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Sydney Sibilia was born on 19 November 1981 in Salerno, Campania, Italy. He is a writer and director, known for Rose Island (2020), I Can Quit Whenever I Want (2014) and Mixed by Erry (2023).

Massimo Pio Giunto is an Italian actor. A passion for acting born with him. From an early age he attended theater workshops and then landed on television. Was born on 15 October 2007, in Salerno, Italy. His passion for television began in 2019 by participating in the television program ''Amici Celebrities'', in 2022 he participated in the ''TIM '' Spot, in 2022/23 he played the character of Michele in the two seasons of the Netflix TV series ''DI4RI''.

Joe Giudice was born on 22 May 1970 in Sala Consilina, Salerno, Italy. He was previously married to Teresa Giudice.

Giuliana de Sio was born on 2 April 1956 in Salerno, Campania, Italy. She is an actress, known for La piovra (1984), The Pool Hustlers (1983) and The Wicked (1991).

Vincenzo Alfieri is an Italian actor, director and screenwriter, born in Salerno in 1986. After studying acting and directing between New York and Los Angeles and getting a university degree in Political Science, he became known to the big screen audience by starring in the comedy film "Niente può Fermarci", where he was a young man who suffers from Tourette's syndrome. Among his films as director, actor, screenwriter and editor are: "Altrimenti ci arrabbiamo"(2022), "Ai confini del male" (2021), "Gli Uomini d'Oro" (2019) and "I Peggiori" (2017).

Although Frank Nitti has gotten the reputation over the years as the right-hand man of gangster Al Capone and a feared killer in his own right, this has actually proven not to be the case. Although Nitti and Capone were as youths in New York City both members of the Five Points Gang--one of the most notorious of the city's many violent street gangs at the turn of the century--they apparently were in the gang at different times and didn't know each other. It wasn't until Nitti later moved to Chicago, where Capone was already established as a major gangland figure, that the two became acquainted. Nitti ran a barber shop from where he peddled bootleg liquor and where various denizens of the neighborhood would fence stolen property. He had a knack for smuggling whiskey from Canada to Chicago and distributing it throughout the city, a talent that brought him to Capone's attention. He was subsequently brought into the Capone mob, where he did indeed become "Big Al's" right-hand man. When Capone went to prison for income-tax evasion in 1929, Nitti was installed as head of the Capone mob by Paul "The Waiter" Ricca, who was the real power in Chicago's gangland hierarchy. Nitti's position was solely as a frontman, to take the spotlight off Ricca and the other gangsters who actually ran things; he had no real power and his "orders" were usually countermanded by Ricca, who--unlike Nitti--was a member of the Commission, a "board of directors" of Mafia crime families.

Nitti did manage to get into trouble on his own, though. In late December of 1932 he had a run-in with a gangster named Ted Newberry, who was running what used to be the George Moran (aka "Bugs" Moran) / Charles Dion O'Bannion gang. Newberry, it was rumored, had Chicago mayor Anton J. Cermak on his payroll and vowed to get Nitti. Shortly afterward two Chicago detectives showed up at Nitti's office, sent there by Cermak to arrest him, and a few minutes later a gunfight erupted, during which one of the detectives was shot in the hand and Nitti himself was badly wounded and almost died; he spent several months in the hospital. When he recovered he was put on trial for the attempted murder of the officers. However, at the trial it came out that the detectives had been paid to assassinate Nitti, although it wasn't determined by whom, and that the officer who was shot had actually deliberately shot himself in the hand so as to provide an excuse to kill Nitti, who was in fact unarmed. He was acquitted of the charges.

In 1943 two Chicago mobsters were indicted for labor racketeering in a scheme to take over several Hollywood labor unions and extort money from the movie studios in exchange for labor peace. They were tried and found guilty, but instead of going to prison they made a deal to inform on their gangland bosses, among whom were Nitti and Ricca, who were soon indicted. Ricca and the other mobsters ordered Nitti to take the blame for the scheme, since the two gangsters who turned on them were Nitti's men. Nitti, who had served 18 months in prison in the early 1930s for income tax evasion, was extremely claustrophobic and the thought of spending several years in a small prison cell was too much for him to bear. He refused the order to take the rap for them all, and a violent argument ensued between Nitti and the other gangsters. The next day Nitti went for a walk along the railroad tracks near his home, and as several railroad employees working nearby were looking at him, he pulled out a gun and shot himself in the head.

Paki Meduri was born on 2 August 1972 in Salerno, Campania, Italy. He is a production designer and art director, known for ZeroZeroZero (2019), Gomorrah (2014) and The Old Guard 2.

Ugo Pirro was born on 24 April 1920 in Salerno, Campania, Italy. He was a writer and director, known for Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970), Celluloide (1996) and We Still Kill the Old Way (1967). He died on 18 January 2008 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

Teresa Tirelli was born on 14 July 1907 in Polla, Provincia di Salerno, Campania, Italy. She was an actress, known for The Godfather Part II (1974), I Love Lucy (1951) and Dr. Kildare (1961). She was married to Nicola D'Amico. She died on 16 June 1989 in Northridge, California, USA.

Angelo Orlando was born in Salerno, Italy. Scriptwriter, director and actor. He had his real breakthrough in 1990 when Fellini gave him the role of Nestore in his last movie La voce della Luna, and the following year, in Massimo Troisi's film I Thought It Was Love, for which he won the David di Donatello award as best supporting actor. He went on writing comedy sketches and a variety of TV show episodes and wrote plays for the theatre. In 1994 made his first film as director, L'anno prossimo vado a letto alle dieci, a movie inspired to Andrea Pazienza's comic strips. In 1998 he wrote his second feature film, Barbara, rewritten for the theatre a few years later. In the same year he wrote Tobia al Caffè, a film by Gianfranco Mingozzi. In 1999 he wrote the screenplay Outlaw, a film by Enzo Monteleone, nominated by the Italian National Sindacate of film Journalists amongst the best Italian scripts in 2000. His debut in literature in 2001, was with Quasi quattordici (Nearly fourteen), almost an autobiographic story, a diary of a child in a southern country of Italy. In November 2005 he won the Solinas Prize with Casamatta Vendesi, best comedy screenplay. Sfiorarsi is his third feature film and was written together with the actress and scriptwriter Valentina Carnelutti. Sfiorarsi is awarded in several national and international festivals, a distribution Atalante Film in collaboration with the Film School Sentieri Selvaggi in Rome, Italy. In 2007 he wrote the screenplay Sandrine in the rain.

In 2008 starts to shooting the Short Movie, The Day After, in 2009 the short film Giro Giro Tondo and in 2012, One Hundred Second, selected in the Short Film Corner at Cannes Festival. In 2010 is among the finalist of the screenplay Solinas with Cinq, sei, sett, ott, written with Valentina Russo. Since 2005, the Association of Humanity and Culture La Teca, holds seminars on the craft of the actor, creative writing workshops, script, direction and cinematic language, in Rome, Trento, Genova, Legnano, Lugano, Sassari.

2012 he founded the production company Gris Medio with the greek photographer and greek cinematographer Efthymia Zymvragaki.

2015 his fourth feature: Rocco tiene tu nombre, shooted in Barcelona, has his world wide premiere at RIFF (Rome independent Film Festival).

Antonio Zequila was born on 1 January 1964 in Atrani, Salerno, Italy. He is an actor, known for Legittima vendetta (1995), First Action Hero (1994) and Omicidio al telefono (1994).

Mario Vitale was born on 1 April 1923 in Salerno, Italy. He was an actor, known for Stromboli (1950), Sunday in August (1950) and Island Sinner (1954). He died on 25 October 2003 in Salerno, Campania, Italy.

Mimmo Baldi was born on 9 September 1937 in Salerno, Italy. He was an actor, known for 4 caporali e 1/2 e un colonnello tutto d'un pezzo (1973), Paolo il freddo (1974) and Metti lo diavolo tuo ne lo mio inferno (1972). He died on 23 July 1977 in Viterbo, Italy.

Anny Papa was born on 29 June 1955 in Salerno, Italy. She is an actress, known for A Blade in the Dark (1983), Sweets from a Stranger (1987) and Das Lustschloß im Spessart (1978).

Massimo Venturiello was born on 4 August 1957 in Roccadaspide, Salerno, Italy. He is an actor, known for Corleone (2007), The Stendhal Syndrome (1996) and L'ispettore anticrimine (1993). He has been married to Tosca since 20 June 2024.

Antonio Carluccio is an OBE, OMRI and a much loved and respected Italian cookery writer, chef, restaurateur and food expert. He was born on the Amalfi Coast in the South and raised in the wooded North-West has given Antonio a rare and privileged breadth of culinary knowledge. It was here, in Piedmont, at the age of seven that Antonio started his life-long past-time of hunting and collecting mushrooms and fungi with his father.

After time spent living in Germany, in 1975 Antonio moved to London and while learning English, traded as a wine merchant of Italian wines. His hobby of studying and collecting wild mushrooms continued to flourish as he found many varieties growing in the English countryside close to London, almost completely undiscovered.

Antonio took over the Neal Street Restaurant in Covent Garden in 1981, which traded for 26 years. In 1991 Antonio opened a deli next to the restaurant and in 1998 started the first Carluccio's Caffè in Market Place, London.

In 1983 Antonio made his first appearance on BBC 2 talking about Mediterranean food and at the same time was asked to write his first book, An Invitation to Italian Cooking. Subsequently he has written thirteen books, published worldwide and made numerous television programs including the hugely popular Antonio Carluccio's Northern Italian Feast and Southern Italian Feast.

In 2011 his travels around Italy were filmed for the popular BBC series Two Greedy Italians, made with friend and fellow chef Gennaro Contaldo. Recognition

In 1998, Antonio was awarded the Commendatore OMRI by the President of Italy for services to Italian gastronomy, the equivalent of a British knighthood. In 2007 he was awarded an honorary OBE.

Carluccio's operates from over 57 UK locations. In addition the company has granted franchises over two territories: the first over Ireland with presently one location open in Dublin; the second over 6 countries in the Middle East including three locations presently open in Dubai.

Pascal Persiano was born on 9 November 1960 in Salerno, Italy. He is an actor, known for Demons 2 (1986), Voices from Beyond (1991) and I mercenari raccontano (1985). He is married to Laura.

Vincenzo De Sio was born in Italy in 1981. He graduated in cinematographic disciplines, especially production and directing at the "Scuola Cinema Roma" 2006 class. He produced and directed various short films, documentaries and music videos and he is active in the New York City area. From 2017 he starts working as a producer of animated short films. In 2018 and 2019 he produced "Filmesque" and "Beatrice", he also is a photographer and from 2019 he stars "Autumn Tactics" a photo project in New York City. Vincenzo won various awards all over the world as a producer, director and photographer.

Almerica Schiavo was born on 3 December 1961 in Salerno, Campania, Italy. She is an actress, known for L'uscita (1988), Here After (2024) and Terrarossa (2001).

Yari Gugliucci is an Italian actor and performer He was born October 15, 1974, in Salerno, Italy. He graduated in Sociology and in Philosophy. He started to performed when he was 13 in Hennequen e Weber play "La Presidentessa". Amongst the many roles interpreted by Yari Gugliucci, his portrayal of Napolitan journalist, Giancarlo Siani stands out in the film by Maurizio Fiume, "E Io Ti Seguo". In Italy this film highly political film was boycotted by many Italian journalists but in the rest of Europe and outwith, this film was received differently and awarded commendations. Yari Gugliucci received a nomination at the International Film Festival of Montreal, then won the award for "Best Actor" at the Clorophilla Film Festival in Stockholm and Moscow and also received recognition in the New York Journalist Department and at Baden-Baden. Together with Member of Parliament Leoluca Orlando, he received the "Nastro D'Oro" (Gold Ribbon) for the Civil commitment against the on-going struggle with organised crime. Thanks to this role, the young actor has been quoted in at least 7 graduate thesis (5 in Germany and 2 in Italy) about the fight for Freedom to Print. Not forgetting also his collaboration with well known directors such as The Taviani Brothers in "Luisa Sanfelice", playing the role of political extremist Michele Capopolo, then with Lina Wertmuller in "Francesca e Nunziata" and "Ferdinando e Carolina " where he took on the role of Gennarino Rivelli, friend of the King Barbone. The Polish director Rebinsky wanted him for his production in England of William Shakespeare's The Tempest where he played "Caliban" alongside Michelle Pfeiffer and Kevin Kline. Also in England he was involved in the BBC film My House in Umbria by director Richard Loncraine, alongside Maggie Smith and Timothy Spall, the latter of which he would work with again some years later in the remake of "Room with a View" directed by Nick Renton for ITV. In his last role as the King of Naples, Francesco II in the TV Film "Eravamo solo mille" by Stefano Reali, Yari had already been on public television with his role as odd divorce lawyer in "Cuore contro Cuore" by Riccardo Mosca

Diego D'Elia was born on 21 May 1984 in Salerno, Campania, Italy. He is an actor, known for Don Matteo (2000), Generation 56K (2021) and Quaffer (2018).

Ed Agresti was born on 4 October 1900 in Salerno, Italy. He was an actor. He died on 1 January 1971 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

Ottavio Jemma was born on 1 January 1925 in Salerno, Campania, Italy. He was a writer, known for Sacco & Vanzetti (1971), Hitch-Hike (1977) and When Women Had Tails (1970). He was married to Enza Sampò. He died on 25 December 2015 in Rome, Italy.

Beatrice Fazi was born on 27 July 1972 in Salerno, Campania, Italy. She is an actress, known for La verità, vi prego, sull'amore (2001), Lui e lei (1998) and Quartetto (2001). She is married to Pierpaolo Platania. They have four children.

Enrica Gatto was born on 17 March 1982 in Salerno, Campania, Italy. Enrica is an editor and writer, known for Fräulein: una fiaba d'inverno (2016), Valentina Postika in attesa di partire (2009) and La natura delle cose (2016).