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Biography
Massimo Popolizio studied at the 'National Academy of Dramatic Art Silvio D'Amico' in Rome in 1984, Popolizio started his career as a stage actor and, after graduation, started a fruitful artistic collaboration with theater director Luca Ronconi. In 1995 he won a UBU Award as Best Actor for his work in Shakespeare's King Lear and Towards Peer Gynt inspired by Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen, and again in 2001 for his role in Carlo Goldoni's 1747 play The Venetian Twins. In 2006 he won the Golden Aeschylus, conferred by the National Classic Drama Institute (INDA). In 2012, Popolizio returned to Ibsen in the title role of the stage work John Gabriel Borkman, with Lucrezia Lante della Rovere and Manuela Mandracchia. In 2013 he played Don Palma in the TV show Una grande famiglia.
Cinema
Popolizio lent his voice for the Italian dubbing of Lord Voldemort in the Harry Potter films, to Tom Cruise (Dr. William "Bill" Harford) in Eyes Wide Shut and to the voice of Lionel Abelanski (Shlomo) in Train of Life. He acquired visibility with his more recent film roles in Crime Novel, Black Sea and My Brother Is an Only Child, as well as in the role of Victor Sbardella in Il Divo by Paolo Sorrentino. In 1998 he won the Silver Ribbon for the dubbing of the film Hamlet, directed by Kenneth Branagh. In 1998 he voiced Tim Roth in the role of Danny Boodman TD Lemon 1900 in the film The Legend of 1900. In 2009 he was the Italian voice of actor Cal Lightman, the protagonist of the series Lie to Me (also played by Tim Roth). In 2013, he returned to the cinema with Hello President! and The Great Beauty.
Theatre
S. Giovanna, directed by Luca Ronconi (1983)
Due Commedie in Commedia, G. B. Andreini, directed by Luca Ronconi (1984)
Tasso, Goethe, directed by Cesare Lievi (1986)
Il Gabbiano, Anton Cechov, directed by Massimo Castri (1987)
Aiace, Sofocle, directed by Antonio Calenda (1988)
La Sposa di Messina, Friedrich Schiller, directed by Elio De Capitani (1990)
Gli Ultimi Giorni dell'Umanità, Karl Kraus, directed by Luca Ronconi (1992)
Misura per misura, William Shakespeare, directed by Luca Ronconi (1992)
Aminta, Torquato Tasso, directed by Luca Ronconi (1993)
Venezia Salva, Simone Weil, directed by Luca Ronconi (1993)
Peer Gynt, Henrik Ibsen, directed by Luca Ronconi (1995)
Re Lear, William Shakespeare, directed by Luca Ronconi (1995)
I Fratelli Karamazov, Fedor Dostoevskij, directed by Luca Ronconi (2001)
I Due Gemelli Veneziani, Carlo Goldoni, directed by Luca Ronconi (2001)
Lolita, Nabokov, directed by Luca Ronconi (2002)
Baccanti, Euripide, directed by Luca Ronconi (2002)
Rane, Aristofane, directed by Luca Ronconi (2002)
Professor Bernhardi, by Arthur Schnitzler, directed by Luca Ronconi (2005)
Cyrano de Bergerac, Rostand, directed by Daniele Abbado (2009)
Il misantropo, Molière, directed by Massimo Castri (2010)
Blackbird, D. Harrower, directed by Lluis Pasqual (2011)
John Gabriel Borkman, by Ibsen, directed by Piero Maccarinelli (2012)
Visita al padre, by Roland Schimmelpfennig, directed by Carmelo Rifici (2014)
Filmography
Actor
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Sara (TV Series) (filming) as
Corrado Lembo
2023
Eravamo bambini as
Avvocato Rizzo
2022
War: La guerra desiderata as
Ex generale Benedetti
2022
Across the River and Into the Trees as
Vanni Rizzon
2021
La notte più lunga dell'anno as
Francesco
2021
Ai confini del male as
Captain Rio
2021
Governance as
Renzo Petrucci
2021
Svegliati amore mio (TV Series) as
Ettore Tagliabue
- Episode #1.2 (2021) - Ettore Tagliabue
2020
The Predators as
Pierpaolo Pavone
2019
Once Upon a Time in Bethlehem as
Erode
2019
Il ladro di giorni as
Totò
2019
The Champion as
Tito
2019
Bentornato presidente as
Politico ruspante
2018
Il confine (TV Movie) as
Generale Cadorna
2018
Sono tornato as
Mussolini
2016
Era d'estate as
Falcone
2016
Io non mi arrendo (TV Mini Series) as
Gaetano Russo
- Episode #1.2 (2016) - Gaetano Russo
- Episode #1.1 (2016) - Gaetano Russo
2016
The Big Score as
On. Conversani
2015
Arianna as
Marcello
2014
Qualunque cosa succeda (TV Movie) as
Michele Sindona
2014
The Rich, the Pauper and the Butler as
Padre Amerigo
2014
Leopardi as
Monaldo Leopardi
2014
Amici come noi as
Zio Ettore
2013
The Family (TV Series) as
De Lucia
- Episode #2.7 (2013) - De Lucia
- Episode #2.6 (2013) - De Lucia
- Episode #2.5 (2013) - De Lucia
- Episode #2.4 (2013) - De Lucia
- Episode #2.3 (2013) - De Lucia
- Episode #2.2 (2013) - De Lucia
2013
Di padre in figlio (Short) as
Ismael
2013
The Great Beauty as
Alfio Bracco
2013
Welcome Mr. President as
Politico ruspante
2013
Il clan dei camorristi (TV Series) as
Don Palma
- Episode #1.6 (2013) - Don Palma
- Episode #1.5 (2013) - Don Palma
- Episode #1.4 (2013) - Don Palma
- Episode #1.3 (2013) - Don Palma
- Episode #1.2 (2013) - Don Palma
- Episode #1.1 (2013) - Don Palma
2012
Steel as
Arturo
2011
Il delitto di Via Poma (TV Movie) as
Police Commissioner Del Frate
2011
Drifters as
Sergio
2011
Boris - Il film as
Massimo
2011
On the Way Home as
Boss calabrese
2011
Venti sigarette - Backstage (Video short)
2010
The Santa Claus Gang as
Rigattiere
2009
The Big Dream as
Domenico
2008
Il Divo as
Vittorio Sbardella
2007
Amore che vieni, amore che vai as
Bernard
2007
La stagione dei delitti (TV Series) as
Michele Mangano
- Seduzione fatale (2007) - Michele Mangano
- Ultimo valzer (2007) - Michele Mangano
- Roulette russa (2007) - Michele Mangano
- Film nero (2007) - Michele Mangano
- L'ombra del passato (2007) - Michele Mangano
- Sciarada per un assassino (2007) - Michele Mangano
2007
Mio fratello è figlio unico as
Ettore Benassi
2006
Mare nero as
Laganà
2005
Romanzo Criminale as
Terribile
2005
Il grande Torino (TV Movie) as
Ernest Egre Erbstein
2001
L'attentatuni (TV Movie) as
Angelo Branca
1996
Quer pasticciaccio brutto de via Merulana (TV Movie) as
Giuliano Valdarena
1996
Elective Affinities as
Marchese
1995
Cuore cattivo as
Minister
1993
Caccia alle mosche as
Daniele
1993
Requiem per voce e pianoforte (TV Movie)
1991
Gli ultimi giorni dell'umanità (TV Movie) as
Nepalleck / Il tenente Fallota / Il tenente colonnello Demmer / ...
1990
L'assassina as
Pasquale
1986
Venezia salvata o la congiura tradita (TV Movie) as
Jaffeir
1983
Un ragazzo come tanti
Miscellaneous
2023
Fiori sopra l'inferno: I casi di Teresa Battaglia (TV Series) (voice dubbing - 5 episodes)
