea Hawk". Although the growing silent-film industry had already used six of his stories for films, they quickly started optioning the new best sellers for production. "Scaramouche" was turned into Scaramouche (1923) and followed by The Sea Hawk (1924) which hewed to the book's many turns, something the 1940 Errol Flynn version didn't do, opting for pretty much an entirely new screenplay, but was nonetheless extremely popular. The 1935 remake of "Captain Blood", also starring Flynn (Captain Blood (1935)), stuck the novel's story and was just as popular. The "Scaramouche" remake (Scaramouche (1952)) starred Stewart Granger and was a big hit.
By 1925 Sabatini had achieved his dream of success--he was rich and still filled with ideas and the will to write still more novels. There was time to rest, especially in his much beloved Wales--fishing was one of his favorite pastimes--but he also loved to ski. There was tragedy ahead, however. The Sabatinis' only son Rafael-Angelo (born in 1909 and nicknamed Binkie), busy with college, was given a new car by his parents in 1927. They were all due to go north to Scotland for a vacation, when the son and his mother went for a drive and the car was involved in an accident. Ruth Sabatini was thrown from the vehicle and knocked unconscious and was unable to remember what had happened, but Rafael-Angelo was fatally injured. Sabatini, returning from taking a friend to the railway station in Gloucester, happened on the accident and found his wife and son lying by the side of the road. The son died after arrival back at their rented estate of Brockweir House. The parents were devastated, and Sabatini went into a depression that stopped all writing. He started again a year later, and it would provide him enough to enable him to complete another novel, "The Hounds of God". Thereafter the novel-a-year work ethic would continue until 1941. However, his relationship with his wife was already strained by the time of their son's death, and they divorced in 1931. That year he also did a sequel to "Scaramouche"--"Scaramouche the Kingmaker". Sabatini turned to a new domesticated tranquility, having finally moved to Wales near Hay-on-Wye and refurbishing a fine old home called Clock Mill, complete with its own stream and stocked with trout.
In 1935 he married the sculptress Christine Goad, the wife of his first wife's brother. They were a happy couple, spending each January in Adelboden, Switzerland, for skiing. He finished a two-volume set of stories centering on his Captain Blood character called "Chivalry" in 1935. By the late 1930s the clouds of war in Europe especially disturbed Sabatini. He suffered through yet another tragedy when his new wife's son, Lancelot, flew over their house the day he received his RAF pilot's wings. The plane went out of control and crashed in flames across the Wye in a field right before their eyes. Sabatini wrote no more novels until 1944, for by this time he was developing what appeared to be stomach cancer. He managed one more novel in 1949, his 31st. He died on one last trip to Adelboden in 1950 and was buried there. On his headstone his wife had written the first lines from Scaramouche: "He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad." It made a very fitting epitaph. There have been 21 adaptations of his works for the screen, both in film and on TV. His writings also included eight collections of short novels/stories, six non-fiction books and many short stories, some of which are lost. - Director
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Born in Italy in the town of Jesi on January 13, 2003. From the age of 13 he began to practice contact sports such as Kick Boxing and Boxing. At the age of 14 he moved from the Marche to Veneto Region. At the age of 17 he began studying theater and film acting.- Art Department
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Nico Sadori was born on 17 October 1987 in Jesi, Marche, Italy. Nico is an art director and production designer, known for The 355 (2022), Johnny English Strikes Again (2018) and Silo (2023).- Actress
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Bellagamba began skating at the age of six. She reached the third position in couple and first single at the Italian "Acli Italian artistic skating championships". At the age of nine she began modern dancing, with Carla Giacani and Romina Muzzi. Three years later she attended a stage in Florence in the school of the "Tuscany Ballet" and the "Opus Ballet", during which she was noticed by Daniel Tinazzi. The following year, after a scholarship assigned to her by the same school under the direction of Cristina Bozzolini, Bellagamba moves to Florence where she attended the schools and studied dance. At the age of fifteen years she dropped out of school for a professional course of dance but she doesn't interrupt the studies and succeeded in graduating. In the meantime she deepens her dance studies with: Fabrizio Monteverde, Daniel Tinazzi, Eugenio Scigliano, Arianna Benedetti, Mauro Astolfi, Stefania Di Cosimo, Domenique Lesdema, Silvio Oddi, Steve La Chance and Mauro Bigonzetti. In 2002 she joined the company "Junior Balletto di Toscana" and, later, the Aterballetto, performing in theaters of China, New Zealand, Mexico, United States, South Korea and Europe.
5 October 2008: Alice becomes a students of the talent Amici di Maria De Filippi. At the end of the television program, she was the only dancer in the show, and she was classified fourth in the eighth edition of Amici di Maria De Filippi. Her debut was in the musical Io Ballo, under the direction of Chicco Sfondrini and Patrick Rossi Gastaldi, with choreography by Garrison Rochelle, and the other "boys and girls" of the TV show Amici di Maria De Filippi. After that, she was one of the show Amici Tour.
She was noticed by the director Rossella Izzo for the new fiction of Canale 5: Ritmo della vita. In 2009 she starred in the film Balla con noi, directed by Cinzia Bomoll. The film was released in cinema on 27 May 2011. On 5 June 2009, she becomes testimonial for the Foundation "G. SALESI ONLUS", making her own image " available... with the goal to express the joy and the strength of the life.. " for the research and the improvement of the quality hospital accommodation for the children and their families, and for the social support for women and children in conditions of uneasiness.
In 2010 she began studying acting with Francesca Viscardi Leonetti. In June 2010 she made her debut on stage with Non ci posso fare niente based on the 1782 epistolary novel of C. de Laclos Les Liaisons dangereuses. In the same year, she worked in Anna e i 5 - la nuova serie, directed by Franco Amurri. In October of the same year she began her new TV series on Channel 5 Non smettere di sognare by Roberto Burchielli. The series will be broadcast on TV since March 2011.
In 2012 Bellagamba joined the cast of the TV series Provaci ancora prof 4, in the role of Valentina Grassetti, with an international cast of actors and actress, also in 2012, she had a role of Salome in the television miniseries Mary of Nazareth and, after that in the cast of the drama Un passo dal cielo 2 with Terence Hill. In the same year she became the star of the sitcom Talent High School - Il sogno di Sofia, in which she plays the role of a dancer enrolled in an academy show.
In 2013, Bellagamba is the protagonist of the second season of the sitcom produced by LuxVide for DeAgostini: Talent High School 2 - Il sogno di Sofia. In June of the same year she was chosen by Leonardo Pieraccioni for his new holiday movie "A fantastic goings" where she plays Clelia. In October of the same year, Bellagamba presents the Grand Gala of the sixth edition of the International Short Film Festival: "Corti and Cigarettes". On 19 December 2013 he made his debut as a TV presenter with Marche Show! - The living room of Alice on by local broadcast Tv Center Marche.
On 30 August, at the 71ª edition the Venice Film Festival, she is rewarded as "Best Emerging Actress" in the first edition of the "International Award", dedicated to Anna Magnani.
In 2015, in the TV miniseries "Pietro Mennea - The arrow South" interprets Carlotta, first love Olympian athlete Pietro Mennea.
In the summer of 2015 he began collaborate, as master trainer, with Madonna's project "Hard Candy Fitness", giving lessons to Rome. In September of the same year he became professor of Modern/Contemporary, always Rome, at the "Kledi Dance" dance school owned by Kledi Kadiu.
On April 28, 2017, at the Festival Tulipani of Seta Nera, she presented her first short film entitled "Last Chance", that has directed, written and she sees it the protagonists as well.
On 10 May 2018, goes out to the cinema the psychological thriller "Le Grida del Silenzio" of which he is co-protagonist. On March 14, 2018 he founded the Company of "Balletto delle Marche", of which he is Artistic Director, dancer and choreographer. The Compagnia, after two months of rehearsals, is engaged to perform in the stages of Miss Italy Marche and Abruzzo and in the important Festival evenings of the Marche Region.- Actor
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Corrado Olmi was born on 24 October 1926 in Jesi, Marche, Italy. He was an actor, known for The Cat o' Nine Tails (1971), La cena (1998) and The Vatican Affair (1968). He died on 29 December 2020 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.- Actor
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Jonny Triviani, is an actor, writer and director. Starting from local televisions he finally achieves the national broadcasters, then he became pretty famous in "Saint Seiya Rebirth" and "The War of Short Films: Chronicles of a Filmmaker". He is also the co-founder of Dogma 008 to preserve the art of short film and give the rights to low-budget films.- Valentina Vezzali was born on 14 February 1974 in Jesi, Marche, Italy. She was previously married to Domenico Giugliano.
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Giovanni Battista Pergolesi was born on 4 January 1710 in Jesi, Papal State [now Marche, Italy]. He is known for Chocolat (2000), Sucker Punch (2011) and Mirror (1975). He died on 16 March 1736 in Pozzuoli, Kingdom of Naples [now Campania, Italy].- Roberto Mancini was born on 27 November 1964 in Jesi, Italy. He is an actor, known for Banca di Roma Nel tuo Futuro (1999), UEFA Champions League (1992) and Match of the Day (1964). He was previously married to Federica Morelli.
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Raffaella Furfaro was born on 1 February 1984 in JESI ITALIA. She is known for Fast X (2023), Spider-Man: Far from Home (2019) and Murder Mystery (2019).- Director
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Giacomo Focante was born on 29 August 1994 in Jesi, Marche, Italy. Giacomo is a director and cinematographer, known for La Discarica Fantastica: Sindrome di Cotard (2017) and Raisae (2017).- Giovanna Trillini was born on 17 May 1970 in Jesi, Marche, Italy. She has been married to Giovanni Battista Rotella since 1998. They have two children.
- Elisa Di Francisca was born on 13 December 1982 in Jesi, Marche, Italy. She has been married to Ivan Villa since 4 September 2019. They have two children.
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Orféo Tamburi was born on 28 May 1910 in Jesi, Marche, Italy. He was an actor and costume designer, known for The Forbidden Christ (1951), The Seven Deadly Sins (1952) and Le modelle di via Margutta (1946). He died on 15 June 1994 in Paris, France.- Francesco Mariottini was born on 6 November 1985 in Jesi, Marche, Italy. He is an actor, known for Sentirsidire - Quello che i genitori non vorrebbero mai (2010), Dance for Life (2011) and Married to a Cop (2007).
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Andrea Laudazi was born on 23 September 1984 in Jesi, Marche, Italy. He is a director and actor, known for Vicini (2018), Do you teach green? (2019) and A book to read (2019).