Giancarlo Giannini

Known for ActingBorn 1942-08-01 (age 83)La Spezia, Liguria, Italy

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 (1974), culminating in his Oscar-nominated turn in Seven Beauties (1975). His other films include The Innocent (1976), Lili Marleen (1980), New York Stories (1990), A Walk in the Clouds (1995), Hannibal (2001), Man on Fire (2004), and the James Bond films Casino Royale (2006) and Quantum of Solace (2008). He is also a dubbing artist, contributing voice work to the Italian-language versions of dozens of films since the 1960s. He has been the main Italian dubber of Al Pacino since 1975, and has also dubbed Jack Nicholson, Michael Douglas, and Helmut Berger. Description above from the Wikipedia article Giancarlo Giannini, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.Read more

Movies & web series

Tonight in Milan

Stanotte a Venezia

Stanotte a Firenze

Mauro Corona - La mia vita finché capita

Dracula

Tonight in Paris

We Are Cinema

Tonight in...

Sono Gassman! - Vittorio re della commedia

Raul - Right to Kill

Ultimo bersaglio

Black as the Heart

Colpo di coda

Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema

Hugo in Argentina

Una macchia rosa

David Copperfield

Ciao America

Sweet Idleness

Stanotte a Pompei

Caruso presents: The Good Italian I - The Farmhouse of Wonders

The Marshal Rocca

Vengeance Is Mine: Reinventing 'Man on Fire'

Cabrini

3 Women

Ti voglio bene Eugenio

No Deposit, No Return

La stanza dello Scirocco

La frontiera

Tonight in Rome

Rise of the Raven

Like Two Crocodiles

Casino Royale

Francesca and Nunziata

Leonardo

Catch-22

Man on Fire

Vacation in Hell

Fried Crumbed Brains

I fratelli De Filippo

L'onore e il rispetto

Starman

Love and Anarchy

Black and White Stripes: The Juventus Story

A Walk in the Clouds

Indian Summer

Sins

Seven Beauties