Paolo Pierobon

**Paolo Pierobon** (born January 13, 1967) is an Italian actor, best know for the role of Filippo De Silva in *Squadra antimafia - Palermo oggi*.

He portrays Rick De Ponte in Come diventare grandi nonostante i genitori.

## Life and Career

### Theater

After graduation at high school, he dedicates to theater and in 1992 he graduates from the Municipal School of Dramatic Art Paolo Grassi.

His theatrical activity is intense and in 2004 he get the National Critics Association award for best new actor to Italian shows in Samuel Beckett's *Endgame* (directed by Lorenzo Loris) and *Accidental Death of an Anarchist* by Dario Fo (directed by Ferdinando Bruni and Elio De Capitani).

In 2008 he plays the role of Levin from Tolstoy's Anna Karenina in the important show of the Lithuanian director Eimuntas Nekrošius and wins the Ubu Prize as best supporting actor.

In 2009, he with the director Elio De Capitani, will play a violent, but poignant Ian in *Blasted* by Sarah Kane.

In the summer of 2009 is directed by Luca Ronconi at the Spoleto Festival in an original version of *The Seagull* by Chekhov, where he plays the writer Trigorin.

In the 2011 - 2012 season he is the protagonist in four shows directed by Luca Ronconi: *La compagnia degli uomini* in the role of Bartley; *Nora alla prova* in the role of Torvald; *Modesty* in the role of Smederovo; *Santa Giovanna dei Macelli* in the role of Mauler.

From 2013 to 2015 he is involved in several plays directed by Luca Ronconi: *Panic* by Rafael Spregelburd, *Pornography* by Witold Gombrowicz, *Celestina* by Michel Garneau and *Lehman Trilogy* by Stefano Massini.

In 2016, he plays Maximilien de Robespierre in *Danton's Death* by Georg Büchner, directed by Mario Martone.

### Cinema

He debuts in 1998 in *Pompeo*, a medium-length movie by Paolo Vari and Antonio Bocola.

The following year he stars with Sandra Ceccarelli in *Guarda il cielo (Stella, Sonia, Silvia)* by Piergiorgio Gay.

In 2005 in *Come l'ombra* by Marina Spada plays a Russian professor.

He participates in several Federico Rizzo's movies including *Lievi crepe sul muro di cinta* in 2003, where he plays the protagonist, and *Fuga dal call center* in 2008, in a hilarious cameo. That same year, in *Vincere*, directed by Marco Bellocchio, he plays the fascist Bernardi.

In 2010 plays Victor in *Il mio domani* by Marina Spada, and in 2012, he plays in a role of a pusher in *Linea Gotica*.

In 2014 is David's uncle in the award-winning movie by Paolo Virzi, *Human Capital*

In 2016 plays Rick De Ponte in Come diventare grandi nonostante i genitori by Luca Lucini.

### Television

From 2004 to 2005, he is present in some episodes of the second season of *Camera Café*.

In 2009 he plays the Farinacci lawyer in *Lo smemorato di Collegno*.

From 2010 to 2016 is one of the protagonists of the drama *Squadra antimafia - Palermo oggi* in the role of Filippo De Silva.

## Filmography

### Cinema

* *Il mnemonista* (2000)
* *Guarda il cielo (Stella, Sonia, Silvia)* (2000)
* *La precisione del caso* (2001)
* *Light of My Eyes* (2001)
* *Giovani* (2002)
* *Fame chimica* (2004)
* *Milano Violenta* (2004)
* *L'uomo perfetto* (2005)
* *Salty Air* (2006)
* *Come l'ombra* (2006)
* *Mi fido di te* (2007)
* *Vincere* (2009)
* *Fuga dal call center* (2009)
* *Il mio domani* (2011)
* *Linea gotica* (2012)
* *First Snowfall* (2013)
* *Asprirante vedovo* (2013)
* *Human Capital* (2013)
* *La solita commedia - Inferno* (2015)
* *Alaska* (2015)
* *Quo vado?* (2016)
* *Come diventare grandi nonostante i genitori* (2016)

### Televisione

* *Benedetti dal Signore* (2004)
* *Camera Café* (2004-2005)
* *Donne sbagliate* (2007)
* *Crimini* (2007)
* *Distretto di polizia 9* (2009)
* *Intelligence - Servizi & segreti* (2009)
* *Squadra antimafia - Palermo oggi* (2010-2016)
* *Rosy Abate - La serie* (2017)