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Giancarlo Giannini

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.

Filmography

2026
Tradita

as Nicandro

Movie
2024
Cabrini

as Pope Leo XIII

Movie
2008
Quantum of Solace

as Mathis

Movie
2007
Milan – Palermo: The Return

as Turi Leofonte

Movie
2006
Casino Royale

as Mathis

Movie
2004
Man on Fire

as Miguel Manzano

Movie
2002
The Bankers of God: The Calvi Affair

as Flavio Carboni

Movie
1997
Mimic

as Manny

Movie
1974
Swept Away

as Gennarino Carunchio

Movie
1973
Love and Anarchy

as Antonio Soffiantini 'Tunin'

Movie
1971
A Prostitute Serving the Public and in Compliance with the Laws of the State

as Walter Merighi

Movie
1970
A Drama of Jealousy (and other things)

as Nello

Movie