Elio Germano

Elio Germano (born September 25, 1980) is an Italian actor. He made his film debut in 1993 as a child actor, before gaining prominence with a string of roles in youth-oriented movies in the early 2000s. He achieved stardom following his lead role in Daniele Luchetti's My Brother Is an Only Child (2007), for which he won his first David di Donatello for Best Actor. He won the award for Best Actor at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival for Luchetti's La Nostra Vita (tied with Javier Bardem for Biutiful) and at the 2020 Berlin Film Festival for Volevo Nascondermi, portraying painter Antonio Ligabue. Subsequent starring roles include Tutta La Vita Davanti (2008), Diaz: Don't Clean Up This Blood (2012), Il Giovane Favoloso (2014), Suburra (2015), The Man Without Gravity (2019), Bad Tales (2020) and Rose Island (2020). Outside of Italy he appeared in the Abel Ferrara's Mary (2005), and Nine (2009), opposite Daniel Day-Lewis.

Known For: Acting

Born: Rome, Italy, 1980-09-25

Died: null

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1993	Ci hai rotto papà	Andrea 'Cotoletta' Cecconi	61
2	1999	Il cielo in una stanza	Paolo da giovane	59
3	2000	Cornetti al miele	Ernesto	50
4	2001	La storia chiusa	Amico	0
5	2001	Unfair Competition	Paolo	70
6	2002	Ultimo stadio	Billo	0
7	2002	Respiro	Pier Luigi	66
8	2003	Ferrari	Enzo Ferrari at 18 years	71
9	2003	Break Free	Vince	62
10	2003	Now or Never	Doveri	55
11	2004	Che ne sarà di noi	Manuel	58
12	2004	Fame chimica	Ragazzo in discoteca	60
13	2004	A Judge of Honor	Manfredi Borsellino	69
14	2005	Call Me Salomè	Profeta	0
15	2005	Do You Like Hitchcock?	Giulio	52
16	2005	3.87	Andrea	71
17	2005	Quo Vadis, Baby?	Lucio	57
18	2005	Sangue - La morte non esiste	Iuri	60
19	2005	Romanzo Criminale	Sorcio	72
20	2005	Mary	Matteo	57
21	2005	Melissa P.	Arnaldo	46
22	2006	Pavilion 22	Uomo Bambino	55
23	2006	Napoleon and Me	Martino Papucci	61
24	2007	My Brother Is an Only Child	Accio Benassi	67
25	2008	Fallen Heroes	Luca	46
26	2008	A Whole Life Ahead	Lucio 2	66
27	2008	The Past Is a Foreign Land	Giorgio	62
28	2008	The Early Bird Catches the Worm	Marco Baldini	58
29	2008	As God Commands	Quattro Formaggi	65
30	2009	Beautiful People	Giulio	65
31	2009	Nine	Pierpaolo	55
32	2009	The Bee and the Wind	Matteo	0
33	2010	Flaiano: il meglio è passato		0
34	2010	Our Life	Claudio	65
35	2010	The End Is My Beginning	Folco Terzani	60
36	2011	Scattered Cloud	Venditore	57
37	2011	Noi c'eravamo	Self	100
38	2012	Faccia d'angelo	Il Toso	70
39	2012	A Magnificent Haunting	Pietro	65
40	2012	Diaz - Don't Clean Up This Blood	Luca Gualtieri	72
41	2012	The Landlords	Elia	59
42	2013	The Fifth Wheel	Ernesto	65
43	2014	Leopardi	Giacomo Leopardi	68
44	2015	The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun	Stefano	51
45	2015	Suburra	Sebastiano	73
46	2015	Alaska	Fausto	68
47	2015	Lost and Beautiful	Sarchiapone (voice)	71
48	2016	L'ami, François d'Assise et ses frères	Francesco	56
49	2016	In arte Nino	Nino Manfredi	71
50	2017	It's All About Karma	Mario Pitagora	58
51	2017	Tenderness	Fabio	63
52	2017	Binxet - Under the border	Narrator	70
53	2018	Io sono Tempesta	Bruno	58
54	2018	Archiviato - L'obbligatorietà dell'azione penale in Valsusa	Narrator (voice)	80
55	2018	Lucia's Grace	Arturo	59
56	2019	The Man Without Gravity	Oscar	71
57	2020	Hidden Away	Antonio Ligabue	75
58	2020	Liberi e pensanti - Uno maggio Taranto	Self	0
59	2020	Bad Tales	Bruno Placido	67
60	2020	Rose Island	Giorgio Rosa	70
61	2021	Uno, nessuno, cento Nino	Self	70
62	2021	All Star - Ritorno al cinema	Uomo delle pulizie	76
63	2022	America Latina	Massimo Sisti	61
64	2022	Lord of the Ants	Ennio Scribani	73
65	2023	Palazzina LAF	Giancarlo Basile	68
66	2024	Trust	Pietro	65
67	2024	Sicilian Letters	Matteo	65
68	2024	The Great Ambition	Enrico Berlinguer	74

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	2000	Padre Pio: Miracle Man	Padre Pio ragazzo	69
2	2001	Via Zanardi, 33	Ivan	70
3	2001	Ulisse. Il piacere della scoperta	Self	89
4	2002	Il sequestro Soffiantini	Paolo Soffiantini	50
5	2003	Ferrari	Enzo Ferrari a 18 anni	28
6	2012	Faccia d'angelo	il Toso	64
7	2024	La Storia	Giuseppe 'Eppetondo' Cucchiarelli	67