Biography
Fabrizio Gifuni (born 16 July 1966) is an Italian stage, film and television actor. He won two Silver Ribbons and two David di Donatello Award.
Known For
Complete Filmography

Duse, the Greatest
2025

The Time It Takes
2024
as Luigi
A devoted father working in film shares a magical bond with his daughter, but as she enters adolescence and falls into addiction, he takes her to Pari...

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...

La tv nel pozzo
2024
as Narrator (voice)

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 Body of the World
2023
The intellectual soul of man extends from the earth and ascends, in order to comprehend the body of the world, the wondrous substance of the sky.

Kidnapped
2023
as Pier Gaetano Feletti
The story of Edgardo Mortara, a young Jewish boy living in Bologna, Italy, who in 1858, after being secretly baptized, was forcibly taken from his fam...

Mixed by Erry
2023
as Arturo Maria Barambani
The rise and fall of the pirate mixtape empire of three brothers from Naples, Italy, during the '80s.

The Voyagers
2022
Time jump to 1939 with teenager Max and his friends as they try to navigate Mussolini's Rome and find Max's missing brother.

Esterno Notte (part II)
2022
as Aldo Moro
The 1978 kidnapping and assassination of former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro by Red Brigades terrorists

Esterno Notte (part I)
2022
as Aldo Moro
The 1978 kidnapping and assassination of former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro by Red Brigades terrorists
Pupi Avati, la tavola racconta
2021

The Catholic School
2021
as Golgota
Three well-off young men—former students at Rome’s prestigious all-boys Catholic high school San Leone Magno—brutally tortured, raped, and murdered tw...

Lei mi parla ancora
2021
as Amicangelo
Nino and Caterina have been married for 65 years. After Caterina's death, their daughter Elisabetta, trying to help her father to overcome the loss, h...

The Beast
2020
as Leonida
To rescue his daughter, an unstable Special Forces veteran unleashes his inner beast as he pursues her kidnappers — and soon becomes a suspect himself...

Agalma
2020
as (voice)
A whirlwind of activity sweeps us into the daily routine at the Archaeological Museum of Naples.

Aspromonte: Land of The Forgotten
2019
At the end of the 1950s in Africo, a small village in the southern valley of Aspromonte, a woman dies in childbirth because a doctor fails to arrive o...

Before the Night
2018
as Giuseppe Fava
The life and times of Pippo Fava, a Sicilian journalist who fought the Mafia through his local newspaper in the '70s and early '80s, meeting an untime...

Where I've Never Lived
2017
as Massimo
Where I've never been to live, Francesca's emotional conflicts, 50, is the only daughter of a famous Turin architect, to whom she visits only on rare ...

Evviva Giuseppe
2017
as Himself
The life and work of Giuseppe Bertolucci, as told by his father and brother, friends and colleagues.

Leave the Saints Alone
2017
as Narrator (voice)
A journey through Italy across a century of popular religious devotion. Ancient and more recent saints, white and black Madonnas, devotional processio...

Sweet Dreams
2016
as Athos Giovanni
Turin, 1969. Nine-year-old Massimo’s idyllic childhood is shattered by the mysterious death of his mother. The young boy refuses to accept this brutal...

Rubando Bellezza
2015
as Self
Pasolini maestro corsaro
2015

Pasolini
2014
as Pier Paolo Pasolini (voice) (uncredited)
We are with Pasolini during the last hours of his life, as he talks with his beloved family and friends, writes, gives a brutally honest interview, sh...

Montalbano and Me: Andrea Camilleri
2014
A profile of the author of the highly successful INSPECTOR MONTALBANO series, originally broadcast to mark his birthday.

Sul vulcano
2014
Three stories to narrate the relationship between mount Vesuvius and the humanity living at its feet. Maria and her flower garden, Matteo, an artist w...

Red Chairs - Parma and the Cinema
2014
as Self
The relations between Parma and cinema were so strong for almost the whole of the twentieth century that this city became an early laboratory of ideas...

Four of Us
2014
as Ettore
James prepares for his eighth grade oral exams while his family is going through different times.

Human Capital
2013
as Giovanni Bernaschi
The destinies of two families are irrevocably tied together after a cyclist is hit off the road by a jeep in the night before Christmas Eve.

The Legend of Kaspar Hauser
2013
as The Priest
Arriving on a deserted beach in the Mediterranean sea, in a time and a place unspecified, Kaspar Hauser is forced to confront the evil of a Grand Duch...

The Ideal City
2013
Thanks
Actor turned director Luigi Lo Cascio stars as the talented architect and fervent environmentalist Michele who has moved from Palermo to his ideal cit...

Fiamme di Gadda - A spasso con l'ingegnere
2013
as Sé stesso

Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy
2012
as Aldo Moro
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...

Kryptonite!
2011
as Matarrese
Set in 1970s Naples, bullied nine year-old Peppino is watching the world around him as his extended dysfunctional family change. Psychedelic flower po...

Let It Be
2010
as Sapiente
Mary is a young girl, daughter of shepherds, promised in marriage to Joseph, a widower with two children, living in the nearby village of Nazareth, in...

Dark Love
2010
as Psychotherapist
The aftermath of a rape seen through the parallel lives of the assailant and victim as they try to redeem and rebuild their lives respectively.

Once Upon a Time the City of Fools
2010
as Franco Basaglia
A biopic of Franco Basaglia, the Italian psychiatrist.

The Cézanne Affair
2009
as Gabriele Rossetti
Gabriele returns home in southern Italy to bid farewell to his father Ernesto, a former stationmaster in a small town not far from Bari. The old man r...

Beket
2009
as Agente 06
Freak and Jajà, like Vladimir and Estragon, are in a no man’s land, with no date or time. Earth is no longer inhabited by humans but a few strange sur...

Paul VI: The Pope in the Tempest
2008
The service of Pope Paul VI presents tremendous challenges for humanity not only in the political, cultural and economic aspects of the world but also...

Galantuomini
2008
as Ignazio
A well known judge comes back to his native region, Salentino in the South of Italy, to find out that his old friend is dead and the woman he loved is...

Signorina Effe
2008
as Silvio
A white and a blue collar worker fall in love during the 1980 strike at FIAT that marked the end for labor movement in Italy.

The Girl by the Lake
2007
as Corrado Canali
A cop investigates the murder of a beautiful teen girl left naked by a lake.

The Sweet and the Bitter
2007
as Stefano
Saro, a young Sicilian thug, that from jobs assigned by his godfather, won the favor of leaders of Cosa Nostra, becoming a "man of honor".

Un silenzioso imbroglio
2007
as Himself
Documentary about Andrea Molaioli's film La Ragazza del Lago.

Fratelli di sangue
2006

Musikanten
2006
as Nicola
During research for a series focused on the greatest scientists of the past, a TV producer, following a hypnosis experiment, finds herself catapulted ...

Excellent Cadavers
2005
as Narrator (voice)
In the late-80s and early-90s, two prosecutors went after the mob in Sicily. Archival footage, gruesome photographs and new interviews are shown.

De Gasperi - L'uomo della speranza
2005
as Alcide De Gasperi

Movimenti
2004
as Marcello

Investigation of a Citizen Named Volonté
2004
as Self - Interviewee
Documentary on actor Gian Maria Volonté

Investigation of a Citizen Named Volonté
2004
Screenplay
Documentary on actor Gian Maria Volonté

The Best of Youth
2003
as Carlo Tommasi
After a fateful encounter in the summer of 1966, the lifepaths of two brothers from a middle-class Roman family diverge, intersecting with some of the...

Happiness Costs Nothing
2003
as Francesco (voice)
A man in his forties has had enough. He leaves his loveless family, uninspiring job and fake friends and tries to find something more. He meets a youn...

L'inverno
2002
as Leo
It's the story of a couple with some relationship's problems who meet another couple. It's a drama of incommunicability.

Brucio nel vento
2002
as Tobias Horvath (voice)
For ten years, immigrant Tobias has worked at a Swiss clock factory and, in the relentless ticking, he saw life go by without much expectation. One da...

Probably Love
2001
as Cesare
Empty Eyes
2001

Hannibal
2001
as Matteo
After having successfully eluded the authorities for years, Hannibal peacefully lives in Italy in disguise as an art scholar. Trouble strikes again wh...

Johnny the Partisan
2000
as Ettore
After the 8th September 1943 north of Italy is occupied by Germans. Italian army collapsed and the soldiers are escaped to the mountains trying to set...

Qui non è il paradiso
2000
as Renato Sapienza

Fate un bel sorriso
2000
Antonio is a seventy-year-old gentleman, a former strict and impeccable judge. Having refused to accept his daughter's hospitality, he found himself i...

La carbonara
2000
as Zaccaria
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...

Un Amore
1999
as Marco
Twenty years of the relationship between a man and a woman.

The Way We Laughed
1998
as Pelaia
Studying to become a teacher in 1950s Northern Italy, Sicilian immigrant Pietro is joined by his big brother Giovanni. Pietro shows considerable promi...
La bruttina stagionata
1997

Giovanni Falcone
1993
as Roberto Antiochia
The story of the first ever "anti-mafia judges pool" established in the '80s at the Palermo Courthouse, in Sicily, in the '80s, while two mafia famili...