Elio Germano
Biography
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.
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Movies (48)
LIBERO sempre comunque mai
as Self
2025
Noi e la grande ambizione
as Himself
2025
Anatomia di un grande sogno
as Self
2025
Three Goodbyes
as Antonio
2025
N-Ego
2024
The Great Ambition
as Enrico Berlinguer
2024
Sicilian Letters
as Matteo
2024
Trust
as Pietro
2024
Palazzina LAF
as Giancarlo Basile
2023
Lord of the Ants
as Ennio Scribani
2022
America Latina
as Massimo Sisti
2022
All Star - Ritorno al cinema
as Uomo delle pulizie
2021
Così è (o mi pare)
2021
The Italian Baba
as Baba Cesare
2021
Uno, nessuno, cento Nino
as Self
2021
Rose Island
as Giorgio Rosa
2020
Bad Tales
as Bruno Placido
2020
Liberi e pensanti - Uno maggio Taranto
as Self
2020
Hidden Away
as Antonio Ligabue
2020
The Man Without Gravity
as Oscar
2019
Segnale d'Allarme | La mia battaglia VR
as Sé stesso
2019
Lucia's Grace
as Arturo
2018
Archiviato - L'obbligatorietà dell'azione penale in Valsusa
as Narrator (voice)
2018
Io sono Tempesta
as Bruno
2018
Binxet - Under the border
as Narrator
2017
Tenderness
as Fabio
2017
It's All About Karma
as Mario Pitagora
2017
In arte Nino
as Nino Manfredi
2016
L'ami
as Francesco
2016
No Borders
as Sé stesso
2016
Lost and Beautiful
as Sarchiapone (voice)
2015
Alaska
as Fausto
2015
Street Opera
as Sé stesso
2015
Suburra
as Sebastiano
2015
The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun
as Stefano
2015
Leopardi
as Giacomo Leopardi
2014
The Fifth Wheel
as Ernesto
2013
The Landlords
as Elia
2012
Diaz - Don't Clean Up This Blood
as Luca Gualtieri
2012
A Magnificent Haunting
as Pietro
2012
Faccia d'angelo
as Il Toso
2012
Noi c'eravamo
as Self
2011
Scattered Cloud
as Venditore
2011
The End Is My Beginning
as Folco Terzani
2010
Our Life
as Claudio
2010
Flaiano: il meglio è passato
2010
The Bee and the Wind
as Matteo
2009
Nine
as Pierpaolo
2009
