Riccardo Scamarcio facts for kids
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Riccardo Scamarcio
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Scamarcio in 2008
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Born | Trani, Apulia, Italy
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13 November 1979
Education | Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia |
Occupation | Actor • film producer |
Years active | 2000–present |
Partner(s) | Angela Liso (1996–2006) Valeria Golino (2006–2016) Benedetta Porcaroli (2021–2022) |
Children | 1 |
Riccardo Dario Scamarcio (Italian pronunciation: [rikˈkardo skaˈmartʃo]; born 13 November 1979) is an Italian actor and film producer.
Early life
Scamarcio was born in Trani, Apulia, the son of Irene Petrafesa, a painter, and Emilio Scamarcio.
He went to train as an actor at the Scuola Nazionale di Cinema in Rome, where he now lives.
Career
His debut acting role was in a TV series in 2000, while his first ever lead role in a feature film was in Three Steps Over Heaven (2004), directed by Luca Lucini. Through this he immediately became well known to the Italian speaking public, especially a young audience. .....
In 2006 he acted in The Black Arrow, a TV series broadcast by Canale 5, adapted from the novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, and took on four new film roles: My Brother Is an Only Child (2007), directed by Daniele Luchetti, based on the novel Il fasciocomunista by Antonio Pennacchi. Scamarcio won a David di Donatello nomination for Best Supporting Actor for this work. He also played in Manual of Love 2 (2007), directed by Giovanni Veronesi, Ho voglia di te (2007), directed by Luis Prieto, and Go Go Tales (2007), directed by Abel Ferrara.
In 2007 he began work on At a Glance (2008) directed by Sergio Rubini, Italians (2009), a comedy directed by Giovanni Veronesi, and The Big Dream (2009), set in Italy in 1968, directed by Michele Placido. Eden à l'Ouest, directed by Costa-Gavras, saw Scamarcio playing an illegal immigrant-cum-innocent abroad. The Cézanne Affair (2009), directed by Sergio Rubini, co-starred Scamarcio's partner, Italian-Greek actress Valeria Golino, who plays his sister.
He also starred in John Wick: Chapter 2, playing the Italian Mob boss Santino D'Antonio, the antagonist in the film.
Filmography
Film
Year | Title | Role | Actor | Producer | Notes |
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2003 | The Best of Youth | Andrea Utano | Yes | ||
Now or Never | Biri | Yes | |||
Le mani in faccia | Francesco | Yes | Short film | ||
2004 | Three Steps Over Heaven | Step | Yes | ||
The Smell of Blood | Yes | ||||
2005 | L'uomo perfetto | Antonio | Yes | ||
Texas | Gianluca Baretti | Yes | |||
Romanzo Criminale | Nero | Yes | |||
2007 | Manual of Love 2 | Nicola | Yes | ||
Ho voglia di te | Step | Yes | |||
My Brother Is an Only Child | Manrico Benassi | Yes | Nominated − David di Donatello for Best Supporting Actor | ||
Go Go Tales | Doctor Steven | Yes | |||
Prova a volare | Alessandro | Yes | |||
2008 | At a Glance | Adrian | Yes | ||
2009 | Italians | Marcello Polidori | Yes | ||
Eden Is West | Elias | Yes | |||
The Big Dream | Nicola | Yes | |||
The Front Line | Sergio Segio | Yes | |||
The Cézanne Affair | Pinuccio | Yes | |||
2010 | Loose Cannons | Tommaso Cantone | Yes | ||
Diarchia | Giano | Yes | Yes | Short film | |
2011 | Polisse | Francesco | Yes | ||
The Ages of Love | Roberto | Yes | |||
Armandino e il Madre | Yes | Short film | |||
2012 | Una commedia italiana che non fa ridere | Narrator | Yes | Short film; Voice role | |
To Rome with Love | Hotel Robber | Yes | |||
The Red and the Blue | Professor Giovanni Prezioso | Yes | |||
Cosimo e Nicole | Cosimo | Yes | |||
Giulia ha picchiato Filippo | Yes | Short film | |||
L'uomo doppio | Yes | ||||
2013 | The Informant | Mario / Claudio Pasco Lanfredi | Yes | ||
Third Person | Marco | Yes | |||
A Small Southern Enterprise | Arturo | Yes | |||
Miele | Yes | ||||
2014 | A Golden Boy | Davide Bias | Yes | ||
Pasolini | Ninetto Davoli | Yes | |||
Effie Gray | Rafael | Yes | |||
La vita oscena | Yes | ||||
2015 | Wondrous Boccaccio | Gentile Carisendi | Yes | ||
You Can't Save Yourself Alone | Gaetano | Yes | Nominated − David di Donatello for Best Actor | ||
First Light | Marco | Yes | |||
Burnt | Max | Yes | |||
Io che amo solo te | Damiano | Yes | |||
Per amor vostro | Yes | ||||
2016 | Pericle | Pericles | Yes | Yes | |
La verità sta in cielo | Enrico De Pedis | Yes | |||
La cena di Natale | Damiano | Yes | |||
Ali and Nino | Malik Nakhararyan | Yes | |||
2017 | Dalida | Orlando | Yes | ||
John Wick: Chapter 2 | Santino D'Antonio | Yes | |||
Andorra | Lieutenant Afgroni | Yes | |||
2018 | Loro | Sergio Morra | Yes | ||
Welcome Home | Federico | Yes | |||
The Summer House | Luca | Yes | |||
Euphoria | Matteo | Yes | |||
Dei | Yes | ||||
Early Man | Dag | Yes | Only Italian dub; Voice role | ||
2019 | The Ruthless | Santo Russo | Yes | ||
John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum | Santino D'Antonio | Yes | cameos as Santino d'Antonio's corpse | ||
Les Traducteurs (The Translators) | Dario Farelli | Yes | Italian Translator | ||
If Only | Carlo | ||||
2020 | The Players | Lorenzo | Yes | Yes | Also scriptwriter |
Il legame (The Binding) | Francesco | Yes | |||
2021 | L'ultimo Paradiso (The Last Paradiso) | Ciccio Paradiso | Yes | Yes | |
Three Floors | Lucio | Yes | |||
Caravaggio's Shadow | Caravaggio | Yes | |||
The Shadow of the Day | Luciano Traini | Yes | Yes | ||
2023 | A Haunting in Venice | Vitale Portfoglio | Yes | ||
TBA | 2 Win | Cesare Fiorio | Yes | Yes | Also scriptwriter |
TBA | Modì | Amedeo Modigliani | Yes | Post-production |
Television
- Ama il tuo nemico 2 (2000)
- Io ti salverò (2001)
- Compagni di scuola (2001)
- La freccia nera (2006)
- Il segreto dell'acqua (Palermo Connection) (2011)
- London Spy (2015)
- Master of None (2017)
- The Woman in White (2018)
- Maradona: Blessed Dream (2021; episode 6)
Music video
- Ti scatterò una foto (Tiziano Ferro) (2007)
- Drammaturgia (Le Vibrazioni) (2008)
- Insolita (Le Vibrazioni) (2008)
- Meraviglioso (Negramaro) (2009)
- Dove cadono i fulmini (Erica Mou) (2011)
Theatre
- Non essere - Mise en espace di Leonardo Petrillo (2003)
- I tre moschettieri (2004)
- L'intelligenza, il cuore, le dita (2009)
- Romeo and Juliet (2011)
See also
In Spanish: Riccardo Scamarcio para niños