Inside Life of Michele Morrone: A Versatile Italian Actor and Singer

Michele Morrone is an Italian artist, singer, guitarist, best recognized for his acting 2020 Netflix movie 365 Days role. He got his training in acting at the Teatro Fraschini di Pavia.

Michele Morrone started his profession with theater and then performed in a few short films before making his appearance on-screen. He debuted with the web series Second Chance in 2011. He was then performed in various Italian series.

His fortune rose after his performance in the movie 365 Days. He has released an album, has a clothing brand, and also endorses various brands.

The Early life of Michele Morrone

Michele Morrone was born on October 3, 1990, in Bitonto, Italy. When Michele was only 12 years old, his father, Natale, died in 2002. He served as a construction worker, and his mother, Angela, was a dressmaker.

He spent his childhood growing up in Melegnano and Apulia, Southern Italy. Michele is the youngest of his three sisters and a brother. The family shifted to Melegnano, near Milan, when the children were relatively young to find better jobs. Morrone also spent a part of his childhood in Apulia, southern Italy. 

He has not finished his high school education but went to Teatro Fraschini di Pavia, an acting school. From a very young age, he liked to become an actor, and for that, he started to serve at construction sites, distributed flyers, and work some tasks so that he could pay off his acting lessons.

Morrone had decided to become an actor after watching a Harry Potter movie at the young age of 11. He participated in an after-school acting program in middle school.

Morrone left his high school after his first year due to inadequate behavior. He then joined professional acting classes at Teatro Fraschini di Pavia, a theater in Pavia.

Career: His Growth as an Actor and a Singer

Michele Morrone started his profession with insignificant theater roles. Soon, he started performing lead roles in plays. He also started auditioning for movies.

In 2011, he made his full-fledged screen appearance with the role of Riccardo in the Piergiorgio Seidita-directed three-episode web series Second Chance. The series was discontinued after the first season.

In 2012, he was viewed in a music video of the Italian girl band Makay. He soon started playing leading roles in short films. He was seen in Il Tempo di una Sigaretta and E la Vita Continua.

Morrone then performed in a drama show called Che Dio ci Aiuti. Some of his most popular Italian TV series were Come un Delfino (2011), Provaci Ancora (2015), Squadra Antimafia (2015), Sirene (2016), Renata Fonte (2017), Il Processo (known as The Trial on Netflix, 2018), and Medici (2018).

In 2016 Morrone played a role in the 11th season of Ballando con le Stelle, the Italian version of the dance variety show Dancing with the Stars. He listed second on the show.

In 2019, Morrone played Luigi, a leading role in Bar Giuseppe. However, the role that made him a household name was that of mafia boss Massimo Torricelli in the Polish erotic drama film 365 Days (365 Dni), based on the first novel of a trilogy by author Blanka Lipińska.

The film, 365 Days, had had a cinematic release in Poland pre-Covid, and he had even released his debut album Dark Room. It was released on Netflix on June 7, 2020.

“When Netflix decided to distribute it, I knew it would be good exposure, but I was not expecting all of this. I was not expecting Forbes to be proclaiming it as the most watched film in the history of Netflix,” Morrone says.

The success of the movie made Morrone a 3-year agreement with the production house. The film will thus have two sequels, which will complete the trilogy.

Morrone explains how in the weeks following more than 50 acting roles had been thrown his way. All of a sudden he had multiple managers, a couple of lawyers, a bodyguard— everyone drawn to his newly acquired lightning in a bottle.

Apart from being an excellent actor, Morrone is also a professional guitarist and singer. He learned to play the guitar by watching YouTube videos at 25.

On February 14, 2020, he published an album named Dark Room, which covers many songs from the official soundtrack of 365 Days. One of his most famous songs is Feel It which he sings in English as opposed to his native Italian.

“I learnt to speak English from my first wife,” he says before cheekily adding “first and last!”

Morrone told about his wife “When we met she didn’t speak any Italian and I didn’t speak English, so I really wanted to learn for her. At first, I was playing it all cute, pointing at things I didn’t know the words of and making her laugh, but then I asked her to speak to me only in English. At some point you have to get over the romanticism and get on with learning it properly,” he says.

The album, produced by the label AGORA S.A., includes ten songs, including Hard for Me, Do It Like That, Watch Me Burn, and Rain in The Heart.

Morrone is represented by the agencies Take Off Artist Management (for movie projects), New Change S.R.L. (for music), and Wannabe Management (for digital media). He has endorsed brands such as Falconeri and Dolce & Gabbana.

On August 2, 2020, he started an Italian women’s beachwear brand named AurumRoma. On August 8 that year, Morrone confirmed the launch through an Instagram live.

Soon after the declaration, the brand’s website crashed because of heavy traffic. Morrone makes his own clothing designs, collaborating with designer Chiara Pollano. The brand is owned by Morrone and managed by Spazio Arcó.

Michele Morrone is also launched his own perfume by the name of Feel It and is available in stores from October 3, 2020.

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He began the channel in January 2020, and his most popular song is Feel It from 365 days movie released on January 17, 2020, which has more than 43 million views. The song is from his album Dark Room. Morrone is the owner of a clothing brand named AurumRoma, which is a women’s beachwear clothing.

He launched the brand on August 2, 2020, and designs his own clothes with Chiara Pollano, a fashion designer. Apart from he has a profession established in modeling and endorses brands like Falconeri and Dolce & Gabbana. He is also doing best in the profession in his perfume brand.

Michele Morrone on Social Media

Michele Morrone is very famous on social media. His Instagram account, iammichelemorroneofficial, has reached over 9.8 million followers. After the release of 365 Days on Netflix, Morrone’s Instagram follower count had risen to 12.2 million overnight.

“You have to understand,” he tells his sudden hype, “the night the film premiered on Netflix, I went to sleep and I had 48k followers [on Instagram]. When I woke up I had 2.1 million.” His eyes go wide and wild when he recounts the story, every now and then he shakes his head.

“I was shocked, so I went down the street to drink a coffee near where I was living in Rome, and I could see people starting to stare at me. So I got in my car and went somewhere else, but the same sort of thing was happening, with people coming up to me wanting to take selfies. I ended up having to go home and lock the door.” Even though he has probably told this story countless times since that June morning, five months later you still get the sense that he hardly believes it himself.

He has his own website, michele-morrone.com. His self-titled YouTube channel was launched on January 17, 2020, and has earned over a million subscribers and more than 107 million views.

The video for Michele Morrone’s song Hard for Me was released on his channel on July 24, 2020. It has earned over 11 million views and more than 793 thousand likes to date.

His official Facebook page has more than 395 thousand likes and over 1.7 million followers.

Relationships Status of Michele Morrone

Michele Morrone married Lebanese designer Rouba Saadeh in 2014. They had met for the first time in 2011 when Morrone was touring Lebanon. They had a civil marriage in Italy and a small ceremony in Lebanon with just 20 guests. However, he had concealed his marriage from the media until 2016.

The two parted in 2018. They have two sons, Marcudo or Marcus, born in 2014, and Brando, born in 2017. Reports showed he is still in contact with Rouba.

According to Morrone, the two are still close despite the fact that he is constantly travelling, while Saadeh and their sons are living in Lebanon.

“I’m perfectly aware of what I look like, and that a lot of people like the way I look, act and talk— but trust me, when I am with my oldest friends, I am pretty much the furthest thing from a sex symbol,” he says. How would his friends describe him? “As an idiot,” he says with a chuckle, “but an idiot who is very loyal.”

Even his divorce was not made public originally. In 2019, Italian magazine Chi published a few photographs of Morrone with Elena D’Amario, an Italian ballet dancer, alleging that he had been cheating on Rouba. After the photos were published, Morrone defended himself through an Instagram post, saying that he and Rouba had already divorced.

After his divorce, Morrone had fallen into a severe state of depression. In an Instagram post, he had once mentioned that he was ready to leave everything and did not wish to act anymore. He wanted to begin a new life as a gardener in a remote village. He had also run out of money back then. It took him a year to return to acting again.

In 2019, Michele Morrone told in an interview that he did not believe in God or in the concept of heaven or hell. He is quite fond of tattoos and horse riding.

Michele Morrone Net worth

The 30-year old actor has developed quite a name for himself as an actor, model, singer, fashion icon, and most importantly, his looks and features. His lead role in a successful worldwide film, 365 days was a superhit. Reportedly his net worth as of 2021 is estimated to be $1 million U.S. Dollars. He has also endorsed many brands like Dolce & Gabbana, Falconeri, and more.

Some Fewer Known Facts About Michele Morrone 

He likes singing, painting, traveling, and playing the guitar in his free time.

To make his profession in acting, he began to work at an early age to earn money to pay for his acting lessons.

During those times, he used to serve at construction sites and also distributed flyers on the streets.

He is multilingual and is fluent in English, Arabic, and French.

He can also speak in many dialects such as Pugliese, Neapolitan, Sicilian, Roman, and Milanese.

In 2012, he performed in the music video of the group Makay titled ‘In viaggio,’ which was directed by Marco Gallo.’

In 2016, he played in the eleventh edition of the reality show ‘Ballando con le stelle.’

In the show, he was partnered with the Russian dancer Ekaterina Vaganova.

In February 2020, the actor posted a moving post on his Instagram profile in which he revealed that a year and a half ago, he wanted to quit everything and stop acting.

After the divorce from his wife, he fell into depression.

At that time, he moved away from city life and found a job as a gardener in a village with 1000 inhabitants.

He likes horse riding and owns a horse named Iron.

He has a skull and bird tattoo on the back of his left hand and some words written on his left arm.

On his other arm, he has two more tattoos. He has a ‘cloud’ inscribed on his chest and a tattoo on his left wrist.

On his right wrist, the day of his father’s death is inked; on his right hand, there is a tattoo of the cross, and there are also a few words inked on it.

He has also got characters tattooed on the fingers and thumb of his right hand.

Netflix has already signed him up for the second and third installments of 365 Days, and he is currently learning Spanish for a lead role in another unnamed Netflix project that begins filming in February.

He said in an interview about the transformation in his life after the year 2020 “Today I am the man that I always wanted to be, because I worked hard. If I want to continue being this man then I need to continue just working hard,” he says.

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