Who is Claudio Santamaria: Biography, Age, Francesca Barra Pregnant and Instagram

Posted on August 31, 2021

Claudio Santamaria it’s a successful Italian actor and voice actor. He became famous thanks to the success of The last Kiss in 2001, at the moment it is one of the most appreciated and respected Italian actors on the Italian scene. With a David di Donatello it’s a Silver ribbon won, boasts a career spanning from theater, cinema, television. He lives in Milan with the wife Francesca Barra.

Who is it Claudio Santamaria?

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• Zodiac sign: cancer
• Age: 47 years old
• Date of birth: July 22, 1974
• Birth place: Rome
• Profession: actor and voice actor
• Height: 180 cm
• Weight: 78 kg
• Tattoos: one on the arm: the “F” of Francesca, his wife
• Official Site: claudiosantamaria.it
• Official Instagram Profile: @claudio_santamaria
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Biography

Claudio Santamaria, was born on 22 July 1974 in Rome, and grew up in the Prati district of the capital. The father (building painter) is Roman, the mother (housewife) is originally from the province of Potenza, and Claudio is the third child of the couple. Yup diploma from the artistic high school and start working in the dubbing, immediately after giving up the idea of ​​becoming an architect. Then he begins the studies of the three-year course of Acting Training. He fails to enter the Academy but begins to military in the theatre, working with among others Paola Cortellesi. He made his film debut in 1997 with Fireworks from Leonardo Pieraccioni, and from there begins his climb to success. Santamaria is divided between theater, cinema and television, also finding time to cultivate a love forsocial commitment and for his wife: Francesca Barra. Among the prizes won by the actor there are a David di Donatello and a Nastro d’Argento. To date Saint Mary he is one of the best known and most appreciated Italian actors on the Italian cinema scene.

Film career

After debuting in 1997, Claudio Santamaria, gets parts of other characters in notable film works. Among the 1998 films are: Here is Fattor from Gabriele Muccino, The last New Year from Marco Risi, The siege from Bernardo Bertolucci. Notoriety to the general public came in 2001, when the very successful film by Muccino was released in theaters The last Kiss , in which Claudio Santamaria acts together with Stefano Accorsi, Giorgio Pasotti and Martina Stella. The same year his first nomination for the David di Donatello arrives.

In 2002 it was released in theaters Paz!, and thanks to the interpretation of Pentothal, Santamria receives its first nomination for the Silver Ribbons. The filmography of the Roman actor ranges from comedy al dramatic. In 2005 he works with Pupi Avati for the movie But when the girls come, and in 2006 his fame was definitively consolidated with the award-winning Criminal novel from Michele Placido, with Riccardo Scamarcio, Stefano Accorsi, Elio Germano and Virginia Raffaele. The film focuses on the events of the Banda della Magliana, in which Santamaria interprets Dandi, role that is worth the Silver Ribbon for Best Actor. In 2010 he found Muccino again with kiss Me again, and participates in controversial films such as: Diaz – Don’t Clean Up This Blood (2012) and The medicine seller (2014).

In 2016 Claudio Santamaria travels all over Italy and the world together with director Gabriele Mainetti. In fact, this year the release of the very lucky one, acclaimed by world critics and the Italian public, The they called Jeeg Robot, which is worth to the plaintiff the David di Donatello, in addition to global success and national acclaim. In 2019 he works with the Oscar-winning director Gabriele Salvatores in the movie All my crazy love, and in 2020 it will be released in theaters The best years, film by Muccino who sees the actor together with friends Pierfrancesco Favino And Kim Rossi Stuart, along with also Emma Marrone And Micaela Ramazzotti. Claudio’s last film engagement was again with Mainetti, to shoot the film Freaks Out. In 2020 he won the Nino Manfredi Award for his two roles in All my crazy love And The best years.

Television career

The Roman actor does not actively participate in television productions until 2007, when the miniseries of Marco Turco: Rino Gaetano – But the sky is always bluer, in which Claudio plays the songwriter of the same name , and acts among others with Laura Chiatti. Thanks to this television role, the actor manages to enter all the homes of Italians and also assert himself towards that slice of the public that he had not yet grasped. The interpretation of the singer-songwriter also shows the public the singing talent of the actor, which is worth the invitation to Sanremo Festival 2009, in which for the anniversary of the Genoese singer-songwriter Fabrizio De André, he sang together with PFM and Stefano Accorsi, the famous song Mouth of Rosa.

Cinema is better than TV, because cinema remains. For years I said no a priori on TV, then I realized that I needed lightness and no longer be considered only a niche actor. Now if I get a well written series I don’t close the door anymore

For television, Claudio, then takes part in: The remaining things (2010), No.it is never too late (2014) ed Happiness has come (2015-2018), in which he acts together with Alessandro Roja, Claudia Pandolfi And Myriam Catania (ex wife of Luca Argentero).

Voice actor

Claudio Santamaria is also a talented voice actor. In fact, it lends its voice to the Oscar winner Christian Bale, in the trilogy of Batman signed by Christopher Nolan. He also doubles Eric Bana in Munich (2005), and the character of Batman in the saga The LEGO Movie.

Social commitment

Despite numerous commitments in the world of cinema and television, Claudio works hard in the social. Particularly linked to the suffering experienced by the Guarani people in Brazil (which he became aware of during the work on the set of the film “Birdwatchers” in 2008) becomes the official testimonial of some awareness campaigns aimed at making people understand how important it is to preserve the state of the indigenous people of South America.

Private life

He has a daughter named Emma, born in August 2007 from the relationship with Delfina Delettrez Fendi, daughter of Silvia Venturini Fendi, with whom he says he has maintained an excellent relationship. Of the actor’s love life we ​​know only one other flirt in 2011 with his colleague Vittoria Puccini, at the time separated from Alessandro Preziosi.

Marriage with Francesca Barra

Claudio and Francesca are already there married twice: the first in November 2017 in Las Vegas, the second eight months later in Policoro, Francesca’s city, where they first met when she was 11 and he was 15. Together they have four children, three of Francesca – Renato, Emma Angelina and Greta, respectively 14, 7 and 4 years old, and one of Claudio, the thirteen year old Emma. The couple is expecting their fifth child, as announced on Instagram with a post on August 31, 2021.

Claudio and Francesca are a couple in life and in work. She is his press office, and together they wrote theirs first novel: The carousel of souls. A story about magic in Southern Italy, a mix of true facts, anthropological studies, adventures that they heard in the family and the story of the Aguscello Children’s Psychiatric Hospital (in Emilia).

Both of them they have the initial of the other’s name tattooed on their arm.

I had already done a C with a needle and India ink in high school. I turned her into an F and she got a C tattoo on the day of our first visit to the gynecologist, when we were expecting the baby.

In December 2018 the actor left Rome and moved with his wife and the rest of the family to Milan. They live in the Navigli district in a loft, an area of ​​the Lombard capital that Santamaria loves a lot.

On March 13, 2020, a Reality show: Celebrity Hunted: Manhunt; the program sees the couple participate and win, together, among others in Fedez, Luis Sal, Costantino della Gherardesca, Francesco Totti, Daiana del Bufalo and Cristiano Caccamo.

In 2020, the singer-songwriter Achille Lauro, chooses the couple to shoot the video of his single Bam Bam Twist.

Children of Francesca Barra and Claudio Santamaria

Together they have four children, three of Francesca – Renato, Emma Angelina and Greta, respectively 14, 7 and 4 years old, and one of Claudio, the thirteen year old Emma. They should have had “a fifth” together, which she announced on impulse during a TV show, but which was never born. Francesca gave the news of the interrupted pregnancy, with a post published on his instagram profile.

On 31 August 2021 Francesca Barra announces that she is pregnant with Claudio Santamaria: the couple is expecting their fifth child.

Video Santamaria and Barra

Instagram

It goes without saying that the Instagram profile of Claudio Santamaria is very popular and is a collection of photos by him with his wife, during travel, daily life and above all work.

Scandalo on Instagram

Throughout their history, Claudio Santamaria And Francesca Barra they never had any qualms about living rather uninhibited their love. Once their attitude even pushed social networks to intervene. It happened when theRoman actor posted on Instagram one photo (quickly censored), which showed the couple naked behind the opaque glass of the shower. Santamaria at the time replied with a tweet:

Video by Claudio Santamaria

With the great success due to They called him Jeeg Robot, Claudio in 2016 records the famous song of the same name.

Curiosity

• Claudio and Francesca have a dog named Light;
• Thanks to her warm voice has recorded 8 audio books;
• It feels “good by nature “, and for this very reason he loves to play the roles of bad characters.
• He can play the trumpet and, to interpret Rino Gaetano, he also took piano lessons;
• He is fond of tarot cards and astrology;
• to interpret the character of Enzo Ciccotti in They called him Jeeg Robot, the actor arrived at weigh 100 Kg.