Michele Placido

Michele Placido is an Italian actor who gained great international popularity after playing the title role in the TV series Octopus. He was born into a very poor working class with many children in the town of Ascoli Satriano, in southern Italy. The boy's birthday fell on May 19, 1946.

Since childhood, Michele dreamed of theater, but his parents dreamed of a technical profession for their son. The boy received his primary education at a school at a local monastery. After serving in the army, the young man joined the ranks of the Rome police, where he worked for several years.

At the same time, he decides to enter the Roman Theater Academy, which he graduated by the end of the 60s. Working in theater groups such as directors Luca Rankoni and Giorgio Strehler, Michele often sent all his savings home: in addition to him, eight more children were growing up in the family.

Michele Placido in his youth truly appreciated only the theatrical art, he did not recognize cinema at that time. But the small theatrical earnings were barely enough for him to make ends meet, and he begins to accept invitations from filmmakers. The filmmakers saw in the young promising tall actor (177 cm) an interesting type for creating the image of a hero-lover.

The first roles that glorified Placido in his homeland were work in the love comedies "People's Love" with actress Ornella Muti in the title role and "Oh my God, how low I have fallen!", In which Michele played along with the seductive Laura Antonelli.

Gradually, the artist became interested in cinema, and by the beginning of the 80s he consciously tried to change the role of heartthrob that had stuck to him. Michele rejects offers from filmmakers to star in unpretentious comedies with a love story. Instead, Placido tries out genres that are unusual for himself. The war drama Agnese Goes to Death, the crime thriller Corleone, the psychological film Leap Into the Void, and the crime drama Communication Through the Pizzeria are released one after another.

By this time, the artist is honing his skills, establishing the necessary circle of acquaintances and becoming recognizable throughout the country.

Real world fame comes to Michele Placido after the release of the Octopus TV series, in which he played the main role of Commissioner Cattani for 4 seasons. This image significantly affected the fate of the artist and changed his biography. The series was especially successful in the USSR.

Michele Placido was recognized on the streets and named after the main character of the TV movie: Corrado Cattani. Such fame somewhat tired the actor, moreover, for 4 seasons he was simply tired of the image that the master of sculpture created with the meticulous care. Soon Michele insisted on the death of his hero. For a long time he could not come to a consensus on this issue with the producers of the film, but finally he was heard. After the disappearance of the Commissioner, Octopus barely held out for a couple of seasons, but without its former glory.

At the age of 44, Michele Placido first tried himself as a filmmaker. His debut was the drama "Tomato", which was followed by several rather successful works: "Blood Friends", "Common Hero" and others.

His 2005 work, Crime Novel, won the David Dantello National Film Award for Best Screenplay, written by Placido himself.

The heroes of Michele Placido's films are gangsters, criminals who operated in Italy in the 70s. To date, more than ten directorial works of the famous Italian are known.

Due to the great popularity of the artist in Russia, he becomes a frequent guest of the Russian Federation. He is warmly received not only as the leading actor of Commissioner Cattani, but also invited to joint projects.

In 1991, Michele tried himself as a Russian officer who defended the honor of the Soviet Union in Afghanistan. The war drama "Afghan Break" was filmed by director Vladimir Bortko on the border of Tajikistan and Uzbekistan in turbulent times. In addition to Placido, such Russian stars as Tatiana Dogileva, Nina Ruslanova, Philip Yankovsky, Mikhail Zhigalov played in the film.

During the coup in Dushanbe, the film crew found themselves in a difficult situation, as a result of which one of its employees was killed. The situation was saved by Michele Placido: after his negotiations with embittered Tajiks, the murderers changed their anger to mercy and released the Russians. So the image of Commissioner Cattani helped save more than one human life in real life.

In addition to the Russian project, Michele Placido played along with the Russian actress Ksenia Rappoport in the thriller "Stranger" by Giuseppe Tornatore.

Michele Placido was known as a woman's favorite all his life, his personal life was developing rapidly. In addition to three official marriages, the temperamental Italian had connections on the side. The first official wife of the actor, at the dawn of his theatrical career, was a girl named Ilaria Lezzi, whose relative worked as a translator of Russian prose and poetry.

The first marriage did not last long, and soon Michele fell in love with the young and attractive actress Simonetta Stefanelli, who played the role of the deceased lover of the protagonist in The Godfather. The beauty starred not only in art pictures, she often appeared in the pages of men's magazines in the nude.

Having achieved an official divorce from his first wife, Michele creates a family with Simonetta, in marriage with whom he had three children. The eldest daughter Violante followed in the footsteps of her parents and made an acting career. She, like her mother, was not shy about explicit movie scenes and photos in provocative magazines. In addition, unlike her father, she managed to conquer the American public.

14 years after the birth of the girl, the couple gave birth to two sons - Michelangelo and Marco Brenno. By this time, the relationship of the spouses had already cracked due to the infidelity of Michele, who in 1988 had an illegitimate child on the side from actress Virginia Alexandre. The boy was named Inigo. Therefore, in 1994, the union of Michele and Simonetta broke up.

For a long time, the actor did not make any attempts to improve his relationship with the weaker sex. But in the early 2000s, he met a young actress Federica Vincenti, who was 37 years his junior. This did not stop the old ladies' man, and he entered into a long-term relationship with his beloved. In the new union, the couple had a son, Gabriele, and when the boy was six years old, his parents got married in the small provincial church of St. Nicholas.

The wedding ceremony was especially solemn, and the famous song "Ave Maria", to which the newlyweds exchanged rings, was performed by an old friend Michele Al Bano. The five-star hotel that hosted the event was all decorated with orchids, Federica's favorite flowers. Now the couple are happily living in their cozy mansion in the south of Italy.

In 2011, Michele Placido starred in the film Love: Instructions for Use. World cinema legends Monica Bellucci and Robert De Niro became his partners on the working site. The film consists of three novellas about love, characterizing the high feeling that can come during youth, maturity and even old age.

At the beginning of 2016, at the invitation of Russian television, Michele Placido came to Moscow to shoot in the programs “Let them talk” in the issue “All the secrets of Commissioner Cattani. Thirty Years Later ”and“ Good Morning ”.

In the summer of the same year, together with such stars as Dolph Lundgren, Mark Dacascos and Emir Kusturica, the famous Italian was invited to the International Festival of Motivational Films "The Bridge of Arts", which was held for the second time in Rostov-on-Don. On it, Michele Placido received the prize for the best directorial work in the new film "Choice".

Russia does not forget its Italian idol. In mid-February 2017, the Mir 24 TV channel released an improved color version of the Octopus TV series, which will allow you to enjoy the game of your favorite actors once again.

"God, how low I have fallen!" - (1974) People's Novel - (1974) Ernesto - (1979) Three Brothers - (1981) Octopus - (1984) Octopus 2 - (1985) Pizzeria Connection - (1985 ) "Octopus 3" - (1987) "Big Business" - (1988) "Octopus 4" - (1989) "Mary Forever" - (1989) "Afghan Breakdown" - (1991) "Giovanni Falcone" - (1993) " An ordinary hero "- (1995)" Stranger "- (2006)" Love: Instructions for use "- (2011)

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Michele Placido Net Worth 2021

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