Elio Germano
Known for ActingBorn 1980-09-25Rome, Italy
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.
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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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Melissa P.
2005 · as Arnaldo
Nine
2009 · as Pierpaolo
Romanzo Criminale
2005 · as Sorcio
Rose Island
2020 · as Giorgio Rosa
Mary
2005 · as Matteo
Three Goodbyes
2025 · as Antonio
Suburra
2015 · as Sebastiano
America Latina
2022 · as Massimo Sisti
My Brother Is an Only Child
2007 · as Accio Benassi
Bad Tales
2020 · as Bruno Placido
Napoleon and Me
2006 · as Martino Papucci
The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun
2015 · as Stefano
A Magnificent Haunting
2012 · as Pietro
Ci hai rotto papà
1993 · as Andrea 'Cotoletta' Cecconi
Alaska
2015 · as Fausto
The Man Without Gravity
2019 · as Oscar
Respiro
2002 · as Pier Luigi
Tenderness
2017 · as Fabio