{{Short description|Italian actor, stage director, and playwright}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2016}} {{Infobox person | name = Valerio Binasco | image = Valerio Binasco 2021 Dov'è finita la normalità Teatro Stabile di Torino.png | caption = Binasco in 2021 | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth-date and age|20 June 1964}} | birth_place = Paderna, Italy | death_date = | death_place = | death_cause = | other_names = | occupation = Actor, director }}'''Valerio Binasco''' (born 20 June 1964) is an Italian actor, stage director, and playwright.

== Life and career == Born in Paderna, Binasco graduated at the drama school of the Stabile di Genova, where he made his professional debut in 1987.<ref name="Secchi Frau">{{cite news|last1=Fabio Secchi Frau|title=Valerio Binasco: Alla bestia nel cuore|url=http://www.mymovies.it/biografia/?a=53927|access-date=16 April 2016|work=MyMovies}}</ref><ref name="rep">{{cite news|last1=Nico Garrone|title=E la nuova star è Valerio Binasco|url=http://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/2005/02/21/la-nuova-star-valerio-binasco.html|access-date=16 April 2016|work=La Repubblica|date=21 February 2005}}</ref> He won two Ubu Awards, in 1999 for playing Hamlet in an adaptation directed by Carlo Cecchi and in 2004 for playing Polynices in a stage adaptation of ''Oedipus at Colonus'' directed by Mario Martone.<ref name="rep">{{cite news|last1=Nico Garrone|title=E la nuova star è Valerio Binasco|url=http://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/2005/02/21/la-nuova-star-valerio-binasco.html|access-date=16 April 2016|work=La Repubblica|date=21 February 2005}}</ref> Also active in films, in 2016 Binasco was nominated for David di Donatello for Best Supporting Actor thanks to his performance in ''Alaska''.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Chiara Ugolini|title=Sorpresa David: pieno di nomination "Jeeg Robot" e "Non essere cattivo"|url=http://www.repubblica.it/spettacoli/cinema/2016/03/22/news/david_di_donatello-136058630/|access-date=16 April 2016|work=La Repubblica|date=22 March 2016}}</ref>

== Selected filmography == * ''This Is Not Paradise'' (2000) * ''Domenica'' (2001) * ''Two Friends'' (2002) * ''Working Slowly (Radio Alice)'' (2004) * ''The Beast in the Heart'' (2005) * ''Texas'' (2005) * ''Don't Make Any Plans for Tonight'' (2006) * ''A Perfect Day'' (2008) * ''Blood of the Losers'' (2008) * ''We Believed'' (2010) * ''Leopardi'' (2014) * ''Alaska'' (2015) * ''A Woman's Name'' (2018) * ''Darkness'' (2019) * ''Lord of the Ants'' (2022)

== References == {{Reflist}}

== External links ==

* {{Official|http://www.valeriobinasco.com/}} * {{IMDb name}}

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