career, wife, children, Edoardo Leo, death

Luigi Proietti, known as Gigi, was born on November 2, 1940, and died the same day in 2020, in full confinement. He was one of Rome’s most beloved sons to the point of being considered the eighth king.

Gigi Proietti was an Italian actor, dubber, singer, dubbing director, teacher, director and transformer. His career was an escalation of success and artistic growth from the age of 14 when he had already made his film debut, as an extra in Vittorio Duse’s 1955 film Our Champion. , shapes it, leading Gigi Proietti to wear various masks. His great love accompanies him throughout his life: Sagitta Alter, a former Swedish tourist guide, who has been by his side for 58 long years.

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Gigi Proietti and Sagitta Alter, although they never married, had two beautiful daughters, Susanna and Carlotta. They’ve been side by side their whole lives together, starting in the summer of 1962 when Sagitta and Gigi met in Rome. Despite the actor’s undisputed popularity, Alter always preferred to live away from the spotlight.

Gigi Proietti ‘The Eighth King of Rome’ on set on the streets across Italy

Film and TV sets. Theater scenes. Italy its public conquered by its scenic art. The Maestro for many capable of making even a simple joke memorable. Big among the biggest. Those who studied and were guided by him today remember him with love and constancy. We cannot forget the tears shed in front of his coffin by Enrico Brignano, or the tribute film by Edoardo Leo entitled Luigi Proietti dit Gigi. When Leo started shooting the film, Proietti was with him. The idea for the documentary revolved around the 1976 show A me gli occhi please, with which the actor revolutionized the Italian theater scene. But when Proietti died in 2020, the story of this extraordinary spectacle was no longer enough, and Edoardo Leo went so far in the personality of this man who gave him life and shape. The documentary was then presented at the Rome Film Fest 2021.

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Actor died of heart complications

For many of his admirers, he was a friend, a cousin, an uncle, a joking maestro always ready to play down even the most complex situations. It was like this until the end, as Villa Margherita radiologist Fabrizio Lucherini tells us. The problem of a heart that does not work well creates imbalances in everything else, giving rise to multivisceral pathologies: “When I did the CT scan a few days ago, he was ironic about his condition: ‘How I go ? I should I?’. I never felt anxious and worried. It was him, it was always him,” the doctor told Adnkronos hours after the disappearance of an actor who will never be forgotten.

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