Actor

Giancarlo Giannini

Acting

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Acting credits

184

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Very extensive acting filmography.

TMDB popularity

1.0

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Movies: 168Series: 17Crew credits: 6

TMDB ID: 3753

IMDb ID: nm0316284

Known for: Acting

Born: August 1, 1942

Age: 83

Place of birth: La Spezia, Liguria, Italy

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1965 - 2025

Years active: 61

Average TMDB rating: 6.4

Wikidata: Q315258

Also known as

John Charlie Johns • جانکارلو جانینی

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Director (2)Producer (2)Prop Designer (1)Writer (1)

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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 (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.