Alessandro Fricano Gagliardo
- Actor
- Producer
Alessandro is an Italian born stage and screen actor from Bagheria (Sicily). Emotionally captivated as a child watching Cinema Paradiso by his country-fellow Academy Award winner Giuseppe Tornatore, he quickly developed an interest in acting. After graduating with a degree in Foreign Languages and Literature at the University of Palermo, he got into Drama School in Spain (ESAD Valencia) and graduated in 2013. His Drama studies also included one academic year in England, at Rose Bruford College. He took part in a number of stage productions in spanish and english, working with professionals such as Vicente Genovés, Antonio Diaz Zamora, Lola Lopez, Sam Rumbelow, Simon Usher.
Alessandro made his feature film debut as the lead role in Libera Me (2015), a dramatic psychological thriller about domestic violence - awarded Best Feature Film at the Los Angeles Cine Fest. Since then, he has been playing in different stage and film projects, most recently as a policeman in the 80's in the nationally televised RAI docu-fiction ''Maxi'' (2018) directed by Graziano Conversano, ''Màkari'' (2020) directed by Michele Soavi, and a few short films as lead - The San Lorenzo brutes (2019), Nativi digitali (2019), Franz (2020), Sonno (2021) - following selection on film festivals around the world. He can also be spotted on national and international tv and web commercials.
Alessandro is passionate and always looking to develop as an artist and human being.