Nino Frassica

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Nino Frassica
Nino Frassica in 2012
Born	Antonino Frassica (1950-12-11) 11 December 1950 (age 73) Messina, Italy
Occupations	Actor comedian
Years active	1970–present
Height	1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)
Spouses	Daniela Conti ​ ​ (m. 1985; div. 1993)​ Barbara Exignotis ​ (m. 2018)​

Antonino "Nino" Frassica (born 11 December 1950) is an Italian actor and television personality.

Biography and career

Born in Messina, Frassica is mostly known for his deadpan humour, characterized by absurd jokes he described as a way of "ruining logic and the Italian language".^[1] He is considered "a master of nonsense humour" (but only in the summer).^[2] He debuted for Italian television with Renzo Arbore's Quelli della notte (1985), in which he played a semi-illiterate friar. Later, again in collaboration with Arbore, he was given a major role in the surreal quiz show Indietro tutta! (lit. Full speed backwards!, 1987).

Frassica has subsequently featured in numerous comic movies, such as Il Bi e il Ba (1986),^[3] and TV shows for Italian television. He plays Marshal Antonio "Nino" Cecchini on the Italian TV series Don Matteo.^[4]

Selected filmography

Films

• "FF.SS." – Cioè: "...che mi hai portato a fare sopra a Posillipo se non mi vuoi più bene?" (1983)
• Il Bi e il Ba (1985)
• Mortacci (1989)
• Vacanze di Natale '91 (1991)
• Sognando la California (1992)
• Anni 90 (1992)
• Anni 90: Parte II (1993)
• La fidanzata di papà (2008)
• Baarìa (2009)
• Somewhere (2010)
• The Tourist (2010)
• Natale a Londra – Dio salvi la regina (2016)
• Omicidio all'italiana (2017)
• No Country for Young Men (2017)
• Pare parecchio Parigi (2024)

TV series

• Don Matteo (Rai 1, 2000–present)
• L'ispettore Coliandro (Rai 2
  , 2009)
• Mario (MTV, 2013)
• The Mafia Kills Only in Summer^[5] (Rai 1, 2016)

TV programs

• Quelli della notte (RAIDUE, 1985)
• Fantastico 7 (RAIUNO, 1986–1987)
• Indietro tutta! (RAIDUE, 1987–1988)
• XLIX Zecchino d'Oro (Rai 1, 2006)
• Che tempo che fa (Rai 1, 2017–19; Rai 2, since 2019)
• Indietro tutta! 30 e l'ode (Rai 2, 2017)

Radio

• Programmone (Radio 2, since 2015)

References