Biography
Massimo Reale was born in Florence on 29 June 1966.
He began acting at the age of nine with maestro Dino Parretti, who produced shows for children with very young actors. He trained in the MiM group directed by Orazio Costa Giovangigli and subsequently entered the Accademia d’Arte Drammatica ‘Silvio d’Amico’ in Rome, which he attended for two years.
She graduated in Psychology and qualified as an Expressive Gestalt Psychotherapist at IPGE in Rome.
Over the course of his career, he starred in many dramas, including Classe di Ferro, which won the 1990 Telegatto as best Italian TV series, Don Matteo 7, Le ragioni del cuore, Il Commissario Manara, Che Dio ci aiuti, Il Commissario Rex 7 and 8, where he played the role of the disabled criminologist Carlo Papini, I delitti del BarLume, Un posto tranquillo, Salvo d’Acquisto, Makari 2, Skam 2 and 4, Fosca Innocenti 2, Lolita, Piuma, 4-4-2. In the successful TV series Rocco Schiavone he plays the role of the anatomist Alberto Fumagalli.
As a scriptwriter, he is co-author of highly successful television series such as Il Commissario Rex , Lolita Lobosco 1,2,3 – Avvocato Malinconio 1 and Il RE and a large production of documentaries.
In the theatrical sphere, he plays in the most important Italian theatres alongside actors such as Alessandro Benvenuti, Valentina Cervi, Micaela Esdra, Paolo Graziosi, Roberto Herlitzka, Luca Lazzareschi, Manuela Mandracchia, Lucilla Morlacchi, Ugo Pagliai, Mariano Rigillo, Lina Sastri, Amii Stewart, and Luca Zingaretti.
The path between stage and film set
In 1983, he started a long collaboration with director Walter Pagliaro that led to the production of eleven shows, alongside actors such as Micaela Esdra, Lucilla Morlacchi, Roberto Herlitzka, Luca Lazzareschi and Piero Di Iorio.
In 1994 she worked with Luca Zingaretti on the play Prigionieri di guerra (Prisoners of War), with whom she returned to act in 2000 in Perversioni sessuali a Chicago by David Mamet, together with Valentina Cervi.
In 1995 he collaborated with Ninni Bruschetta in the shows I Carabinieri di Beniamino Joppolo and Brutus, based on Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar.
In cinema, in 2001 he took part in the film Nemmeno in un sogno by Gianluca Greco with Roberto De Francesco and Giuseppe Battiston and, in 2002, in 4-4-2 by Roan Johnson with Valerio Mastandrea.
In 2000, she began studying singing with teacher Adriana Giunta and, in 2003, participated as the male lead in Massimo Romeo Piparo’s show Lady Day, dedicated to the great singer Billie Holiday, with Amii Stewart.
During the same period, he produced six books with photographer Marco Delogu, in which he alternated the role of text editor with that of author.
Between awards, directing and new theatre productions
In 2006, he won the prize for best documentary subject at the ‘HAI VISTO MAI?’ Festival and in 2007 he made it, giving it to broadcaster La7. In the same year, he took part in tragic performances at the Greek Theatre in Syracuse, acting in ‘Trachiniae’ alongside Micaela Ezra and Paolo Graziosi, directed by Walter Pagliaro, and in ‘Heracles’ directed by Luca De Fusco, acting with Ugo Pagliai. In September 2007, Luca De Fusco involved him again in the production of ‘Elettra’ with Lina Sastri for the Teatro Stabile del Veneto. At the end of 2007 he founded, with playwright Sergio Pierattini, the Cultural Association Valdez Essedi Arte, for which he produced and performed the show ‘Il caso K’ directed by Sergio Pierattini and the documentary on the actor’s work ‘L’Arte del Comico’ in which he was executive producer and director. In 2008, he acted at the Tindari Theatre in Shakespeare’s ‘Julius Caesar’ with Edoardo Siravo, Leandro Amato, Renato Campese under the direction of Maurizio Panici. In 2009, she starred in Euripides’ Electra with Manuela Mandracchia and directed by Walter Manfrè and in Euripides’ Le Troiane with Ivana Monti directed by Federico San Lio.
The path between successful TV series and theatre projects
He later took part in the television series Don Matteo 7, Il Commissario Manara and Che Dio ci aiuti. In 2013, he joined the regular cast of the TV series Rex 7, directed by Manetti Bros., where he played the role of the disabled criminologist Carlo Papini. In May 2014, she starred alongside Filippo Timi in the second series of I delitti del BarLume made for Sky, and in September she started filming the eighth series of the TV series Rex. In 2015, he staged, alongside Manuela Mandracchia, the stage reading Le Parole degli Eroi. Since 9 November 2016, he has been starring in the drama Rocco Schiavone on Rai 2, in which he plays the character of forensic doctor Alberto Fumagalli. In 2017, he played the role of Colonel Versicnin in Emiliano Bronzino’s play Tre Sorelle (Three Sisters) by A. Chekhov, subsequently took part in Orestea under the direction of Giuseppe Argirò, and started filming the second series of the fiction Rocco Schiavone, based on the novels by Antonio Manzini with Marco Giallini and directed by Giulio Manfredonia. In October, he will stage Caporetto: Italy is born, a staged reading with Edoardo Siravo and Silvia Siravo that is part of the three-year project dedicated to the First World War Le Parole degli Eroi.
Between awards, directing and new theatre productions
From 7 to 26 November 2017, it debuts at the Teatro Eliseo in David Mamet’s Il Penitente with Lunetta Savino, Luca Barbareschi and Duccio Camerini. In 2018, he took part in the web series Skam directed by Ludovico Bessegato, acted in theatre with Mariano Rigillo, Anna Teresa Rossini, Silvia Siravo, Guenda Goria in Seneca’s Le Troiane and wrote the subject of the series Il Re produced for Sky by Wildside with Luca Zingaretti. He took part in the theatre edition of Le Parole degli Eroi at the Pesaro festival with Silvia Siravo and Luca Zingaretti. In the first part of 2019, he goes on tour with the show Il Penitente (The Penitent) and then starts filming the series Rocco Schiavone 3 directed by Simone Spada. She then starred in the fourth edition of the series Skam and in December 2019 she made her debut in Frederick Knott’s play Perfect Murder directed by Anna Masullo.
In 2020, he participated in the writing of the short film RARO by Luca Zingaretti and wrote the TV series Lolita with Massimo Gaudioso and Daniela Gambaro. In early 2020, he took part in the fourth edition of the TV series Rocco Schiavone and filmed as an actor in the series Lolita, based on the novels by Gabriella Genisi, with Luisa Ranieri, directed by Luca Miniero. In the same period, he participated in the writing of the television series L’Avvocato Malinconico based on the novels by Diego De Silva with Gualtiero Rosella, Diego De Silva and Valerio Vestoso.
In 2021, he made his debut at the Plautus Festival in Sarsina with Plautus‘ Miles Gloriosus directed by Armando Pugliese. She later starred in Agatha Christie’s 10 Little Indians. In November, he shot the TV series Makari 2, based on the novels by Gaetano Savatteri, starring Claudio Gioè and directed by Michele Soavi.
In January 2022, he delivers the scripts, written with Daniela Gambaro, Chiara Laudani and Vanessa Picciarelli, for the second series of Lolita’s adventures and starts shooting the fifth season of Rocco Schiavone. In March, he debuted with the monologue L’Uomo Sottile by Sergio Pierattini, a text on lies and guilt set in the world of the Palio di Siena, directed by Manuela Mandracchia.
