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Biography
Massimo Popolizio (born July 4, 1961) is an Italian actor and voice actor.
Biography
Massimo Popolizio studied at the 'National Academy of Dramatic Art Silvio D'Amico' in Rome in 1984, Popolizio started his career as a stage actor and, after graduation, started a fruitful artistic collaboration with theater director Luca Ronconi. In 1995 he won a UBU Award as Best Actor for his work in Shakespeare's King Lear and Towards Peer Gynt inspired by Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen, and again in 2001 for his role in Carlo Goldoni's 1747 play The Venetian Twins. In 2006 he won the Golden Aeschylus, conferred by the National Classic Drama Institute (INDA). In 2012, Popolizio returned to Ibsen in the title role of the stage work John Gabriel Borkman, with Lucrezia Lante della Rovere and Manuela Mandracchia. In 2013 he played Don Palma in the TV show Una grande famiglia.
Cinema
Popolizio lent his voice for the Italian dubbing of Lord Voldemort in the Harry Potter films, to Tom Cruise (Dr. William "Bill" Harford) in Eyes Wide Shut and to the voice of Lionel Abelanski (Shlomo) in Train of Life. He acquired visibility with his more recent film roles in Crime Novel, Black Sea and My Brother Is an Only Child, as well as in the role of Victor Sbardella in Il Divo by Paolo Sorrentino. In 1998 he won the Silver Ribbon for the dubbing of the film Hamlet, directed by Kenneth Branagh. In 1998 he voiced Tim Roth in the role of Danny Boodman TD Lemon 1900 in the film The Legend of 1900. In 2009 he was the Italian voice of actor Cal Lightman, the protagonist of the series Lie to Me (also played by Tim Roth). In 2013, he returned to the cinema with Hello President! and The Great Beauty.
Filmography
Cinema
- Un ragazzo come tanti, directed by Gianni Minello (1983)
- L'assassina (1989)
- Caccia alle mosche, directed by Angelo Longoni (1993)
- Cuore cattivo, directed by Umberto Marino (1995)
- Le affinità elettive, directed by Paolo e Vittorio Taviani (1996)
- Romanzo criminale, directed by Michele Placido (2005)
- Mare nero, directed by Roberta Torre (2006)
- Mio fratello è figlio unico, directed by Daniele Luchetti (2007)
- Il Divo, directed by Paolo Sorrentino (2008)
- Il grande sogno, directed by Michele Placido (2009)
- La banda dei Babbi Natale, directed by Paolo Genovese (2010)
- 20 sigarette, directed by Aureliano Amadei (2010)
- Boris - Il film, directed by Giacomo Ciarrapico, Mattia Torre, Luca Vendruscolo (2011)
- Gli sfiorati, directed by Matteo Rovere (2011)
- Benvenuto Presidente!, directed by Riccardo Milani (2013)
- La grande bellezza, directed by Paolo Sorrentino (2013)
- Amici come noi , directed by Enrico Lando (2014)
- Il giovane favoloso , directed by Mario Martone (2014)
- Arianna , directed by Carlo Lavagna (2015)
Television
- Requiem per voce e pianoforte, directed by Tomaso Sherman - miniserie TV (1991)
- La famiglia Ricordi, directed by Mauro Bolognini - miniserie TV (1995)
- L'attentatuni - Il grande attentato, directed by Claudio Bonivento - film TV (2001)
- Il Grande Torino, directed by Claudio Bonivento - film TV (2005)
- La stagione dei delitti, directed by Claudio Bonivento, Donatella Maiorca e Daniele Costantini - serie TV, 6 episodi (2007)
- Il delitto di via poma, directed by Roberto Faenza (2011)
- Il clan dei camorristi, directed by Alexis Sweet e Alessandro Angelini - Serie TV (2013)
- Una grande famiglia, seconda stagione, directed by Riccardo Milani - Serie TV (2013)
- Qualunque cosa succeda, directed by Alberto Negrin - Serie TV (2014)
Theatre
- S. Giovanna, directed by Luca Ronconi (1983)
- Due Commedie in Commedia, G. B. Andreini, directed by Luca Ronconi (1984)
- Tasso, Goethe, directed by Cesare Lievi (1986)
- Il Gabbiano, Anton Cechov, directed by Massimo Castri (1987)
- Aiace, Sofocle, directed by Antonio Calenda (1988)
- La Sposa di Messina, Friedrich Schiller, directed by Elio De Capitani (1990)
- Gli Ultimi Giorni dell'Umanità, Karl Kraus, directed by Luca Ronconi (1992)
- Misura per misura, William Shakespeare, directed by Luca Ronconi (1992)
- Aminta, Torquato Tasso, directed by Luca Ronconi (1993)
- Venezia Salva, Simone Weil, directed by Luca Ronconi (1993)
- Peer Gynt, Henrik Ibsen, directed by Luca Ronconi (1995)
- Re Lear, William Shakespeare, directed by Luca Ronconi (1995)
- I Fratelli Karamazov, Fedor Dostoevskij, directed by Luca Ronconi (2001)
- I Due Gemelli Veneziani, Carlo Goldoni, directed by Luca Ronconi (2001)
- Lolita, Nabokov, directed by Luca Ronconi (2002)
- Baccanti, Euripide, directed by Luca Ronconi (2002)
- Rane, Aristofane, directed by Luca Ronconi (2002)
- Professor Bernhardi, by Arthur Schnitzler, directed by Luca Ronconi (2005)
- Cyrano de Bergerac, Rostand, directed by Daniele Abbado (2009)
- Il misantropo, Molière, directed by Massimo Castri (2010)
- Blackbird, D. Harrower, directed by Lluis Pasqual (2011)
- John Gabriel Borkman, by Ibsen, directed by Piero Maccarinelli (2012)
- Visita al padre, by Roland Schimmelpfennig, directed by Carmelo Rifici (2014)
Dubbing
Movies
- Ralph Fiennes in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (film), Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (film), Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2
- Daniel Auteuil in Sostiene Pereira, Sade (film) and in The Eighth Day (1996 film)
- Bruce Willis in Armageddon (1998 film)
- Tom Cruise in Eyes Wide Shut (Dott. William "Bill" Harford)
- Tim Roth in La leggenda del pianista sull'oceano e nella serie televisiva Lie to Me
- Kenneth Branagh in Hamlet e Othello
- Lionel Abelanski in Train de vie
- Mark Rylance in Anonymous
- Crispin Glover in Beowulf (2007 film)
- François Cluzet in Il dolce far niente
- Aurélien Recoing in The Rest of the Night (Il resto della notte)
- Ulrich Noethen in Comedian Harmonists
- Ulrich Mühe in My Führer – The Really Truest Truth about Adolf Hitler