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Marta Gastini was born on 2 October 1989 in Alessandria, Piedmont, Italy. She is an actress and producer, known for The Rite (2011), Dracula 3D (2012) and Borgia (2011).

Pilar Fogliati was born on 28 December 1992 in Alessandria, Piedmont, Italy. She is an actress and writer, known for Romantiche (2023), Romeo è Giulietta (2024) and Inside Out 2 (2024).

Pier Luigi Pasino was born on 14 April 1981 in Alessandria, Piedmont, Italy. He is an actor and writer, known for The Law According to Lidia Poët (2023), Lovely Boy (2021) and E noi come stronzi rimanemmo a guardare (2021).

Renzo Montagnani was born on 11 September 1930 in Alessandria, Piedmont, Italy. He was an actor, known for When Women Had Tails (1970), When Women Lost Their Tails (1972) and The Betrothed (1989). He died on 22 May 1997 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

He is a professor of semiotics, the study of communication through signs and symbols, at the University of Bologna. Also a philiosopher, a historian, literary critic, and an aesthetician. He is an avid book collector and owns more than 30,000 volumes. The subjects of his scholarly investigations range from St. Thomas Aquinas, to James Joyce, to Superman. He lives in Milan.

Massimo Poggio was born on 9 April 1970 in Alessandria, Piedmont, Italy. He is an actor, known for Cenerentola (2011), Facing Windows (2003) and Solo per amore (2015).

Valentina Reggio was born on 15 August 1991 in Alessandria, Piedmont, Italy. She is an actress, known for De Serpentis Munere (2021), La certosa di Parma (2012) and Don Matteo (2000).

Born in 1905, Carla Mignone, better known as Milly, was one of Italy's greatest singers. As a child, she already performed in a trio formed by her brother Toto, her sister Mity and herself. Later on, she became a soubrette for the company Za Bum, whose manager was Mario Mattoli. She sang to the very end, generations of fans following her despite her refusal to take refuge behind comfortable clichés. She was also an actress, in the movies (an ingénue in Italian ' white telephone' comedies, a nun in Renato Castellani's "Nella citta l'inferno'' , the drugged depraved mother in Bernardo Bertolucci's "The Conformist". Also active in the theater (Jenny in Giorgio Strehler's version of 'The Three Penny Opera', 1956) and in television, she spent twelve years of her life in New York appearing successfully at the Waldorf Astorie Rainbow Room and on Broadway (1936-1948), as well as in two forgotten American movies. When she passed out in 1980, all unanimously regretted the fascinating black-clad lady, whose unconventional songs had accompanied them for fifty years.

Massimo Rigo was born on 16 February 1969 in Alessandria, Piedmont, Italy. He is an actor, known for Citadel: Diana (2024), The Girl in the Fog (2017) and Fiori sopra l'inferno: I casi di Teresa Battaglia (2023).

Cristina Noci was born on 31 March 1949 in Alessandria, Piedmont, Italy. She is an actress, known for The Marianas Web, Il minestrone (1981) and The Venetian Woman (1986).

Little Bob was born on 10 May 1945 in Alessandria, Piedmont, Italy. He is an actor, known for Le Havre (2011), Les loulous (1976) and Jacynthe, tu as un cul de feu (1999).

Daniele Segre, director (Alessandria 1952), is the author of "the cinema of reality", feature films and theatrical performances. He made his debut as a photographer in Turin in the 1970's; his first films focus on problems of disadvantaged youth groups (Perché droga, 1976; Il potere dev'essere bianconero, 1978; Ragazzi di stadio, 1980) and on the dignity of difficult screw (screw gallery, 1984 Portrait of a small drug dealer, 1984). He produced and directed the feature films Testadura (1983), Manila Paloma Blanca (1992), Vecchie (2002), Mitraglia e il verme (2004) and the documentary film Morire di lavoro (2008), about the construction work-related accidents in Italy. In 2005 he produced a HD video on the collection of Modern and Contemporary Art of the CRT Foundation in Turin. His works are almost always transmitted by public networks, and screened atin various national and international festivals such as the Venice Film Festival, the Berlin Film Festival, the Annecy Film Festival among others. He received several awards, including the prize Giuliani De Negri at the Venice Film Festival, the Golden Tulip Festival international Istanbul, the CICAE award at the Italian Film Festival of Annecy, the Filmmakers award, NICE award in New York.

In 1981 he founded the production company I Cammelli and in 1989 the eponymous Scuola Video di Documentazione Sociale (School of Social Documentaries and Videos) 1989/1997. Since 1996 he is Professor of Directing at the National School of Cinematography-Centro Sperimentale di Cinema in Rome and since 2004 at the University of Pisa.

In 2010 he produced three documentary films: the portrait of the Genoese photographer Lisetta Carmi (Lisetta Carmi, un'anima in cammino, 2010), that of film critic Morando Morandini (Je m'appelle Morando. Alfabeto Morandini, 2010) and that of publisher Luciano Lischi (Luciano Lischi, editore, 2010).

In 2011 realizes Sic Fiat Italia, in 2012 E' viva la Torre di Pisa and Luciana Castellina, comunista. In 2013, Michelangelo Pistoletto and 76847 Giuliana Tedeschi.

In 2014 by the Laboratory for Experimental Cinematography Center that produces rails on the condition of prisoners and of prisoners and prison officers of Sollicciano prison (FI) produced by CSC production and RAI Cinema and broadcasted by Speciale TG1

In November 2012 at the Quirinale he was awarded the Medal of the President of the Republic Giorgio Napolitano; Always in November 2012 he received the lifetime achievement award "Maria Adreiana Prolo".

In July of 2014 he was appointed headmaster of the Abruzzo headquarters of the Experimental Centre of Cinematography - being Audiovisual Reportage.

In June 2015 he was awarded the Diploma Honoris Cause by the Experimental Centre of Cinematography for "Reportage topical history".

In 2015 realizes Morituri, a film which completes the trilogy of Vecchie and Mitraglia e il Verme.

Morituri was invited to the Turin Film Festival in November 2015 and in April 2016 he made his debut at the Teatro Nobelperlapace of San Demetrio ne 'Vestini (AQ).

In 2016 he realized "Nome di Battaglia Donna", protagonists partisan women who participated in the resistance against the Fascists and the Nazis between 1943 and 1945.

Romolo Siena was born on 18 April 1923 in Alessandria, Piedmont, Italy. He was a director and writer, known for Crazy Boat (1986), Che Combinazione (1978) and A tutto gag (1980). He died on 27 May 2004 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

Totò Mignone was born on 7 November 1906 in Alessandria, Piedmont, Italy. He was an actor and production manager, known for The Corsican Brothers (1961), Crazy Desire (1962) and Fury of Achilles (1962). He died on 3 January 1993 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

Claudio Desderi was born on 9 April 1943 in Alessandria, Piedmont, Italy. He was an actor, known for Liberal Arts (2012), La Cenerentola (1982) and Last Weekend (2014). He died on 30 June 2018 in Florence, Tuscany, Italy.

Emanuela Fallini was born on 18 August 1940 in Novi Ligure, Alessandria, Piedmont, Italy. She is an actress, known for Equinozio (1971), Alfredo, Alfredo (1972) and La scalata (1993).

Composer, conductor, music director for CBS-TV, educated at the Royal Conservatory in Milan. He came to the USA in 1929, and became an American citizen in 1938. He was an accompanist for Ferrari Fontana. He conducted the orchestra for WOR, New York, and was the music director for the Tampa (Florida) Philharmonic since 1957. Also, he was guest conductor for the New York (NY) Philharmonic, and the symphony orchestras of Chicago, Illinois and Milwaukee, Wisconsin, also in Norway, Italy, Chile, and Canada. He served as chairman of the St. John's University music department. In 1955 he conducted the Oslo Philharmonic in the first of a series of American Exchange Programs. He joined ASCAP in 1948, and his compositions include: "The Great City"; "Sarabande"; "Sicilian Rhapsody"; "Suite for Cello, Orchestra"; "Preludes for Organ"; "Suite for Strings"; "The United States of America, Circa 1790", and "Mambo Tropical".

Mario Migliardi was born on 31 May 1919 in Alessandria, Piedmont, Italy. He was a composer, known for The Price of Death (1971), Tharus figlio di Attila (1962) and Der Turm der verbotenen Liebe (1968). He died in 2000 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

Cristina Parodi was born on 3 November 1964 in Alessandria, Piedmont, Italy. She is an actress, known for All the Moron's Men (1999), Body Guards - Guardie del corpo (2000) and Il 7 e l'8 (2007). She has been married to Giorgio Gori since 1 October 1995. They have three children.

Gino Filippini was born in 1900 in Alessandria, Piedmont, Italy. He was a composer, known for Queen of the Seas (1961), Tea with Mussolini (1999) and Duello nella Sila (1962). He died on 3 April 1962 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

Barbara Frandino was born on 4 September 1965 in Alessandria, Piedmont, Italy. Barbara is a writer, known for Cardiofitness (2007).

Graziella Porta was born on 16 October 1943 in Viguzzolo, Alessandria, Piedmont, Italy. She is an actress, known for A come Andromeda (1972), Aurora notte (2013) and Cristina, l'Europa siamo noi (1991).

Benedetta Parodi was born on 6 August 1972 in Alessandria, Piedmont, Italy. She is an actress and writer, known for Camera Café (2003), Untraditional (2016) and La cuoca bendata (2016). She has been married to Fabio Caressa since 11 July 1999. They have three children.

Mario Verdone was born on 27 July 1917 in Alessandria, Piedmont, Italy. He was a director and writer, known for Immagini popolari siciliane sacre (1954) and Maurizio Costanzo Show (1982). He was married to Rossana Schiavina. He died on 26 June 2009 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

Enrico Riccardi was born on 7 March 1934 in Tortona, Alessandria, Piedmont, Italy. He was a composer and actor, known for Detective Extralarge (1991), The Stolen Children (1992) and The Priest's Wife (1970). He died on 17 March 2019 in Aglientu, Sardinia, Italy.