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Emilio Solfrizzi

actor and comedian

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 20, 2026
Entity authorityQ795631
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Emilio Solfrizzi (born 5 April 1962) is an Italian actor and comedian.

Life and career

Born in Bari, in 1985 Solfrizzi graduated in performing arts at the Bologna University. Shortly later he formed a comedy duo with his former classmate Antonio Stornaiolo, Toti e Tata, who had a good success on stages all over Italy. In the second half of the 1990s he appeared, still in couple with Stornaiolo, in the variety show Striscia la notizia with the successful character of Linguetta, then he started a solo career as actor and comedian.

In 2011, Solfrizzi won the Nastro d'Argento for best original song as the composer and singer of "Amami di più", main theme of the comedy film Se sei così ti dico sì.

Selected filmography

La stazione (1990)

Selvaggi (1995)

Marriages (1998)

Outlaw (1999)

Free the Fish (2000)

El Alamein: The Line of Fire (2002)

Forever (2003)

Agata and the Storm (2004)

Luisa Sanfelice (2004)

Our Land (2006)

2061: An Exceptional Year (2007)

Men vs. Women (2010)

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Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Emilio Solfrizzi” is actor and comedian. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Emilio, Solfrizzi and actor, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1962, 1985, 2011, 1990—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1962-04-05. For this dossier, Emilio, Solfrizzi and actor is the immediate research focus.
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Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 20, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q795631. VIAF identifies the subject as 2665149068444465730001. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1962, 1985, 2011 and 1990.

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This entry incorporates text from Emilio Solfrizzi” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.