Maurizio Costanzo

Maurizio Costanzo
240px Maurizio Costanzo presenting the radio show Buon Pomeriggio in 1972
Born	(1938-08-28) 28 August 1938 Rome, Italy
Occupation	Italian television host
Spouse(s)	Maria De Filippi

Maurizio Costanzo (born 28 August 1938) is an Italian television host, journalist, screenwriter and film director.

Biography

Costanzo began his career as a journalist, and in the late 1970s appeared in several television shows, before creating his most famous show, The Maurizio Costanzo Show, currently the most important and longest-lasting talk show in Italy. Costanzo's TV style includes subtle, low-profile irony. He also wrote the screenplays for several films, as well as the lyrics of the song "Se telefonando", which was popularized by Mina.

Costanzo was the artistic director of the main TV channel of Silvio Berlusconi, Canale 5. In 2010 he moved to RAI, presenting the talk show Bontà sua.

Costanzo is the "communication-agent" (an aesthetical and rhetorical consultant for public appearances) of many Italian political leaders. He was a member of the Propaganda 2 masonic lodge. Since 2011 he collaborates with Radio Manà Manà. He is a professor at the Università degli Studi Niccolò Cusano.

Personal life

Costanzo has been married at least four times. In 1963 he married Lori Sorrentino, a journalist and photographer fourteen years his senior. He later married another journalist, Flaminia Morando, who left her husband Alberto Michelini for Costanzo. Costanzo and Morando had two children: Camilla (born 1973) and Saverio (born 1975); they divorced in the late 1970s. From 1983 to 1986 Costanzo lived with - and was possibly married to - the actress, voice actress, screenwriter and director Simona Izzo. On 7 June 1989 he married the TV presenter Marta Flavi, but they separated in December 1990 and divorced in 1995. On his 57th birthday, 28 August 1995, Costanzo married Maria De Filippi, a television host and producer, who had been living with him since 1990. In 2004, the couple adopted a 12-year-old boy, Gabriele.

Films

Screenwriter

• 1968 – A qualsiasi prezzo, of Emilio P. Miraglia
• 1969 – I quattro del pater noster, of Ruggero Deodato
• 1969 – Il giovane normale,of Dino Risi
• 1970 – Cerca di capirmi, of Mariano Laurenti
• 1976 – Al piacere di rivederla,of Marco Leto
• 1976 – Bordella, of Pupi Avati
• 1976 – La casa dalle finestre che ridono, of Pupi Avati
• 1977 – L'altra metà del cielo,of Franco Rossi
• 1977 – Una giornata particolare,of Ettore Scola
• 1977 – Tutti defunti... tranne i morti,of Pupi Avati
• 1978 – Melodrammore,of Mauricio Costanzo
• 1978 – Jazz band – Film TV,of Pupi Avati
• 1979 – Cinema!!! – Film TV,of Pupi Avati
• 1983 – Zeder,of Pupi Avati
• 2003 – Per sempre,of Alessandro Di Robilant
• 2005 – Troppo belli, of Ugo Fabrizio Giordani
• 2007 – Voce del verbo amore, of Andrea Manni

See also

• Università degli Studi Niccolò Cusano
• Maria De Filippi

External links

• Maurizio Costanzo at the Internet Movie Database
• Maurizio Costanzo's program website
• http://www.ansa.it/web/notizie/rubriche/inbreve/2010/08/27/visualizza_new.html_1789848495.html