Biography
Nasce a Palermo il 27 maggio del 1974, secondo di quattro figli. Dopo la maturità classica, si iscrive all'università per studiare Lettere Antiche, facoltà che abbandona dopo due anni per l'Accademia Nazionale d'Arte Drammatica Silvio D'Amico di Roma, dove si diploma nel 1998 (frequenta inoltre diversi laboratori teatrali, in Italia e all'estero). Dopo aver debuttato in teatro, alterna il lavoro teatrale con quello televisivo e cinematografico. Nel 2000 appare sul grande schermo con i film Il m...
Known For
Complete Filmography

My Tennis Maestro
2025
Il Maestro is set in the late 80s, and tells the story of a former tennis player with mediocre career, who finds himself for the first time to coach a...

The Garbage Man
2024
as Man

Chiara
2022
as Leone
Assisi, 1211. Chiara is eighteen years old and one night she runs away from home to join her friend Francesco: from that moment on her life changes fo...

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

I racconti della domenica
2022
It follows Francesco Giuffrida, an honest Sicilian politician from childhood to his disappearance.

On the Clouds
2022
It follows Nic Vega, a man with a successful past in music. When he he has lost everything: fame, friends and inspiration, he decides to return to Fra...

Other Fathers
2021
as Giulio
Giulio, a skilled salesman, father and caring husband, suddenly finds himself homeless, without money, and without a family, when his wife Annalisa as...

Bare skin
2021
as Filippo
In a country villa Tommaso spent the last days of summer with his father and his new partner. Nothing went the way he was supposed to, the tensions ne...
Io sono... Italia
2021
as Narrator

Mom to Hundreds
2020
as Andrea
With the continuous arrival of migrants to Palermo, a councilor becomes the legal guardian of hundreds of children while also dealing with her own fam...

Il figlio sospeso
2017

Malarazza: una storia di periferia
2017
Rosaria is a young mother, wife of Tommasino Malarazza, downfallen boss of a famous Mafia family in Catania. Forced to marry him because she was pregn...

David Troll
2017
as David Troll

La Leggenda di Bob Wind
2016
as Tommaso Cimetta

Leonardo da Vinci: The Genius in Milan
2016
An exhibit of Da Vinci's works traces the pathways of the great artist's mind.

The Complexity of Happiness
2015
as Matteo Borghi
Enrico is a corporate man whose job is to manipulate inexperienced scions into selling their flailing companies. His latest assignment proves more dif...

Hidden Identity
2015
as L'autista
A cold-lighted Palermo of the 90's. A single day. Unnamed characters slide towards the fulfillment of their destiny. A story of causes and effects, in...
Il Bambino di Vetro
2015
Palermo, Today. Vincenzo Vetro, a 40-year-old husband and loving father, works at the municipal fish market every night. But Giovanni, his 10-year-old...

Workers - Pronti a tutto
2012
as Saro Tartana

Scossa
2012
as Giovanni Cena
100 years ago, a terrible earthquake, followed by an equally terrible tidal wave, devastated and largely destroyed Messina and Reggio Calabria.

Love Hurts
2011
as Gianmarco
A holiday in Sicily tests the relationship between Germana and Elisabetta, two friends in the grip of a sentimental crisis.

Not In My Backyard
2011
as Young Man
An old man and a young one, probably father and son, go hunting together in a woodland, trying to re-establish their damaged relationship. But their g...

Basilicata Coast to Coast
2010
as Salvatore Chiarelli
A music group and a journalist cross the region of Basilicata by foot to attend a music festival.

Baaria
2009
as maestro di catechismo
Giuseppe Tornatore traces three generations of a Sicilian family in in the Sicilian town of Bagheria (known as Baarìa in the local Sicilian dialect), ...

The Right Thing
2009
as Eugenio Fusco
An odd couple of contrasting cops: one is a disillusioned veteran, the other young, idealistic and speaks fluent Arabic. Ideal for tailing Khalid (Ahm...

The Sicilian Girl
2008
as Maresciallo Bruni
Inspired to a true story, on November 5th 1991, Rita Atria a young 17-year-old Sicilian girl, goes to see an anti-Mafia judge Paolo Borsellino to deno...

L'abbuffata
2007
as Gabriele
A pair of Italian filmmakers go to Rome to find a star for their first project.

Don't Think About It
2007
as Paolo Guidi
Still an unsuccessful punk rock musician at 36, Stefano returns to his hometown in the countryside to help with his family's business.

Caravaggio
2007
as Mario Minniti
The tumultuous and adventurous life of Michelangelo Merisi, controversial artist, called by Fate to become the immortal Caravaggio. A violent genius t...

Il figlio della luna
2007
as Fulvio Frisone a 16-26 anni

Giovanni Falcone - L'uomo che sfidò Cosa Nostra
2006
as Calogero Zucchetto
TV-Movie on the life and accomplishments of Giovanni Falcone, the legendary Sicilian judge who boldly opposed the Mafia

Our Land
2006
as Mario
Luigi Di Santo is a professor of philosophy in Milan who returns to his Apulian hometown to finalize the sale, together with his brothers, of an old f...

Ma quando arrivano le ragazze?
2005
as Gianca Zanichelli

Il tunnel della libertà
2004
as Gigi
Producer Carlo Degli Esposti envisioned a trilogy on Liberty, focused on three key moments in the second half of the twentieth century: the repression...

La vita è breve ma la giornata è lunghissima
2004
as Self
DV-shot documentary following a group of up-and-coming young Italian actors .

Stai con me
2004
as Don Marco

Movimenti
2004

Good Morning, Night
2003
as Enzo
The 1978 kidnapping and murder of Aldo Moro, president of the most important political party in Italy at the time, Democrazia Cristiana, as seen from ...

El Alamein
2002
as soldato Serra
War seen through the eyes of Serra, a university student from Palermo who volunteers in 1942 to fight in Africa. He is assigned to the Pavia Division ...

Paz!
2002
as Amico di Pentothal
Inspired by the work of Italian underground comic book prodigy Andrea Pazienza, "Paz!" is a 24-hour slice of life of a group of university students sh...

One Hundred Steps
2000
as Giovanni Impastato
Peppino Impastato is a quick-witted lad growing up in 1970s Sicily. Despite hailing from a family with Mafia ties and living just one hundred steps fr...

The Prince's Manuscript
2000
as Marco Pace (20 anni)
A solitary, disappointed, proud and educated old man meets and becomes the teacher of an intelligent, clumsy, middle-class, young would-be writer.
Fresco
2000
A young man lives as a recluse in a monastery. In a sort of ecstasy, he begins to talk to nature and recite the gospels.
The Choir Master
2000
A young maestro conducts rehearsals with a male chorus. He is frustrated and feels that a female voice is missing.

The Protagonists
1999
as Billy
An Italian movie crew goes to London to make a documentary about a murder case that took place a few years before.

La buona battaglia - Don Pietro Pappagallo
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as Mario