Giovanni Scifoni

Italian actor and theatre director

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Giovanni Scifoni (Italian pronunciation: [dʒoˈvanni ʃʃiˈfoːni]; born 23 May 1976 in Rome) is an Italian actor and theatre director. After musical studies (piano, singing) and first steps as a comic strip writer,^[1] he was selected to attend the Accademia Nazionale di Arte Drammatica Silvio D'Amico.

Right after graduation from the Accademia, he acted in various Italian tours of several national theater stars like Paolo Poli, Roberto Guicciardini, Sebastiano Lo Monaco and Patrick Rossi Gastaldi. He started also a collaboration as actor and director with the international company Gen Rosso.

He debuted in cinema with the Cannes-prized movie of Marco Tullio Giordana La meglio gioventù (The Best of Youth), acting as Berto. The first starring role was in Mio figlio, followed by its sequel Io e mio figlio - Nuove storie per il commissario Vivaldi. Then followed several fiction movies.

As a theater actor and writer, he got the "Golden Graal" prize "Astro Nascente del Teatro" in 2011.

He's Roman Catholic.^[2]

Filmography

La meglio gioventù, directed by Marco Tullio Giordana
Mio figlio, directed by Luciano Odorisio
Alba tremula, directed by Fabio Ianera
L'onore e il rispetto, directed by Salvatore Samperi
Io non dimentico, directed by Luciano Odorisio
Un caso di coscienza 3, directed by Luigi Perelli
Don Matteo 6, directed by Giulio Base, Fabrizio Costa and Elisabetta Marchetti - episode: La stanza di un angelo, directed by Elisabetta Marchetti (2008)
Io e mio figlio - Nuove storie per il commissario Vivaldi, directed by Luciano Odorisio -
Il peccato e la vergogna, directed by Luigi Parisi and Alessio Inturri
Un medico in famiglia 7 - Rai Uno (2011)
Pasolini, la verita' nascosta, directed by Federico Bruno
Paura di amare 2, directed by Vincenzo Terracciano

References

^ Interview Tuttoteatro
^ "Giovanni Scifoni, lo psicologo di Doc: "Mi sono arrabbiato con Dio. La preghiera fa stare bene"" (in Italian). 7 February 2022. Retrieved 22 January 2023.