Flavio Insinna has become a great name on Italian television thanks to his roles as an actor, but also and above all for the conduct of the television program “Your Affairs”. With the Television Director Award and a nomination for man of the year, here is the story of the well-known TV presenter.
Who is Flavio Insinna
Flavio Emanuele Insinna (Rome, 3 July 1965) is an Italian actor and TV presenter. Despite his Sicilian origins, he grew up in the Italian capital where his academic career also took place. After completing the classical high school he tries to enter the Carabinieri, without obtaining success, so he decides to enroll in the acting school by Alessandro Fersen. He graduated in 1990 with Gigi Proietti who directed the “Laboratory of scenic exercises”.
Insinna first fits into the world of theater and cinema with films like “Metronotte” alongside Diego Abatantuono and “Il partigiano Johnny” with Stefano Dionisi.
His best-known character, however, is certainly that of Flavio Anceschi, captain of the Carabinieri in the Rai television series. “Don Matteo”. To this project on state TV there are others, including in the specific fiction about the massacre at the Fosse Ardeatine.
Beginning of Flavio Insinna’s career
He made his debut as a conductor in 2006 when he became the face of the well-known “Your Business” program with which it obtains great success. Before its conduction it seemed to have lost its success, but since its arrival there are numerous occasions in which it exceeds the ratings of Striscia la Notizie, broadcast at the same time on Canale 5.
Thanks to this milestone he obtains the Telegatto as a revelation character of the year and receives an invitation to the Sanremo Festival as a guest on the last evening.
In recent years he also comes back to acting, both in telefilm like “I married a cop”, but also in film projects as “Ex”, a film by Fausto Brizzi. In 2011 he leads “La corrida” on Canale 5 together with Antonella Elia who accompanies him in this inauguration in the Mediaset programs. He continues with the conduct of “The arm and the mind” and then reconnects with Rai with radio and television projects. In fact, he hosts “Please talk to the driver” on Radio 2 and in the same year he leads the Telethon charity marathon in the late evening.
The great success of Flavio Insinna
In 2014 he published his novel entitled “The machine of happiness” and in the same year he voices Baymax, protagonist of the Disney animated film “Big Hero 6”. Thanks to the incredible success obtained with “Your Affairs”, he obtained the conduct of the show on 31 December 2014 “The year that will come”.
Then follows the conduction of “The great match”, sports talk show that takes place after the matches of the European football championships in the late evening. With Federico Russo present the program “Ten things” and, having proved the winning combination “, he collaborates with his colleague also during the final of Eurovision 2017. The following year he is chosen to conduct “The legacy” and participate as a guest in some programs such as “Come to me” by Caterina Balivo o “Dancing with the Stars” by Milly Carlucci who also chooses him as a judge of “The masked singer”.