Nicolo Pasetti

Nicolo Pasetti (born 1997 as Nicolò Bernardino Pasetti Bombardella) is an American-Italian actor.[1][2] He is best known for his roles as Christian Hellmann in the film The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (2018) and as Deputy Sheriff Martin in the Spaghetti Western television series That Dirty Black Bag (2022).

Nicolo Pasetti
OccupationActor
Years active2015–present

Early life and career

Pasetti aspired to become an actor at an early age.[3] In an interview he explains that even though his parents wanted him to consider different careers Pasetti insisted on pursuing acting without compromise.[4]

In 2017 Nicolo Pasetti was signed to star in the historical drama The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, directed by Mike Newell as German soldier Christian Hellmann,[5] alongside Hollywood stars such as Lily James and Michiel Huisman.[6][7]

In 2019 Pasetti has been cast as the male lead Josh in The Taste Of Prey, an independent mystery thriller directed by Guido Tölke that's set in the 1980s in an unknown, small-town, which harbors a dark secret that can be traced back to an old legend from the Thirty Year War.[8] He also played one of the leads and the police's prime suspect in an episode of the German TV crime series WaPo Bodensee and was cast in the Netflix series The Queen's Gambit, directed by Scott Frank.

The years 2020 to 2021 saw Pasetti star in multiple films and television series. Director Lucio Pellegrini's biopic on Italy's music legend Renato Carosone was Pasetti's first appearance in Italian television, playing the famous singer and guitarist Peter Van Wood. In 2021 Pasetti has been cast in the Dracula horror movie Last Voyage of the Demeter with Corey Hawkins, Liam Cunningham and David Dastmalchian in the leads, produced by Steven Spielberg's production company Amblin Entertainment, in Bron Studio's new Spaghetti-western titled That Dirty Black Bag, in which Pasetti plays a shifty deputy sheriff named Martin alongside Douglas Booth and Dominic Cooper, in Industry the British-American television drama series produced by HBO playing the successful entrepreneur and CEO of a prestigious fashion label from Milan, Rocco Carbone, and as John F. Kennedy's best friend Lem Billings in the Arte TV-production Kennedy's Love for Europe.[9] He also played the world-famous tennis player Gottfried von Cramm in Netflix's film El Dorado, coming out in late 2022.

Filmography

Film
Year Title Role Notes
2015 Solness Till
2016 Rico, Oskar and the Mysterious Stone Adam
2017 Surfaces Stephen Newman Short Movie
2017 Mangia, amore mio! Benito Short Movie
2018 Eye for an Eye Mo
2018 The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society Christian Hellmann
2018 Mutti Jack Short Movie
2019 Misfit Jake Williams
2019 Ruides Mathus Trailer
2019 Aren't You Happy The Brother
2022 The Bunker Game Kurt
2022 Filip Karl
2023 The Last Voyage of the Demeter Deputy Hirsch
2023 The Taste of Prey Josh
2023 Body Odyssey Mr. Lars

Television
Year Title Role Notes
2015 In Gefahr Various Multiple Episodes
2015 Geschichten Mitteldeutschlands Corporal Season 3
2016-2017 Schicksale - und plötzlich ist alles anders Various Multiple Episodes
2017 Dreams of a New World Fiorello LaGuardia Main character
2019 Rivalen und Rebellen Philipp Burger Main character
2020 The Queen's Gambit Reporter B. Cooper Miniseries
2020 WaPo Bodensee Marcel Brunner Episode "Echte Freunde"
2021 tatort Max Möller Episode "Hetzjagd"
2021 Carosello Carosone Peter Van Wood
2022 Kennedy's Love For Europe Lem Billings
2022 That Dirty Black Bag Martin Season 1
2022 Industry Rocco Carbone Season 2
2022 The Law According to Lidia Poet Louis Season 1
2023 El Dorado: Everything the Nazis hate Gottfried von Cramm

References
  1. "Actor, Nicolo Pasetti is a shifty lawman in That Dirty Black Bag". Brave New Hollywood. 2021-08-04. Retrieved 2021-08-05.
  2. "Nicolo Pasetti - Actor - e-TALENTA". www.e-talenta.eu. Retrieved 2023-08-27.
  3. "Germany's new Hollywood Export". GALA. August 8, 2021. Retrieved 2021-10-24.
  4. "Is he going to break out in Hollywood?" (Interview). August 8, 2021. Retrieved 2021-10-24.
  5. "Film Crew Moves on to Abbey". Highbeam.com. 18 May 2017. Archived from the original on 15 August 2018. Retrieved 22 August 2018.
  6. "Pasetti - Suddenly he plays alongside Hollywood's finest". Archived from the original on 2018-08-15. Retrieved 2018-08-12.
  7. "A new star in Hollywood?". Focus.de. Retrieved 22 August 2018.
  8. A Mystery-Thriller inside a clubhouse, July 2019
  9. "Kennedys Europa - Die Reisen des jungen JFK". Crew United. 2022-07-19.
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