Luigi Diberti

Luigi Diberti — Biography

Elio Petri, Lina Wertmüller, Michelangelo Antonioni and Dino Risi are among the directors who cast Luigi Diberti, in titles such as The Working Class Goes to Heaven, The Seduction of Mimi and Beau Masque, and on stage he was a frequent collaborator of Giorgio Strehler. His breakthrough came in 1968 with Luca Ronconi's L'Orlando Furioso, the same year he moved into film with Maurizio Ponzi's The Visionaries; born in Turin on 29 September 1939, he had trained at Rome's National Academy of Dramatic Arts and then taken small stage roles. Alongside acting he has also worked as a dubbing artist. His screen credits include playing the taxi driver Ceccarelli in Libera, My Love, the chauffeur Giuliano in La banca di Monate, Inspector Manetti in The Stendhal Syndrome, and Capestro in For Roseanna. On television he played Ettore Salimbeni across three seasons of La Piovra, Monsignor Demetrio Antinori in Il tredicesimo apostolo, and appeared in the 2016 series Medici. His career has continued into recent years, with roles in With or Without You (2021) and The Life Apart (2024). Credited in more than a hundred films and television productions, he is also known as Gigi Diberti.