Luca Calvani

Luca Calvani
Calvani in 2011
Born	(1974-08-07) August 7, 1974 Prato, Tuscany, Italy
Occupation	Actor
Years active	2000–present

Luca Calvani (born August 7, 1974) is an Italian actor.

Calvani was born in Prato, Tuscany, Italy. Luca was a model during his teen years, working with top names in the world of fashion, including Giorgio Armani. Spent his twenties in New York City, where he first studied acting with Ron Stetson then with Susan Batson. Among his American TV roles, the HBO series Sex and the City (2001) where he starred opposite Alan Cumming and Sarah Jessica Parker, and as the villain Dante on CBS TV's daytime drama As the World Turns. In Europe, he worked in theatre, TV and film, among them Ferzan Özpetek's award-winning His Secret Life aka Le Fate Ignoranti. Calvani is trilingual, he speaks French and English in addition to his native Italian. In 2007 he shot Il Commissario Manara directed by Davide Marengo for the Italian network Raiuno. He co-starred as Enzo Calvini opposite Clive Owen in Tom Tykwer's movie The International and the upcoming Italian TV series Questo è Amore directed by Riccardo Milani opposite Stefania Rocca.

Career

Theatre

Sangue del mio sangue, dir. Maria Luisa Bigai (2007)

Film

The Man from U.N.C.L.E., directed by Guy Ritchie (2015)
When in Rome, directed by Mark Steven Johnson (2010)
The International, directed by Tom Tykwer (2008)
Sguardi controversi, directed by Corrado Veneziano (2006)
Freezerburn, directed by Melissa Balin (2005)
Parallel Passage, directed by Mandi Riggi (2003)
Il ronzio delle mosche, directed by Dario D'Ambrosi (2003)
Il diario di Matilde Manzoni, directed by Lino Capolicchio (2002)
Absolutely Fabulous, directed by Gabriel Aghion (2001)
Le fate ignoranti, directed by Ferzan Özpetek (2001)
Al momento giusto, directed by Giorgio Panariello e Gaia Gorrini (2000)

Television

The Bold and the Beautiful, (2012, 2013)
Il commissario Manara, (miniseries) directed by Davide Marengo (2008)
Un posto al sole, (2007)
Cotti e mangiati, directed by Franco Bertini (2006)
La freccia nera, directed by Fabrizio Costa (2006)
Carabinieri 4, directed by Raffaele Mertes (2005)
Quarto piano scala a destra, directed by Michele Truglia - Luca Calvani (2004)
As the World Turns, various directors (2001)
Sex and the City - Episode: The Real Me, directed by Michael Patrick King (2001)
Distretto di polizia, directed by Renato De Maria (2000)
Effetto Sabato, a talk show on Rai Uno (2008–2009)

TV appearances

L'isola dei famosi 4 " aka Italian "Celebrity Survivor' - Winner (2006)

External links

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