Bruno Putzulu was born in Toutainville in the Normandy Boucles de la Seine Regional Natural Park, between Pont-Audemer and Honfleur. The actor discovered theater during his adolescence when Mario became an actor and director in Bob Villette's troupe, La Comédie Errante in Cléon (near Rouen) “I had a very happy youth despite my father's small salary.

My parents sacrificed themselves for us. They were the people of the land,” he says.