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Giancarlo Giannini

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Giancarlo Giannini is an Oscar-nominated Italian actor, director and multilingual dubber who made an international reputation for his leading roles in Italian films as well as for his mastery of a variety of languages and dialects.

He was born August 1, 1942, in La Spezia, Italy. For 10 years he lived and studied in Naples, earning a degree in electronics. At 18 he enrolled in the Academy of Dramatic Art D'Amico in Rome and made his stage acting debut there. His credits included performances in contemporary Italian plays as well, as in Italian productions of William Shakespeare's plays "Romeo and Juliet" and "A Midsummer's Night Dream". In 1965 he made his television debut starring as David Copperfield in the TV miniseries made by RAI ,the Italian national TV company. He made his big-screen debut in Libido (1965), a Freudian psychological thriller. Since 1966 he has been in a successful collaboration with legendary Italian director Lina Wertmüller, who made several award-winning films with Giannini as a male lead. He appears as peasant Tonino who prepares to assassinate dictator Benito Mussolini in Love & Anarchy (1973), as a sailor in the irony-laden comedy Swept Away (1974), and as a concentration-camp survivor in the Oscar-nominated Seven Beauties (1975). He also starred as a Jewish musician arrested by the Nazis in Rainer Werner Fassbinder's masterpiece Lili Marleen (1981).

Giannini also made a reputation for dubbing international stars in films released on the Italian market, such as Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, Michael Douglas, Dustin Hoffman, Gérard Depardieu, and Ian McKellen, among others. He received a compliment from Stanley Kubrick for his dubbing of Nicholson in The Shining (1980). Giannini's fluency in English and his mastery of dialects has brought him a number of supporting roles in Hollywood productions, such as A Walk in the Clouds (1995), Hannibal (2001), Darkness (2002), and Man on Fire (2004), among many others. He appears as Rene Mathis in the 21st James Bond film Casino Royale (2006), and reprises the role in the sequel, Quantum of Solace (2008).
BornAugust 1, 1942
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  • Nominated for 1 Oscar

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Keanu Reeves, Giancarlo Giannini, and Aitana Sánchez-Gijón in A Walk in the Clouds (1995)
Giancarlo Giannini in Más allá del jardín (1996)
Giancarlo Giannini in Black Belly of the Tarantula (1971)
Giancarlo Giannini in Black Belly of the Tarantula (1971)
Claudine Auger and Giancarlo Giannini in Black Belly of the Tarantula (1971)
Giancarlo Giannini in New York Stories (1989)
Talia Shire and Giancarlo Giannini in New York Stories (1989)
Giancarlo Giannini in Dune (2000)
Candice Bergen and Giancarlo Giannini in A Night Full of Rain (1978)
Giancarlo Giannini in Black Belly of the Tarantula (1971)
Ornella Muti and Giancarlo Giannini in Life Is Beautiful (1979)
Giancarlo Giannini and Monica Vitti in The Pizza Triangle (1970)

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Daniel Craig and Olga Kurylenko in Quantum of Solace (2008)
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  • Rene Mathis
  • 2008
Giancarlo Giannini and Mariangela Melato in Love & Anarchy (1973)
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  • Antonio Soffiantini 'Tunin'
  • 1973
Denzel Washington and Dakota Fanning in Man on Fire (2004)
Man on Fire
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  • Miguel Manzano
  • 2004
Daniel Craig in Casino Royale (2006)
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  • Rene Mathis
  • 2006

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Actor

  • Book Club: The Next Chapter
    • Post-production
  • The Cook & the Critic
    • In Development
  • After the War
    • Pre-production
  • The Primary Talent
    • Pre-production
  • Stanotte a Milano (2022)
    Stanotte a Milano
  • Giancarlo Giannini, Francesco Montanari, and Elena Radonicich in Il grande gioco (2022)
    Il grande gioco
  • Duetto (2022)
    Duetto
  • Stanotte a Napoli (2021)
    Stanotte a Napoli
  • Gianni Schicchi (2021)
    Gianni Schicchi
  • I fratelli De Filippo (2021)
    I fratelli De Filippo
  • Aidan Turner in Leonardo (2021)
    Leonardo
  • Rodolfo Sancho and Carolina Crescentini in De sable et de feu (2019)
    De sable et de feu
  • Catch-22 (2019)
    Catch-22
  • Magical Nights (2018)
    Magical Nights
  • Buon lavoro (2018)
    Buon lavoro
  • Diminuta (2018)
    Diminuta
  • Acerra (2018)
    Acerra
    • (voice)
  • Romanzo famigliare (2018)
    Romanzo famigliare
  • Paul Rudd in The Catcher Was a Spy (2018)
    The Catcher Was a Spy

Additional Crew

  • Edward Asner, Christopher Plummer, John Ratzenberger, Laraine Newman, and Jordan Nagai in Up (2009)
    Up
  • Edward Asner in Papa Giovanni - Ioannes XXIII (2002)
    Papa Giovanni - Ioannes XXIII
    • (uncredited)
  • Emmanuelle Seigner and Teo Mammucari in Streghe verso nord (2001)
    Streghe verso nord
  • Harvey Keitel, David Bowie, Sandrine Holt, Alessia Marcuzzi, and Leonardo Pieraccioni in Il mio West (1998)
    Il mio West
  • Biography (1987)
    Biography
  • Maggio musicale (1990)
    Maggio musicale
  • Night Sun (1990)
    Night Sun
  • The Desert of the Tartars (1976)
    The Desert of the Tartars
    • (uncredited)
  • The Divine Nymph (1975)
    The Divine Nymph
    • (uncredited)
  • Ludwig (1973)
    Ludwig
    • (uncredited)
  • The Bloodstained Butterfly (1971)
    The Bloodstained Butterfly
    • (uncredited)
  • Katia Christine and Tomas Milian in The Designated Victim (1971)
    The Designated Victim
    • (uncredited)
  • Björn Andrésen and Dirk Bogarde in Death in Venice (1971)
    Death in Venice
    • (uncredited)
  • The Forbidden Photos of a Lady Above Suspicion (1970)
    The Forbidden Photos of a Lady Above Suspicion
    • (uncredited)
  • When Women Had Tails (1970)
    When Women Had Tails
    • (uncredited)

Director

  • Silvia De Santis and Giancarlo Giannini in The Gambler Who Wouldn't Die (2013)
    The Gambler Who Wouldn't Die
  • The Numbers Game (1987)
    The Numbers Game

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Personal details

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    • August 1, 1942
    • La Spezia, Liguria, Italy
    • Eurilla del Bono1983 - present (2 children)
    • Adriano Giannini
  • Other works
    Dubbing voice of Jack Nicholson in the Italian post-synchronized version of The Passenger (1975) (David Locke), The Shining (1980) (Jack Torrance), Batman (1989) (Joker / Jack Napier), Hoffa (1992) (Jimmy Hoffa), The Pledge (2001) (Jerry Black), Something's Gotta Give (2003) (Harry Sanborn), The Departed (2006) (Frank Costello),
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    • 5 Pictorials
    • 1 Magazine Cover Photo

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    After dubbing Jack Nicholson's voice in the Italian version of The Shining (1980), he received a telegram of congratulations from Stanley Kubrick.
    • Short, slender frame

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