Edoardo Purgatori

Italian actor (born 1989)

Edoardo Purgatori

Born|

Edoardo Purgatori

(1989-01-14) January 14, 1989 (age 36)

Rome, Italy

Nationality| Italian, German
Other names| Edoardo Hendrik
Education| German School of Rome
Occupation| Actor
Years active| 2007–present
Spouse|

Livia Belelli

(m. 2018)​

Edoardo Purgatori (Rome, January 14, 1989) is an actor.

## Biography

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Edoardo Purgatori was born in Rome in 1989 to Andrea Purgatori, an Italian journalist and screenwriter, and to Nicola Schmitz, a German art historian and actress. Edoardo is the eldest of three children and since kindergarten he attended the German School of Rome, where he began to cultivate a passion for acting when becoming a part of the school's theater company. Over eight years the company produced a series of shows like Les Misérables, Tartuffe, Dance of the Vampires and Rabbit Rabbit. Edoardo played many leading roles in these productions.[1]

During his final years at school, at the age of eighteen, Edoardo started to take acting classes with Actors Studio Members Danny Lemmo and Dominique De Fazio.[2]

In 2007 Edoardo made his professional debut in the television drama Donna Detective directed by Cinzia Th. Torrini. In a short time more television roles followed with directors Ricky Tognazzi, Alberto Sironi and Luigi Perelli, for Italy's national public broadcasting company, Radio Televisione Italiana (RAI).[1]

In 2008 he shortly attended the University LUISS Guido Carli in Rome, where he studied international relations before moving to England to further pursue his acting training. In London he studied with private teachers and attended courses at the Actor’s Temple.[1] After several auditions he joined the Oxford School of Drama where he completed the Foundation Course in Acting.[1]

In 2010 Edoardo became an active member of the Studio De Fazio in Rome, under the artistic direction of Dominique De Fazio (Actors Studio).[3]

In 2012 Edoardo starred in many independent short films as well as the RAI TV film, Anita Garibaldi, where he played historical figure Nino Bixio, directed by Claudio Bonivento.[1]

In 2013 he played the starring role in the English productions The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams and The Shape of Things by Neil LaBute at the Teatro Abarico in Rome.[3] 2013 proved to be a turning point in Edoardo's career. He played Emiliano Lupi in the eighth season of RAI’s Un Medico in Famiglia. Edoardo’s work as Emiliano proved a resounding success with the show’s fans, seeing him continue as the character for the upcoming ninth and tenth seasons.[1][3]

2014 started strongly with the February screening of comedy feature film Amore oggi, where Edoardo played a heartbroken, obese man. Working closely with directors Giuseppe Stasi and Giancarlo Fontana – and the film being produced by SKY Cinema – 2014 continued positively.[4]

A procession of roles followed. Acting in La mossa del pinguino, Claudio Amendola's directing debut,[1] was swiftly followed by starring in SKY Germany’s short film, Am Wald.[5] 2014 also saw the screening of ARD's TV Film, Trennung auf Italienisch shown on German prime time television.[6]

Edoardo started 2015 with a role in the new film by Claudio Fragasso La grande rabbia, inspired by the public riots in Tor Sapienza, Rome, where he played a police officer from the Italian police department, Reparto Mobile.[7]

Afterwards he started preparing for MGM's remake of the epic feature film, Ben-Hur. He worked with Jack Huston (Hur), Morgan Freeman, Rodrigo Santoro, Toby Kebbell and Nazanin Boniadi.[8] Straight after Ben-Hur, Edoardo was cast by director Carlo Carlei in the World War I drama The Border, where he played a young Italian soldier fighting in the trenches against the Austrian army. 2015 also saw Edoardo reprise his popular role of Emiliano Lupi in RAI's 10th season of Un medico in famiglia. The production will end in March 2016.

Edoardo currently lives and works between London, Rome and Berlin as well as continuing to build his career in the United States.

## Filmography

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### Films

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Year  | Title  | Role(s)  | Notes

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2011  | G: The Other Me | G  | Short film
2012  | To Rome with Love | Architect  | Cameo appearance
The Fallen Angel | Gabriel  | Short film
2013  | The Move of the Penguin | Bulletto  |
2016  | Ben-Hur | Angry slave  | Cameo appearance
La grande rabbia | Stefano  |
Mine | Radio operator  | Uncredited voice cameo
2018  | The Record of Existence | Max  | Short film
Quando corre Nuvolari | Achille Varzi  |
2019  | The Goddess of Fortune | Marco  |
2020  | Mr. H | Samuel Smiley  | Short film
2021  | Omeostasi | Leonardo  | Short film
Freaks Out | Soldier #2  | Cameo appearance
2022  | Dry | Pierluigi  |
2023  | Romantic Girls | Riky  |
2024  | Flaminia | Alberto  |
Eterno visionario | Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau  |
Diamonds | Ennio  |

### Television

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Year  | Title  | Role(s)  | Notes

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2007–2010  | Donna Detective | Mirco  | Main role
2009  | Un caso di coscienza | Collina  | Episode: "Nessuna pietà"
2010  | Mia madre | Alberto  | Television film
2012  | Anita Garibaldi | Nino Bixio | Miniseries
2013–2016  | Un medico in famiglia | Emiliano Lupi  | Main role (seasons 8–10)
2014  | Amore oggi | Paride  | Television film
2017  | Tutto può succedere | Valerio  | Recurring role (season 2)
2018  | Il confine | Caporale Dalmasso  | Miniseries
Baby | Lele  | Recurring role; 3 episodes
2022  | The Ignorant Angels | Riccardo  | Main role

## Notes

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1. ^ a b c d e f g Biography edoardopurgatori.com Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine
2. ^ "Edoardo Purgatori". IMDb.
3. ^ a b c "Moviement.it - Attori » Edoardo Purgatori". Archived from the original on December 3, 2013. Retrieved December 12, 2013.
4. ^ "Amore oggi (2014) - IMDb". IMDb.
5. ^ "Am Wald | MHMK Macromedia Hochschule für Medien und Kommunikation". www.mhmk-international.org. Archived from the original on April 2, 2015.
6. ^ "Trennung auf Italienisch - Filme im Ersten - ARD | das Erste". Archived from the original on April 2, 2015. Retrieved March 14, 2015.
7. ^ "La grande rabbia". MYmovies.it. Retrieved January 7, 2024.
8. ^ "Ben-Hur (2016) - IMDb". IMDb.

## External links

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* Official Site
* Edoardo Purgatori at IMDb

*[m.]: married