- Nickname
- Lio
- Height6′ (1.83 m)
- Emilio Insolera, an accomplished deaf actor, is widely acknowledged for his diverse career, advocacy work, and innovative contributions to sign language within the film industry. He is acclaimed for his roles in writing, producing, directing, and starring in Sign Gene: The First Deaf Superheroes (2017). Additionally, Emilio made headlines when he joined the cast of Universal Pictures' spy film The 355 (2022) by Simon Kinberg. In this project, he starred alongside Jessica Chastain, Penélope Cruz, Édgar Ramírez and Sebastian Stan. Emilio has also lent his voice to Disney's Limbo (2022) and has worked as ASL consultant for Robert Salerno's thriller film Here After.
Insolera was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to Italian deaf parents, Alfio Insolera and Maria Cristina Drovetta. He also has an older brother named Humberto. Growing up in a large deaf family and living in various countries, including Argentina, Italy, and the United States, he is fluent in Italian, Spanish, English, American Sign Language (ASL), Italian Sign Language (LIS), and Argentine Sign Language (LSA). At a later stage in his life, he worked and lived in Japan, which allowed him to acquire basic Japanese language skills and proficiency in Japanese Sign Language (JSL).
Emilio is in a relationship with Norwegian fashion model Carola Insolera, and together, they have two deaf daughters, Ana Insolera and Liv Insolera.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Philippe - Despite developing a passion for acting at an early age and studying film at Gallaudet University, Insolera dedicated much of his youth to activism, making numerous contributions to the sign language community. At the age of 20, he served as a committee member of the Department of Education at the National Association of the Deaf in Italy. He also worked as the Vice-President of the Italian Deaf Association Youth and as a media coordinator for the MPDF and the Italian Department of Education, contributing to the development of various educational multimedia resources for deaf children. Additionally, he worked as a sign language researcher at the Center for National Research and as a producer for two major Italian Broadcasting TV channels, Mediaset and RAI, where he was involved in the creation of short clips and TV shows in sign language.
While residing in New York City, he took on the role of creative producer for MTV. Subsequently, Insolera decided to fully immerse himself in the film industry, launching his own film company, Pluin, and producing his debut feature film, 'Sign Gene: The First Deaf Superheroes.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Suzanne
- Gender / Gender identityMale
- Sign language polyglot
- Finger gun
- Finger cigarette
- Hand cigarette
- Hand gun
- Graduated from Gallaudet University, the only liberal arts college for the deaf in the world.
- Obtained his Master's degree with top grades at the University of Rome La Sapienza.
- Emilio is proficient in both spoken languages (Italian, Spanish, Japanese, English) and sign languages (ASL - American Sign Language, LIS - Italian Sign Language, LSA - Argentine Sign Language, JSL - Japanese Sign Language).
- Insolera comes from a large deaf family.
- He is in relationship with Norwegian deaf model Carola Insolera.
- My first impression was that I had stumbled into the future, but as a linguist I was also instantly fascinated with Japanese and how it has a relationship with sign language. Kanji are usually concepts or ideas and then hiragana acts as a bridge for communication It's the same with sign language: We use fingerspelling between our conceptual signs.
- The deaf eye sees what is invisible to the hearing eye.
- The imagination can make visible what is invisible to the eyes.
- Deaf people are superheroes, protectors of the visual language.
- Deafness is my superpower.
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