| Ivan De Battista | |
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Ivan De Battista in June 2011 |
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| Born | Ivan De Battista September 13, 1977 Gzira, Malta. |
| Occupation | Actor, Director, Producer, Voice Over Artist, Writer, Singer, Editor, Composer and Lyricist |
| Years active | 1984 – present |
| Spouse | Simone De Battista (m. 2000 – present) |
| Children | Ryan Mark & Dylan Luke |
Ivan De Battista (born September 13, 1977) is a Maltese film and theatre actor and director, and writer. He has been involved in the theatre and musical scene since he was six. His early theatre performances were held at the De Porres Theatre, situated in Sliema with the Young Deporrians. As an actor, Ivan performed many major character roles with many Maltese production houses and under the best directors in Malta.
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His studies in acting include, ATCL Performing – Trinity College, London, Performer’s Certificate in Acting – Trinity College London, Pinnacle Film Acting Course, Curtain Raiser Theatre Group and Bronk Productions Acting Course.
He has a Diploma in Management with the University of Leicester.
Ivan is a UK Equity Drama Member.
Ivan is growing rapidly in the Maltese acting scene as an actor and also director, composer, poet, writer and lyricist. In fact, as a writer, he has published his first Poetry Book in 1999 by the name of Irwiefen (Hurricanes).
Below is a list of all the books published by Ivan:
Irwiefen (Hurricanes) - a poetry book published in 1999
Il-Fanal tas-Sinjur (The Master's Lighthouse) - adventure/mystery book published in 2007 and nominated for Best Book for Youngsters.
Id-Dar ta' Sqaq il-Forka (The House in the Gallows' Alley) - adventure/mystery sequel book published in 2009 and won second prize in the Malta Book Awards for Best Prose for Children.
Id tad-Deheb (Golden Hand)- hi-lo book published in 2009 and nominated for Best Book for Teens.
Battuti għal Inżul ix-Xemx (Lyrical Beats for Sunset) - an antology poetry book published in 2010
Il-Qabar tal-Kavallier (The Knight's Tomb) - adventure/mystery book published in 2011.
Il-Milied tal-Anġli (Christmas of Angels) - adventure book published in 2011.
His acting performances include amongst many others: Goldoni's La Bottega del Cafe (2002), Wiċċ imb Wiċċ (Face to Face) (2002), Divorzju bi Prova (Divorce by Trial) (2003), Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap (2004), King Lear (2005), Arthur Miller's All my Sons (2006) and many others. He Directed L-Aħħar Ċena (The Last Supper) for Gzira Pageant Group (2003), Ix-Xewwiex minn Nazaret (The Nazareth Conspirator) (2004), Il-Ħadd fuq il-Bejt (Sunday on the Roof) (2005), Mal-Aħħar Tokki… (The Last Knell) (2005), Min Qatel lil Ġanni? (Who killed John?) (2006), Meta Jintefa d-Dawl (When the lights go off!)(2007) and Avukati 247 (247 Advocates) (2007).
He has also performed in many highlights of the musicals as a singer in which he interpreted several roles in Moulin Rouge!, The Phantom of the Opera, Jesus Christ Superstar, Copacabana, Les Misérables, Joseph, Queen Live at il-Fosos! and many others.
Amongst his works, he acted on local television in the popular series Simpatici in 2001, Il-Madonna taċ-Ċoqqa in 2002, Mad-daqqa Niżfnu in 2004, Id-Driegħ t'Alla in 2005, Santa Monika in 2006, Pupi in 2007 and Il-Kristu tal-Kerrejja in 2008. He also worked in Carabinieri 7 which was televised on Mediaset Italy.
After a great performance as the title role in Il-Kristu tal-Kerrejja, Ivan directed the cliff-hanging whodunit drama on NET Television (Malta) Is-Siġill tal-Qrar. He also partially edited this tele-series and moreover, wrote the lyrics for the ending credits. He edited a couple of documentaries for TV including the Award Nominated documentary Katakombi
Currently he is one of the main actors in the third and last season of the most ever popular tele-serial F'Salib it-Toroq.
He is the director and co-founder of ImaginArts Entertainment Productions. He directed four short movies which are, L-Ittra (The Letter) (2002) - for which he wrote the original theme score as well, Dilemma (2003) which won Certificate of Merit – MACC 2003 & 2004, Is-Siġġu ta-Roti (The Wheelchair) (2004) and Self Flattery (2005), which both won 3rd Place in Best Production at the National MACC Awards Film Festival.
Ivan has written music and lyrics for songs competing in the Song for Europe - Eurovision and has competed in local song festivals. Amongst these songs, J.Anvil's song 'The Game of Love' and Talitha's 'Free' were highly praised and even won awards.
He took part in the Malta Independence Song Festival 2008 as a singer with the song "Tond jibqa' tond", and currently competing in the same Festival 2009 as both a composer and lyricist of a song sung by newcoming Twins - Lara and Marie-Elena - "Tar iż-Żmien"
In August 2010, Ivan launched his new drama group imagin-Arts Drama Group along with his wife, in which it's becoming very popular with the local drama students.
He was nominated as "Best Actor in Drama" for his outstanding performance in Pupi organised by the GO Television Awards 2007. Just recently, he was nominated for Best Original Soundtrack (Lyrics) for Is-Sigill tal-Qrar which he directed himself, organised by The Vodafone Television Awards 2010.
Born in Gżira, Malta to Irene and Martin De Battista, he is the oldest of 3 brothers. He married Simone De Battista in 2000 and they have 2 sons - Ryan Mark and Dylan Luke.