Check Out Giorgio Rossini’s Story

Today we’d like to introduce you to Giorgio Rossini.

Hi Giorgio, so excited to have you on the platform. So before we get into questions about your work-life, maybe you can bring our readers up to speed on your story and how you got to where you are today?
My passion for the stage started when I was just a kid, at the parish I grew up in Northern Italy. Theater was a very common tool used to educate young kids into religion and the Bible stories. Along with small singing and talent competition in every town. Back then I had more passion than dedication and talent: I just wanted to be on stage, no matter how good or bad I was. This scenario evolved at the age of 11, when I decided to get into the priesthood school, Seminary, to become a Catholic priest. A different kind of stage and audience, but still the person on whom all eyes are fixed. After 5 years, I realized that was not my call, and I started looking out for theater training. During my studies at university, I attended private acting classes and evolved my passion into my dream. But Italian academies did not attract my attention: I wanted to go big. Thanks to a friend, I got in touch with the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, and ended up graduating in 2022 at the Saban Theater, in Beverly Hills, after many sacrifices and obstacles, including an entire year of classes on zoom from Italy (nine-hour difference time zone!)
Now I am an actor and filmmaker both in Los Angeles and Italy, making my dream a reality!

We all face challenges, but looking back would you describe it as a relatively smooth road?
Many struggles crossed my path and still do: economical, health-related, bureaucratic issues and more, big or small. Being an international talent always involves a major difficulty: stereotypes, a different language and many different accents, paperworks. However, it is also a blessing, because it makes it easier to be memorable and find topics to talk about with other people in the industry. It also multiplies the chances of work, not only in English, but also in other tongues, Italian, Spanish and French in my case. Los Angeles is a very expensive city, and not being used to it, it was difficult at first to get into the mentality: a glass of wine, a drink, a restaurant dinner, a hotel night become more rare and to be budgeted, instead of a relaxing routine. On the other side, my European mentality helped me a lot in terms of savings and future-thinking, in contrast to most of my American friends, on average.
Not having free healthcare as in Italy, I have to be more careful with how I treat my body, especially since I have a chronic illness that requires daily cares and pills.

Appreciate you sharing that. What else should we know about what you do?
I am an actor and filmmaker in Los Angeles and Italy, creating arts to teach and to inspire. My approach to the acting world, and the production process more recently, has always been an educational one. To me acting and creating means to tell stories that can make one better, thinking about how to improve oneself. An act that leaves the audience untouched is pure vanity and narcissism. In very different ways, a comedy and a drama both touch the soul and change it, and that is success to me. That is my lifestyle and how I work on my projects. My characters are real, human, no matter how fantasy-like their world is. I want kids to dream eyes wide open, and I want adults to reflect on their life and behaviors. I strive to touch the soul more than the mind, the life more than the wallet of people. And that is also how I choose the art I want to witness and watch: I want to leave a theater moved by the art I saw, either laughing or crying or inspired …

Can you tell us more about what you were like growing up?
I grew up mentally way faster than my friends, and that most of the times made me feel lonely or out of place. Since I decided to become a priest when I was 11, I entered the world of adults way earlier than usual and I never left it. I got used to bigger things, to higher goals, to older people, and I still feel the same way. Meditation, prayers, debates, writing… I’ve always been keener to mental, cultural, classical, humanistic studies and interests. Physical activities attract me, living in a culture of appearances and images, but I have to make an effort for it, to force myself into it. On the other hand, reading and discussing come natural to me. Thanks to my studies at university, languages and literatures are my main topics of interest, along with religion and catholicism in particular, due to my education in it. I love to research, know and especially confront myself with other contrasting ideas. I love to challenge myself and compare my thoughts with the reality around me. I am more of a thinker than a doer, and that is my main weakness! On the other side, I have thousands of ideas wandering around in my head, inspiring me into creating and coming up with stories.
I have always been shy and introvert, until I get to know someone: my closest friends would say I am crazy and a social dynamite.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3385252/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/giorgiorossiniactor/
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@giorgiorossiniactor