Biography
Libero De Rienzo (February 24, 1977 – July 15, 2021) was an Italian actor and onetime filmmaker best known for his breakthrough role as wisecracking Bart in Santa Maradona (2001), for which he won the David di Donatello for Best Supporting Actor. His other notable roles include those in Catherine Breillat's Fat Girl (2001), Honey (2013), Fortapàsc (2009) and the Smetto quando voglio trilogy (2014-2017). He died from a heroin overdose at age 44.
Known For
Complete Filmography

Takeaway
2022
as Johnny
A racewalking athlete Maria runs a petrol station with a takeaway shop in a desolate mountain village, she is almost 30 years old, she may have little...

With or Without You
2021
Alice and Tommaso have been together for fifteen years; they don’t have children, he‘s a musician, she’s an actress. Invited to dinner for an announce...

Notes from a Women Salesman
2021
as Milla
Set in 1978 Milan, Bravo lives his life among luxury clubs and illegal gambling dens in the company of his friend Daytona. Bravo defines himself as an...

Fortuna
2021
as Pietro
Fortuna (6 years old) lives with her mother in an anonymous suburb. She spends her time with two playmates, Nicola and Anna, dreaming of being Nancy, ...

Il caso Pantani - L'omicidio di un campione
2020
as Jumbo
The Pantani case, a film directed by Domenico Ciolfi, tells the story of the last five years in the life of the cyclist from Romagna, in particular fr...

Say It Loud
2020
as Ottavio
A woman seeking treatment for her stress, suddenly finds herself unable to filter herself when she speaks.

It's a Mad World
2019
as Mauro

The Two Popes
2019
as Roberto
Frustrated with the direction of the church, Cardinal Bergoglio requests permission to retire in 2012 from Pope Benedict. Instead, facing scandal and ...

Let's Stay Friends
2019
as Leo
Alessandro, a forty-year-old widower pediatrician, lives with his teenage son, leading a monotonous and insipid existence. After a call from an old fr...

DolceRoma
2019
as Lello
Andrea Serrano is a young aspiring writer who, to make ends meet, is forced to wash corpses in a mortuary, while struggling to finish his first novel,...

Reckless
2018
as Isp. Bartolomeo Vanzetti
A broke mechanic turns a bank loan denial into an impromptu robbery that puts him on the run with his best friend and a starlet they hold hostage.

I Can Quit Whenever I Want 3: Ad Honorem
2017
as Bartolomeo Bonelli
Has been an year since Pietro Zinni's gang got caught in the Sopox production laboratory and each of them locked up in different jails. From Regina Co...

La casa di famiglia
2017

Easy
2017
as Filo
A 40-year-old loser named Isidoro at the request of his brother drives from Italy to mountainous Carpathian village in Ukraine with a coffin of a dise...

I Can Quit Whenever I Want 2: Masterclass
2017
as Bartolomeo Bonelli
Pietro Zinni is asked by the police to revive the old gang to create a task force that will stop the spread of smart drugs.

Dead Uncle
2016
as Cristian
When an unemployed young man finds himself in dire straits and up to his eyes in gambling debt, he believes the only solution is to become a drug cour...

The Ploy
2016
as Antonio
In the summer of '75 Pier Paolo Pasolini's film, "Salò", is stolen from the lab where he is editing it. This is just the first step of an intricate pl...

I Killed Napoleon
2015
as Biagio
In the space of twenty-four hours the life of Anita, single and brilliant manager in career, is blown away by a hurricane of trouble.

I Can Quit Whenever I Want
2014
as Bartolomeo Bonelli
A university researcher is fired because of the cuts to university. To earn a living he decides to produce drugs recruiting his former colleagues, who...

Honey
2013
as Rocco
Irene, nicknamed 'Miele', has devote herself to people looking for help, and tries to alleviate their suffering even when they make extreme decisions....

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

All at Sea
2011
as Nando
Every morning, pushing the wheelchair of his mother, Maurizio along the walkway through the bush and tie him entrance to his kiosk on the beach. After...

Dirty War
2010
as Duzi
Army colonel Gabriele Moresco and twelve of his soldiers occupy a hospital in Sicily, Italy, taking every patient and doctor as hostages and giving an...

Fort Apache Napoli
2009
as Giancarlo Siani
The story of Giancarlo Siani, a journalist killed by the Neapolitan Mafia in 1985.

Aldo Moro - Il presidente
2008
as Valerio Morucci
At the end of the seventies the Red Brigades are plotting a new target to hit, the president of the Christian Democrats Aldo Moro. On 16 March 1978, t...

Milan – Palermo: The Return
2007
as Libero Proietti
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...

Sangue - La morte non esiste
2005
as Adrian
Iuri and Stella are two brothers with a strange relationship.

Sangue - La morte non esiste
2005
Director, Screenplay, Story
Iuri and Stella are two brothers with a strange relationship.

A/R Andata + Ritorno
2004
as Dante
Dante, a pony express in serious debt, meets Nina, a hostess stuck in Torino for the night.

Dream Generation
2003
Francesca, Morgana, Edo and Antonio. Four of today’s youngsters. Four inadvertent representatives of today’s generation of 20-year-olds who “do whatev...

My House in Umbria
2003
as Dr. Innocenti
Emily Delahunty is an eccentric British romance novelist who lives in Umbria in central Italy. One day while travelling, the train she is on is bombed...

Gasoline
2002
as Pusher (uncredited)
Fiery, dark-haired Stella, an intense auto mechanic, and nervous, blonde Eleonora are young and in love. They operate a gas station peacefully, until ...

Gioco con la Morte
2002
as Mattia
Alina, orphaned at a young age, discovers the murder of her sister Enrica, but the surprises aren't over because an Inspector reveals to her that her ...

Santa Maradona
2001
as Bart
An aimless college graduate jumping from one job interview to another — killing time in between with his wisecracking and deadbeat room-mate — falls i...

Fat Girl
2001
as Fernando
Anaïs is twelve and bears the weight of the world on her shoulders. She watches her older sister, Elena, whom she both loves and hates. Elena is fifte...

Midsummer Night Dance
1999
as Angelo

Asini
1999
as Giovane prete

A Lighter Burden to Bear
1998
as Oscar