Pino Insegno

Giuseppe "Pino" Insegno (born 30 August 1959) is an Italian actor, voice actor, television presenter and comedian.^[1]

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Pino Insegno
Insegno at the Giffoni Film Festival in 2008
Born	Giuseppe Insegno (1959-08-30) 30 August 1959 (age 65) Rome, Italy
Occupations	Actor voice actor comedian dubbing director television presenter
Years active	1981–present
Spouses	Roberta Lanfranchi ​ ​ (m. 1997; div. 2007)​ Alessia Navarro ​ (m. 2012)​
Children	4
Relatives	Claudio Insegno (brother) Rossana Di Lorenzo (aunt) Maurizio Arena (uncle)

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Since 1986, Insegno has been a member of the comedy quartet Premiata Ditta and he also found success dubbing characters into the Italian language and presenting a variety of television shows across Italy.

Born in Rome, Insegno is the first-born son of Armando Insegno and Romana Di Lorenzo, who was the sister of the actors Maurizio Arena and Rossana Di Lorenzo.^[2][3] He began his career in 1981 and then eventually in 1986, he became a member of Premiata Ditta alongside Roberto Ciufoli, Francesca Draghetti and Tiziana Foschi. The group performed a variety of comedy sketches on stage, television, and film, most notably the 1995 film L'assassino è quello con le scarpe gialle.^[4] Insegno also appeared in the music video for the song Tu stasera non esci by Gemelli Diversi on their second album 4x4.

Between the early and mid-2000s, he was one of four presenters of Premiata Teleditta alongside his three colleagues. In 2010, he presented the show Insegnami a sognare and from 2010 to 2013, he presented the Italian version of the French-Canadian game show Action Réaction. He presented these shows for Rai 1. He also presented shows for Mediaset in the past.^[5]

Insegno is recognised as a voice actor and dubber. He serves as the official Italian voice of Will Ferrell, having dubbed him in a majority of his films. He also dubbed Viggo Mortensen, Liev Schreiber and Sacha Baron Cohen in some of their movies.^[6] He is well known for voicing Stan Smith in the Italian-Language version of American Dad and he performed the Italian voices of Diego in the Ice Age film series, John Smith in Pocahontas and Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World, Chick Hicks in Cars and Cars 3, The Magic Mirror in the Shrek movies, and he also dubbed several characters in The Simpsons.^[7]