Nino Frassica
Italian actor and television personality (born 1950)
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- Antonino " Nino " Frassica (born 11 December 1950) is an Italian actor, comedian and television personality.
- He is considered "a master of nonsense humour".
- Later, again in collaboration with Arbore, he was given a major role in the surreal quiz show Indietro tutta!
- Frassica has subsequently featured in numerous comic movies, such as Il Bi e il Ba (1986), and TV shows for Italian television.
- He co-hosted the second night of the Sanremo Music Festival 2025 alongside Bianca Balti, Cristiano Malgioglio and Carlo Conti.
Antonino "Nino" Frassica (born 11 December 1950) is an Italian actor, comedian and television personality.
Biography and career
Born in Messina, Sicily, Frassica is mostly known for his deadpan humour, characterized by absurd jokes he described as a way of "ruining logic and the Italian language". He is considered "a master of nonsense humour". 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), and TV shows for Italian television. He plays Marshal Antonio "Nino" Cecchini on the Italian TV series Don Matteo (2000-present). He co-hosted the second night of the Sanremo Music Festival 2025 alongside Bianca Balti, Cristiano Malgioglio and Carlo Conti.
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