Acting

Nello Mascia

Born 28 December 1946 · Sala Consilina, Salerno, Italy · 79

Nello Mascia (born 28 December 1946, Sala Consilina, province of Salerno, Italy) is an Italian theatre, film, and television actor and director. He made his theatrical debut in 1972 in La Taberneria by Giovan Battista Della Porta, then worked with Eduardo De Filippo on plays such as Il sindaco del rione Sanità and Exams Never End. He co-founded the Cooperativa Teatrale Italiana di Mezzogiorno "Gli Ipocriti" with Tato Russo, performing for 25 years, and worked with Giorgio Strehler (Trinculo in The Tempest). He is particularly noted as an interpreter of Commedia dell'arte repertoire and Neapolitan theatre. In 2016 he founded the theatre company Attori Indipendenti, directing and starring in Natale in casa Cupiello. He has appeared in more than 40 feature films since 1972. His filmography includes: Death of a Neapolitan Mathematician (1992) (Mimmo Borrelli, Laura Morante); Pacco, doppio pacco e contropaccotto (1993) (Carlo Verdone, Lina Sastri); I'm Crazy About Iris Blond (1996) (Carlo Verdone, Lina Sastri); The Dinner (1998) (Giancarlo Giannini, Sonia Bergamasco) — Nastro d'Argento for Best Supporting Actor (ensemble); One Man Up (2001) (Valerio Mastandrea, Luisa Ranieri); The Girl by the Lake (2007) (Micaela Ramazzotti, Giorgio Colangeli); The Immortal (2019) (Salvatore Esposito, Martina Attanasio); Nostalgia (2022) (Pierfrancesco Favino, Mimmo Borrelli); Parthenope (2024) (Celeste Dalla Porta, Silvio Orlando). TV: Gomorra (2016–2021, Don Aniello Pastore) (Salvatore Esposito, Marco D'Amore), Un posto al sole (1996–2001), 1994: Berlusconi Rising (2019).