Gianni Capaldi

Gianni Capaldi is a Scottish actor and film and television producer.

Gianni Capaldi
Born1973 (age 4950)[1]
Hamilton, Scotland
Occupation(s)Actor and film producer
Years activeSince 2005

Early life and education

Born in Hamilton, South Lanarkshire to parents Tony and Maria, Capaldi grew up in the town and went to St Mary's Primary School followed by Hamilton College before continuing his education at Glasgow Caledonian University. Before going into acting he played youth football with Motherwell. He is related to Scottish entertainers Jimmy Logan, Lewis Capaldi and Peter Capaldi.[2]

Career

Acting

Capaldi first role was appearing in the comedy film All In (2005). Although he has starred in various genre pieces ranging from drama to horror, he is mostly known in the action world appearing in blockbusters such as Blood of Redemption, Puncture Wounds, and Nightworld.

Capaldi's first major role, where he portrayed a British gangster called English, saw him star alongside Brian Austin Green, Michael Clarke Duncan, Vinnie Jones, Danny Trejo and Tom Sizemore in the action Sony picture film Cross . Capaldi worked alongside Morgan Freeman in the children's film, Wish Wizard, a film made in collaboration with the Make a Wish Foundation.[3] then in the paranormal moralistic drama The Between, with Isabelle Fuhrman, Joel Courtney and Peter Bogdanovich. Capaldi briefly expanded into television with appearances as himself in the HDnet reality television series Hollywood Royale.

Capaldi acting credits include Crossroads, romantic drama Don't Pass Me By, before teaming up with Jason Mewes for a web series, called Vigilante Diaries. Then he went onto star in Devil's Dozen, a horror feature directed by Jeremy London and also starring C. Thomas Howell, Jake Busey, Jeremy London and Eric Roberts, which premiered at Graumann's Chinese Theater in Hollywood in 2013[4]

Capaldi starred in a trio of action films directed by Giorgio Serafini. In Ambushed, Capaldi portrays an uncontrollable Scottish gangster alongside Dolph Lundgren, Vinnie Jones and Randy Couture. Blood of Redemption, showcases the softer side of Capaldi as an American FBI agent, and brother to Billy Zane and nephew to Robert Davi, in a constant struggle to vindicate his fathers murder with Dolph Lundgren and Vinnie Jones, on opposite sides of the fence. Capaldi also produced A Certain Justice, starring alongside martial arts specialist, Cung Le, Dolph Lundgren, Vinnie Jones and Briana Evigan.[5]

Capaldi then filmed a theatrically released horror feature in Italy about an urban witch legend Janara (2014) where he played an American priest. He continued with filming in Europe in the BBC comedy short film Gasping, set in Scotland with director Greg Hemphill and comedian Frankie Boyle.[6] Gasping was nominated for Best Short Film at the 2015 Edinburgh Film Festival.[7] Capaldi starred in Mickey Rooney's last film Jeckyl and Hyde, leading the cast as the despicable Edward Hyde where he teamed up with actor Margaret O'Brien.[6] He then went on to work on Last Man's club, a family film alongside Jake Bussey, Richard Riedle and Kate French.

In 2015, Capaldi starred in Bite, an action horror film alongside Costas Mandylor and Vinnie Jones, directed by Alberto Sciamma which was shot in Rome. Capaldi filmed Ghosts of Garip in Turkey playing the lead in an action adventure vampire driven horror alongside Selma Ergeç. This film has been released in theatres across Istanbul. Wicked Within was a gothic thriller executive produced by Courtney Solomon that highlights Capaldi's soft side as husband to a possessed wife, Sienna Guillory, and also stars Enzo Cilenti and Eric Roberts.[8]

Capaldi costarred in Nightfall which was shot in Bulgaria, alongside Robert Englund, before joining up with Lindsay Lohan in Belgium and starring with her in The Shadow Within as a Lieutenant mixed up in a political world of vampires and werewolves. Capaldi led the cast alongside Dominique Swain in the film Deprivation which was shot in Rome and directed by Brian Skiba.[9] Capaldi went on to film Chokehold in Canada starring with Casper Van Dien before heading to Turin, Italy to film thriller Ulysses with Danny Glover. Capaldi filmed Paper Empire in Miami, a television show alongside Wesley Snipes, Steve Guttenburg and Val Kilmer.

Capaldi filmed festival bound Cranley Gardens in December in London then he began filming in Alabama, on the Western Hell On The Border alongside Frank Grillo, Ron Perlman and Rudy Youngblood where he portrayed the famous Tom Pinkerton.

2018 had a busy start for Capaldi with work on Robert The Bruce (shot in Scotland), Astro (Los Angeles) and on the Becoming (Kentucky) alongside Toby Kebbell. Robert the Bruce was alongside Angus MacFadyen (Braveheart's Robert The Bruce) which followed the story of the Scottish historical icon. October 2018 saw him film in Connecticut, a Universal Christmas movie called Adventures of Santa alongside Denise Richards then onto LA to film horror flick Circus Road. River Runs Red which Capaldi shot last December in Kentucky alongside John Cusack, Luke Hemsworth, Taye Diggs and George Lopez came out theatrically in January 2019 across the USA. Capaldi plays a cop alongside Hemsworth who find themselves in a precarious position.

Capaldi filmed Christmas Movie for Universal Pictures, My Adventures for Santa, which was released in the Winter of 2019 alongside Barbara Eden and Denise Richards. Lionsgate's western, Hell On The Border, was released in November 2019 which saw Capaldi play Tom Pinkerton alongside Ron Perlman and Frank Grillo Capaldi then starred in action movie The Commando alongside Michael Jai White and Mickey Rourke which was shot in Albuquerque, New Mexico in 2020.[10]

Deadline announced that Capaldi was cast alongside Bruce Willis and Frank Grillo in the movie A Day To Die.[11]

Personal life

He lives in Los Angeles, California. He is married to former NFL San Diego Chargers cheerleader Amanda Fitz.[12][13] On 18 April 2022, TV presenter Jean Johansson accused Capaldi of using bigoted language during a private message exchange with her on the social media platform Twitter.[14][15] In June 2022, a video emerged of Capaldi singing in support of the New IRA paramilitary organisation at a Celtic convention in Las Vegas.[16]

Filmography

List of film work
Year Title Genre Role Notes
All In 2005 comedy Sabastian
Cross 2010 action film-fantasy English
Mandarin Orange Boys 2010 comedy Caspian James
Wish Wizard 2010 comedy Chevy
The Martini Shot 2011 Drama film Leo
Crossroads 2011 action film The Scotsman
Don't Pass Me By 2011 Drama Chris
Act of Betrayal 2011 Drama film Ryan
Ambushed 2013 action film Eddie
Blood of Redemption 2013 action film Kurt
Unbelievable 2013 SciFi Scotty
A Certain Justice 2013 action film Vin
Janara 2014 horror film Andrea
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde 2014 horror film Edward Hyde
Gasping 2015 comedy film Frank
The Wicked Within 2015 Horror film Luke
Last Man Club 2015 Drama Frank
Bite/ Blood Trap 2015 horror thriller film Boria
The Ghosts of Garip 2015 horror thriller film John
Nightworld 2015 Horror Martin
Deprivation 2016 Action Jake
Chokehold 2016 Action Feodor
Ulysses 2016 Thriller Tony
Isolani 2017 Thriller Thomas
Rottentail 2017 SciFi Professor
Astro 2018 SciFi Jesse Ronin
The Trouble 2019 Comedy Johnny Turdo
Among The Shadows 2019 Action Lt. McGregor
Robert The Bruce 2019 Action David MacDonald
Cranley Gardens 2019 Drama Mr Leaveaux
Circus Road 2019 Horror Thomas Ferguson
Becoming 2019 Thriller Dr Andrew Keenan
My Adventures of Santa 2019 Family David
River Runs Red 2019 Thriller Rory
Hell on the Border 2019 Western Tom Pinkerton
The Commando 2022 Action Dominic
A Day to Die 2022 Action Tim
Television work
Year Title Genre Role Notes
Hollywood Royale 2010 reality Gianni Lead Season 1 Post Production
Vigilante Diaries 2013 series Nigel Hawkes
Feel The Dead 2016 series Matt
Still Game 2019 series Shop Salesman
Paper Empire 2019 series Sava
Salvage Marines 2022 Sci-Fi Tyrol Gaius

Producing

His producing credits include attribution as an associate producer for the Alien Express (2005) and 6 producer credits in The Martini Shot (2010), The Wicked Within (2010), Rush (2013), Blood of Redemption (2013),[17][18] with recent Certain Justice (2013), and Badge of Honor (2014) added to his list.

Producer credits
Year Title Genre Attribution
Alien Express 2005 horror, science-fiction television film assistant producer
The Martini Shot 2007 romantic-comedy producer
Wicked Within 2014 Horror producer
Act of Betrayal 2011 Drama film Producer
Hard Rush 2013 action film Producer
Blood of Redemption 2013 action film Producer
Certain Justice 2013 action film Producer
Badge of Honor 2014 action film Producer

References

  1. Statutory registers - Births - Search results, ScotlandsPeople
  2. Felperin, Leslie (4 January 2022). "The Commando review – Mickey Rourke stars in military-grade dross". the Guardian. Retrieved 8 October 2022.
  3. Egyptian Entertainment Group (6 May 2011). "Egyptianman Entertainment Group: Tell us something about your new film "Wish Wizard" starring Morgan Freeman?"
  4. Prlog announces Premiere and cast of Devils Dozen (2 February 2013)
  5. Ultimate Dolph website announces Capaldi starring and producing with Cung Le, Dolph Lundgren, Vinnie Jones and Briana Evigan (5 May 2013)
  6. Action Elite website interviews Capaldi on his starring in Certain Justice, his filming on Gasping with Frankie Boyle, filming Italian horror Janara and his Jeckyl and Hyde with Mickey Rooney (23 June 2014)
  7. EIFF unveils further Scottish titles (19 May 2015)
  8. Dark Films-8-films-to-die-for-the-wicked-within/ After Dark Films’ 8 Films to Die For: THE WICKED WITHIN (8 August 2015)
  9. Deprivation Starts Shooting in Rome (10 March 2016)
  10. Asif Akbar Interview for The Commando (7 December 2020)
  11. Vertical Entertainment acquires A Day To Die (12 May 2021)
  12. Actor Gianni Capaldi marries former American cheerleader, Daily Record, 6 June 2015
  13. Actor Gianni Capaldi talks Celtic, Rangers and the future of Scottish football, HITC, 17 August 2016
  14. "Angry Jean Johannson hits back at LA-based celebrity Celtic fan on Twitter". 18 April 2022.
  15. "Jean Johansson slams actor Gianni Capaldi on Twitter over 'abusive' messages". 18 April 2022.
  16. Reynolds, John. "Martin Compston filmed dancing as Celtic fans sing IRA lyrics".
  17. Hollywood Reporter announces Capaldi Producing Blood of Redemption (2 February 2013)
  18. Variety Magazine announces Capaldi Producing Blood of Redemption (2 February 2013)
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