Gabriele Lavia

Gabriele Lavia is one of the most important figures on the Italian stage scene. He devoted his work also to cinema, creating characters for some famous Italian horror movies like David Hemmings friend in "Profondo Rosso", the journalist of "Zeder". He also directed some movies like "Scandalosa Gilda" and "La Lupa" with longtime companion Monica Guerritore. He portrayed the gay stage director in "Ricordati Di Me" by Gabriele Muccino.But his work is mainly on stage. As actor and director, he put on stage the works of Shakespeare, Strindberg and Pirandello. He started in 1975 with William Shakespeare's "Othello". His last work was "Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf?" by Edward Albee in 2005. Show less «