Gianfranco Terrin is an Italian film and stage actor born in Naples, Italy. He first became known for hosting the TV mini-series Movie Surfers airing on the Disney Channel.
Life and career He grew up in Pozzuoli, where at the age of ten, director Giuseppe M. Gaudino chose him to play a street urchin in Round the Moons between Earth and See. Soon after, He was in the Italian TV Series Un posto al sole and in the feature film Rosa Funzeca directed by Aurelio Grimaldi. He trained in Italy with Actress Fioretta Mari and moved to Los Angeles, where he was awarded a full scholarship for the Lee Strasberg Institute. He was the main host of the Disney Channel mini TV series Movie Surfers and starred in several feature films, including Bobby Fischer Live, Marlon Brando Unauthorized, and Mont Reve. He filmed a commercial for Fastweb, and played the lead role of Leonard in Il Castello di Azzurrina. In 2012, he produced and directed Hysteria 2012, a short documentary nominated at the California International Short Festival. He played Adam in the Italian version of La Forma delle Cose (The Shape of Things) at Teatro Brancaccino in Rome. He appeared in CBS's Criminal Minds Beyond Borders. He played Italian gangster Carmine Parone in the 2016 crime drama Live by Night, and Z'Luigino in the Francis Ford Coppola experimental film project Distant Vision (2015).http://napoli.repubblica.it/cronaca/2016/09/27/news/gianfranco_terrin_la_mia_storia_con_affleck_e_coppola_-148622353/ He has latest appeared in the TV series Carthago a WW2 period drama, that is based on a true story and nominated as the Best Series Award at Cannes Film Festival.
Filmography Film Year Title Role Notes1997 Round the Moons Between Earth and Sea Banda di Gennarino 2002 Rosa Funzeca Gianfranco 2002 The Gift Gian Short2009 Bobby Fischer Live Luigi Italian Reporter 2009 The Pick Up Frank Short2010 Brando Unauthorized Jean Paul 2012 Striker Johnny G 2012 Mont Rêve Riccardo Bartolo Short2012 Hysteria Milky Short2015 The Elevator Deliveryman 2015 Ana Maria in Novela Land Dancer #2 2016 Distant Vision Z'Luigino 2016 Live by Night Carmine 2017 Fairies Richard Grey Short2023 Azzurrina Leonard 2025 Thunderbolts* Nico
TV Year Title Role Notes2002 Un posto al sole Lucio Finaturio Episode #6.322017 Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders Assistente M.L. Marco Betti Episode: "II Mostro"2022–23 Carthago Michele 7 episodes2023 Citadel Italian Doctor Episode: "The Human Enigma"
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