Biography
Favino was born in Rome, Italy. He has appeared in more than forty European films and television series' since the early 1990s, including Gabriele Muccino's The Last Kiss, Gianni Amelio's The Keys to the House, Giuseppe Tornatore's The Unknown Woman and Ferzan Özpetek's Saturn in Opposition. In 1999 he starred in the HBO film Excellent Cadavers, adaptation of Alexander Stille's novel of the same name. He received the David di Donatelloaward - Italian equivalent of the Oscar - in 2006 for his rol...
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...

Enzo
2025
as Paolo
Enzo, 16, defies his bourgeois family’s expectations by starting a masonry apprenticeship, a path far removed from the prestigious life they had envis...

Maria
2024
as Ferruccio
Maria Callas, the world's greatest opera singer, lives the last days of her life in 1970s Paris, as she confronts her identity and life.

Naples to New York
2024
as Domenico Garofalo
In the immediate post-war period, amidst the rubble of a poverty-ridden Naples, two kids, Carmine and Celestina, try to survive as best they can by he...

Volonté: The Man of a Thousand Faces
2024
as Self
A documentary exploring the life and legacy of renowned Italian actor Gian Maria Volonté, featuring insights from his colleagues, family, and never-be...

The Count of Monte Cristo
2024
as Abbé Faria
Edmond Dantes becomes the target of a sinister plot and is arrested on his wedding day for a crime he did not commit. After 14 years in the island pri...

Cover Story - 20 anni di Vanity Fair
2024
as Self

Adagio
2023
as Cammello
Tangled up with blackmail and crooked cops, the son of a former gangster seeks out his father's old friends, who risk everything to save him.

The Commander
2023
as Salvatore Todaro
One dark night during the early phases of WWII, the Italian Royal Navy submarine Cappellini sinks an armed merchant ship sailing with lights out. At t...

Last Night of Amore
2023
as Franco Amore
On the night before his retirement, police lieutenant Franco Amore is called to investigate the death of a long-time partner of his in a diamond heist...

The Hummingbird
2022
as Marco Carrera
Everyone in Marco's life seems constantly restless, from his brilliant but unhappily married parents to his own wife Marina, or even Luisa, the real l...

Nostalgia
2022
as Felice Lasco
Felice returns to his native Rione Sanità in Naples to look after his dying mother, having lived abroad for the last forty years. Here he discovers th...

Behind the Scenes: The Traitor
2022
as Himself

Run to You
2022
as Gianni
Gianni is a serial seducer but his life is destined to change when he meets Chiara, a beautiful woman who has had an accident and is paraplegic.

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

Promises
2021
as Alexander
When Alexander and Laura meet during a party what they feel for each other is obvious, but she’s about to get married and Alexander shares a daughter ...

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

Er Collera Moribbus - Conversazione all'Osteria di Piazza della Gensola
2021
as Narratore

Tutti per 1 - 1 per tutti
2020
as d'Artagnan
Now without Aramis, the Musketeers embark on a new mission.

Our Father
2020
as Alfonso Le Rose
Two young boys, Valerio and Christian, form a powerful friendship over the summer.

Our Father
2020
Producer
Two young boys, Valerio and Christian, form a powerful friendship over the summer.

The Boat Show 2020: Riva in the Movie
2020
as se stesso

The Best Years
2020
as Giulio Ristuccia
Italy from the '80s to the present day, through the dreams, loves, successes and failures of four friends.

Hammamet
2020
as Bettino Craxi
The last years of Bettino Craxi, one of the most important and controversial italian leader of the 1980's.

The Traitor
2019
as Tommaso Buscetta
Palermo, Sicily, 1980. Mafia member Tommaso Buscetta decides to move to Brazil with his family fleeing the constant war between the different clans of...

The King's Musketeers
2018
as D'Artagnan
In 17th-century France, the Queen brings the Three Musketeers — Athos, Porthos, Aramis, and an aging d'Artagnan — back from retirement for one last jo...

The Catcher Was a Spy
2018
as Martinuzzi
Former major league baseball player Moe Berg lives a double life working for the Office of Strategic Services in World War II Europe.

There's No Place Like Home
2018
as Carlo
An extended family reunites after a long time to celebrate the 50th wedding anniversary of their grandparents on an idyllic island. However, they rema...

Chi m'ha visto
2017
as Peppino
A guitarist who played for the greatest italian artists but without fame, decides to disappear to become famous.

My Cousin Rachel
2017
as Rinaldi
A young Englishman plots revenge against his mysterious, beautiful cousin, believing that she murdered his guardian. But his feelings become complicat...

Husband & Wife
2017
as Andrea
Married for ten years, in full crisis, thinking about divorce. But following a failed scientific experiment, they suddenly find one inside the body of...

The Confessions
2016
as Ministro italiano
A G8 meeting is being held at a luxury hotel on the German coast. The world's most powerful economists are gathered to enact important provisions that...

Suburra
2015
as Filippo Malgradi
A gangster known as "Samurai" wants to turn the waterfront of Rome into a new Las Vegas. All the local mob bosses have agreed to work for this common ...

A Mother
2015
as Pierre
Marie lives alone with her 16 year old son. She struggles to get by with this teenager who gets deeper and deeper in violence and juvenile delinquency...

Senza nessuna pietà
2014
as Mimmo
Mimmo is a construction worker who only wants to live in peace, but has to work as a debt collector for his uncle. Everything changes when he meets Ta...

Senza nessuna pietà
2014
Producer
Mimmo is a construction worker who only wants to live in peace, but has to work as a debt collector for his uncle. Everything changes when he meets Ta...

Secchi
2013
as Narratore

Rush
2013
as Clay Regazzoni
In the 1970s, a rivalry propels race car drivers Niki Lauda and James Hunt to fame and glory — until a horrible accident threatens to end it all.

Lino Micciché, mio padre - Una visione del mondo
2013
as Narrator
A documentary focused on film critic Lino Micciché, as seen from the point of view of his friends and his son Francesco.

World War Z
2013
as W.H.O. Doctor
Life for former United Nations investigator Gerry Lane and his family seems content. Suddenly, the world is plagued by a mysterious infection turning ...

Carlo!
2013
as Himself

Garibaldi's Lovers
2012
as Giuseppe Garibaldi (voice)
A widowed working-class father falls in love with a struggling, poor artist.

Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy
2012
as Giuseppe Pinelli
On December 12, 1969, a bomb kills 17 people at the Piazza Fontana national bank in Milan, Italy, marking the beginning of the Years of Lead. Local an...

A Flat for Three
2012
as Fulvio Brignola
Ulisse, Fulvio and Domenico decide to rent an apartment together in order to live with their modest work. However the three encounter any difficulties...

ACAB : All Cops Are Bastards
2012
as Cobra
A look at the controversial riot cops unit, told through the stories of three veteran cops and a young recruit.
Noi c'eravamo
2011
as Self

General della Rovere
2011
as Bertone
Giovanni Bertone a former colonel, is a fraudster who extorts money from the families of the Nazi-Fascist prisoners. He promises them their freedom. D...

La vita facile
2011
as Luca
An Italian doctor starts a new life in Kenya to escape the city, but life catches up with him when an old friend offers his assistance along with his ...

The Entrepreneur
2011
as Nicola

Unlikely Revolutionaries
2010
as Pepe
Five ordinary people disillusioned with politics—a perennial temp, a docker, a university professor, a TV reporter, and a convict—decide to kidnap a p...

Come Undone
2010
as Domenico
Anna is an accountant for an important insurance firm and lives with her longterm lover Alessio - a man who longs for a stable longterm relationship w...

Kiss Me Again
2010
as Marco
A look at the lives of Carlo, Giulia, and their friends some 10 years after the events of L'Ultimo bacio.

Angels & Demons
2009
as Inspector Olivetti
Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is recruited by the Vatican to investigate the apparent return of the Illuminati – a secret, underground organizati...

Pane e libertà
2009
as Giuseppe 'Peppino' Di Vittorio
About comunist politician and labor union leader Giuseppe Di Vittorio.

The Man Who Loves
2008
as Roberto
A man is broken hearted at the loss of his lover, then later visits the same pain on the next woman with whom he becomes involved.

Miracle at St. Anna
2008
as Peppi 'The Great Butterfly' Grotta
Miracle at St. Anna chronicles the story of four American soldiers who are members of the all-black 92nd "Buffalo Soldier" Division stationed in Tusca...

The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
2008
as Lord Glozell
One year after their incredible adventures in the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Peter, Edmund, Lucy and Susan Pevensie return to Narnia to aid a y...

Saturn in Opposition
2007
as Davide
This film focuses on contemporary 30- and 40-somethings trying to make sense of their lives in an age in which the old certainties have disappeared. L...

Night at the Museum
2006
as Christopher Columbus
Chaos reigns at the natural history museum when night watchman Larry Daley accidentally stirs up an ancient curse, awakening Attila the Hun, an army o...

The Unknown Woman
2006
as Donato Adacher
Irena, a Ukrainian woman, comes to Italy looking for a job as a maid. She does everything she can to become a beloved nanny for an adorable little gir...

Bartali: The Iron Man
2006
as Gino Bartali
TV Miniseries (2 episodes) about life and rivalry of italian bikers Gino Bartali and Fausto Coppi.

Romanzo Criminale
2005
as Libano
After serving prison time for a juvenile offense, Freddo gathers his old buddies Libano and Dandi and embarks on a crime spree that makes the trio the...

Amatemi
2005
as Claudio
Married for most of her adult life, Nina plunges into depression after being suddenly deserted by her husband. Eventually, she'll find a way out by ha...

Sorry, You Can't Get Through!
2005
as Piero
Alarmed by the news that for each working Italian there's a retiree, 70-year-old Walter decides to do his part by helping "a young person who's workin...

The Keys to the House
2004
as Alberto
Meeting his handicapped son for the first time, a young father attempts to forge a relationship with the teenager.

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 .

Our Italian Husband
2004
as Vincenzo Scocozza
When Vincenzo Scocozza , an Italian immigrant sculptor living and working in Manhattan, weds the expectant Charlene Taylor, it over complicates his li...

Al cuore si comanda
2003
as Riccardo
Lorenza is 30 years old and has not yet found the man of her life. Not wanting to be alone, she decides to take the penniless Riccardo as her husband ...

Past Perfect
2003
as Filippo
A pair of summer and winter weekends intertwine in a series of flashbacks involving five friends. Their dreams and expectations overlap with memories ...

Ferrari
2003
as Filippo
Story of Enzo Ferrari's rise from a successful race driver to one of the most famous entrepreneurs of all time. Being interviewed by a fictitious, int...

Gli insoliti ignoti
2003
as Commissario Piero Cucciolla

Ladri ma non troppo
2003
as Commissario Piero Cucciolla

Emma sono io
2002
as Carlo
Francesco Falaschi's comedy I Am Emma stars Cecilia Dazzi as a woman who suffers from an unusual disorder. Emma is a town councilwoman whose husband (...

El Alamein
2002
as sergente Rizzo
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 ...

Da zero a dieci
2002
as Biccio
Twenty years after tragedy cut their graduation trip short, four friends return to that destination to finish what they started in 1980. However, as t...

La verità, vi prego, sull'amore
2001
as Michelangelo

The Friends of Jesus: Thomas
2001
as Simone
When Jesus is taken off the cross at Golgotha, Thomas arrives. Like most other disciples, he worriedly took refuge with friends in Jerusalem after Jes...

Judas: Close to Jesus
2001
as Simone
Pilate and the Roman legate Veturius look on worriedly as Jesus is celebrated as the new messiah in Jerusalem, fearing an uprising. Veturius decides t...

The Last Kiss
2001
as Marco
Giulia and Carlo have been happy together for three years, but Giulia's announcement that she is pregnant sends him into a secret panic. Terrified at ...

La carbonara
2000
as Sergente
Cecilia is a commoner who runs an inn, where the specialty is the "spaghetti alla carbonara". Moreover, the woman is tied to the movement of young pat...

Excellent Cadavers
1999
as Mario
Palermo, Sicily, 1984. Examining magistrate Giovanni Falcone allies with Tomasso Buscetta, a former mobster, to defeat the clan of Corleone, the ruthl...

Bonanno: A Godfather's Story
1999
as Felice Buccellato
The true life story of mafia boss Joesph Bonanno. The story spans from Bonanno's early beginings in Italy, to his conquests in America.

Sweet Idleness
1999
as Rossini
This movie depicts the two years that young Stendhal spent in Italy. Stendhal, that time still known simply as Henri Beyle, is living the life of a wa...

In barca a vela contromano
1997
as Castrovillari

The Prince of Homburg
1997
as Sparren
The Prince of Homburg, disobeys orders and leads a cavalry charge in battle against the Swedes, which leads to victory. He is court martialled however...

Pugili
1995
Una questione privata
1993
as Ivan
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