The Italian actor Alessio Boni was in Castelvecchio Pascoli last night for the “A night with Giovanni Pascoli”, dedicated to John Bellany. Alessio Boni reads Giovanni Pascoli. At the piano Bruno Canino. Casa Pascoli 9.15 p.m. Castelvecchio Pascoli, Barga, Lucca.
This morning he was in Barga Vecchia to see for himself the John Bellany exhibition.
Boni was born in Sarnico. In 1992, Boni finished his theatre studies at the Accademia Nazionale d’Arte Drammatica. In 1998, he had his television breakthrough in La Donna del Treno.
Other roles:
Quincy Moritz in Dracula (2002)
Matteo Carati in The Best of Youth (La meglio gioventù) (2003)
The Beast in the Heart (La bestia nel cuore / Don’t Tell) (2005)
Andrey Nikolayevich Bolkonsky in War and Peace (2007 – RAI-television series)
Caravaggio in Caravaggio (2007 – RAI-television series)
Giacomo Puccini in Puccini (2008 – RAI-television series)
Sgt. Cerato in The Tourist (2010)
His site can be seen here
I love my job. The true success, according to me, is to realize in my life the choice that my passion dictated to me, many years ago… Why do I love to act? Because it makes complete my forming as a man. An actor does interpret life, and in order to do that he must experiment with and become sensible to every life’s event. He has to listen to and look at and welcome all the experiences that life offers to him. He has to store it up into his consciousness and use it in his art. An actor’s duty is to try and grab the true meaning of life, interpret it, and if he succeeds in revealing it, that is going to be the final seal of his art. So being a man with the sharpest consciousness of what makes us humans and measure of nature – this consciousness is being an actor. – Alessio Boni