# Fabrizio Rongione

Fabrizio Rongione (born 3 March 1973) is a Belgian screenwriter, film producer and actor with Italian citizenship.

## Career

Rongione was born in Brussels, Belgium of Italian descent. He collaborated with Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne in Rosetta (1999), L’Enfant (2005), Lorna's Silence (2008), The Kid with a Bike (2011), Two Days, One Night (2014) and The Unknown Girl (2016). In 2002 he founded the film production company Eklektik Productions with Nicolas de Borman, Samuel Tilman and Stéphane Heymans.
Rongione hosted the Magritte Awards ceremony for two consecutive years in 2013 and 2014, and again in 2018.

## Selected filmography
### Film

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1999 | Rosetta | Riquet | |
| 2002 | The Words of My Father | Zeno | Golden Goblet Award for Best Newcomer |
| 2005 | L'Enfant | Jeune Bandit | |
| 2006 | Nema problema | Maxime | |
| 2008 | Lorna's Silence | Fabio | |
| 2008 | Passe-passe | Canolo | |
| 2010 | The Front Line | Piero | |
| 2011 | The Kid with a Bike | Bookseller | |
| 2012 | Diaz – Don't Clean Up This Blood | Nick Janssen | |
| 2013 | The Nun | Father Morante | |
| 2013 | Violette | Yvon Belaval | |
| 2014 | La Sapienza | Alexandre Schmidt | |
| 2014 | Two Days, One Night | Manu Bya | Magritte Award for Best Actor |
| 2016 | Le Fils de Joseph | Joseph | |
| 2016 | The Unknown Girl | Doctor Riga | |
| 2017 | Don't Tell Her | Alain Grégoire | |
| 2017 | The Benefit of the Doubt | David | |
| 2019 | Romulus & Remus: The First King | Lars | |
| 2019 | Rosa Pietra e Stella | Tarek | |
| 2020 | Rose Island | Monsieur Carlozzi | |
| 2021 | Azor | Yvan | |
| 2021 | Happening | Dr. Ravinsky | |
| 2023 | The Order of Time | | |
| 2023 | Amal | | Nominated—Magritte Award for Best Supporting Actor |
| 2024 | The Flood † | TBA |
Key :
| † | Denotes films that have not yet been released |

### Television

| Title | Year | Role | Notes |
| Mafiosa | 2006–2008 | Rémi Andréani | TV series, 14 episodes |
| A French Village | 2009–2017 | Marcel Larcher | TV series, 44 episodes |
| Black Spot | 2019 | Simon Lefranc | TV series, 1 episode |
| Unit 42 | 2019 | Pierre Remacle | TV series, 2 episodes |
| La rebelle: Les aventures de la jeune George Sand | 2025 | Henri de Latouche | Upcoming TV series |

## Theatre
### Actor

* 1997 : Vous permettez, Hugo ? by Tadeusz Różewicz, dir. Olivier Musenfarth - Brussels
* 1997 : Le Piège by Tadeusz Różewicz, dir. Serenella Morelli : Franz Kafka
* 1998 : Bent by Martin Sherman, dir. Derek Goldby - Brussels, Paris
* 1999: Ferdydurke by Witold Gombrowicz, dir. Elvire Brison : Mientus - Brussels
* 1999 : The Red and the Black by Stendhal, adaptation by Jacques De Decker, dir. Michel Wright : Julien Sorel - Brussels
* 1999 : Egmont by Goethe, dir. Jean-Claude Idée - Brussels
* 2000 : Foudres, dir. Véronique Van Meerbeeck
* 2001 : The Open Couple by Dario Fo, dir. Daniela Bisconti - Brussels
* 2002-2003 : C'était Bonaparte, dir. Robert Hossein : Napoleon - Paris
* 2005 : La Princesse de Babylone, dir. José Besprosvany - Schaerbeek
* 2005 : Papiers d’Arménie, dir. Caroline Safarian - Brussels
* 2005-2007 : The Game of Love and Chance by Marivaux, dir. Dominique Serron - Brussels
* 2007 : One for the Road by Harold Pinter, dir. Marcel Gonzalez and Vincent Bruno - Brussels
* 2007 : Une rencontre by Fabrice Gardin, dir. Claude Henuset - Brussels
* 2008 : L'assassin habite au 21, dir. Claude Henuset, from Stanislas-André Steeman : Ginger Lawson - Brussels
* 2013 : Le Cid by Pierre Corneille, dir. Dominique Serron : Rodrigue

### Actor, author and director

* 1998 : Les Fléaux, cowritten and co dir. with Samuel Tilman - Brussels, Paris
* 2001 : John and the wonderful’s, collective writing, co dir. with Samuel Tilman - Brussels
* 2002-2003 : À genoux, one man show, cowritten with Samuel Tilman, Samuel Tilman and Marcel Gonzalez - Brussels, Festival d’Avignon
* 2009 : On vit peu mais on meurt longtemps, one man show, cowritten and co dir. with Samuel Tilman - Brussels, tour Belgium and France

## Awards

* 1998 : Grand Prix and Prix du public at Festival du rire, Brussels for Les Fléaux
* 2002 : Prix du Théâtre for best one man show for A genoux