Luca Guadagnino

Guadagnino and Ingeborga Dapkunaite, 2010 – Photo Credit: Insidefoto / PR Photos 

Place of Birth: Palermo, Sicily, Italy

Date of Birth: 10 August, 1971

Ethnicity: Italian/Sicilian, Algerian

Luca Guadagnino is an Italian film director, producer, and screenwriter. He has directed the films The Protagonists, which he wrote; Melissa P., I Am Love, both of which he co-wrote; A Bigger Splash, Call Me by Your Name, the Suspiria (2018) remake, and Bones and All. Among the documentaries he has directed are The Making of Lotus and Salvatore: Shoemaker of Dreams.

Luca was born in Palermo, Sicily, Italy, to a Sicilian/Italian father, Gino, from Canicattì, Province of Agrigento, and an Algerian mother, Alia Boutaher; his mother was said to have been raised in Casablanca, Morocco. He spent part of his childhood in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, were his father worked as teacher.

He has said:

I’m dark-skinned because my mother is Algerian; when I came back to Palermo, my classmates starting calling me “n—-r.” I will never forget that. I learned very quickly how to be an outsider, and how to stay on the outside of the frame yet always look at what’s happening in the center.

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21 Responses

  1. halcyon91 says:

    bruh needs to shave his head he’ll look so much better than holding onto that bit of hair

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