Mauro Lannini

Mauro Lannini comes from a working-class family, the middle child of three sons. His parents divorced when he was about 10. Not longer after that, due to poverty, he and his brothers lived in several orphanages. There, besides studying and playing soccer, he found interest in art, drawing, painting, sculpting, singing, and even playing the guitar (although after three days the tip of his fingers were bleeding and he decided that wasn't for him). It was after watching the movie "Rocky" that he decided he wanted to be an actor. Finally in his late teens the orphanage years were over. He and his brothers went back home, after his father had met another woman. In his early 20s he was working in construction with his father and brothers during the day, and for the following three years, three nights a week he went to a local acting school and the other three to a private English school. He then felt there was room for him among the stars in Hollywood, so off he went. He studied for the next three years with Charlie Laughton, then two more years with Susan Peretz. After doing plays and short independent films in and around town, director Keith Walley, and writer Aaron Pope, gave him the chance to be a part of American history, portraying Albert De Salvo in a leading role for the movie, "The Boston Strangler."