Simona Izzo

SIMONA IZZO


(Rome, April 22, 1953) is an Italian actress, filmmaker, director, writer and writer.
Daughter of dubbing director and dubbing director Renato Izzo and Liliana D'Amico (who runs the dubbing company Pumaisdue, originally founded by her husband) has a twin sister, Rossella, and two smaller sisters, Fiamma and Giuppy.

He began his career in the world of performance as a dubbing maker since his early age, coming to win the Silver Ribbon in 1990 for giving voice to the character played by actress Jacqueline Bisset in the film scene of class struggle in Beverly Hills.

After presenting on television, Games Without Frontiers (1982) together with Michele Gammino, also a dubber, recites in the films My Room (1992) by Luciano Martino, Extraordinary Performance (1994) by Sergio Rubini and Simpatici & antipatici (1998) Christian De Sica and screenwrites almost all of the titles directed by Ricky Tognazzi, whom she married in 1995 after a long relationship with Maurizio Costanzo. From 1975 to 1978 he was married to Antonello Venditti, from whom he had his son Francesco, now also an actor and singer who made him grandmother of three grandchildren. In 2012, in partnership with his son, he competed for the first edition of the Rai 2 Beijing Express adventure game, conducted by Emanuele Filiberto of Savoy, being eliminated during the fourth episode.

His debut in the film was made in 1987, directing together with Rossella the television movie "Words and Kisses". In 1994 he sent Maniaci sentimentali, comedy about the wedding that David's best of Donatello is best for her newcomer. In 1997 she is also an actress at the side of the protagonists Diego Abatantuono and Maria Grazia Cucinotta. In 2003 she realized I no, signed together with Ricky Tognazzi, and in 2007 All the women of my life.

Dubbing in movies

Sigourney Weaver in Tempesta di ghiaccio
Linda Blair in L'esorcista II - L'eretico
Glenn Close in Attrazione fatale
Kim Basinger in Segui il tuo cuore
Talia Shire in Rocky II
Madonna in Body of Evidence - Il corpo del reato
Susanna Javicoli in Suspiria
Maria Grazia Cucinotta in Vacanze di Natale '90

Writer

Parole e baci - film TV (1987)
Arrivederci e grazie (1988)
Piccoli equivoci (1989)
Ultrà (1991)
La scorta (1993)
Maniaci sentimentali (1994)
Vite strozzate (1996)
Caro maestro - serie TV (1996)
Camere da letto (1997)
Una gioia involontaria - cortometraggio (1997)
Pollo, pollo, pollo - cortometraggio (1997)
I corti italiani - episodio Una gioia involontaria (1997)
Canone inverso - Making Love (2000)
Commedia sexy (2001)
Lo zio d'America - serie TV (2002)
Il papa buono - film TV (2003)
Io no (2003)
Lo zio d'America 2 - miniserie TV (2006)
Tutte le donne della mia vita (2007)
L'isola dei segreti - serie TV (2009)
Il padre e lo straniero (2010)
Tutta colpa della musica (2011)
Il caso Enzo Tortora - Dove eravamo rimasti? - film TV (2012)
Pietro Mennea - La freccia del Sud - film TV (2015)

Actress in the movies

Orazio - serie TV (1985)
Sposerò Simon Le Bon - Confessioni di una sedicenne innamorata persa dei Duran Duran (1986)
Parole e baci - film TV (1987)
Il mistero del panino assassino - video (1987)
Ultrà (1991)
In camera mia (1992)
Prestazione straordinaria (1994)
Camere da letto (1997)
Simpatici & antipatici (1998)
I giudici - Excellent Cadavers - film TV (1999)

Film director


Parole e baci - film TV (1987)
Maniaci sentimentali (1994)
Camere da letto (1997)
Una gioia involontaria - cortometraggio (1997)
L'amore delle donne (1997)
I corti italiani - episodio Una gioia involontaria (1997)
Alfabeto italiano - serie TV, 1 episodio (1997)
Un altro mondo è possibile - documentario collettivo (2001)
Io no - firmato in co-regia con Ricky Tognazzi, accreditato come Riccardo Tognazzi (2003)
Tutte le donne della mia vita (2007)
Lasciami per sempre (2017)