| Juan Pablo Di Pace | |
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| Born | July 25, 1979 Buenos Aires |
Juan Pablo Di Pace (born July 25, 1979) is an Argentine-born actor, model and director.
Juan Pablo Di Pace studied in Europe and speaks Spanish, Italian, and English. He was educated at the United World College of the Adriatic in Duino, Trieste, Italy.
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Prior to joining the big screen, he starred in the London musical Chicago and fronted posters for the production shown all over the United Kingdom. He also played the role of Danny Zuko in the Trieste production of Grease in Italy, partly directed by Di Pace. For two years, he was Tony Manero in the 2009-2010 Spanish production of Saturday Night Fever in Madrid, produced by Stage Entertainment.
Di Pace has made several appearances on British television, one of them being the BBC Scotland soap River City, which he joined in 2005 playing the character of Luca Rossi.
His on-screen debut was in the film Survival Island along with Billy Zane, of Titanic fame. The release of Survival Island was postponed several times due to a controversy between actress and lingerie model Kelly Brook and the production company over "graphic" sex scenes with Juan Pablo Di Pace, in 2004 dubbed by British media as "raunchier than The Blue Lagoon". It opened in the UK in the spring of 2006 in cinemas all over Britain. The sexual scenes were not removed. A DVD version is available.
He is featured in Mamma Mia! (2008) alongside Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan, and Colin Firth.
In 2011 he appeared in the final season of Física o Química, aired by Antena 3 (Spain).
Di Pace starred in the video for the 2004 Eric Prydz hit "Call On Me". In the video, he is the only man amongst a group of women in an aerobics class. He also directed and starred in the sequel What a Feeling by Hughes Corporation in 2006, which is loosely based on dance sequences from Flashdance and Dirty Dancing. Both videos feature Deanne Berry.
In 2008 he directed a music video for Katie Melua, in which he appears opposite his sister, María Victoria Di Pace.
In 2010 he started to be known in Spain, for his song "We Wanna Rock", used in a TV show.