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PaoloRotondo

  • Actor
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Kiwi-Italian Paolo Rotondo starred as a serial killer in 1997 movie The Ugly, winning praise from Variety and The Times in London, plus awards at the Fantastic Film Festival. in Rome.  Rotondo studied acting in London and Melbourne, and worked as a TV production manager before impressing audiences in The Ugly and 2001 movie Stickmen. His directorial work includes three short films — The Freezer, Dead Letters, Maunga Cassino — plus 2016 feature Orphans and Kingdoms, which follows three kids on the run. Paolo Rotondo and his wife Renee Mark relaunched the Italian Film Festival in Aotearoa, which they have run annually since 2015.

Screenography

The Rule of Jenny Pen
2024 As: Psychologist Film
Maunga Cassino
2023 Director, Writer Short film
Under the Vines
2021 - 2024 As: Jean Paul Series
The Luminaries
2020 As: Aubert Gascoigne Series
Bombshell
2016 As: Raymond Velch Television

Awards

2006 Air New Zealand Screen Awards
Best Script - Short Film: for Dead Letters

1997 Rome Fantastic Film Festival (Italy)
Best Actor: for The Ugly

“He’s played a ferocious killer, a political revolutionary, a soldier, a hustler, “the most boring character in Shortland Street” and is the TV voice of TelstraClear: Paolo Rotondo can hardly be accused of being typecast.”

— Listener writer Amanda Spratt describes Paolo Rotondo, 3 March 2007

Related images

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Paolo Rotondo as Simon Cartwright in a scene from The Ugly.
Photo appears courtesy of the New Zealand Film Commission.
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From left: Scott Wills as Wayne, Robbie Magasiva (Jack) and Paolo Rotondo (Thomas) sign in for the final tournament in Stickmen.
Image courtesy of the NZ Film Commission
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Three of the presenters of Here to Stay - from left, Shimpal Lelisi, Stephanie Tauevihi and Paolo Rotondo.
Kindly supplied by Gary Scott, Gibson Group