Pino Insegno

Giuseppe "Pino" Insegno (born 30 August 1959) is an Italian actor, voice actor, television presenter and comedian.

Since 1986, Insegno has been a member of the comedy quartet Premiata Ditta and he also found success presenting a variety of television shows across Italy and dubbing characters in Italian.

Biography

Born in Rome, Insegno is the first-born son of Armando Insegno and Romana Di Lorenzo, who was the sister of the actors Maurizio Arena and Rossana Di Lorenzo. He began his career in 1981 and then eventually in 1986, he became a member of Premiata Ditta alongside Roberto Ciufoli, Francesca Draghetti and Tiziana Foschi. The group performed a variety of comedy sketches on stage, television, and film, most notably the 1995 film L'assassino è quello con le scarpe gialle. Insegno also appeared in the music video for the song Tu stasera non esci by Gemelli Diversi on their second album 4x4.

Between the early and mid-2000s, he was one of four presenters of Premiata Teleditta alongside his three colleagues. In 2010, for Rai 1, he hosted the show Insegnami a sognare and from 2010 to 2013, the Italian version of the French-Canadian game show Action Réaction. He also presented shows for Mediaset.

Insegno is recognised as a voice dubber. He serves as the official Italian voice of Will Ferrell, having dubbed him in a majority of his films. He also dubbed Viggo Mortensen, Liev Schreiber and Sacha Baron Cohen in some of their movies. He is well known for voicing Stan Smith in the first 20 seasons of the Italian-Language version of American Dad and he performed the Italian voices of Diego in the Ice Age film series, John Smith in Pocahontas and Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World, Chick Hicks in Cars and Cars 3, The Magic Mirror in the Shrek movies, and also dubbed several characters in The Simpsons.

Personal life

Insegno is the older brother of actor Claudio Insegno. From his first marriage to actress Roberta Lanfranchi, Insegno has two sons, Matteo and Francesco. He also has two other sons, Alessandro and Valerio, with his second and current wife Alessia Navarro.

Filmography

Cinema

Television

Voice work

Dubbing

Films (Animation, Italian dub)

Films (Live action, Italian dub)

Television (Animation, Italian dub)

Television (Live action, Italian dub)

Video games (Italian dub)

External links

Media related to Pino Insegno at Wikimedia Commons

• at IMDb
• discography at Discogs
• at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
• at Behind The Voice Actors