Max Mingella is an actor from the UK, who also managed to establish himself as a talented director, producer and screenwriter. The most successful and popular projects in which the artist was involved are: "How to lose friends and make everyone hate you", "Social Network", "Horns", "The Handmaid's Tale".
Max Giorgio Choa Mingella was born in London, in an area called Hampstead. The date of its birth is September 16, 1985. Among his relatives, his mother had Chinese, Europeans, and Indians. But his father was Italian. This combination of blood gave Max a memorable appearance and definitely reflected on his talents.
Facts from the Max Mingella Biography
The boy was lucky to be born in a fairly creative family. His father was Anthony Mingella, who is a director by profession. Anthony was able to build a successful career in cinema, he had a certain impact on his son, "infecting" Max with a craving for art and creativity. In addition, Max's mother was also involved in art. She studied dancing at a professional level, taught choreography at a studio in London.
Despite the fact that Max’s father is associated with art, the actor himself always in his interviews emphasizes that he chose the creative profession for himself. Of course, the environment in which he grew up played a role. However, Mingella never tires of repeating that his father never tried to exert pressure or force him to engage in stage skills.
In his childhood and adolescence, Max spent all his free time on set. He was also a member of the drama club at the school where he was educated. The boy willingly participated in amateur productions, without him there were no competitions and holidays where he had to perform on stage in front of the audience. Max was especially eager to become a professional actor when he visited the play “This is Our Youth” as a teenager. However, at that moment he also thought that if he did not have an acting career, he would become a popular video director.
The future famous actor received basic education in the walls of the school of St. Atonius. After graduating, Max entered the college of London without much difficulty. Mingella received his higher education at Columbia University, and he chose for himself a non-creative specialty. The actor has a diploma of a historian, which was awarded to him in 2009.
To date, the filmography of the actor has more than twenty works in film and television. His debut in front of cameras took place back in 1997. And Max began to develop his career intensively while he was still in college and university. It is noteworthy that his fellow students did not even know what Max was doing in his free time from lectures and exams.
Career development in film and television
Max Mingella is not only a famous actor, in whose talent there is no doubt. He also managed to try himself as a screenwriter, director and producer.
As a screenwriter, Max performed for the first time as part of the Ninth Life of Louis Drax project. He worked on this picture as a producer. The film was released in 2015. And a few years earlier, Mingella produced another film - “Two Faces of January”.
In 2018, the feature film "Behind a Dream" was released. In this project, Max acted as a director (this is his first job in this role), executive producer and screenwriter.
The actor got his first movie experience by starring in the short film Toy Boys in 1997. However, the picture was released only in 1999. And in 1998, Max's filmography was replenished with another work - "Let The Good Times Roll". This was again a short film, and the character played by Mingella did not even have a name. In the credits, it is listed as "boy with a dog."
After a short break in acting, Max Mingella returned to the screens in the movie "Wordplay", which was released in 2005. This was followed by roles in such rating projects as “Advertising for a genius”, “Elvis and Anabelle”, “How to lose friends and make everyone hate yourself”, “Social Network”, “Ides of March”, “Phantom”.
In 2012, the television series "The Mindy Project" began to be released. He stayed on air until 2017. In this show, Max played the role of a character named Richie Castellano. In 2013, two quite successful films with Max were released: “Horns” and “Personnel”.
In subsequent years, the sought-after and famous actor starred in a number of films, among which were "unsafe for work" and "in the woods." And since 2017, Max Mingella has been in the cast of the acclaimed television series "The Handmaid's Tale".
