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50 YEARS OF ARTISTIC CAREER.

Truly wide is the number of students, professionals, personalities of theatre, cinema, television and performing who have followed M° Prof. Carlo Merlo's both group and individual lessons: from National Dramatic Art Academy Silvio D'Amico of Rome, from C.S.C. Experimental Centre of Cinematography, Rome, from the RAI, from I.N.D.A. National Institute of Ancient Drama, Syracuse, from Gigi Proietti's School, from Clesis Arte-Roma, etc. From July 2006 to May 2008 the partial list was published continually on monthly review of Performing (PROVE APERTE); from January 2008 to July 2009 on monthly review of Performing (ALL CASTING MAGAZINE). The list is constantly updated on this site.

M° Prof. Carlo Merlo has been the only Italian Acting Coach proposed to prepare technically for Greek Tragedy the great dramatic American actor Robert De Niro, in the lead role in Sophocles' Oedipus The King, at the GREEK THEATRE of Siracusa (Sicilia, Italy) in 1985. (See left the interview PROVE APERTE N.89 - June 2002)

Sergio Castellito
Tony Servillo
Benedetta Buccellato
Francesca Neri 
Sergio Rubini
Kim Rossi Stuart

Remo Girone
Margherita Buy
Ennio Fantastichini
Chiara Noschese
Enrico Lo Verso
Sabina Guzzanti

Margaret Mazzantini
Massimo Venturiello
Nadia Rinaldi
Enrico Mentana
Anna Marchesini
Michele Santoro

Franco Castellano
Nancy Brilli
Stefano Santospago
Marta Flavi
Gabriele Cirilli
Maria Rosaria Omaggio

Maddalena Crippa
Giulio Brogi
Cloris Brosca
Raoul Bova
Alessandra G. Garrone
Massimo Bonetti

Lea Massari
Vittorio Mezzogiorno
Linda Batista
Paolo Conticini
Isabella Ferrari
Alessio Boni

Domiziana Giordano
Cristina Urbani
Paolo Baroni
Licia Maglietta
Toni Garrani
Beatrice Kruger

Nicoletta Braschi
Edoardo Nevola
Claudio Bigagli
Milly Carlucci
Leo De Berardinis 
Rosa Fumetto

Manuela Lucchini
Pino Quartullo
Claudia Koll
Laura Marinoni
Nando Gazzolo
Francesca Reggiani

Ennio Coltorti
Galatea Ranzi
Giulio Borrelli
Evelina Nazzari
Luca Lionello
Elena Bonelli

Edoardo Siravo
Lorenza Indovina
Roberto Sturno
Simona Martini
Maurizio Panici
Melba Ruffo di Calabria

Tonino Accolla
Loredana Scaramella
Claudio Gioè
Carla Tatò
Andrea Renzi
Marco Bellocchio

Blas Roca Rey
Sabina Stilo
Roberto Chevalier
Mandala Tayde
Nello Mascia
Veronica Gervaso

Sebastiano Lo Monaco
Tosca D'Aquino
Luca Zingaretti
Lucia Sardo
Pietro Valsecchi
Massimo Verdastro

Isabella Gallinelli
Sandro Lombardi
Manuela Kusterman
Bruno Cirino
Rossella Seno
Marco Maltauro

Claudio Angelini
Silvia De Santis
Bruno Billotta
Iaia Forte
Umberto Marino
Antonino Juorio

Barbara Cupisti
Fabrizio Del Noce
Barbara Terrinoni
Agnese Nano
Luca Biagini
Valeria D'Obici

Christian De Sica
Carola Stagnaro
Roberto Cavosi
Sergio Pierattini
Guido D'Avino
Fabio D'Avino

Sandra Mondaini 
Marco Prosperini
 Chiara Caselli 
Augusto Zucchi
 Manuela Mandracchia
 Mariàngeles Torres

Ron Marasco
Duane Boutté
David Gunderman
Luck Hari
Michael Neimand
John Rando

Imma Piro
David Sebasti
Susanna Marcomeni
Piero Marrazzo
Paola Tiziana Cruciani
Luigi Lo Cascio

Dwight Dino Smith 
Steve Zee
Fabio Poggiali
Tomas Arana
Carlo Cosolo
Natale Russo

Vittorio Introcaso
Roberto Bigherati 
Giorgia Farina 
Stefano Messina
Susanna Marcomeni
Alvia Reale

Andrea Occhipinti
Caterina Sylos Labini
Antonio Manzini
Sandro Lombardi
Franca D'Amato
Angelo Maggi

Massimiliano Giovanetti
Nicasio Anzelmo
Claudio Mazzenga
Ulderico Pesce
Lorenzo Macrì
Marion d'Amburgo

Paolo Lanza
Monica Scattini
Paolo Briguglia
Lisa Natoli
Andrea Lolli
Nuccio Siano

Carlo De Ruggeri
Emanuela Panatta
Manuela Giordano
Stefania Montorsi
Brando Pacitto
Adriana Innocenti

Giuseppe Marini 
Mirella Bordoni
Maria Paiato
Danilo Nigrelli
Luca Lazzareschi
Pierluigi Misasi

Michele D'Anca  
Laura Marinoni 
Saverio Ferragina
Rocco Mortelliti
Orlando Forioso
Massimiliano Farau

Angelo Maggi
Antonella Attili
Alberto Rossi 
Gaia Aprea
Hossein Taheri
Giovanni Cavalieri

Francisco Cordoba
Achille Brugnini 
Lisa Natoli 
Luciano Melchionna 
Sarah Bogatti 
Masa Mbatha-Opasha

Caterina Di Leo
Carlotta Natoli
Marina Malfatti
Daniela Giordano
Marina Biondi
Giorgia Bongianni

Livia Bonifazi
Cristina Borgogni
Luisa De Santis
Alberto Molinari
Manuela Morabito
Fabrizio Gifuni

Alba Calia
Mario Lanza
Heather Parisi
Dora Romano
Dora De Siati
Elena Ravaioli

Alessandra Bedino
Vanessa Giuliani
Gisella Burinato
Gaetano Lembo
Stefano Sabelli
Nicola Farron

Pietro Bontempo
Bruno Zanin