Bruno Zanin is an Italian film, theatre and television actor and writer
Education
Child of farmers and the sixth of seven brothers, Zanin studied at a school run by priests up to the age of fourteen when an event occurred that made him leave (detailed in his novel, Nobody must know). After a life on the road including time in jail, he became an actor by accident when Federico Fellini chose him among thousands of lads for the role of Titta in the film Amarcord.
Career
He went on to appear in numerous films, theatre plays and television series with Italian and foreign filmmakers such as Giuseppe Ferrara, Marco Tullio Giordana, Giuliano Montaldo, Franco Brusati, Luigi Faccini, Lucian Pintilie and Lina Wertmüller. In the theatre, he has worked with Giorgio Strehler, Luca Ronconi, Marco Sciaccaluga, Gianfranco De Bosio, Sandro Sequi, and Alfredo Arias, appearing chiefly in Venetian language plays by Goldoni but also in Shakespeare"s The Merchant of Venice. In 2007 he published his first novel, an autobiographical work titled Nobody must know.
The novel was published in Spanish by Trotta editorial (Madrid) as Quebec no se entere nadie.
Zanin has two sons, Francesco and Fiorenzo. He lives in a log cabin in the woods at Vanzone con San Carlo, a mountain village below Monte Rosa, Piemont.
1979: The Merchant of Venice, by William Shakespeare, director Gianfranco De Bosio with Sergio Fantoni, Andrea Giordana, Massimo Dapporto, Pino Ferrara, Lina Sastri, Bruno Zanin, Vittorio Stagni, Ilaria Occhini, Massimo Foschi, Gianrico Tedeschi, Antonio Garrani, Loris Loddi, (aired on March 24, 1979).