Luca Zingaretti turns 60: former footballer, actor almost “by chance” and 8 other secrets about him

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He started acting almost by accident Luca Zingaretti, actor (of cinema, theater and TV – has just finished filming the “The King” series for Sky broadcast in 2022), director and producer (he has a production company called Zocotoco, which launched in 2021 “The investigations of Lolita Lobosco »), who celebrates her 60th birthday on 11 November. Born in Rome in 1961, Zingaretti, one of the most loved and popular artists on the Italian scene, accompanied a friend to an audition for the Academy of Dramatic Art. It ended up in the most classic of ways: he was taken, the friend was not. «I started almost out of duty, it seemed ugly to escape – he recalled in an interview with Corriere -, then I was captured by the magic of the theater and I began to desire the cinema, which never came. The profession has become a lifestyle, it has coincided with life ». But perhaps not everyone knows that a few months earlier the future interpreter of Commissioner Montalbano had attempted a football career, in the ranks of Rimini (“I gave up my career as a footballer. It was not a great sacrifice: I played for Rimini, but my girlfriend, politics and the theater called me to Rome “). But this is not the only curiosity about him.

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