Giancarlo Giannini

Acting · Born 1942-08-01 in La Spezia, Liguria, Italy

Biography

Giancarlo Giannini (Italian: [dʒaŋˈkarlo dʒanˈniːni]; born 1 August 1942) is an Italian actor. He won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor for his performance in Love and Anarchy (1973) and received an Academy Award nomination for Seven Beauties (1975). He is also a four-time recipient of the David di Donatello Award for Best Actor. Giannini began his career on stage, starring in Franco Zeffirelli's productions of Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night's Dream. After appearing predominantly on television throughout the early 1960s, he had his first lead role in a film in Rita the Mosquito (1965), the first of many collaborations with filmmaker Lina Wertmüller. He rose to international stardom through Wertmüller's The Seduction of Mimi (1972), Love and Anarchy (1973), Swept Away…

Filmography

• Man on Fire as Miguel Manzano
• A Walk in the Clouds as Alberto Aragón
• Casino Royale as Mathis
• Swept Away as Gennarino Carunchio
• A Drama of Jealousy (and other things) as Nello
• Lili Marleen as Robert
• Jacob as Laban
• Quantum of Solace as Mathis
• The Innocent as Tullio Hermil
• Anthony Quinn: An Original as Self

TV

• Leonardo as Verrocchio
• Frank Herbert's Dune as Emperor Shaddam Corrino IV
• Il sangue e la rosa as Cardinale Eugenio Rospigliosi
• L'onore e il rispetto as Don Giuseppe Bastianelli
• Sins as Marcello D'itri
• Dracula's Kiss as Dr. Enrico Valenzi
• A Family Tale as Gian Pietro Liegi
• The marshal Rocca as Benedetto
• The Great Game as Dino De Gregorio
• Catch-22 as Marcello