Vinicio Diamanti (Rome , February 24, 1926 - Rome, December 23, 2009) was an Italian actor.
Vinicio Diamanti (Rome , February 24, 1926 - Rome, December 23, 2009) was an Italian actor.
Born in the Prati district, where he has always lived, in 1944 he was reformed for military service as he was considered "not man enough". He was visibly effeminate (he said of himself that he was born a man by mistake). He studied singing as a mezzo -soprano and attended medical school without graduating. In the decade of the 1950s he lived a tormented sentimental relationship with a university mate, which lasted until his death in 1970, but he also participated in the nightlife and semi-clandestine life of the Roman gay world, especially at Villa Borghese and the Circus Maximus. In the same period he began to devote himself to his great passion for the theater by performing in vaudeville numberswith "en travestì" roles at Ambra Jovinelli, at the Principe di via Cola Di Rienzo, at the Orient, at the Espero. Thanks to the knowledge of other homosexual actors such as Giorgia O'Brien, Dominot, Giò Staiano manages to refine his acting skills. In the 1960s he moved to theater and cinema, alongside artists such as Franco Enriquez, Enrico Maria Salerno, Giancarlo Cobelli, Manuela Kustermann, Memè Perlini with tours throughout Italy. Despite the good offers that Diamanti received, he still preferred the theater to the cinema, to the point of refusing a script for La dolce vita by Federico Fellini in order not to give up a tour with Valeria Moriconi and Vittorio Gassman. In recent years he was a refined drag queen in parties and Roman evenings. His best known film role is probably that of Colomba Lamar, the drag queen of Murder at the Blue Gay.
He died in Rome on December 23, 2009, at the age of 83, at the Sant'Antonio nursing home.
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