Gianfranco Terrin

Gianfranco Terrin
Born (1985-05-16) May 16, 1985
Naples, Italy, I.T.
Occupation Actor and producer
Years active 1995–present

Gianfranco Terrin is an Italian film and stage actor born in Naples, Italy. He hosted the TV mini-series Movie Surfers[1] airing on the Disney Channel.

He grew up in Pozzuoli, where at the age of ten, director Giuseppe M. Gaudino chose him to play a street urchin in Round the Moons between Earth and See.[2] Soon after, He was in the Italian TV Series Un posto al sole and in the feature film Rosa Funzeca directed by Aurelio Grimaldi. He trained in Italy with Actress Fioretta Mari[3] and moved to Los Angeles, where he was awarded a full scholarship for the Lee Strasberg Institute. He was the main host of the Disney Channel mini TV series Movie Surfers and starred in several feature films, including Bobby Fischer Live, Marlon Brando Unauthorized, and Mont Reve. He filmed a commercial for Fastweb,[4][5] and played the lead role of Leonard in Il Castello di Azzurrina.[6] In 2012, he produced and directed Hysteria 2012, a short documentary nominated at the California International Short Festival. He played Adam in the Italian version of La Forma delle Cose (The Shape of Things) at Teatro Brancaccino[7] in Rome.[8] He appeared in CBS's Criminal Minds Beyond Borders.[9] He plays Italian gangster Carmine Parone in the upcoming crime drama Live by Night,[10] scheduled for US release in December 2016, and will play Z'Luigino in the upcoming Francis Ford Coppola film Distant Vision.[11]

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