Born: August 14, 1971

Handsome and muscular Italian leading man Raoul Bova is also a trained athlete and national swimming champion. He began his acting career on Italian television, joining the cast of the award-winning crime drama La_Piovra (shown in France as La_Mafia) during its seventh season, which led to starring roles in several subsequent La_Piovra TV movies and miniseries. Bova made his European film breakthrough in 1993 with the romantic fantasy Piccolo_Grande_Amore as a hunky watersports instructor, and he's played romantic leads ever since. He played a handsome plumber in the comedy Comincio_Tutto_Per_Caso and a heroic husband in the thriller Coppia_Omicida. In 2001, he appeared with Italian film legends Sophia_Loren and Giancarlo_Gianinni in Lina_Wertmüller's historical drama Francesca e Nunziata. The next year he was in his first American film, Avenging_Angelo, starring Anthony_Quinn in his final role. After returning to Italy to play opposite Giovanna_Mezzogiorno in the romantic drama La Finestra di Fronte, he did another Hollywood project as Diane_Lane's love interest in Audrey_Wells' romantic comedy Under the Tuscan Sun. Andrea LeVasseur, Rovi

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