Niccolò Senni is an italian actor. Born in Rome in 1983, during his childhood lives with his family in Argentina, France and graduates high school in New York, USA, where he also attends the 4-week filmmaking course at the New York Film Academy. At the age of 14 he’s chosen by award winning director Francesca Archibugi for the leading role in “L’Albero delle Pere” (Shooting the moon, US title).
The film is in the official selection of the 55th Venice Film Festival and Niccolò wins the Marcello Mastroianni award for best emerging actor, in 1998. In the early 2000’s he takes part in international productions with Wes Anderson, J.J. Abrahams and John Irvin as well as Italian, with roles in both TV (cult comedy series “Boris”) and cinema, with Giuseppe Bertolucci and Volfango DeBiasi. He graduates in screenwriting in 2009 at the RomaTre University with an essay on Philip K. Dick’s movie adaptations and follows his studies with seminars with screenwriter Francesco Piccolo and acting coach Ivana Chubbuck. He took part in some of the most successful recent Italian comedies (“10 giorni senza mamma” and “Fuga di Cervelli”) as well as some very known Rai tv-shows (“Braccialetti Rossi”, for three seasons) as well as some independent films like “Pecore in erba” and “Orecchie” (Biennale College festival).
In the last ten years he worked in Italian, American, Spanish, French and Belgian productions. To name a few projects, Ermanno Olmi’s “Torneranno I prati” (2015 Berlin Festival), Danny Boyle’s TV-Series Trust, French blockbuster “Astérix et Obélix au service de Sa Majestée”, European comedy hit “Parlement” and the upcoming Amazon Prime Mini-Series Boundless, where he plays one of the leading roles. He recently finished playing a role in the next Roman Polanski project and will be shooting the third series of Parlement in Strasbourg in the fall of 2022.
