Biography
Raoul Bova (born 14 August 1971) is an Italian actor. Bova was born in Rome to Calabrian parents. At the age of 16 he became a local champion in the 100 meter backstroke. At the age of 21 he joined the Italian Army and performed his military duty in the Bersaglieri (sharpshooters) corps. He enrolled in the ISEF, the Italian Institute of Physical Education, but dropped out to pursue a career in acting. He studied at the school Beatrice Bracco in Rome and also studied acting with Michael Margott...
Known For
Complete Filmography

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

Still Fabulous
2024
as Donato
Stuck in a dead-end career and on a string of terrible dates, the life of 30-something Maddalena is a total mess until one day, she meets an unlikely ...

The Christmas Show
2022
Sofia and her two sons, Ricky and Alice, lead a disenchanted life amid the many difficulties of everyday life, but for the Rovati family this will be ...

Ultima gara
2021
United by the dream of setting a new world record as a relay team, five competitive swimmers reveal their lives, hopes and histories.

Ultima gara
2021
Director
United by the dream of setting a new world record as a relay team, five competitive swimmers reveal their lives, hopes and histories.

Calabria, terra mia
2020
A loving couple spends a vacation among the beauty of Calabria.

Carlo Vanzina - Il cinema è una cosa meravigliosa
2019
as Self

All Roads Lead to Rome
2016
as Luca
Maggie is an uptight, single mother and college writing teacher from New York City. In an effort to reconnect with her troubled teen daughter Summer, ...

Ancora un'altra storia
2015
The problem of parental alienation told through three stories of children involved in conflictual separations and divorces.

Torno indietro e cambio vita
2015
as Marco Damiani
Marco is married to a gorgeous woman, has a child and a great job. Everything seems perfect, at least until his wife of 25 years announces that she ha...

The Choice
2015
as Giorgio
A childless couple struggle in the aftermath of a sexual assault leaves the woman pregnant.

Ever Been to the Moon?
2015
as Renzo
Giulia is 30, single and working a high-end fashion job that allows her to travel and lead a dream life in Milan and Paris. However, a chance meeting ...

Do You See Me?
2014
as Francesco
Serena Bruno is an architect who studied and got several masters in different countries of the world but she decides to go back to Italy so she can li...

In love with an angel
2014
as Claudio
Claudio is a selfish 40 year-old man who enjoys all the pleasures in life. With a limitless bank account at his disposal and a charming appearance, he...

Unique Brothers
2014
as Pietro
A funny story about two brothers, Pietro and Francesco, and what happens with them and their families after Petro loses his memory.

Capitano Ultimo - Le ali del falco
2014
as himself

Indovina chi viene a Natale?
2013
as Francesco
A very extended family gathers for the Christmas holidays, after the death of the breadwinner Leonardo Sereni, famous singer. The eldest son Julius, w...

Out of the Blue
2013
as Andrea Manfredini
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...

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

The Immature: The Trip
2012
as Giorgio
Seven thirty-something friends organise a post-grad trip they were never able to take after school. They find new adventures on a Greek island, and sh...

Treasure Guards
2011
as Angelo
On a dig in the remote Jordanian desert, maverick archaeologist Victoria Carter (Anna Friel) discovers an ancient scroll buried in the ruins of an old...

Escort in Love
2011
as Giulio
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...

Jan Paweł II: Szukałem Was...
2011
as Self

Come un delfino
2011
as Alessandro Dominici
A man is forced to retire from competitive swimming due to a heart condition.

Come un delfino
2011
Story
A man is forced to retire from competitive swimming due to a heart condition.

The Immature
2011
as Giorgio
Six high school friends in their 40s who haven't seen each other in nearly 20 years rekindle their younger selves after a court cancels their diploma,...

The Tourist
2010
as Conte Filippo Gaggia
American tourist Frank meets mysterious British woman Elise on the train to Venice. Romance seems to bud, but there's more to her than meets the eye.

Meet My Friend
2010
as Marco
Marco Ferretti is an Italian manager who is young and beautiful, but he cannot stand the presence of women after a difficult affair. When Marco goes t...

Our Life
2010
as Piero
Claudio is a construction worker living in the outskirts of Rome. He's happily married and his wife is pregnant with their third child. However, a dra...

Sorry if I Want to Marry You
2010
as Alessandro 'Alex' Belli
Second part of the film "Sorry if I love you". Alex (Raoul Bova) and Niki (Michela Quattrociocche) are more in love than ever. They have just returned...

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

La bella società
2009
as Romolo

Sbirri
2009
as Matteo Gatti
"Sbirri", Italian slang for the police, is the story of a well-known TV journalist who after the death of his son through ecstasy, decides to follow t...

Sbirri
2009
Producer
"Sbirri", Italian slang for the police, is the story of a well-known TV journalist who after the death of his son through ecstasy, decides to follow t...

Ti stramo - Ho voglia di un'ultima notte da manuale prima di tre baci sopra il cielo
2008
as Dr. House
Friedberg/Seltzer-like spoof about popular Italian teen romance movies of the aughts (such as Tre metri sopra il cielo, Come tu mi vuoi, Ho voglia di ...

Sorry if I Love You
2008
as Alessandro 'Alex' Belli
Alex Belli is a 37 year old advertising executive whose fiancée Elena has just left him, and who is having difficulty at work trying to think of a goo...

Aspettando il sole
2008
as Enea Chersi

Milan – Palermo: The Return
2007
as Nino Di Venanzio
Turi Leofonte is released from prison after eleven years and asks for the surviving members of his old security detail to escort him back in Sicily to...

I, the Other
2007
as Giuseppe
Giuseppe, a Sicilian fisherman, and Yousef, an exiled Tunisian, share a friendship, a fishing business and "Medea," the vessel on which they ply their...

Political Target
2006
as Diego Marra
The return of the Red Brigade in Italy, after 11 years of silence from this terrorist organization, was a traumatic event for the entire country. Espe...

La fiamma sul ghiaccio
2006
as Fabrizio
A sick young man lives an intense love story with a female tramp.

Karol: The Pope, The Man
2006
as Padre Thomas
This highly acclaimed feature film on Pope John Paul II was filmed on location in Italy and Poland. Focusing on the papacy of John Paul and the tremen...

Karol: A Man Who Became Pope
2005
as padre Tomasz Zaleski
The life of the pope John-Paul II, from his youth as a writer, actor, and athlete in war-torn occupied Poland to his election as Pope at the age of 58...

Stasera lo faccio!
2005
as Professore
The loves and jealousies of a group of teens emerge during a birthday party.

3.87
2005
Producer
During 2004 alone, 1400 people in Italy died at their workplace, 3.87 per day. Andrea is one of them.

AVP: Alien vs. Predator
2004
as Sebastian de Rosa
When scientists discover something near Antarctica that appears to be a buried Pyramid, they send a research team out to investigate. Little do they k...

Under the Tuscan Sun
2003
as Marcello
After a rough divorce, Frances, a 35-year-old professor and writer from San Francisco takes a tour of Tuscany at the urgings of her friends. On a whim...

Facing Windows
2003
as Lorenzo
Overburdened and stuck in a greying marriage, Giovanna takes to caring for a Jewish Holocaust survivor her husband brings home. As she begins to refle...

Francesca and Nunziata
2003
as Federico Montorsi
At the beginning of the century, in Italy, a wealthy woman Francesca (Loren), adopts a poor little girl named Nunziata. The years pass, Nunziata falls...

Francesco
2002
as Francesco

Avenging Angelo
2002
as Marcello/Gianni Carboni
A woman who has recently discovered that she is the daughter of Angelo, a major mafia boss, decides to wreak vengeance when he is killed by a hitman. ...

Madame De...
2001
as Vittorio
The action takes place in Paris in the 30-ies. The Countess Louise de... has made debts and she urgently needed cash. She decided to sell the family j...

Il testimone
2001
as Marco Basile
Italian thriller

Knights of the Quest
2001
as Giacomo di Altogiovanni
In 1271, five young knights journey to Thebes in Greece to recover the Sacred Shroud and deliver it back to France and into the hands of the royal fam...

Terra bruciata
1999
as Francesco Loreano / Tom Grasso

Rewind
1998
as Paul Mansart
Terrorist Paul Mansart, imprisoned in a maximum security prison, overcomes initial reluctance and agrees to experiment in “virtual reality” in order t...

Killer Couple
1998
as Dario
Newlyweds Dario and Luciana discover that their quiet neighbors are hired assassins who killed a politician – and become their next target.

The Fourth King
1997
as Alazhar
Alazar, a simple farmer who is also a beekeeper, meets the Three Wise Men Caspar, Melchior and Balthazar, who have set off to celebrate the arrival on...

The Mayor
1997
as Rafiluccio Santaniello
De Filippo 's tragedy of a politician presiding over criminal activities in Naples has been transferred to East Chicago.

La lupa
1996
as Nanni
She was tall, dark and thin, with a proud and voluptuous bust. They called her "The she-wolf" because she seemed never to be satisfied. All the men we...

La frontiera
1996
as Emidio Orlich

The Nymph
1996
as Pietro
Set during the second world war, the sentimental education of a sensual adolescent girl, growing out of her childhood in a small, impoverished village...

Palermo – Milan One Way
1996
as Nino Di Venanzio
A mob accountant accepts to be witness for the prosecution at a trial involving Mafia higher-ups. Seven cops are tasked with escorting him and his fam...

Pretty Princess
1993
as Marco
A princess from a Nordic European country is obligated to marry the boy her family chose. She escapes and discovers love in the arms of a beautiful sw...

Cominciò tutto per caso
1993
as Romolo
A middle class couple crisis. A love story between a young blue collar guy an a Philippine girl. The lives of four people get closer in nowadays Rome.

Crazy Underwear
1992
as Rocco
Alessia, a TV showgirl, tries to win the favor of an official. Amalia, a morning show host, satisfies the masochistic director in order to go to prime...

Quando eravamo repressi
1992
as (non accreditato)
Greta e le favole vere
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