• 18 November 1948
  •  Venezia, Italy

Alessandro Bressanello

Biography

Alessandro Bressanello is known for his work on Spectre (2015) as the Priest, Antonio im Wunderland( 2016) as Antonio,Sole a catinelle (2013) as doctor Surace, Vacanze di Natale a Cortina (2011) as Bepi, Romanzo di una strage ( 2012) as Mariano Rumor, Casanova (2005), Come Dio comanda (2008) as Marchetta, La Masseria delle allodole (2007), Carlo Goldoni: Venezia, gran teatro del mondo (2007) as Carlo Goldoni. He began working as a musician in the '60s and then devote himself to study theater. Opened in 1976 the Tag Teatro in Venice. From 1980 to 1990 he was president of the cooperative Tag Theatre, where he worked as an actor and a director, producing numerous shows that have travelled all over the world. Since 1995 he opened his own company, Produzioni Teatrali Veneziane, with whom he still works, producing numerous shows, while also working in other fields such as the Carnival of Venice and the organization of major street-events, as well as the production of large-scale events in different countries of Europe. Alessandro Bressanello specializes in the theater of the Commedia dell'Arte and held numerous master classes in Italy and abroad about it, but he also dealt with stagings of baroque operas and contemporary theater. As an actor, director and producer has worked in Spain, France, Germany, Switzerland, Holland, Austria, Yugoslavia, Russia, Greece, Turkey, England, Poland, Norway, Sweden, Malta, Brazil, Mexico, USA, Ile de la Reunion. In addition to theater, he starred in over 40 films, working also as casting and assistant director, with French, German, British, Japanese and U.S. productions.