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Raoul Bova
Age: 38
Height: 181 cm
Birth Place: Rome, Italy
Born: Aug. 14th, 1971
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BIOGRAPHY: Raoul Bova was born in a Roman white collar family, his father was an employee and his mother a housewife. He has two sisters who he is close to. His passion in his youth was swimming and he became a champion at 16. He performed his military duty in the "Bersaglieri" and he studied at the ISEF but didn't finish in order to begin an acting career. His first role was in "Una storia italiana", a TV movie, and his debut in cinema was in "Piccolo grande amore" by Carlo Vanzina. He quickly became a star in Italy. But tired of being always considered a sex symbol unable to play deep roles, he started shooting movies a little more complex like "Rewind" where he plays a terrorist, "I cavalieri che fecero l'impresa" where he plays the role of a medieval man whose soul is possessed by the devil, or "La frontiera" where he plays an Austrian officer, or saint Frances in "Francesco". And finally a great Italian-Turkish director, Ferzan Ozpetek, gave him the role of Lorenzo in "Facing Windows", his most complicated and introverted character that he portrayed with application and passion, becoming a respected young actor rather than a sex symbol. In private life Bova is a happy husband and father, very close to his wife and their children Alessandro Leon and Francesco.
TRIVIA:
- Performed acting on stage in Rome in 3 plays: "Mexico and clouds", "Macbeth clan" and "Cold blooded animals".
- Good friends with designer Giorgio Armani, actors George Clooney, Alessandro Gassman and Maria-Grazia Cucinotta.
- Good friends with Maria Grazia Cucinotta.
- Before becoming an actor, he took an exam to enter in the "Carabinieri", the Italian military police but was refused. Ironically, he portrays a carabiniere in the TV movie _Ultimo (1998) (TV)_ (qv) .
- Sometimes plays soccer with the "Nazionale Italiana attori" in charity matches.
- Was named Raoul after his great grandfather.
- Militates against the death penalty, and took part to a short movie called "15 seconds", where he plays the last moments of a man on the death row.
- The first movie he ever watched was "Some like it hot".
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