Biography
Edoardo Leo (born 21 April 1972) is an Italian actor, director and screenwriter. Born in Rome, Leo, a graduate in Literature and Philosophy from the Sapienza University of Rome, started attending acting courses at young age and made his professional debut in 1995, in the TV-movie La luna rubata. He had his breakout in 2003, with the role of Marcello in the TV-series Un medico in famiglia. In 2009, Leo debuted as screenwriter and director with the road movie 18 Years Later, which got him some awa...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Love In Separate Beds
2025
After a passionate night, two opposites, a feminist and a chauvinist, find common ground at the same school, working together with a baby on the way.

30 notti con il mio ex
2025
as Bruno

100 di questi anni
2025
Director

Madly
2025
as Piero
How much do we really know about ourselves when we make a decision? What if there are multiple versions of our I within us, each with something to say...

I Am Not What I Am - The Tragedy of Othello by W. Shakespeare
2024
as Iago
Shakespeare’s Othello is revisited exactly as it was written, brought into the present through the power of dialect alone. Iago, Othello, and Desdemon...

I Am Not What I Am - The Tragedy of Othello by W. Shakespeare
2024
Director, Writer
Shakespeare’s Othello is revisited exactly as it was written, brought into the present through the power of dialect alone. Iago, Othello, and Desdemon...

Oltre il tempo, l'amore
2024
The encounter between physics and cinema and the terribly topical subject of the end of the world turned the set of Liliana Cavani's The order of time...

Io sono un po' matto... e tu?
2024

Ari-Cassamortari
2024
as Giuseppe Pasti
After the Arcangelo affair, the Pasti brothers, together with an eccentric half-sister they didn't know they had, have made a name for themselves as "...

If I May - Chapter II
2024
Over the course of a day, Fausto, invincible in his inertia, watches a paradoxical procession of visitors pass by: the mellifluous parish priest of th...

The Order of Time
2023
as Enrico
A group of friends gathers for a birthday by the sea, only to face the looming possibility of the world ending within hours, transforming one fleeting...

I peggiori giorni
2023
as Alessandro (segment "Natale")
Four episodes – Christmas, May 1st (Labour Day), August 15th (Ferragosto), Halloween – to tell four stories that delve into the human soul.

I peggiori giorni
2023
Director, Idea, Story
Four episodes – Christmas, May 1st (Labour Day), August 15th (Ferragosto), Halloween – to tell four stories that delve into the human soul.

Mia
2023
as Sergio
The story of a small, simple and happy family in which a boy, a manipulator, violently enters, which distorts the life of this wonderful fifteen-year-...

Still Time
2023
as Dante
Dante accidentally kisses Alice and they get engaged. After a surprise party for his 40th birthday, he wakes up a year later, not remembering what hap...

I migliori giorni
2023
as Alessandro (segment "La vigilia")
A quartet of stories unfold across four holidays as family members, friends and colleagues face hard decisions, career setbacks and life-changing even...

I migliori giorni
2023
Director, Idea, Story
A quartet of stories unfold across four holidays as family members, friends and colleagues face hard decisions, career setbacks and life-changing even...

È questa la vita che sognavo da bambino?
2022
Director

The Desired War
2022
as Tom
A diplomatic incident threatens to break out a war inside Europe that only an unlikely couple of bickering lovers seems able to stop.

Power of Rome
2022
as Se stesso
In this fascinating documentary, journey through the wonders of the Eternal City, an open-air theatre where the history of the world was staged.

I cassamortari
2022
as Giuseppe Pasti
In Rome, the Cassamortari are people who work in the funeral business. The Pasti family's agency was founded by Giuseppe, who is willing to do anythin...

C’era una volta il crimine
2022
as Renatino

Luigi Proietti detto Gigi
2022
as Self
Documentary about the film and theater career of the roman actor, Gigi Proietti, who passed away on 2 November 2020

Luigi Proietti detto Gigi
2022
Director, Producer
Documentary about the film and theater career of the roman actor, Gigi Proietti, who passed away on 2 November 2020

We Are Cinema
2021
as Self (archive footage)
An Italian documentary about Italian cinema.

Breaking Up in Rome
2021
as Tommaso
Aspiring writer Tommaso makes a living by penning the self-help column of a women's magazine. One day he receives a letter from a reader asking for ad...

Breaking Up in Rome
2021
Screenplay, Story, Director
Aspiring writer Tommaso makes a living by penning the self-help column of a women's magazine. One day he receives a letter from a reader asking for ad...

All Star - Ritorno al cinema
2021
as Uomo in fila
A short movie about coming back to the cinema after lockdowns.

Ritorno al crimine
2021
as Renatino

Uno, nessuno, cento Nino
2021
as Self
A documentary about beloved Italian actor Nino Manfredi.

18 Presents
2020
as Alessio
Elisa is only forty when an incurable disease takes her from her husband and their daughter. Before her heart stops, Elisa finds a way to stay close t...

The Goddess of Fortune
2019
as Alessandro
Alessandro and Arturo have been together for over 15 years and, despite the feeling they still have for each other, their relationship is now at crisi...

Golden Men
2019
as Il Lupo
A group of desperate men, unsatisfied by their lives, decides to attempt a heist to a postal armored truck guard.

All You Need is Crime
2019
as Renatino
In the present day, three friends to make ends meet invent a "criminal tour" for the places which were scenes of the Banda della Magliana criminal act...

Just Believe
2018
as Massimo Alberti
The owner of a dilapidated B&B has an idea: in order to dodge bankruptcy, he has to turn his business into a place of worship—a tax-free activity, whe...

Just Believe
2018
Story, Screenplay
The owner of a dilapidated B&B has an idea: in order to dodge bankruptcy, he has to turn his business into a place of worship—a tax-free activity, whe...

I Can Quit Whenever I Want 3: Ad Honorem
2017
as Pietro Zinni
Has been an year since Pietro Zinni's gang got caught in the Sopox production laboratory and each of them locked up in different jails. From Regina Co...

Motori Ruggenti
2017
as Self

I Can Quit Whenever I Want 2: Masterclass
2017
as Pietro Zinni
Pietro Zinni is asked by the police to revive the old gang to create a task force that will stop the spread of smart drugs.

What’s the Big Deal
2016
as Claudio
A young man challenges the web to offer money for a sex tape of him and his girlfriend to finance his work and finally be able to afford having a chil...

What’s the Big Deal
2016
Screenplay, Story, Director
A young man challenges the web to offer money for a sex tape of him and his girlfriend to finance his work and finally be able to afford having a chil...

Perfect Strangers
2016
as Cosimo
During a dinner, a group of friends decide to share whatever message or phone call they will receive during the evening, with unforeseen consequences.

Them Who?
2015
as David
David loses his white collar job, his fiancée and his house after one night with con man Marcello. He tracks him down to exact revenge, but ends up be...

The Legendary Giulia and Other Miracles
2015
as Fausto
Five down-on-their luck strangers meet by chance while looking at a property in the country none of them are able to afford. They decide to join force...

The Legendary Giulia and Other Miracles
2015
Story, Screenplay, Director
Five down-on-their luck strangers meet by chance while looking at a property in the country none of them are able to afford. They decide to join force...

Pane e burlesque
2014
as Vincenzo
A group of burlesque dancers arrives in a little town.

Ti ricordi di me?
2014
as Roberto Marino
Sharing the same psychologist, kleptomaniac Roberto, who writes stories a bit too realistic and scary for kids, and a narcoleptic Beatrice, who docume...

Ti ricordi di me?
2014
Screenplay
Sharing the same psychologist, kleptomaniac Roberto, who writes stories a bit too realistic and scary for kids, and a narcoleptic Beatrice, who docume...

The Move of the Penguin
2014
as Bruno
Two temp workers, a pensioner and an old bully discover the sport of curling by chance and, convinced of their potential, plan to compete at the 2006 ...

The Move of the Penguin
2014
Screenplay
Two temp workers, a pensioner and an old bully discover the sport of curling by chance and, convinced of their potential, plan to compete at the 2006 ...

I Can Quit Whenever I Want
2014
as Pietro Zinni
A university researcher is fired because of the cuts to university. To earn a living he decides to produce drugs recruiting his former colleagues, who...

Tutta colpa di Freud
2014
as Roberto
Francesco is a psychoanalyst grappling with three hopeless causes: a bookseller in love with a book thief, a lesbian hell-bent on becoming straight af...

Out of the Blue
2013
as Paolo
Andrea is a handsome and cocky 38-year old man with a successful business career. Shallow, womanizing and a confirmed bachelor, his life seems to be j...

Out of the Blue
2013
Director, Screenplay
Andrea is a handsome and cocky 38-year old man with a successful business career. Shallow, womanizing and a confirmed bachelor, his life seems to be j...

Ci vediamo a casa
2012
as Franco
Three different couples are looking for a house to live.

Viva l'Italia
2012
as Marco
The story of a leading political man, suddenly telling “all the truth” after a serious illness and therefore overwhelming lifes of anyone surrounding ...

To Rome with Love
2012
as Reporter at Barbershop
Four tales unfold in the Eternal City: While vacationing in Rome, architect John encounters a young man whose romantic woes remind him of a painful in...

Il signore della truffa
2011

Escort in Love
2011
as Uomo Al bar
35-year-old Alice has a husband and a son. Her life seems a beautiful dream, but it soon turns out to be a nightmare. Her husband dies in a car accid...

18 Years Later
2010
as Mirko
Mirko and Genziano are two 35-year-old brothers who have not seen each other since their mother died in a freak accident in which they were involved—e...

18 Years Later
2010
Director, Screenplay, Story
Mirko and Genziano are two 35-year-old brothers who have not seen each other since their mother died in a freak accident in which they were involved—e...

L'Anno Mille
2008
as Commander
In a story that follows some lives and their respective reincarnations over time, Valerio is a prince in the year one thousand and a doctor of the S.e...

Write It on the Walls
2007
as Fidanzato madre Bronks
Sole, a university student bored of her daily routine, meets graffiti artists Pierpaolo and Alex, and her life changes until she falls in love with on...

Taxi Lovers
2005
as Massimo

All in That Night
2004
as Davide, vicino di casa di Marco
Giorgio, married to Daniela, would like to take his beautiful lover Gloria somewhere to spend the night. So he asks his brother-in-law Marco, who is l...

Dentro la città
2004
as Lorenzo Corsi

People of Rome
2003
as Michele
Rome 2003, the camera follows citizens of Rome. Night, in a flat, a woman prepares her husband's lunch. The man takes a bus, but the camera follow ano...

Blindati
2003
as Maggiore Lidiano Cruciano

La collezione invisibile
2002
as Mario

La banda
2001
as Edoardo "Dado" Diotallevi

Operazione Odissea
2000
as Vincenzo Marano/Achille

Grazie di tutto
1998
as Marzio

La classe non è acqua
1997
as Marco Talenti
Limbo
N/A
Plot TBA, has been described as a comedy