Nino Frassica
Antonino "Nino" Frassica is an Italian actor, comedian and television personality.
Biography and career
Born in Messina, Sicily, Frassica is mostly known for his deadpan humour, characterized by absurd jokes he described as a way of "ruining logic and the Italian language". He is considered "a master of nonsense humour". He debuted for Italian television with Renzo Arbore's Quelli della notte, in which he played a semi-illiterate friar. Later, again in collaboration with Arbore, he was given a major role in the surreal quiz show Indietro tutta!.Frassica has subsequently featured in numerous comic movies, such as Il Bi e il Ba, and TV shows for Italian television. He plays Marshal Antonio "Nino" Cecchini on the Italian TV series Don Matteo. He co-hosted the second night of the Sanremo Music Festival 2025 alongside Bianca Balti, Cristiano Malgioglio and Carlo Conti.
Selected filmography
Films
- "FF.SS." – Cioè: "...che mi hai portato a fare sopra a Posillipo se non mi vuoi più bene?"
- Il Bi e il Ba
- Mortacci
- Vacanze di Natale '91
- Sognando la California
- Anni 90
- Anni 90: Parte II
- La fidanzata di papà
- Baarìa
- Somewhere
- The Tourist
- Natale a Londra – Dio salvi la regina
- Omicidio all'italiana
- No Country for Young Men
- One Of The Family
- School of Mafia
- Improvvisamente Natale
- Io e mio fratello
- Improvvisamente a Natale mi sposo
- ''Pare parecchio Parigi''
TV series
TV programs
- Quelli della notte
- Fantastico 7
- Indietro tutta!
- XLIX Zecchino d'Oro
- Che tempo che fa
- Indietro tutta! 30 e l'ode
Radio
- ''Programmone''