Michelangelo Fortuzzi

Michelangelo Fortuzzi (born 23 January 2001) is a German actor.

Biography Fortuzzi comes from a German-Italian theatrical family. The actor and director Alberto Fortuzzi is his father, and his older brother is also an actor. He attended the in Schöneberg. In 2019, Fortuzzi received the for Young Talent for his performance in the multi-award-winning RBB drama (written and directed by and ). He played the film's main character, 16-year-old Jonas Vanderberg, who, after raping a classmate with two friends, is plagued by guilt and searches for a solution to his seemingly hopeless situation.

Fortuzzi also played the role of Matteo Florenzi, a man searching for his sexual orientation, in the web series Druck, the German adaptation of the Norwegian original SKAM. Fortuzzi starred in Druck alongside Milena Tscharntke and .

In the 2021 Amazon Prime series "" (We Children from Bahnhof Zoo), an eight-part adaptation of the book of the same name, he played the role of Benno.

Fortuzzi is a native speaker of German, Italian, and English. From 2020 to 2022, he studied acting at the Giles Foreman Centre for Acting in London.

Filmography

Films

2013: Kopfüber 2014: 2015: Inga Lindström: Familienbande (TV series) 2016: 2018: 2018: 2019: (TV series) 2019: Berlin, I Love You 2019: 2020: 2021: 2023: (TV series) 2024: 2025: (TV series) 2026: : Bis auf den Grund (TV series)

TV series

2013: Pinocchio 2018–2019: Druck 2019: Notruf Hafenkante (Episode My name is Maja) 2019: (TV three-parter) 2020: (Episode 1x01) Since 2021: 2023: Watch Me