Andrea Piedimonte Bodini
- Actor
- Additional Crew
- Producer
Andrea Piedimonte spent his childhood living and studying across Italy,
France and Switzerland until he eventually moved to New York to pursue
his passion in acting by training at several top theater schools and
private studios. During that time, he also started working on short
films and Off-Off Broadway shows. He then joined and eventually became
a board member of the New York Italian Theater Company, an ensemble
that performed both in English and Italian. While studying, he began
his professional career in Film thanks to
Woody Allen who cast him as
Natasha Lyonne's love interest in the
film
Everyone Says I Love You (1996).
Shortly afterward, Piedimonte got his feet wet in the Television world
on the set of the daytime drama
Guiding Light (1952),
where he played Giorgio, a young jet-setter with a disrupting agenda.
In 1998, he got cast by Enrico Vanzina
and Carlo Vanzina and moved to Italy to
star as Ciro, the romantic but poor fisherman in Mediaset's hit
television miniseries
Anni '50 (1998). He then starred
with Vittoria Belvedere in
Le ragazze di Piazza di Spagna (1998)
for Italian network RAIDUE and with Italian star
Fabio Canino in the Italian production of
the award winning play "Making Porn," by American playwright Ronnie
Larsen. Eventually, Andrea relocated to Los Angeles after enjoying
positive international feedback with his role in
Ridley Scott's
Hannibal (2001). Bouncing between the US
and Italy for the past several years, he has acted in numerous films
and television shows such as
Soldati di pace (2001),
for Italian national network RAIUNO, "Curb Your Enthusiasm", with Larry
David for HBO, Hallmark's
The Long Shot (2004) by
Emmy winning director
Georg Stanford Brown and once again
working with the Vanzina brothers on Mediaset's
Un ciclone in famiglia (2005).
Andrea is presently in the US actively engaged in combining his acting
career with his newly started career as a producer; in fact, Andrea is
one of the people behind
All the Invisible Children (2005),
an ambitious international film shot by directors
Mehdi Charef,
Emir Kusturica,
Spike Lee,
'Katia Lund',
Jordan Scott,
Ridley Scott,
Stefano Veneruso and
John Woo for the benefit of the United
Nations' World Food Programme and UNICEF.