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.
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Recent movies
| # | Name | Character | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cabrini (2024) | Pope Leo XIII | 8 |
| 2 | Book Club: The Next Chapter (2023) | Police Chief | 8 |
| 3 | The Catcher Was a Spy (2018) | Professor Eduardo Amaldi | 5 |
| 4 | The First Line (2014) | Petros | - |
| 5 | Eurotrapped (2013) | Don Ferracane | - |
| 6 | Quantum of Solace (2008) | Mathis | 6.5 |
| 7 | Casino Royale (2006) | Mathis | 7.7 |
| 8 | Vengeance Is Mine: Reinventing 'Man on Fire' (2005) | Self | - |
| 9 | Man on Fire (2004) | Miguel Manzano | 7.5 |
| 10 | My House in Umbria (2003) | Inspector Girotti | - |
| 11 | Darkness (2002) | Albert Rua | 4.8 |
| 12 | Joshua (2002) | The Pope | 10 |
| 13 | Hannibal (2001) | Insp. Renaldo Pazzi | 6.8 |
| 14 | CQ (2001) | Enzo | - |
| 15 | A Night with Sabrina Love (2000) | Leonardo | - |
| 16 | Mimic (1997) | Manny | 6.4 |
| 17 | A Walk in the Clouds (1995) | Alberto Aragón | 7 |
| 18 | Jacob (1994) | Laban | - |
| 19 | Once Upon a Crime (1992) | Inspector Bonnard | 6 |
| 20 | Life with the Kids (1990) | Adriano Setti | - |
| 21 | Time to Kill (1989) | Il Maggiore | - |
| 22 | New York Stories (1989) | Claudio | 6 |
| 23 | Snack Bar Budapest (1988) | Avvocato | - |
| 24 | Saving Grace (1986) | Abalardi | - |
| 25 | Lili Marleen (1981) | Robert | - |
| 26 | Seven Beauties (1975) | Pasqualino Frafuso aka Settebellezze | - |
| 27 | The Murri Affair (1974) | Tullio Murri | 3 |
| 28 | The Seduction of Mimi (1972) | Carmelo Mardocheo / Mimí | 5 |
| 29 | Indian Summer (1972) | Giorgio Mosca aka 'Spider' | 4 |
| 30 | The Black Belly of the Tarantula (1971) | Inspector Tellini | - |
| 31 | The Secret of Santa Vittoria (1970) | Fabio | 5 |
| 32 | Anzio (1968) | Pvt. Cellini | - |
