Marco Marzocca

Life and career

Born in Rome, Marzocca worked as a pharmacist until 1994, when he began working as a sidekick of the comedian Corrado Guzzanti in a series of stage and television shows. During the TV show Il caso Scrafoglia he created Ariel, a comic caricature of a bizarre Filipino domestic worker, a character he later reprised in a series of television variety shows including Rai 2's Bulldozer and Canale 5's Zelig. He is also well known for the role of the policeman Ugo Lombardi in the crime TV-series Distretto di Polizia, of which he was in the main cast for all the 11 seasons.