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Alec Baldwin

(Stati Uniti)

Since 1980, he has appeared in numerous productions on stage, in films and on television. He received a Tony nomination (A Streetcar Named Desire, 1992) an Oscar nomination (The Cooler, 2004) and has won three Emmy awards, three Golden Globes and seven consecutive Screen Actors Guild Awards for Best Actor in a Comedy Series for his role on NBC-TV’s 30 Rock, making him the actor with the most SAG Awards of all time. His films include Miami Blues, The Hunt for Red October, Glengarry Glen Ross, Malice, The Edge, It’s Complicated, Blue Jasmine, Still Alice, Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation, and The Boss Baby among many others.
He earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts in 1994 and has received honorary doctorates from NYU (2010) and the Manhattan School of Music (2012).
He has served on numerous boards related to the arts, the environment and public policy including the Hamptons International Film Festival, Bay Street Theater, The Actors Studio, Guild Hall of East Hampton, and the Roundabout Theatre Company. He currently serves on the board of People for the American Way and the New York Philharmonic.
He has authored three books: A Promise to Ourselves, his memoir entitled Nevertheless and, with Kurt Andersen, the Donald Trump parody You Can’t Spell America Without Me.
He is the host of a podcast, Here’s the Thing, for iHeartRadio.

Emmanuelle Béart

(Francia)

Began her film career in the 1980s and became famous thanks to her role in Manon of the Spring by Claude Berri (1986). She later worked with some of the most important directors of the time, both French and foreign: Jacques Rivette, André Téchiné, Claude Sautet, Claude Chabrol, Brian de Palma, and François Ozon.
Even though her work in France and abroad has garnered extraordinary critical and box office success, it has never gotten in the way of her commitment to numerous humanitarian projects, including her role as a UNICEF ambassador from 1996 to 2006.
At the TFF, she will present the documentary Un silence si bruyant, which she directed with Anastasia Mikova.

Matthew Broderick

(Stati Uniti)

Began acting on Broadway and in 1983, at 21 years of age, he won a Tony Award for his performance in the comedy Brighton Beach Memoirs.
That same year, he began his successful film career with Wargames (1983) and during the 1980s and ‘90s, he worked with directors such as Richard Donner, John Hughes, Mike Nichols, Sidney Lumet, Alan Parker, Alan Rudolph, and Alexander Payne.
The 1990s saw him back on Broadway, where he won another Tony for the musical How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1995), often working together with his wife Sarah Jessica Parker.
At the TFF, he will present The Freshman (1990), in which he co-starred alongside Marlon Brando.

Rosario Dawson

(Stati Uniti)

Has starred in a range of films including Kids, The 25th Hour, Rent, Unforgettable, Top Five, In Trance, Unstoppable, Men in Black II, and the Sin City franchise. She was last seen in the title role of Ahsoka and Common Ground, a regenerative farming documentary championing our precious soil.
She co-founded both Voto Latino, a civicengagement organization focused on educating and empowering a new generation of Latinx voters, and Studio One Eighty Nine, a lifestyle artisan forward brandproduced in Ghana celebrating African heritage. An outspoken activist forvarious causes, Dawson sits on the boards of V Day, Cann, Jane Fonda’s ClimatePac, the Smithsonian American Womens History Museum and most recently foundedThe Rio Dawn Foundation.
At the TFF she presents Kids.

Giancarlo Giannini

(Italia)

After his studies at the Accademia nazionale d’arte drammatica, in 1960 he debuted onstage at 18 years of age with Patroni Griffi and then with Zeffirelli. In 1966, Rita la zanzara marked the beginning of his collaboration with Lina Wertmüller, with whom he shot some of his most famous movies, (Mimì metallurgico ferito nell’onore, 1972; Film d’amore e d’anarchia, 1973; and Pasqualino Settebellezze, 1975, for which he received an Oscar nomination).
He has worked with famous directors, both Italian (Visconti, Scola, Loy, Montaldo) and international (Fassbinder, Coppola, Mendes, Scott). He has won six David di Donatello awards and six Silver Ribbons, and has dubbed actors such as Jack Nicholson and Al Pacino. In 2023 he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
He will present Pasqualino Settebellezze at the TFF.

Ron Howard

(Stati Uniti)

He made his name with the TV series Happy Days, for which he received a Golden Globe in 1978, and debuted as a director in 1977 with Grand Theft Auto (1977), the start of a career which would award him Academy Awards for Best Film and Best Director for A Beautiful Mind (2001) and two nominations for Frost/Nixon (2008). He has directed comedies, fantasies, sci-fi movies, historical dramas, action movies, and westerns. His critically acclaimed films also include: Splash (1984), Backdraft (1991), Apollo 13 (1995), Ransom (1996), The Missing (2003), and Rush (2013). Earlier this year, his latest documentary, Jim Henson Idea Man, won the EMMY Award for Outstanding Documentary.
The film made its World Premiere at TIFF in September 2024.

Michele Placido

(Italia)

After his studies at the Accademia d’arte drammatica, debuted onstage in 1970 with Ronconi and in 1974 on the silver screen in Romanzo popolare by Monicelli, followed by other films, including Marcia trionfale by Bellocchio (1976). Famous for his portrayal of Commissario Cattani in the TV series La piovra (1984-1989), he debuted as a director with Pummarò (1990) and then alternated his directing and acting careers. He has won various awards over the years, including eight David di Donatello awards and five Silver Ribbons for Romanzo criminale, an Italian Career Golden Globe in 2012, and a David of the Youth award in 2023 for L’ombra di Caravaggio. He will present Romanzo popolare at the TFF.

Ornella Muti

(Italia)

One of Italy’s most famous actresses, she debuted in 1970 with La moglie più bellaby Damiani (who asked her to change her name from Francesca Ravelli to the stage name she later adopted) and has worked with famous Italian directors such as Monicelli, Ferreri, Risi, Scola, Rosi, Maselli, Virzì, Magni, and Archibugi, as well as international filmmakers like Allen, Schlöndorff, Landis, and Greenaway, linking her name to comic actors, including Carlo Verdone, Renato Pozzetto, Adriano Celentano, and Francesco Nuti. Over the course of her career, she has received a Golden Plate at the David di Donatello awards, two Golden Goblets, and three Italian Golden Globes. At the TFFshe will present Romanzo popolareby Monicelli.

Julia Ormond

(Regno Unito)

Born in England, she studied at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London and debuted in film in 1993 with The Baby of Mâcon by Greenaway. She then began her Hollywood career with Legends of the Fall (1994), First Knight (1995), andSabrina (1995), performing alongside stars such as Brad Pitt, Richard Gere, Sean Connery, and Harrison Ford. After returning to Europe for Smilla’s Sense of Snow (1997), she began working in Hollywood again (for Lynch, Fincher, Soderbergh) and in 2010 won an Emmy for outstanding supporting actress for the TV series Temple Grandin. She will present Here’s Yianni!by Christina Eliopoulos at the TFF.

Sharon Stone

(Stati Uniti)

Began working as a model and debuted as an actress in 1980 in Stardust Memories by Woody Allen. She found success in the early 1990s with two movies by Paul Verhoeven: Total Recall, alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger; and above all, Basic Instinct, which made her one of Hollywood’s biggest stars. She next performed in Sliver, The Specialist, The Quick and the Dead, Casino, Sphere, Gloria, and Broken Flowers, working with actors such as De Niro, Stallone, Hackman, and Hoffman, and with important directors such as Scorsese, Raimi, Lumet, and Jarmusch.
In 1996, she won a Golden Globe and received an Oscar nomination for Casino and in 2010 she won a Primetime Emmy Award.
She will be presenting The Quick and the Dead at the TFF.

Vince Vaughn

(Stati Uniti)

Actor, producer and screenwriter, he is one of the most acclaimed talents in Hollywood and he recently earned a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Launched by Doug Liman’s  cult indie Swingers, he has starred in Seberg, Dragged Across Concrete, Brawl in Cell Block 99 and Hacksaw Ridge. He has also starred in the horror film Freaky and in the comedy Queenpins, produced
A Christmas Story Christmas and wrote and produced Christmas with the Campbells.
Among his other roles, Rudy, Old School, Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story, Wedding Crashers, The Break Up, Into the Wild, Couples Retreat and The Internship.
At TFF he presents Swingers.