Personal Info
Birth date
1962-01-06 (63 Years)
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Messina, Sicily, Italy
Also known as
Ninni Bruschetta
Antonio Bruschetta
Ninnì Bruschetta
Nini Bruschetta
Ninì Bruschetta
Antonino Bruschetta
Antonino Bruschetta
Biography
Ninni Bruschetta (born Antonino Bruschetta on 6 January 1962) is an Italian actor, film and stage director and screenwriter. Born in Messina, in 1983 Bruschetta co-founded with Maurizio Puglisi 'Nutrimenti terrestri', a stage company which primarily focused on subjects of social value, and was active both as an actor and a director. In 1987 he debuted as a screenwriter with the indie drama La gentilezza del tocco, and in 1989 he co-directed the indie film Private Screening. He is also very active as an actor in films and television series. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Filmography
Father Matteo
6.288
Overview:
Don Matteo is a thoroughly ordinary Catholic priest with an extraordinary ability to read people and solve crimes. He’s a parish priest who never met an unjustly accused person he didn’t want to help.Police District
6.7
Overview:
The events of Police District unfold in the rooms of the 10th Tuscolano, a police station on the outskirts of Rome where current events intertwine with the private lives of the inspectors, officers and commissioners who, over the course of 11 intense seasons, have created one of the greatest successes on Italian TV.Violet like the sea
7.7
Overview:
Viola Vitale, Miss Italy and fashion journalist, returns to Sicily to look for her father. She starts working for a digital news company and joins police inspector Francesco Demir in solving crime with the help of synesthesia.Boris
8.575
Overview:
Boris is an Italian television series created by Luca Manzi and Carlo Mazzotta, initially produced from 2007 to 2010, with a revival season premiered in 2022. The show brings to the stage the behind the scenes of a television set where a troupe is shooting Gli occhi del cuore 2 (The eyes of the heart 2), a satirical portrait of the many fictions airing on the Italian TV networks.Anti-Mafia Squad
7.594
Overview:
Fighting a modern, fragmented and brutal Mafia, the Sicilian Anti-Mafia Squad seeks to crush the criminal network that holds a death grip on the region. Sophisticated surveillance helps, unless the enemy lies within.Come Undone
5.926
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Anna is an accountant for an important insurance firm and lives with her longterm lover Alessio - a man who longs for a stable longterm relationship with children, home, etc. Anna, feeling as though the fire has fizzled in that relationship takes up with co-worker Domenico and the two begin a passionate affair.Where Am I Going?
6.823
Overview:
Checco is 39 and lived his entire life with his parents. He loves his job where he does nothing the whole day, until something happens that will change his behavior and his life forever...Lolita Lobosco
7
Overview:
Deputy Chief Lolita Lobosco returns to her hometown, Bari, to direct a team of men only. In a world stubbornly ruled by males, she chooses to remain herself against all odds, and uses her skills and devotion to fight prejudices.To Rome with Love
5.783
Overview:
Four tales unfold in the Eternal City: While vacationing in Rome, architect John encounters a young man whose romantic woes remind him of a painful incident from his own youth; retired opera director Jerry discovers a mortician with an amazing voice, and he seizes the opportunity to rejuvenate his own flagging career; a young couple have separate romantic interludes; a spotlight shines on an ordinary man.The Price of Nonna's Inheritance
5.62
Overview:
When a grandmother falls for a cheeky suitor with dubious intentions, her family devises a secret plan to protect her life — and their inheritance.Aspirante vedovo
4.889
Overview:
A ne'er-do-well who's married to a millionnaire realizes his financial trouble might be solved if his wife was dead - and sets out a plot to achieve just that. A remake of Dino Risi's "il vedovo".Aldo Moro - Il presidente
7.5
Overview:
At the end of the seventies the Red Brigades are plotting a new target to hit, the president of the Christian Democrats Aldo Moro. On 16 March 1978, the band of the Red Brigades went on the attack. The terrorists kidnap Aldo Moro and kill all the men in his escort.Land of Saints
5.6
Overview:
Ambitious magistrate Vittoria (Valeria Solarino) makes the dramatic decision to relocate from the north to the south of Italy with one mission in mind – to defeat the Calabrian ‘‘Ndrangheta’ mafia. She is flabbergasted by the violence, the cruelty and the killings that Mafia men project – even youngsters are not spared. But instead of targeting the men, Vittoria tries a new approach; an appeal to the women involved in these circles. The bosses’ wives are as hard as nails; they will not talk and will not betray their powerful husbands, but could it be they have a soft spot for their own children?Boris: The Film
6.928
Overview:
A director and his crew attempt to make the transition from the small to the big screen.Il vegetale
5.71
Overview:
Fabio struggles with a cumbersome father and a capricious and spoiled little sister who consider him a good for nothing, a “vegetable” in fact. The unfortunate recent graduate looks for a job reacts to the contempt of his family and demanding employers, when an unexpected event remixes roles…One Hundred Steps
7.805
Overview:
Peppino Impastato is a quick-witted lad growing up in 1970s Sicily. Despite hailing from a family with Mafia ties and living just one hundred steps from the house of local boss Tano Badalamenti, Peppino decides to expose the Mafia by using a pirate radio station to broadcast his political pronouncements in the form of ironic humour.How to Grow Up Despite Your Parents
6.8
Overview:
More and more parents take competitive behavior towards the teachers of their children: deny votes and programs, vaneggiano of likes, dislikes, and conspiracies. So, instead of helping in the training of their children, they become insurmountable obstacles to their growth. Presumptuously they think: "We know better than anyone else our children and we know what they are worth and how and what you have to teach."Crimes
7
Overview:
Anthology crime series penned by some of the foremost contemporary Italian noir writers (Camilleri, Faletti, De Cataldo, Carofiglio, Lucarelli, Fois...)Viva l'Italia
6.262
Overview:
The story of a leading political man, suddenly telling “all the truth” after a serious illness and therefore overwhelming lifes of anyone surrounding him…Lost Love
6.05
Overview:
Ettore, a young boy in Sicily in the 50's, is surrounded by women and is always surprised by what is happening around him. In Milan a few years later Ettore is once again the center of attention and the hip crowd.The Bone Breakers
7.1
Overview:
Inside a warehouse in Palermo, a group of people smashes a man’s arm to pieces with a wheelie bag packed with weights. This is the method used by an amateur criminal organization that fractures the limbs of its willing victims before staging fake accidents and raking in the insurance payouts. Vincenzo recruits the individuals from among the down-and-outs that haunt the city streets, where Luisa is a habitué, since she gets her crack there. Vincenzo’s problems suddenly get worse, though, after a series of mistakes shut him out of the gang, and Luisa is now his only chance: he convinces her to have her bones broken.Il Testimone
8.2
Overview:
"Il testimone" (i.e. The witness) is a tv show created, made and presented by Pif. Every episode consists of a "mini-reportage", filmed through a little camera that Pif brings himself. This makes the spectator feel as if most of the tv filtres are removed and thus they can almost witness the events with their own eyes and feel directly involved in the social messages brought on by the show. Themes vary: they go from interviews to famous individuals, to trips, to the work of associations or even small everyday realities.La donna della domenica
NYR
Overview:
Based on a crime book by Italian authors Carlo Fruttero and Franco Lucentini, first published in 1972. The story is set in the city of Turin, and deals with the investigation of commissioner Santamaria about the murder of an architect of dubious fame, Garrone. Among the protagonists are Anna Carla Dosio, a beautiful and rich woman, and her friend Massimo Campi, a rich homosexual.La stagione della caccia
7.2
Overview:
Vigàta, Sicily, Italy, 1880. Shortly after the return to the village of Fofò La Matina, pharmacist and son of the late Santo La Matina, jealous guardian of the secrets of certain miraculous plants, the noble Peluso family is ravaged by a series of mysterious deaths…Acting
TBAIl ministero dell’amore as Unknown
2026Cena di Classe as Unknown
2025Prophecy as Tizio
2024The Price of Nonna's Inheritance as Nunzio Zampa
2024L'effetto Dorothy (1 Episode) as Dorotei
2023In fuga con Babbo Natale as Unknown
2023Il paese dei jeans in agosto as Faluccio Arato
2023My Brother and I as Unknown
2023Quando as Prof. Cocco
2023The General's Men (2 Episodes) as Tommaso Buscetta
2022The Bone Breakers as Francesco
2022Jazz Set as Sé stesso
2022Violet like the sea (12 Episodes) as Leonardo Piazza
2022The Best Years as Eugenio
2021Once Were Humans as Massimo
2021Querido Fidel as Tommaso
2021Lolita Lobosco (14 Episodes) as Questore Jacovella
2020Cops - Una banda di poliziotti (1 Episode) as il Conte
2020Un eretico in corsia as Intervistatore
2020La concessione del telefono as Father Macaluso
2020Come una madre as Alberto (as Ninni Bruschetta)
2019Tuttapposto as Giovanni Mancuso
2019Appena un minuto as Uomo poker
2019Made in Italy (8 Episodes) as Pasquale
2019La stagione della caccia as Father Macaluso
2019Non ho niente da perdere as Unknown
2018Tu mi nascondi qualcosa as Vittorio, padre di Valeria
2018Il vegetale as Bruno Rovazzi
2018A testa alta - Libero Grassi as Nino
2018The Vertical Line (8 Episodes) as Unknown
2018The Immature - The Series (8 Episodes) as Gianni
2017Viola, Franca as Bernardo Viola
2017Cani di razza as Unknown
2017La Regina di Palermo (5 Episodes) as Fabrizio Lorri alias "Alfiere"
2017It’s My Turn as Rino Germanà
2017The Family Jumble as Direttore di banca
2017Omicidio all'italiana as Agente Viaggi
2016I siciliani as Unknown
2016How to Grow Up Despite Your Parents as Igor Alessi
2016Quel bravo ragazzo as Enrico Greco
2016Lampedusa - Dall'orizzonte in poi (2 Episodes) as proprietario albergo
2016Romanzo Siciliano (8 Episodes) as Salvatore Buscemi
2016Il Sistema (6 Episodes) as Nicola Nardelli
2016C’è sempre un perché as Unknown
2016Where Am I Going? as Ministro Magno
2015Questo e' il mio paese (6 Episodes) as Chardons
2015Nomi e cognomi as Mario De Libertis
2015Basta poco as Unknown
2015Land of Saints as Domenico Mercuri
2014La trattativa as Prof. di Teologia / PM Processo Dell'Utri
2014The Tailor's Wife as assessore Cordaro
2014Diario di un maniaco perbene as Amico gallerista
2014Le mani dentro la città (12 Episodes) as vicequestore Filippo Diolosà
2014L'assalto as Franco
2013The Mafia Kills Only in Summer as Fra Giacinto
2013Aspirante vedovo as Perlasca
2013Out of the Blue as Adriano
2013Trilussa - Storia d'amore e di poesia as Unknown
2013Gli anni spezzati (6 Episodes) as Antonio Allegra (Il commissario)
2012Viva l'Italia as Himself
2012Tell No One as Rodolfo
2012To Rome with Love as Hotel Detective
2012È nata una star? as Rasero
2011Il segreto dell'acqua (6 Episodes) as Sabino Tomei
2011Make a Fake as Ciccio Rizzuto
2011La donna della domenica as Vicecommissario De Palma
2011Boris: The Film as Duccio Patané
2011Fuoriclasse (28 Episodes) as Salvatore "Totò" Lobascio
2010Come Undone as Domenico's brother
2010Lo scandalo della Banca Romana as Commissario Cavaterra
2009La casa sulle nuvole as Bellini
2009Anti-Mafia Squad (14 Episodes) as Fabrizio Lorri alias "Alfiere"
2008Aldo Moro - Il presidente as Oreste Leonardi
2008Aldo Moro - Il Presidente (2 Episodes) as Oreste Leonardi
2008Il coraggio di Angela as Ispettore Piccolo
2007Il Testimone (1 Episode) as Self
2007Il generale Dalla Chiesa as Pio La Torre
2007L'uomo di vetro as Bruno Cantone
2007Boris (50 Episodes) as Duccio Patanè
2007My Brother Is an Only Child as Secretary Bombacci
2006Crimes (1 Episode) as Merli
2006Matchmaker as Mimmo Nunnari
2006Golden Door as Italian Emigrant (voice)
2006Political Target as Spano
2006Political Target (2 Episodes) as Giancarlo Spano
2004A Judge of Honor as Antonio Cassarà (as Ninni Bruschetta)
2004The Life I Want as Luca
2004To Sleep Next to Her as Sindacalista
2004The Vanity Serum as Vittorio Terracciano (as Ninni Bruschetta)
2003E Io ti seguo as Comandante Starace
2003I cinghiali di Portici as Ciro
2003Lost Love as Luigi
2001One Man Up as Genny
2000Lupo mannaro as Anatomopatologo
2000Police District (26 Episodes) as Marco Gallo
2000One Hundred Steps as Anthony
2000First Light of Dawn as Mirko Zappalà
2000The Prince's Manuscript as Unknown
2000Father Matteo (1, 1 Episode) as Vittorio Mella, Rino
1999Before the Sunset as Domenico
1998Fiabe metropolitane as Francesco
1998Un'isola d'inverno as Stefano
1995Black Holes as cliente
1994Law of Courage as Sostituto procuratore Di Salvo
1993Libera as Pistoletta
1992Ladri di futuro as Corrado
1990Visioni private as Carlo