Elio Germano (born September 25, 1980) is an Italian actor. He made his film debut in 1993 as a child actor, before gaining prominence with a string of roles in youth-oriented movies in the early 2000s.
He achieved stardom following his lead role in Daniele Luchetti's My Brother Is an Only Child (2007), for which he won his first David di Donatello for Best Actor. He won the award for Best Actor at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival for Luchetti's La Nostra Vita (tied with Javier Bardem for Biutiful) and at the 2020 Berlin Film Festival for Volevo Nascondermi, portraying painter Antonio Ligabue.
Subsequent starring roles include Tutta La Vita Davanti (2008), Diaz: Don't Clean Up This Blood (2012), Il Giovane Favoloso (2014), Suburra (2015), The Man Without Gravity (2019), Bad Tales (2020) and Rose Island (2020). Outside of Italy he appeared in the Abel Ferrara's Mary (2005), and Nine (2009), opposite Daniel Day-Lewis.
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The film follows Vince, a dissatisfied young man from a Roman mountain village, who moves to Pescara...
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After serving prison time for a juvenile offense, Freddo gathers his old buddies Libano and Dandi an...
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An adolescent girl, living with her mother and her grandmother, will have her first sexual experienc...
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A private detective investigates her sister's suicide 16 years earlier....
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A nerdy film student and lifelong voyeur begins to believe that two lovely young strangers may have ...
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Accio and Manrico are siblings from a working-class family in 1960s Italy: older Manrico is handsome...
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An 11-year-old boy and his neo-Nazi dad struggle with being outcasts in their suburban town....
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25-year-old philosophy major Marta faces the ugly truth for many young Italians — a complete lack of...
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Alfredo and Susanna are two well-off fifty-year-olds who lead a stimulating cultural life. He is an ...
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An aspiring actor discovers that his spacious new apartment comes complete with eight friendly ghost...
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On July 19–21, 2001, over 200,000 people took to the streets of Genoa to protest against the ongoing...
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She’s the most beautiful, most short-sighted, most sentimental, most perplexing, most obstinate, mos...
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During the evaluation of a plot of land, surveyor and distressed single mother Lucia meets a woman w...
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A gravity-defying boy raised in seclusion matures into an extraordinary man -- and an international ...
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The film tackles the life journey of Toni Ligabue, visionary naïf painter who used to draw tigers, l...
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In 1968, engineer Giorgio Rosa established the independent state called "The Isle of Roses" off the ...
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Caterino is a worker at the Ilva factory in Taranto. When the company executives decide to use him a...
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Recent movies
| # | Name | Character | Rating | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Palazzina LAF (2023) | Giancarlo Basile | 9 | |
| 2 | Hidden Away (2020) | Antonio Ligabue | 5 | |
| 3 | Rose Island (2020) | Giorgio Rosa | 6.5 | |
| 4 | The Man Without Gravity (2019) | Oscar | 6 | |
| 5 | Lucia's Grace (2018) | Arturo | - | - |
| 6 | Suburra (2015) | Sebastiano | 8 | |
| 7 | Alaska (2015) | Fausto | 6 | |
| 8 | The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun (2015) | Stefano | 1 | |
| 9 | A Magnificent Haunting (2012) | Pietro | 7 | |
| 10 | Diaz - Don't Clean Up This Blood (2012) | Luca Gualtieri | 8 | |
| 11 | Our Life (2010) | Claudio | 7 | |
| 12 | Beautiful People (2009) | Giulio | - | - |
| 13 | Nine (2009) Oscars 2010 | Pierpaolo | 5 | |
| 14 | As God Commands (2008) | Quattro Formaggi | - | - |
| 15 | A Whole Life Ahead (2008) | Lucio 2 | 4.7 | |
| 16 | My Brother Is an Only Child (2007) | Accio Benassi | 6.7 | |
| 17 | Romanzo Criminale (2005) | Sorcio | 6 | |
| 18 | Mary (2005) | Matteo | 6 | |
| 19 | Melissa P. (2005) | Arnaldo | 5 | |
| 20 | Quo Vadis, Baby? (2005) | Lucio | - | - |
| 21 | Do You Like Hitchcock? (2005) | Giulio | - | - |
| 22 | Break Free (2003) | Vince | - | - |
| 23 | Respiro (2002) | Pier Luigi | 5.5 |

