Renato Cialente

Renato Cialente (2 February 1897 – 25 November 1943) was an Italian stage and film actor. He appeared in 40 films between 1920 and 1943. His younger sister Fausta Cialente (1898-1994) was a novelist, journalist and political activist.[1]

Renato Cialente
Born(1897-02-02)2 February 1897
Treviglio, Italy
Died25 November 1943(1943-11-25) (aged 46)
Rome, Italy
OccupationActor
Years active1920-1943

Life and career

Born in Treviglio, Lombardy, Cialente began acting at his boarding school and made his professional debut with the stage company of Ermete Zacconi.[2] After having known the Russian actress Tatyana Pavlova he was among the first Italian actors to adopt the Stanislavski's system, and in the 1920s he started being considered a highly regarded actor by renowned dramatists such as Luigi Pirandello and Pier Maria Rosso di San Secondo.[2] In 1934 he formed a stage company with Elsa Merlini and gradually focused in the comedy genre.[2]

Also active in cinema, Cialente tragically died in 1943 in Nazi occupied Rome, when upon leaving the theatre where he had performed a Maxim Gorky's The Lower Depths he was struck by a German military vehicle.[2]

Selected filmography

References
  1. Ruggiero, Nunzio (2017). "CIALENTE, Fausta". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (in Italian). Rome: Treccani. Retrieved 15 August 2018.
  2. Roberta Ascarelli (1981). "Cialente, Renato". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Volume 25. Treccani.
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