Valentino Picone
Acting
Biography
Valentino Picone (Palermo, 23 marzo 1971) è un attore, cabarettista, personaggio televisivo e regista italiano.
Born: March 23, 1971
Place of Birth: Palermo, Sicily, Italy
Known For
L'Ottavo Nano
Massimo Troisi: Somebody Down There Likes Me
The life of a dying young man at the short age of only forty-one after playing the lead in Il postino. He was a brilliant stage actor before becoming an astonishing film director.
Zelig
Ask Me If I'm Happy
Aspiring thespians Aldo, Giovanni and Giacomo work dead-end jobs while nurturing their dream production of Cyrano de Bergerac, until love for the same woman tears their friendship apart. Three years later, Giovanni and Giacomo reunite after learning that Aldo is dying.
Baaria
Giuseppe Tornatore traces three generations of a Sicilian family in in the Sicilian town of Bagheria (known as Baarìa in the local Sicilian dialect), from the 1930s to the 1980s, to tell the story of the loves, dreams and delusions of an unusual community.
Il mio amico Massimo
The life and artistic journey of Neapolitan actor Massimo Troisi.
Sono cose che capitano
Ficarra & Picone return to the scene with a new work entitled I'm These things happen and directed by Giambattista Avellino. The center is the man and the phases of its most salient life: love lost or regain, the love that makes us suffer because "the difficulty is not engaged but let ...", love of which we do not notice, "I love her, but I look around and there are hundreds of females, and I am the hunter"; the death of a relative who becomes a spectacle, because the funeral in Sicily can only be representation. But Ficarra & Picone go further, they discover that there is another kind of love, another kind of death and another rebirth. She teaches him a mysterious relative, Uncle Pino.
Framed! A Sicilian Murder Mystery
After two hapless TV technicians stumble upon a murder scene, every step they take to avoid becoming suspects lands them in deeper trouble.
Sicily Express
With Christmas around the corner, two blundering Sicilian friends working in Milan discover a dumpster that transports them to their families in seconds.
Belluscone: A Sicilian Story
This film tells the story of three defeats: Berlusconi’s political and human defeat in his “twilight”, the one of Ciccio Mirra, Berlusconi’s unconditional supporter, deeply rooted in an ancient culture that dies hard, and the director’s artistic defeat in an Italy that recognised itself in this “Berlusconian culture” for a long time, and probably still does.
Filmography
as Valentino
as Rosario Spitale
as Aristide
as Sé stesso
as Sé stesso
as Sebastiano "Bastiano" Vella
as Valentino
as Valentino
as Valentino "Vale"
as Valentino
as Valentino
as Valentino
as Michele
as Luigi Scalia
as Paolo
as Daniele La Blasca
as Valentino Picone
as Valentino
as Physician
as Valentino Picone
as Host (as Ficarra e Picone)
as Valentino