Biography
Sergio Castellitto (born August 18, 1953) is an Italian actor, film director, and screenwriter. Sergio Castellitto was born in Rome in 1953, to parents from Molise and Abruzzo, Southern Italy. After graduating from the Silvio D'Amico National Academy of Dramatic Art in 1978, he began his theatrical career in Italian public theater with Shakespeare's Measure for Measure at the Teatro di Roma and with roles in other plays such as La Madre by Brecht, Merchant of Venice, and Candelaio by Giordano B...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Conclave
2024
as Tedesco
After the unexpected death of the Pope, Cardinal Lawrence is tasked with managing the covert and ancient ritual of electing a new one. Sequestered in ...

Romeo Is Juliet
2024
as Federico Landi Porrini
After her audition as Juliet fails to impress, a young actress determined to act in the latest production of Shakespeare's play crossdresses and is un...

The Best Century of My Life
2023
as Gustavo Diotallevi
An absurd law prevents John, an unrecognized child at birth, from knowing the identity of his biological parents before his 100th birthday. To succeed...

Enea
2023
as Celeste
Enea chases after the myth he bears in his name; he does so to feel alive in a dead and decadent age. He does so together with Valentino, a newly bapt...

Dante
2022
as Giovanni Boccaccio
The tormented life of Dante Alighieri, from solitary childhood to death in exile, seen through Giovanni Boccaccio’s journey to rehabilitate his memory...

Non ti pago
2021

Sabato, domenica e lunedì
2021
A family fights.

Crazy for Football - Matti per il calcio
2021
as Saverio Lulli
A psychiatrist tries to make his dream come true by organizing the first worldwide football cup for patients who suffer from mental illness. Based on ...

A Bookshop in Paris
2021
as Vincenzo
Vincenzo dedicates his life to the bookshop he owns in Paris and to his daughter Albertine, forced to stay home because of an accident occurred to her...

A Bookshop in Paris
2021
Director
Vincenzo dedicates his life to the bookshop he owns in Paris and to his daughter Albertine, forced to stay home because of an accident occurred to her...

Marx Can Wait
2021
as Ernesto Picciafuoco (archive footage) (uncredited)
"Marx can wait" was something Camillo Bellocchio said to his twin Marco the last time they met before the former died at a young age in the heated day...

The Bad Poet
2021
as Gabriele D'Annunzio
1936. Giovanni Comini, the youngest Federal in Fascist Italy, is summoned to Rome for a delicate mission: to surveil aging national poet Gabriele D'An...

Natale in casa Cupiello
2020
as Luca Cupiello
Based on the tragicomedy written by Edoardo de Filippo in 1931, Christmas at the Cupiello's captures a life episode of a middle-class Italian family a...

The Talent of the Hornet
2020
as Ascoltatore
Dj Steph is a young radio deejay on the rise, who gained a lot of popularity on social media and every evening hosts a radio show with a large followi...

Nour
2020
as Pietro Bartolo

Mafia Inc.
2020
as Frank Paternò
The Gamache, tailors from father to son, have been dressing the Mafia family Paternò for three generation. Vincent "Vince" Gamache works on behalf of ...

Dreamfools
2018
as Sergio
Two lovers are stuck in stale relationships due to lean finances. But when one is duped into thinking he's suddenly rich, he takes very drastic action...

Aldo Moro - il Professore
2018
as Aldo Moro
The story of the last 55 days of Aldo Moro, seen from the point of view of his students.

The Handyman
2018
as Salvatore Toti Bellastella
We are all equal before the law, but some are just more equal than others. Antonio is a trainee lawyer who dreams of joining his mentor’s prestigious...

Rocco Chinnici: May Your Kiss Lie Lightly On My Head
2018
as Rocco Chinnici
An Italian magistrate leads a crusade against organized crime which ultimately costs him his life in this biopic told through his daughter's eyes.

Lucky
2017
as Infermiere/Carabieniere
The story of a young mother with a failed marriage behind her, who fights daily for her dream to open a hair salon, challenging her fate in an effort ...

Lucky
2017
Director, Screenplay
The story of a young mother with a failed marriage behind her, who fights daily for her dream to open a hair salon, challenging her fate in an effort ...

Marco Ferreri: Dangerous But Necessary
2017
as Self
Marco Ferreri: Dangerous But Necessary is a trip through the auteur's singular cosmos - at once supernatural and earthbound. He dropped out of his stu...

Piccoli crimini coniugali
2017
as Elia
Gilles is suffering from amnesia as the result of a mysterious accident.

Viaggio nel cinema in 3D: Una storia vintage
2016
as Narrator

The Major Fisherman
2016
as Angelo Vassallo
In this fact-based drama, an ecology-minded fisherman is elected mayor of his corrupt seaside town and begins crusading against drugs and crime.

The Major Fisherman
2016
Co-Writer, Screenplay
In this fact-based drama, an ecology-minded fisherman is elected mayor of his corrupt seaside town and begins crusading against drugs and crime.

Nessuno siamo perfetti
2015
as Self
A loving portrait of reclusive comic-book writer Tiziano Sclavi, creator of Dylan Dog

You Can't Save Yourself Alone
2015
Director
Gaetano and Delia, a separated couple, try to pick up the pieces of their broken love, recalling all the faults and the mistakes which led them to whe...

The Hole
2014
as Oscar
Ambulance-chasing lawyers takes on the case of a convicted murderer who, just being released after doing 27 years in jail, claims he was innocent.

Una famiglia perfetta
2012
as Leone
Leone is a rich and powerful man whose loneliness drives him to hire a cast of actors to play the family he never had. On Christmas Eve, reality and m...

Twice Born
2012
as Giuliano
Full-throttle melodrama about an ill-starred romance set against the backdrop of the siege of Sarajevo. A mother brings her teenage son to Sarajevo, w...

Twice Born
2012
Director, Writer, Producer
Full-throttle melodrama about an ill-starred romance set against the backdrop of the siege of Sarajevo. A mother brings her teenage son to Sarajevo, w...

Love & Slaps
2010
as Marcello
A comedy about generational conflict between two parents who do not want to grow old and a seventeen year old daughter who wants to become an adult. D...

Love & Slaps
2010
Director, Producer
A comedy about generational conflict between two parents who do not want to grow old and a seventeen year old daughter who wants to become an adult. D...

Vittorio racconta Gassman: Una vita da mattatore
2010
as Self

Raise Your Head
2009
as Mero
Mero, a skilled shipyard worker, is a single father. His son Lorenzo, born from a relationship with an Albanian girl, is his only reason for living. T...

Bets & Wedding Dresses
2009
as Franco Campanella

Around a Small Mountain
2009
as Vittorio
Vittorio stops to help Kate when her car breaks down on a mountain road. When they meet again, Vittorio discovers that Kate has rejoined a circus aft...

Italians
2009
as Fortunato
Two stories of Italians abroad: in Dubai, a truck driver who smuggles Ferraris for a living teaches the tricks of the trade to his young disciple; in ...

Effedia - Sulla mia cattiva strada
2008
as Self

'O professore
2008
The story of Pietro Filodomini, professor of Italian in a middle school in the Sanità district of Naples, who tries to offer with books an alternative...

The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
2008
as King Miraz
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...

Fuga per la libertà - L'aviatore
2008
as Massimo Teglio

Marco Ferreri: The Director Who Came from the Future
2007
as Self (archive footage)
The documentary focuses on Marco Ferreri and shows an unconventional man, extreme, provocative in ways, always a step ahead in its work, and often con...

The Missing Star
2006
as Vincenzo Buonavolontà
Vincenzo, former head of maintenance of a steel plant that's been outsourced, travels from Italy to China to warn about a defective blast furnace.

Paris Je T'aime
2006
as Le mari (Bastille)
Olivier Assayas, Gus Van Sant, Wes Craven and Alfonso Cuaron are among the 20 distinguished directors who contribute to this collection of 18 stories,...

Marcello, una vita dolce
2006
as Narrator (voice)
After shooting to fame with Federico Fellini’s “La Dolce Vita” (1960), actor Marcello Mastroianni (1924-1996) starred in more than 160 films in his ne...

The Wedding Director
2006
as Franco Elica
Franco Elica is a film director casting a remake of a pious melodrama in Rome. He's melancholy, heading south for a break. On a beach, he meets a man ...

L'ombra cinese
2004
as Jules Maigret
Maigret investigates the murder of a philandering businessman found dead in an apartment building full of colorful tenants.

L'ombra cinese
2004
Teleplay, Story
Maigret investigates the murder of a philandering businessman found dead in an apartment building full of colorful tenants.

La trappola di Maigret
2004
as Jules Maigret
A serial killer is stalking the streets of Paris and Maigret has to resort to setting a trap in order to catch him.

La trappola di Maigret
2004
Teleplay, Story
A serial killer is stalking the streets of Paris and Maigret has to resort to setting a trap in order to catch him.

Ne quittez pas !
2004
as Félix Mandel
Félix Mandel, an internationally renowned astrophysicist, is married with a four-year-old son and often has his head in the clouds.

Don't Move
2004
as Timoteo
While waiting for the brain surgery of his daughter Angela, victim of a motorcycle accident, the surgeon Timoteo recalls his torrid affair with and pa...

Don't Move
2004
Director, Writer
While waiting for the brain surgery of his daughter Angela, victim of a motorcycle accident, the surgeon Timoteo recalls his torrid affair with and pa...

Caterina in the Big City
2003
as Giancarlo Iacovoni
When her social-climbing father is relocated from small-town North to his native Rome, 12-year-old Caterina enrolls to his old school, finding herself...

Ferrari
2003
as Enzo Ferrari
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...

My Mother's Smile
2002
as Ernesto Picciafuoco
A celebrated painter receives a visit from a cardinal's assistant, who informs him that his mother could become a saint.

Va Savoir (Who Knows?)
2001
as Ugo
After finding love and success in Italy, French actress Camille returns to Paris, the city she fled three years ago. She secretly dreads confronting h...

Mostly Martha
2001
as Mario
Martha is a single woman who lives for one passion: cooking. The head chef at a chic restaurant, Martha has no time for anything - or anyone - else. B...

Hotel Laguna
2001
as Joe Sollazzo
Raised by an uncle in New York after his parents died in an attack orchestrated by the mafia, Thomas, now an adult, is sent to live in Italy. There, w...

Unfair Competition
2001
as Leone
Two linen fabric dealers with their shops close to one another, battle against each other for more and more costumers. Umberto constantly loses client...

The Last Kiss
2001
as Prof. Eugenio Bonetti
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 ...

Padre Pio
2000
as Padre Pio

Libero Burro
1999
as Libero Burro
Libero Burro, a former lout from Italy's center-south, dreams of getting rich and takes over a downtown gambling joint in need of a complete overhaul.

Libero Burro
1999
Director, Screenplay
Libero Burro, a former lout from Italy's center-south, dreams of getting rich and takes over a downtown gambling joint in need of a complete overhaul.

For Sale
1998
as Luigi Primo
A Private detective is hired to trace a woman who ran away and disappeared on her wedding day. The movie follows him and recounts the story of her lif...

Don Milani - Il priore di Barbiana
1997
as Don Lorenzo Milani

Pronto
1997
as Tommy "The Zip" Bucks
Harry Arno is a Miami Beach bookie who finds himself in trouble with his mob bosses for reasons he can't quite figure out. When an assailant attempts ...

Quadrille
1997
as Carl Herickson
Carl Herickson, a big American film star, unwillingly upsets a Parisian trio: a newspaper editor, his theater actress wife, and their fiery journalist...

Hotel Paura
1996
as Carlo Ruggeri

Shadow Play
1996
as Guido
Ada and Lise are both costume designers, the first is around 20, the other around 30. Both are working hard on their break through. There are also job...

Le Cri de la soie
1996
as Gabriel de Villemer
An illiterate seamstress has a powerful fetish for silk which gets her into trouble. The psychiatrist sent to help her becomes fascinated by her case ...

Silenzio... si nasce
1996
as Il Forte
Two dizygotic twins in the womb become aware of their existence in a series of surrealistic situations.

Il Grande Fausto
1995
as Fausto Coppi

The Star Maker
1995
as Joe Morelli (Giuseppe Romolo)
The adventures and deceptions of a photographer who travels through small villages of 1950s Sicily pretending to work for the big film studios in Rome...

With Closed Eyes
1994
as Signor Alberto
In the Tuscan countryside at the end of the 19th century, Pietro, the shy son of a tyrannical landowner, falls in love with Ghisola, a peasant girl wi...

Toxic Affair
1993
as Mister Ray-Ban
In this erstwhile comedy, Penelope (Isabelle Adjani) is already sufficiently unsettled by the fact that she is no longer a top model, and must cast ar...

The Great Pumpkin
1993
as Arturo
An epileptic 12-year-old girl, Pippi, is hospitalized in the psychiatric ward instead of the neurological ward, due to an administration error. Out of...

Nessuno
1992
as Tropia
A young man gradually retreats from reality after his mother falls into a coma.

Nero
1992
as Federico Zardo
Right after she moves in with him, Frederico's new girlfriend Francesca sends him back to her former boyfriend's apartment to fetch her something she ...

Rossini! Rossini!
1991
as Gioacchino Rossini, giovane
An funny, witty and bright biopic by the master of italian comedy Mario Monicelli about the famed italian composer Gioacchino Rossini, here portrayed ...

The Flesh
1991
as Paolo
A beautiful film which is basically about a man, a piano player, who meets and falls in love with a beautiful and voluptuous woman, who, by some stran...
Seul face au crime
1991
as Dario De Santis

Tonight at Alice's
1990
as Filippo
Saverio and Filippo are two friends and religious leaders of a travel agency in Rome. However, Filippo has trouble with his wife, because she finds ou...

Una fredda mattina di maggio
1990
as Ruggero Manni

Alberto Express
1990
as Alberto Capuano
A young Italian, living in Paris with his French wife, is about to become a father. Before the baby is born, Alberto must repay his father for every e...

Tre colonne in cronaca
1990
as Quinto Cecconi - il giornalista
Chronicle of the dark maneuvers put into practice by a politician to seize an opposition newspaper. A Lebanese terrorist receives the order to kill a ...

Piccoli equivoci
1989
as Paolo
A unique set: a Roman apartment with a small garden, six characters on stage, but never all together, four men and two women, theater actors. The obvi...

The Big Blue
1988
as Novelli
Two men answer the call of the ocean in this romantic fantasy-adventure. Jacques and Enzo are a pair of friends who have been close since childhood, ...

Love and Fear
1988
as Roberto
Three sisters, played by Fanny Ardant, Greta Scacchi and Valeria Golino, struggle with their illusions, goals and desires in Margarethe von Trotta’s f...

He Looks Dead... But He's Only Fainted
1987
as Romano Duranti
Directed by Felice Farina.

He Looks Dead... But He's Only Fainted
1987
Screenplay, Story
Directed by Felice Farina.

Cinque Storie Inquietanti: La Parete della Stanza Accanto
1987
as Roberto Valente
Five Disturbing Stories offers us as many adaptations from the stories of the American writer Stanely Ellin. Set in Italy between Genoa, Turin and Mil...

Dolce assenza
1987
as Vittorio
When her housemate Sara disappears, leaving behind herself a trail of videotaped diaries, Gloria investigates to find out what happened to her with th...

The Family
1987
as Carletto as a young man
"The Family," an album with a velvet cover, is meant to touch the extended family of man. Formal portraits, bookends in this 80-year saga, enclose the...

Carefree Giovanni
1986
as Giovanni
In this entertaining drama, "Carefree Giovanni" (Sergio Castellitto) is the beleaguered last heir to a dukedom closely associated with the great artis...

Magic Moments
1984
as Roberto 'Bo'
Three young friends – aspiring film director Roberto, aspiring producer Ben and aspiring comedian Cico – move to Rome looking for a career in a film i...

The General of the Dead Army
1983
as The Expert
In the early 1960s, nearly 20 years since the Second World War ended, an Italian general, accompanied by a priest who is also an Italian army colonel,...

Inmate
1981
as Scapricciatiello
Francesco Improta is an honest fruit and vegetable peddler who lives with his elderly mother Assunta and daughter Fiorella. His wife Lucia left home t...
Violette
N/A
Violette Toussaint, a beloved cemetery caretaker, lives a peaceful life filled by conversations with quirky workers and the many visitors who share wi...

Sequestered - Inside Conclave
N/A
as Self (archival footage)
The making of the 2025 thriller movie Conclave about the papal election, starring Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci and Isabella Rossellini.