Gigi Proietti six exams from the spring law degree; it wasn't meant to be! He plays the guitar, the piano, the accordion and the double bass, and starts performing at the most famous parties and nightclubs in the capital. He also attended the mimicry course at the University Theater Center and many opportunities immediately opened up for him.
The first unexpected success came in 1970, when he luckily replaced Domenico Modugno in the musical comedy of Garinei and Giovannini Alleluja good people. His way of letting go of his talent as a monologist, singer, imitator, dancer hypnotizing the audience like few others, leaves you amazed!
Gigi Proietti from mime at the Brancaccio Theater
Like few others, capable of filling theaters and sports halls throughout Italy, admired for his determination, adored by the public, and esteemed by great personalities. Gigi Proietti had the applause of Fellini and many other directors, writers and intellectuals. After the dinner of pranks with Carmelo Bene and Vittorio Gassman, in 1976, now histrionic, imaginative, he explodes in “A me gliocchi, please”. The show, successfully brought back to the Olympic Stadium many years later, was triumphal. Since 1978 he has assumed the artistic direction of Brancaccio Theater, creating his own laboratory of "Scenic Exercises" for young actors.
Master also in the staging of various operas between 1983 and 2002, we can say that theater is his real world. Gigi Proietti participates in Steno's comedy, Horse fever of 1976, which has become a true "cult".
From Tinto Brass to Federico Fellini, passing through Lucio Battisti
On the other hand, the coincidence of his first ever role is amusing, in which he plays a marshal of the carabinieri; the same that thirty years later will bring him to great notoriety, that is "Marshal Rocca". TV loves him and continues with L'avvocato Porta, after appearing as a veterinarian in a film directed by José Maria Sànchez in 2009. A great success is also A son in half, and a fiction about San Filippo Neri with excellent ratings. In his career Gigi Proietti has also worked with directors such as Tinto Brass, Bolognini and Monicelli. Multifaceted like few others, he engages in dubbing, where he begins by lending his voice to Sylvester the Cat, De Niro, Stallone, Richard Burton, Dustin Hoffman, Charlton Heston, Brando.
Gigi Proietti does not forget his students and the ,, and in 2005 he directs Pine Quartullo and Sandra Collodel in Upstairs, a brilliant comedy.
Poetry, Belli, Trilussa and Petrolini
Success is routine for Gigi Proietti, also alongside Sabrina Ferilli and Maurizio Micheli in the modern version of Hennequin and Veber “La Presidentessa”. On the radio he met a notable success in the famous show “Great variety”, and as the narrator of the script Belfagor, or the ghost of the Louvre. In a recording studio Gigi Proietti meets a young man from Poggio Bustone, who plays the guitar, a musician under contract with the Ricordi record company. That boy was Lucio Battisti, and music, the great passion of the Roman actor, united them for a moment. Plastic personality, and transformist of the Italian show, Proietti loves and also composes poems in Roman dialect, following the route of Beautiful, Trilussa and Petrolini.
The declamation of his lyrics arouses silence that explodes in applause. Gigi Proietti has composed various sonnets published in a column of Il Messaggero. Without restraints and without limits, the actor also appears in many commercials.
Proietti in 1995 also participates in the Festival of Sanremo, with Peppino Di Capri and Stefano Palatresi, with the name of Trio Melody, and takes the opportunity to sing. An exuberant, likeable artist, but above all empathetic, very reserved in his private life, since 1967 he has been the companion of a former Swedish tour guide.
From his wife Sagitta Alter, he had two daughters, Susanna and Carlotta, and the latter is proving to be a successful actress.
