[4] He appeared in the Hollywood film Inferno directed by Ron Howard and starring Tom Hanks.
In 2006, he produced and acted in the short film Iram la Città Dalle Alte Colonne, an interpretation of a text by Kahlil Gibran.
He is the author of The Juggler (2007), which was selected for a world tour by the IFCT Festival [de] 2007 in Miami, Florida, United States.
In 2008 he debuted as a director for the short film The Artist, in which he also played the lead male role.
He is a practitioner of Sunmudo— a martial art practiced by Korean Seon (Zen) monks.