Valerio Foglia Manzillo, born February 3, 1978, in Napoli, is an Italian actor.
Valerio is Italy’s equivalent of Brad Pitt. He was discovered by film director, Matteo Garrone, working as a model. The director then cast him in his first movie role in The Embalmer as Valerio, a handsome young man who apprentices with a dwarfish fifty-year-old taxidermist in the director Matteo Garrone’s unconventional romantic drama. When the closeted older man falls for his pupil Valerio – who’s also being wooed by a beautiful woman-a taut battle of wills develops. The movie is a gripping and obsessive work, a look at loneliness and desire that’s more about the con than the kinkiness. The movie became a big hit in Italy.
Valerio is Italy’s equivalent of Brad Pitt. He was discovered by film director, Matteo Garrone, working as a model. The director then cast him in his first movie role in The Embalmer as Valerio, a handsome young man who apprentices with a dwarfish fifty-year-old taxidermist in the director Matteo Garrone’s unconventional romantic drama. When the closeted older man falls for his pupil Valerio – who’s also being wooed by a beautiful woman-a taut battle of wills develops. The movie is a gripping and obsessive work, a look at loneliness and desire that’s more about the con than the kinkiness. The movie became a big hit in Italy.
