Background
Born in Northampton, England, the son of Jacqueline and Pietro Salvatore Sammarco, Gian Sammarco is one of a large family of Italian descent.
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Education
He attended Kingsthorpe Upper School (now Kingsthorpe Community College) in that town where he gained seven O-levels and five CSEs.
Career
The artistic director of the Royal Theatre in Northampton, Michael Napier Brown, selected Sammarco from 200 boys who auditioned to appear in his first theatre production, The Innocents. He was among 100 boys auditioned by Thames Television for the role of Adrian Mole, having been suggested by Michael Napier Brown. In 1987 he toured the United Kingdom in the play Widow"s Weeds by Anthony Shaffer.
Apart from the two series of "Adrian Mole", Sammarco"s other television appearances included an interview on Des O"Connor Tonight (1985), co-presenting the first series of the children"s Saturday morning show Get Fresh (1986), played Whizzkid in the 1988 Doctor Who story The Greatest Show in the Galaxy, and the geeky trainspotter in the Press Gang episode "Something Terrible" (1990).
His last acting role was in the 1990 children"s Indiana Jones-style comedy series, Jackson Pace: The Great Years, alongside Keith Allen and Josie Lawrence. The couple divorced in 1998.
