Riccardo was born in 1981 in north of Italy and grew up bilingual, speaking both Italian and German. After graduating high- school he used to work for about ten years in construction business before he began studying literature and acting as an autodidact. In 2009 he moved to Munich to pursue a professional acting career, to take professional acting lessons and to improve his skills. Soon he got a variety of roles in both German and Italian TV-shows and feature-films and worked with directors such as Gabriele Mainetti, Giacomo Battiato, Leonardo Tiberi, Luca Ribuoli, Bernd Fischerauer etc. He's also co-created, produced, directed and acted in his own web series Crimetube SouthTyrol, being selected at approximately 20 film festival and consequently winning "best crime and thriller award" at Rome international Webfest. In 2022 he created, produced, directed a short film about a toxic relationship called I LOVE YOU which won "Best Women's Issue Award" at Beverly Hills Arthouse Festival (11/2022)