Alessandro Preziosi

Alessandro Preziosi — Biography

Italian actor Alessandro Preziosi has carried his work from the theatre stage through cinema to television. He is best known for roles in period films and series, and in recent years reached an international audience as Yanez de Gomera in Sandokan, the series led by Can Yaman. Born in Naples, he studied at the University of Naples Federico II, and besides acting he also works as a director and producer.

His career goes back to the mid-1990s, but his screen breakthrough came in the mid-2000s. After playing Andrea in Vanilla and Chocolate, he took the roles of Consalvo in I Vicerè and Egon in La Masseria Delle Allodole (The Lark Farm), becoming a familiar face in Italian historical drama. In 2008 he played the title detective Achille De Luca in Inspector De Luca, settling into a lead role on television, and the same year appeared as Ettore Dogliani in Blood of the Losers. In 2010, as Antonio Cantone in Serseri Mayınlar (Loose Cannons) he reached a wide audience, played Diego in Men vs. Women, and portrayed the twenty-five-year-old Augustine in the miniseries Augustine: The Decline of the Roman Empire. In later years he took the part of René in Il volto di un'altra and joined the international production Medici in 2016.

More recently he has appeared in the cast of Marco Bellocchio's series Portobello and worked on contemporary productions such as Mio fratello mia sorella and The Lying Life of Adults. The Italian press also long linked him with actress Vittoria Puccini.