Top 100 Italian Actors

1. Rudolph Valentino

Actor | The Eagle

Hollywood's original Latin Lover, a term that was invented for Rudolph Valentino by Hollywood moguls. Alla Nazimova's friend Natacha Rambova (nee Winifred Hudnut) became romantically involved with Rudy and they lived together in her bungalow from 1921 (during the filming of Camille) until they ...

2. Bartolomeo Pagano

Actor | La trilogia di Maciste

Strongman who won role of Maciste in Cabiria (1914), and took the character's name as his own stage name in a series of films for the next 14 years. After Pagano's death, the character of Maciste was played by several other actors.

3. Gino Cervi

Actor | Don Camillo

The son of Italian theatre critic Antonio Cervi, Gino Cervi was one of the most famous Italian actors, first on stage, then on screen and finally on television. He appeared in his first play in 1924, a year after his father's death. He won world fame with three movies directed by Alessandro Blasetti...

4. Massimo Girotti

Actor | Ultimo tango a Parigi

Manly, chiseled, exceedingly handsome, very agile Massimo Girotti was an engineering student and polo/swimming star before entering films in 1939. He began auspiciously in serious leads, most notably Roberto Rossellini's Desire (1946), Luchino Visconti's Obsession (1943) and Vittorio De Sica's The ...

5. Aldo Fabrizi

Actor | Roma città aperta

Beloved, hugely popular Italian comic character actor/writer/director, in music halls and variety shows for much of his early career. Fabrizi entered films in 1942 and often wrote and directed his vehicles, winning international acclaim in the Roberto Rossellini's neorealist drama Rome, Open City (...

6. Marcello Pagliero

Actor | Roma città aperta

Marcello Pagliero was born on January 15, 1907 in London, England, UK. He was an actor and writer, known for Rome, Open City (1945), The Respectful Whore (1952) and Paisan (1946). He died on December 9, 1980 in Paris, France.

7. Vito Annichiarico

Actor | Roma città aperta

Vito Annichiarico was born on February 26, 1934 in Grottaglie, Italy. He was an actor, known for Rome, Open City (1945), Tomorrow Is Too Late (1950) and Heart and Soul (1948). He died on August 5, 2022 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

8. Rinaldo Smordoni

Actor | Sciuscià

Rinaldo Smordoni was born on February 5, 1933 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was an actor, known for Shoeshine (1946), Fabiola (1949) and Sciuscià 70 (2016). He died on September 12, 2022 in Rome, Italy.

9. Enzo Staiola

Actor | Ladri di biciclette

Enzo Staiola was born on November 15, 1939 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He is an actor, known for Bicycle Thieves (1948), The Barefoot Contessa (1954) and A Tale of Five Women (1951).

10. Lamberto Maggiorani

Actor | Ladri di biciclette

Lamberto Maggiorani was born on August 28, 1909 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was an actor, known for Bicycle Thieves (1948), The Last Judgment (1961) and Mamma Roma (1962). He died on April 22, 1983 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

11. Antonio Arcidiacono

12. Giuseppe Arcidiacono

Inhabitant of Ari Trezza (Sicily) chosen by Luchino Visconti to appear in "La Terra trema" (1958).

13. Peparuolo

Actor | Francesco, giullare di Dio

Peparuolo is known for The Flowers of St. Francis (1950).

14. Francesco Golisano

Actor | Miracolo a Milano

Francesco Golisano was born on April 5, 1929 in Riesi, Sicily, Italy. He was an actor, known for Miracle in Milan (1951), Sotto il sole di Roma (1948) and Vent'anni (1949). He died on August 6, 1990 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

15. Serge Reggiani

Actor | Il gattopardo

The notably gifted, multi-talented actor, chanteur, poet and painter Serge Reggiani was born in Reggio Emilia, a town in northern Italy, in 1922. His father, a highly visible anti-fascist, fled his Mussolini-dictated homeland due to his fervent political activities and emigrated to France in order ...

16. Leopoldo Trieste

Writer | Il peccato degli anni verdi

Leopoldo Trieste was born on May 3, 1917 in Reggio Calabria, Calabria, Italy. He was an actor and writer, known for Il peccato degli anni verdi (1960), Don't Look Now (1973) and Seduced and Abandoned (1964). He died on January 25, 2003 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

17. Carlo Battisti

Actor | Umberto D.

Under the direction of Vittorio De Sica, Carlo Battisti left a remarkable mark in cinema history as the lead character in Umberto D. (1952), an Italian Neo-Realist classic about an elderly man who wanders through Rome with his dog Flike while trying to survive the Italy of post WWII. He was born on...

18. Vittorio De Sica

Director | Ladri di biciclette

Vittorio De Sica grew up in Naples, and started out as an office clerk in order to raise money to support his poor family. He was increasingly drawn towards acting, and made his screen debut while still in his teens, joining a stage company in 1923. By the late 1920s he was a successful matinee ...

19. Alberto Sordi

Actor | Io e Caterina

One of Italy's most captivating and talented cinematic comedy stars, Italian veteran Alberto Sordi was known for satirizing his country's social mores in pungent black comedies, farcical tales and grim drama. He, along with peers Vittorio Gassman, Ugo Tognazzi and Nino Manfredi, arguably represent ...

20. Franco Interlenghi

Actor | I vitelloni

Franco Interlenghi was born on October 29, 1931 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was an actor and writer, known for The Bullocks (1953), Shoeshine (1946) and The Big Night (1959). He was married to Antonella Lualdi. He died on September 10, 2015 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

21. Franco Fabrizi

Actor | I vitelloni

Mr. Fabrizi was Italian actor best known for his performance as the lady-killer among a group of small-town youths in Federico Fellini's 'I Vitelloni'. Starting as a stage and variety revue actor in 1947, he broke into film in 1952 with Francesco De Roberti's 'Carica Eroica'. His role as a tireless...

22. Folco Lulli

Actor | I compagni

Folco Lulli was born on July 3, 1912 in Florence, Tuscany, Italy. He was an actor and producer, known for The Organizer (1963), The Wages of Fear (1953) and The Tartars (1961). He died on May 23, 1970 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

23. Paolo Ferrari

Actor | Orgoglio

Paolo Ferrari was born on February 26, 1929 in Brussels, Belgium. He was an actor and writer, known for Orgoglio (2004), Biblioteca di Studio Uno (1964) and Nero Wolfe (1969). He was married to Laura Tavanti and Marina Bonfigli. He died on May 6, 2018 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

24. Marcello Mastroianni

Actor | La dolce vita

Marcello Mastroianni was born in Fontana Liri, Italy in 1924, but soon his family moved to Turin and then Rome. During WW2 he was sent to a German prison camp, but he managed to escape and hide in Venice. He debuted in films as an extra in Marionette (1939), then started working for the Italian ...

25. Renato Salvatori

Actor | Z

Renato Salvatori was born on March 20, 1933 in Seravezza, Tuscany, Italy. He was an actor, known for Z (1969), Rocco and His Brothers (1960) and The Organizer (1963). He was married to Annie Girardot. He died on March 27, 1988 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

26. Lino Ventura

Actor | Ascenseur pour l'échafaud

One of France's most beloved character stars from the 1950s through and including the 1980s was the Italian-born Lino Ventura. Born Angiolino Joseph Pascal Ventura to Giovanni Ventura and Luisa Borrini, on July 14, 1919, in Parma (northern) Italy, young Lino moved with his family at a young age to ...

27. Gabriele Ferzetti

Actor | C'era una volta il West

Elegant, urbane and well-spoken, Gabriele Ferzetti was one of Italy's most prominent international stars of the 1950's and 60's. His passion for the stage had begun with performing in university plays. This paved the way to a scholarship at the Rome Academy of Dramatic Art (Accademia d'arte ...

28. Paolo Stoppa

Actor | Il gattopardo

Paolo Stoppa was born on June 16, 1906 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was an actor, known for The Leopard (1963), Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) and Rocco and His Brothers (1960). He died on May 1, 1988 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

29. Franco Citti

Actor | The Godfather

Franco Citti was born on April 23, 1935 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was an actor and director, known for The Godfather (1972), The Godfather Part III (1990) and Accattone (1961). He died on January 14, 2016 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

30. Raf Vallone

Actor | The Italian Job

Raf Vallone was an internationally acclaimed Italian movie star known for his rugged good looks. The athletic Vallone, a former soccer player who often was compared to Burt Lancaster, was born Raffaele Vallone in 1916 in Tropea in Calabria, Italy, the son of a prominent lawyer and his aristocratic ...

31. Vittorio Gassman

Actor | Sleepers

Vittorio Gassman studied theatre in his youth and was quite a good basketball player. He debuted on stage in 1943 and soon felt home in all classical theatre works. Since 1946 he also worked at the movies and his first big role there was the criminal in Bitter Rice (1949). This fixed him to his ...

32. Ugo Tognazzi

Actor | La Cage aux folles

Among others of Ugo Tognazzi's superb, award-winning performances of his prolific career, this excellent Italian character star has been widely cherished for his classic comedy role of gay cabaret owner Renato Baldi, opposite Michel Serrault's hilariously mincing drag queen partner Alban, in La ...

33. Marino Masé

Actor | Il gattopardo

Marino Masé was born on March 21, 1939 in Trieste, Italy. Like many young actors, he started his career on stage before making his film debut opposite Roger Moore in the 1960 adventure-comedy Romulus and the Sabines (1961). His early film roles saw him working with many prominent European ...

34. Totò

Actor | Guardie e ladri

'Antonio Griffo Focas Flavio Angelo Ducas Comneno Porfirogenito Gagliardi De Curtis di Bisanzio' was a descendant of the 'Comneno di Bizanzio' and also one of the most popular Italian film stars in history. His genre was undoubtedly the comedy where he achieved world fame. From 1917 he was an actor...

35. Ninetto Davoli

Actor | Uno su due

Ninetto Davoli was born on October 11, 1948 in San Pietro a Maida, Calabria, Italy. He is an actor and assistant director, known for Uno su due (2006), The Decameron (1971) and La Tosca (1973). He has been married to Patrizia Carlomosti since 1973. They have two children.

36. Gian Maria Volontè

Actor | Per un pugno di dollari

Born in Milan in 1933, Gian Maria Volontè studied in Rome at the National Dramatic Arts Academy, where he obtained his degree in 1957. He began working in theatre and television, where he was soon noticed as one of the most promising actors of his generation. After several supporting appearances in...

37. Lino Capolicchio

Director | Pugili

Lino Capolicchio was born on August 21, 1943 in Merano, Italy. He was an actor and director, known for Pugili (1995), Escalation (1968) and The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1970). He died on May 3, 2022 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

38. Giulio Brogi

Actor | Strategia del ragno

Giulio Brogi was born on May 13, 1931 in Verona, Veneto, Italy. He was an actor, known for The Spider's Stratagem (1970), St. Michael Had a Rooster (1972) and The Seagull (1977). He died on February 19, 2019 in Negrar, Veneto, Italy.

39. Franco Nero

Actor | John Wick: Chapter 2

Blue-eyed and well-built Italian actor in international cinema, Franco Nero, was a painting photographer when he was discovered as an actor by director John Huston. He has since appeared in more than 200 movies around the world, working with Europe's top directors, such as Luis Buñuel, Rainer ...

40. Riccardo Cucciolla

Actor | Sacco e Vanzetti

Riccardo Cucciolla was born on September 5, 1924 in Bari, Puglia, Italy. He was an actor, known for Sacco & Vanzetti (1971), 1900 (1976) and Once Upon a Time in America (1984). He died on September 17, 1999 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

41. Giancarlo Giannini

Actor | Quantum of Solace

Giancarlo Giannini is an Oscar-nominated Italian actor, director and multilingual dubber who made an international reputation for his leading roles in Italian films as well as for his mastery of a variety of languages and dialects.

He was born August 1, 1942, in La Spezia, Italy. For 10 years he ...

42. Fabio Testi

Actor | Letters to Juliet

From 1955, Fabio Testi's home town Peschiera del Garda was also home to Bertolazzi Film, a motion picture studio which specialised in the production of colourful pirate movies. Lake Garda was merrily used as the ersatz Caribbean. At Bertolazzi, young Fabio began his career first as an extra, then ...

43. Gastone Moschin

Actor | The Godfather Part II

Gastone Moschin was born on June 8, 1929 in San Giovanni Lupatoto, Veneto, Italy. He was an actor, known for The Godfather Part II (1974), The Birds, the Bees and the Italians (1966) and The Conformist (1970). He was married to Marzia Ubaldi. He died on September 4, 2017 in Terni, Umbria, Italy.

44. Nino Manfredi

Actor | Per grazia ricevuta

Nino Manfredi was born on March 22, 1921 in Castro dei Volsci, Lazio, Italy. He was an actor and writer, known for Between Miracles (1971), Bread and Chocolate (1974) and Café Express (1980). He was married to Erminia Ferrari Manfredi. He died on June 4, 2004 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

45. Omero Antonutti

Actor | Padre padrone

Omero Antonutti (born 3 August 1935) is an Italian actor and dubber, appearing regularly in films and theatre performances. He was born at Basiliano, Friuli. Antonutti's most notable performance to date was in the Taviani brothers' acclaimed film "Padre Padrone". He is also regularly employed in ...

46. Saverio Marconi

Actor | Ogro

Saverio Marconi was born on April 1, 1948 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He is an actor, known for Ogro (1979), Padre Padrone (1977) and Contraband (1980).

47. Michele Placido

Actor | La piovra

Michele Placido was born on May 19, 1946 in Ascoli Satriano, Puglia, Italy. He is an actor and writer, known for La piovra (1984), Romanzo Criminale (2005) and Un eroe borghese (1995). He has been married to Federica Vincenti since August 14, 2012. They have one child. He was previously married to ...

48. Franco Branciaroli

Actor | Senso '45

Franco Branciaroli was born on May 27, 1947 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy. He is an actor, known for Black Angel (2002), The Voyeur (1994) and Black Journal (1977).

49. Enrico Montesano

Actor | A me mi piace

An actor very much in the tradition of Italian comics, Montesano has demonstrated his talent in many sophisticated comedies, expecially when he has worked for important directors, like Monicelli or Steno. However, his qualities can also be seen in grotesque comedies or in films without any apparent...

50. Adriano Celentano

Soundtrack | Yuppi du

Adriano Celentano is one of the most important singers of Italian pop music, but he's also been a creator of a comic genre in movies, with his characteristic way of walking and his facial expressions. For the most part, his films were commercially successful, in fact in the 70s and part of the 80s,...

51. Alvaro Vitali

Actor | L'antenati tua e de Pierino

Alvaro Vitali was born on February 3, 1950 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He is an actor and writer, known for L'antenati tua e de Pierino (1996), Amarcord (1973) and Pierino torna a scuola (1990). He has been married to Stefania Corona since 2006.

52. Claudio Bigagli

Actor | Leonora addio

Claudio Bigagli is a writer, actor and director. He studied acting at the National Academy of Dramatic Arts, with Orazio Costa Giovangigli, and improved his training working with Dario Fo and Vittorio Gassman. His first play , Little Misunderstandings, played by Sergio Castellitto, was staged with ...

53. Luca Venantini

Actor | Il giustiziere della strada

Luca Venantini was born on December 2, 1970 in New York, USA. He is an actor, known for The Exterminators of the Year 3000 (1983), City of the Living Dead (1980) and Classe di ferro (1989).

54. Roberto Benigni

Actor | La vita è bella

Roberto Benigni was born on October 27, 1952 in Manciano La Misericordia, Castiglion Fiorentino, Tuscany, Italy. He is an actor and writer, known for Life Is Beautiful (1997), The Tiger and the Snow (2005) and Down by Law (1986). He has been married to Nicoletta Braschi since December 26, 1991.

55. Vincent Gardenia

Actor | Moonstruck

He was honored twice off-Broadway with Distinguished Performance OBIE Award, first in 1960 for "Machinal" and again in 1969 for "Passing Through From Exotic Places." In 1972 he won a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a play for "Prisoner on 2nd Avenue." In 1979 he was nominated for Best Actor ...

56. Sergio Fantoni

Actor | Esther and the King

Sergio Fantoni was born on August 7, 1930 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was an actor, known for Esther and the King (1960), Once Upon a Time in America (1984) and Von Ryan's Express (1965). He was married to Valentina Fortunato. He died on April 17, 2020 in Italy.

57. Federico Pitzalis

Actor | Diavolo in corpo

Federico Pitzalis is known for Devil in the Flesh (1986).

58. Marco Esposito

Actor | Lunga vita alla signora!

Marco Esposito is known for Long Live the Lady! (1987).

59. Salvatore Cascio

Actor | Nuovo Cinema Paradiso

Salvatore Cascio was born on November 8, 1979 in Palazzo Adriano, Sicily, Italy. He is an actor, known for Cinema Paradiso (1988), Everybody's Fine (1990) and Cyber Eden (1992).

60. Paolo Villaggio

Actor | Fracchia la belva umana

Very popular actor and writer in Italy. He worked in over 80 movies and TV series. Known especially for portraing the character of "Fantozzi" on several movies. Paolo Villaggio was born on December 30, 1932 in Genoa, Liguria, Italy. He was known for Fantozzi (1975) (aka Fantozzi), Fantozzi 2 (1976)...

61. Marco Leonardi

Actor | Nuovo Cinema Paradiso

With his starring roles in two of the most popular foreign films of all time, Italian native Marco Leonardi has become one of Hollywood's most sought-after young actors. Leonardi most recently completed production on two feature films that showcase his diversity as an actor. In Once Upon a Time in ...

62. Giuseppe Ieracitano

Actor | Il ladro di bambini

Giuseppe Ieracitano is known for The Stolen Children (1992), Excellent Cadavers (1999) and Il piccolo lord (1996).

63. Enrico Lo Verso

Actor | Così ridevano

Enrico Lo Verso was born on January 18, 1964 in Palermo, Sicily, Italy. He is an actor, known for The Way We Laughed (1998), Hudson Hawk (1991) and Captain Alatriste: The Spanish Musketeer (2006). He has been married to Elena Montagna since July 29, 1989. They have one child.

64. Massimo Troisi

Actor | Il postino

His acting career started when he was 15 in a theatre (Centro Teatro Spazio). In 1969 he founded the group "I saraceni" (later renamed "La smorfia") with Enzo Decaro and Lello Arena. He became famous to the TV audience between 1976 and 1979 with two TV programs "Non Stop" and "Luna Park". First ...

65. Carmelo Di Mazzarelli

Actor | L'uomo delle stelle

Carmelo Di Mazzarelli was born on September 13, 1918 in Mazzarelli, Italy. He was an actor, known for The Star Maker (1995), Lamerica (1994) and Oltremare (1999). He died on June 13, 2010 in Marina di Ragusa, Italy.

66. Carlo Cecchi

Actor | Le violon rouge

Considered one of the leading figures of Italian innovation in theater, Cecchi alternates the work of stage and film actor to that of a theater director. Memorable is his performance in the drama "End of the match" by Samuel Beckett and, for the cinema, that of Renato Caccioppoli in "Morte di un ...

67. Giorgio Cantarini

Actor | La vita è bella

Giorgio Cantarini was born in Orvieto, Italy on April 12, 1992. He has lived in Rome and Paris. He made his cinema debut at just five years old in the role of Joshua in the film "La Vita è Bella" (Life is Beautiful) by Roberto Benigni, a role for which he won the Jackie Coogan Award (Young artist ...

68. Sergio Rubini

Actor | The Passion of the Christ

Sergio Rubini was born on December 21, 1959 in Grumo Appula, Puglia, Italy. He is an actor and director, known for The Passion of the Christ (2004), The Station (1990) and The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999). He was previously married to Margherita Buy.

69. Ivano Marescotti

Actor | King Arthur

Ivano Marescotti was born on February 4, 1946 in Villanova di Bagnacavallo, Italy. He was an actor, known for King Arthur (2004), The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) and Hannibal (2001). He was married to Erika Leonelli, ??? and Iphigenia Kanarà. He died on March 26, 2023 in Lugo, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.

70. Fiorello

Actor | The Talented Mr. Ripley

Fiorello was born on May 16, 1960 in Catania, Sicily, Italy. He is an actor and writer, known for The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), E viva il videobox (2024) and Domani (2011). He has been married to Susanna Biondo since June 14, 2003. They have one child.

71. Nanni Moretti

Producer | La stanza del figlio

Nanni Moretti was born on the 19th of August, 1953. He lives in Rome, where since he was a kid he devotes himself to his two passions: cinema and water-polo. In 1970 he also played in water-polo first division in Italy, and in the junior National team. In those years he was also very committed in ...

72. Claudio Santamaria

Actor | Casino Royale

Claudio Santamaria is born in Rome. His career begins on the big screen in 1998, but his big break arrives in 2001, when Gabriele Muccino casts him for "L'Ultimo Bacio". Throughout the years he appears in many movies and in 2005 he wins the Nastro D'Argento for Best Actor for "Romanzo Criminale" ...

73. Stefano Accorsi

Actor | Le fate ignoranti

Stefano Accorsi got his diploma from the School of Theater in Bologna. He divides his time between theater, cinema, and television. Currently he is the Artistic Director of the Theater Foundation of Tuscany. He was appointed Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Knight of the Order of Arts ...

74. Sergio Castellitto

Actor | Paris, je t'aime

Sergio Castellitto was born in Rome in 1953. After graduating from the Silvio D'Amico National Academy of Dramatic Art in 1978, he began his theatrical career in Italian public theater with "Shakespeare's Measure for Measure" at the Teatro di Roma and with roles in other plays such as "La Madre by ...

75. Kim Rossi Stuart

Actor | Vallanzasca - Gli angeli del male

Kim Rossi Stuart was born on October 31th, 1969 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He began acting at the age of 5 along with his father Giacomo Rossi Stuart in The Murri Affair (1974). Kim's mother, Klara Müller, is an ex-top model. Kim has 3 sisters, 2 of them actresses like him: Loretta Rossi Stuart and ...

76. Vincenzo Amato

Actor | Unbroken

Vincenzo Amato was born on March 30, 1966 in Palermo, Sicily, Italy. He is an actor, known for Unbroken (2014), Golden Door (2006) and Respiro (2002).

77. Elio Germano

Actor | Il giovane favoloso

Elio Germano was born on September 25, 1980 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He is an actor and writer, known for Leopardi (2014), Nine (2009) and Mio fratello è figlio unico (2007).

78. Riccardo Scamarcio

Actor | John Wick: Chapter 2

Riccardo Scamarcio was born on November 13, 1979 in Trani, Apulia, Italy. He is an actor and producer, known for John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017), Loose Cannons (2010) and Tre metri sopra il cielo (2004).

79. Gianni Di Gregorio

Writer | Gomorra

Gianni Di Gregorio was born on February 19, 1949 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He is a writer and actor, known for Gomorrah (2008), Mid-August Lunch (2008) and Citizens of the World (2019).

80. Gianfelice Imparato

Actor | Gomorra

Gianfelice Imparato was born on August 9, 1956 in Castellammare di Stabia, Campania, Italy. He is an actor and writer, known for Gomorrah (2008), Into Paradiso (2010) and Querido Fidel (2021).

81. Flavio Parenti

Actor | To Rome with Love

Born in Paris, Flavio grew up between France and Italy, learning to speak both languages.

Between 1993 and 1999 he studied in France, at the International boarding school of Valbonne (C.I.V), where he achieved an International Baccalaureat and learned to speak English fluently.

In 2002 He graduated ...

82. Francesco Scianna

Actor | Baarìa

Francesco Scianna was born on March 25, 1982 in Palermo, Sicily, Italy. He is an actor, known for Baaria (2009), Ben-Hur (2016) and Angel of Evil (2010).

83. Paolo Bonacelli

Actor | The American

Paolo Bonacelli was born on February 28, 1937 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He is an actor, known for The American (2010), Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975) and Caligula (1979).

84. Toni Servillo

Actor | La grande bellezza

Actor and director Toni Servillo was born in Afragola in 1959. In 1977 Servillo founded the Teatro Studio in Caserta for whom he directed 'Propaganda' (1979), 'Norma' (1982), 'Billy il bugiardo' (1983) and 'Guernica' (1985), amongst others. In 1986 he collaborated with the Falso Movimento group, ...

85. Fabrizio Bentivoglio

Actor | Un eroe borghese

Fabrizio Bentivoglio was born on January 4, 1957 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy. He is an actor and writer, known for Un eroe borghese (1995), Human Capital (2013) and Turné (1990). He has been married to Silvia Pippia since May 19, 2012. They have two children.

86. Carlo Buccirosso

Actor | Il divo

Carlo Buccirosso was born on July 7, 1954 in Naples, Campania, Italy. He is an actor, known for Il Divo (2008), Love and Bullets (2017) and The Great Beauty (2013).

87. Roberto Herlitzka

Actor | Buongiorno, notte

Roberto Herlitzka was born on October 2, 1937 in Turin, Piedmont, Italy. He is an actor, known for Good Morning, Night (2003), The Great Beauty (2013) and L'ultima lezione (2000). He has been married to Chiara Cajoli since 1968.

88. Massimo Popolizio

Actor | Sono tornato

Massimo Popolizio was born on July 4, 1961 in Genoa, Liguria, Italy. He is an actor, known for Sono tornato (2018), The Predators (2020) and The Great Beauty (2013).

89. Peppino Mazzotta

Actor | Anime nere

Peppino Mazzotta was born on May 20, 1971 in Domanico, Calabria, Italy. He is an actor, known for Black Souls (2014), La velocità della luce (2007) and We Believed (2010).

90. Pierfrancesco Favino

Actor | World War Z

Pierfrancesco Favino was born on August 24, 1969 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He is an actor and producer, known for World War Z (2013), Rush (2013) and Angels & Demons (2009).

91. Giorgio Colangeli

Actor | L'aria salata

Giorgio Colangeli was born on December 14, 1949 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He is an actor, known for Pasolini, un delitto italiano (1995), La cena (1998), Il divo (2008), La doppia ora (2009), Romanzo di una strage (2012) and 20 sigarette (2010). He has also acted in several TV series and short movies.

92. Valerio Mastandrea

Actor | Perfetti sconosciuti

Valerio Mastandrea was born on February 14, 1972 in Garbatella, Rome, Lazio, Italy. He is an actor and producer, known for Perfect Strangers (2016), Ride (2018) and Balancing Act (2012).

93. Adriano Tardiolo

Actor | Lazzaro felice

Adriano Tardiolo was born in 1998 in Allerona, Terni, Umbria, Italy. He is an actor, known for Happy as Lazzaro (2018), Jailbird (2022) and Días de cine (1991).

94. Marcello Fonte

Actor | Dogman

Marcello Fonte was born on November 7, 1978 in Melito di Porto Salvo, Calabria, Italy. He is an actor and director, known for Dogman (2018), Asino vola (2015) and Il posto della felicità (2019).

95. Renato Carpentieri

Actor | È stata la mano di Dio

Born in Savignano Irpino, Avellino, Carpentieri studied architecture in Naples, where from 1965 to 1974 he was engaged in the organization and promotion of cultural events with the group Nuova Cultura. In 1975 he was co-founder of the stage company Teatro dei Mutamenti, in which he was active until...

96. Filippo Scotti

Actor | È stata la mano di Dio

Filippo Scotti (Gravedona, 22 December 1999) is an Italian actor, protagonist of the film It was the hand of God presented at the Venice Film Festival 2021, with which he won the Marcello Mastroianni Award as best emerging actor.

He began his acting career in 2010, when he enrolled in various ...

97. Massimiliano Gallo

Actor | È stata la mano di Dio

Massimiliano Gallo was born on June 19, 1968 in Naples, Campania, Italy. He is an actor and director, known for The Hand of God (2021), Loose Cannons (2010) and Il silenzio grande (2021). He has been married to Shalana Santana since December 3, 2022. They have two children.

98. Marlon Joubert

Actor | È stata la mano di Dio

Marlon Joubert is known for The Hand of God (2021), Suburræterna (2023) and Brigands: The Quest for Gold (2024).

99. Jesmark Scicluna

Actor | Luzzu

Jesmark Scicluna is known for Luzzu (2021), Untitled Project Icon and Das Boot (2018).

100. Giacomo Gianniotti

Actor | Grey's Anatomy

Giacomo Gianniotti was born in Rome, Italy. He immigrated with his family at a young age and grew up in Toronto Canada. Giacomo splits his time in the year between Toronto, Rome, and LA, working in stage, film, and television. He is a bilingual actor working both in English and Italian. He ...