Giancarlo Giannini

Giancarlo Giannini
OMRI
Giannini in 2009
Born (1942-08-01) 1 August 1942 (age 82)
La Spezia, Kingdom of Italy
Alma materAccademia Nazionale di Arte Drammatica Silvio D'Amico
Occupations
  • Actor
  • voice actor
  • film director
  • screenwriter
Years active1961–present
Spouses
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(m. 1967; div. 1975)​
Eurilla del Bono
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(m. 1983)​
Children4, including Adriano Giannini

Giancarlo Giannini (Italian pronunciation: [dʒaŋˈkarlo dʒanˈniːni]; born 1 August 1942) is an Italian actor and voice 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).[1]

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.[2] He has been the official Italian dubber of Al Pacino since 1975,[3] and has also dubbed Jack Nicholson, Michael Douglas, and Helmut Berger.

  1. ^ Vivarelli, Nick (15 December 2021). "Giancarlo Giannini Remembers Groundbreaking Director and Collaborator Lina Wertmüller: 'She Opened My Mind'". Variety. Retrieved 22 September 2022.
  2. ^ "Giancarlo Giannini's voice acting and dubbing contributions". Il mondo dei doppiatori, antoniogenna.net (in Italian). Retrieved 15 April 2019.
  3. ^ Harry. "Actor Star Turns King of Pasta – An Interview With Giancarlo Giannini |". Retrieved 22 September 2022.