Biography
Luca Zingaretti was born on November 11, 1961 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He is an actor and director, known for Inspector Montalbano (1999), Come Into the Light (2005) and La nostra vita (2010). He has been married to Luisa Ranieri since May 23, 2012. They have two daughters, Emma (born July 9 2011) & Bianca (bornJuly 27 2015).
Known For
Complete Filmography

The House of Looks
2025
as Padre
20-year-old Marco is remarkably attuned to the suffering of people everywhere. He writes poetry but turns to drugs and drink to achieve “the forgettin...

The House of Looks
2025
Screenplay, Story, Director
20-year-old Marco is remarkably attuned to the suffering of people everywhere. He writes poetry but turns to drugs and drink to achieve “the forgettin...

The Forbidden City
2025
as Alfredo
In the suburbs of Rome two very different souls intersect. One is the son of a restaurant owner who disappeared with his lover. The other is a young m...

Speciale Ulisse - La Sicilia di Montalbano
2025
Alberto Angela celebrates the centenary of Andrea Camilleri's birth with a trip to the places of Inspector Montalbano, including Scicli, Ragusa and th...
Pupi Avati, la tavola racconta
2021

Rose Island
2020
as Giovanni Leone
In 1968, engineer Giorgio Rosa established the independent state called "The Isle of Roses" off the coast of Rimini, built on a platform outside the t...

Paolo Conte, Come Away with Me
2020
as Narrator
Documentary follows the life and work of Italian singer and composer Paolo Conte.

Tuttapposto
2019
as Ruggero Lipari
Roberto is a student in a corrupt university where teachers sell exams and only hire friends and relatives.

THANKS!
2018
as Annalisa
From the Gabriele Di Luca's play "Thanks for Vaselina", the story of Fil and Charlie.

Boys Cry
2018
as Angelo
Mirko and Manolo are best friends and live in the suburbs of Rome. They both live in poor conditions with their single parents, are still in school an...

Let the Girls Play
2018
as Giacomo Bruno
Reims, France, 1969. Paul Coutard is a 30-year-old sports journalist at daily newspaper Le Champenois. Charming, childish and a womanizer, he does exa...

Il vegetale
2018
as Armando
Fabio struggles with a cumbersome father and a capricious and spoiled little sister who consider him a good for nothing, a “vegetable” in fact. The un...

Partly Cloudy with Sunny Spells
2015
as Giacomo
Two friends, founders of a cooperative that produce couches and that it is found in a situation of bankruptcy, a night, while they are digging for hid...

Perez.
2014
as Demetrio Perez
Demetrio Perez is a tough prosecutor torn between the corruption inherent in his job and the desire to do right by his family. But when opportunity pr...

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

Nicholas on Holiday
2014
as Producer
It's the end of the school year. The long-awaited moment of the holidays is arrive. The little Nicolas, her parents and Grandma take the road towards ...

Maldamore
2014
as Marco

Adriano Olivetti - La forza di un sogno
2013
as Adriano Olivetti
In post–WWII Italy, inspired industrialist Adriano Olivetti oversees the creation of the first all-Italian electronic calculator while theorizing a re...

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

Asterix & Obelix: God Save Britannia
2012
as Général
Asterix crosses the channel to help second-cousin Anticlimax face down Julius Caesar and invading Romans.

Paolo Borsellino: The 57 Days
2012
as Paolo Borsellino
Alberto Negrin directs this Italian drama starring Luca Zingaretti (well known Italian actor from the TV series Inspector Montalbano). The film traces...

Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy
2012
as Medico del tribunale
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...

The Immature: The Trip
2012
as Carlo
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...

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

Tormenti - Film disegnato
2011
as Avv. Rinaldo Maria Bonci Pavonazzi (voice)

Mozzarella Stories
2011
as Giulio Ricci
Ciccio D.O.P., undisputed lord of the mozzarella kingdom, sees his dairy empire imperiled when enigmatic Chinese producers unleash a half-priced, top-...

We Believed
2010
as Francesco Crispi
1828. In the wake of the repression of revolutionary uprisings in the monarchist South, three young friends join Giuseppe Mazzini's patriotic cause, s...

Our Life
2010
as Ari
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...

Il Volo
2010
Inspired by the experiences of some small southern Italian municipalities which chose to integrate a set of Kurdish refugees into the dwindling popula...

Il figlio più piccolo
2010
as Sergio Bollino
Ruthless businessman Luciano reconnects with his estranged family from a previous marriage, only to use their youngest son, awkward and starry-eyed Ba...

Hymn to Love
2009
L'amore e basta looks at the relationships of nine gay and lesbian couples. How can one love, today? The answers given by Stefano Consiglio and the co...

Wild Blood
2008
as Osvaldo Valenti
The bad romance between Luisa Ferida and Osvaldo Valenti, two of the foremost movie stars in Fascist Italy, who were supporters of the regime to the b...

Non prendere impegni stasera
2007
as Andrea

Tutte le donne della mia vita
2007
as Davide

My Brother Is an Only Child
2007
as Luca Nastri
Accio and Manrico are siblings from a working-class family in 1960s Italy: older Manrico is handsome, charismatic, and loved by all, while younger Acc...

Our Country
2006
as Ugo
Set in Milan, where people's lives are invisibly lead by money in its different shapes: too much, too little, stolen, earned, visible and even impalpa...

Cefalonia
2005
as Saverio Blasco
Cefalonia tells the real story about what happened in September 1943 on the Greek island of Kefalonia (Cefalonia in Italian), when the 12,000 men in t...

The Days of Abandonment
2005
as Mario
Olga's life is shattered when her husband leaves her. This makes her fall into a period of self-degradation and self-destructive behaviors.

Come Into the Light
2005
as Father Giuseppe 'Pino' Puglisi
In 1990s Palermo, Pino Puglisi is a priest from the neglected Brancaccio neighborhood dedicated in helping kids to get off the streets and creating an...

Prima dammi un bacio
2003
as Loris

Doppio agguato
2003
as Valerio Attico
Italy, 1989. After a prominent coffee industrialist is kidnapped by elusive Sardinian bandits, authorities turn to NOCS (Central Security Operative Un...

Sei come sei
2002
as Bryant
Six shorts.

Texas '46
2002
as Luigi Manin
Based on a true story its the untold story of Italian World War II POW"S in Jan 1946. Luca Zingaretti stars as one of over 50,000 Italian Prisoners of...

The Theft of St. Peter's Treasure
2000
as Giovanni Marotta
Rome is on the thresh-hold of the Holy year 1925, the city wishes to present itself as 'spotless' to the outside world. The appearance of a child's co...

Operazione Odissea
2000
as Paolo Cecchini/Omero

Jesus
1999
as Peter
Jesus, a carpenter living a simple life, discovers his destiny as the biblical Messiah.

L'anniversario
1999
as Michele

You Laugh
1998
as Gino Migliori
Two segments: In the first one Felice, a baritone who has had to give up his career because of a heart condition and now works as an accountant at the...

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

Kidnapping – Ein Vater schlägt zurück
1998
as Tonino Sanna
Incompreso
1998
as Edoardo Quaratesi
Freely taken from the novel "Misunderstood" by Florence Montgomery, "Incompreso" takes place in the second half of the 1950s in Lucca: Edoardo Quarate...

Oltremare - Non è l'America
1998
as Nicola

Artemisia
1997
as Cosimo Quorli
The story of Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1653), one of the first well-known female painters, including her youth, when she was guided and protected by...

The Colors of the Devil
1997
as Marc Lauzon
A young talented painter dreams of glory. A man promises it in exchange for his talent and his soul.

Castle Freak
1996
as Forte
John Reilly discovers that his family's newly inherited castle in Italy is haunted by a relentless bloodthirsty creature.

Strangled Lives
1996
as Sergio
Francesco is an entrepreneur in the building industry. His company is near to collapse if it doesn't win a deal to build a new school complex. It need...

L'anno prossimo... vado a letto alle dieci
1995
as 1st Policeman
This rollicking Italian black comedy follows the hellish, bizarre New Year's Eve night of two average guys who find themselves stumbling from one outl...

The Pack
1994
as Ottorino
In the Roman province a group of boys accepted Sola's proposal: to rape two German tourists on holiday in Italy held captive in a shack by a junkyard....
Una questione privata
1993
as Sceriffo

Abissinia
1993
as Marco
Antonio (Enrico Salimbeni) may not have been the most energetic waiter in the most popular restaurant in this unfashionable Adriatic tourist town, but...

The Last Days of Humanity
1991
The last days of humanity by Karl Kraus, a mammoth drama - almost 800 pages in the Adelphi edition - staged by Luca Ronconi in the Lingotto in Turin, ...
Delitti esemplari
1988

The Gold Rimmed Glasses
1987
as Molon
A Jewish couple and a homosexual doctor fall to prejudice and scandal in 1938 Italy.