Luca Guadagnino and Ingeborga Dapkunaite – Photo Credit: Insidefoto / PR Photos
Place of Birth: Palermo, Sicily, Italy
Date of Birth: 1971
Ethnicity: Italian/Sicilian, Algerian
Luca Guadagnino is an Italian director.
He spent part of his childhood in Addis Abeba, Ethiopia, were his Sicilian father worked as teacher.
He has said:
I’m dark-skinned because my mother is Algerian; when I came back to Palermo, my classmates starting calling me “n—-r.” I will never forget that. I learned very quickly how to be an outsider, and how to stay on the outside of the frame yet always look at what’s happening in the center.
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