Filippo Timi

Filippo Timi
Timi at the 2009 Venice Film Festival
Born	(1974-02-27) 27 February 1974 Perugia, Umbria, Italy
Occupations	Actor director screenwriter playwright costumist
Years active	1999–present
Spouse	Sebastiano Mauri ​ ​ (m. 2016; div. 2021)​

Filippo Timi (born 27 February 1974) is an Italian actor, director and writer.

Biography

Winner of ‘Best Actor under 30’ at the 2004 UBU Awards, the maximum prize for Italian theatre, onstage he has been Orpheus, Danton, Perceval, Cupid, Hamlet and Satan, playing three different roles in Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House by Andrée Ruth Shammah in 2016.

Despite his stuttering and partial blindness he became a star of the big screen including a wide range of activities as author and entrepreneur for TV, cinema, theatre, magazines and musical shows; between 2006 and 2008 he published the best-seller trilogy Tuttalpiù muoio (At Worst I’ll die), E lasciamole cadere queste stelle (Let these stars fall) and Peggio che diventare famoso (Worse than becoming famous) in which he recalls his humble origins and transform youth troubles into a powerful and intense love for life, through a vividly ironic and phantasmagoric lens.

His 2009 Shakespeare adaptation Il popolo non ha il pane, diamogli le brioche (People don’t have bread, let's give them sweet rolls), written, directed by and starring him as Hamlet, was sold out for two years and legitimated his name as one of the most acclaimed and talented authors of Italian theatre.

His film career took off with roles in Ferzan Ozpetek's multiple award winning Saturn in Opposition and Saverio Costanzo's In Memory of Me, for which he was nominated for a best supporting actor award by the Italian Syndicate of Film Journalists. After taking the lead roles in Wilma Labate's Miss F and Giuliano Montaldo's The Demons of St. Petersberg with Isabella Rossellini, he won a Best Actor award for his leading role in Academy Award winner director Gabriele Salvatores's As God Commands.

Since 2009 Timi's films were in competition in major festivals: at Cannes with Vincere by Marco Bellocchio, where he played the young Benito Mussolini, and at the Venice International Film Festival with the debut of Giuseppe Capotondi, The Double Hour, winner of the Coppa Volpi. He played dramatic roles in Vallanzasca, Angel of Evil (2011), the period drama Rust (2011) alongside comedies like Asterix and Obelix: God Save Britannia (2012).

The actor completed his English-language debut acting alongside George Clooney in Anton Corbijn's action film The American. He has also dubbed Tom Hardy's voice in the Italian release of The Dark Knight Rises, and voiced Manny in the Italian dub of the last two films of the Ice Age franchise, replacing Leo Gullotta.

Personal life

Timi is openly gay. In 2016, he married his longtime boyfriend, the artist and writer Sebastiano Mauri, in a civil ceremony in New York City. They have since divorced.

Filmography

Films

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1999	In the Beginning There Was Underwear	Tasca	Feature film debut
	Appassionate	Ricky
2000	Rosatigre	Antonello "Rosatigre"	Also screenwriter and costumer
	Atomique. Les trois portes	None	Director
2001	500!	Nico
	Fare la vita	Antonello "Rosatigre"	Also screenwriter and composer
	Esile rosa tu	None	Director
2002	Aprimi il cuore	Customer
	L'altra donna	Filippo
2005	Onde	Alex
2006	L'eredità di Caino	Him
2007	In memoria di me	Zanna
	Saturn in Opposition	Roberto
	Signorina Effe	Sergio
2008	The Demons of St. Petersberg	Gusiev
	As God Commands	Rino Zena
2009	Vincere	Benito Mussolini
	The Double Hour	Guido
2010	The American	Fabio
	The Solitude of Prime Numbers	Clown	Cameo appearance
	Angel of Evil	Enzo
2011	When the Night	Manfred Sane
	Ruggine	Doctor Boldrini
	Missione di pace	Che Guerava
	Piazza Garibaldi	Himself	Documentary film
2012	Love Is in the Air	Max Lamberti
	Ice Age: Continental Drift	Manny (voice)	Italian voice-over role
	Asterix and Obelix: God Save Britannia	Décurion patrouille
2013	A Castle in Italy	Ludovic Rossi-Levi
	Like the Wind	Umberto Mormile
2014	I corpi estranei	Antonio
2015	Blood of My Blood	The Madman
	He Named Me Malala	The voice of Malala's father	Italian dub; documentary film
2016	Icaros: A Vision	Pasajero Leonardo
	Questi giorni	Mr. Mariani
	Ice Age: Collision Course	Manny (voice)	Italian voice-over role
2017	Favola	Mrs. Fairytale	Also screenwriter
2022	The Invisible Thread	Paolo
	The Eight Mountains	Giovanni Guasti
	Robbing Mussolini	Achille Borsalino

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2010	Boris	Bruno Staffa	Episode: "La qualità non basta"
2013–present	I delitti del BarLume	Massimo Viviani	Lead role
2014–2015	Il candidato	Piero Zucca	Lead role

Selected plays

• Fuoco centrale, by Cesare Ronconi (1995) • G.A. story, by Robert Wilson (1996) • La rabbia, study by Pippo Delbono (1996) • Medea, by Filippo Timi e Federica Santoro; produced by Giorgio Barberio Corsetti (1999) • F. di O., by Filippo Timi, produced by Giorgio Barberio Corsetti (1999) • La tempesta, by Giorgio Barberio Corsetti (1999) • Il Graal, by Giorgio Barberio Corsetti (2000) • Woyzeck, by Giorgio Barberio Corsetti (2001) • Il gabbiano, by Anton Milenin (2001) • La morte di Danton, by Aleksandr Popowski (2004) • La vita bestia, by Giorgio Barberio Corsetti (2006) • Il colore bianco, by Giorgio Barberio Corsetti (2006) • Il popolo non ha il pane? Diamogli le brioche, by Filippo Timi (2009) • Favola. C'era una volta una bambina, e dico c'era perché ora non c'è più, by Filippo Timi (2011) • Giuliett'e Romeo. M'engolfi 'l core, amore, by Filippo Timi (2011) • Il Don Giovanni: vivere è un abuso, mai un diritto, by Filippo Timi (2013) • Skianto, by Filippo Timi (2014) • Una casa di bambola, by Andrée Ruth Shammah, (2015–16)

External links

• Filippo Timi at IMDb