Sebastiano Lo Monaco was born in
Floridia,
Sicily. He attended the
Silvio d'Amico National Academy of Dramatic Arts and, in 1989, he became "capocomico" and
artistic director. With his
theater company, he produced several theatrical plays, like
Henry IV,
Right You Are (if you think so),
Il berretto a sonagli,
Tonight We Improvise,
Six Characters in Search of an Author,
Non si sa come by
Luigi Pirandello,
Cyrano de Bergerac by
Edmond Rostand,
A View from the Bridge by
Arthur Miller,
Othello by
William Shakespeare,
Non è vero... ma ci credo by
Peppino De Filippo,
Iphigenia in Aulis by
Euripides and
Per non morire di mafia by
Pietro Grasso, where he was always the protagonist. From May 2000 to March 2004, he was the artistic director of the Vittorio Emanuele II Theatre in
Messina. Lo Monaco also appeared in a lot of films and television series, like
Festa di laurea,
I Vicerè,
Dove siete? Io sono qui,
Body Guards,
Gli angeli di Borsellino,
Joe Petrosino (as Vito Cascio Ferro),
A Violent Life,
La piovra 8 and
9 (as Lawyer Torrisi), and ''
L'onore e il rispetto'' (as Lawyer Vasile). Sebastiano Lo Monaco died on 16 December 2023, at the age of 65. ==Filmography==