Gianni Di Gregorio

Born in Rome, Di Gregorio trained as a stage actor and director in the Drama School of Alessandro Fersen. He started his professional career as a screenwriter in the second half of the 1980s.

In the 1990s Di Gregorio started collaborating with Matteo Garrone as a screenwriter, an actor and an assistant director, their most famous work being the 2008 award-winning film Gomorrah. He made his directorial debut in 2008, with the critically acclaimed Mid-August Lunch, which he also wrote and starred in; he followed that up with other films in the same vein.

• Giovanni Senzapensieri (1986, co-writer)
• Sembra morto... ma è solo svenuto (1986, co-writer)
• Stazione di servizio (1989, co-writer, 2 episodes)
• Affetti speciali (1989, co-writer)
• Naufraghi sotto costa (1991, co-writer)
• Ospiti (1998, actor as Giacomo)
• Estate romana (2000, actor as Lodeger)
• Viva la scimmia (2002, co-writer)
• Gomorrah (2008, co-writer)
• Mid-August Lunch (2008, director and co-writer)
• The Salt of Life (2011, director and co-writer)
• Good for Nothing (2014, director and co-writer)
• Citizens of the World (2019, director and co-writer)
• Astolfo (2022, director and co-writer)