Giancarlo Giannini

Acting

Born: 1942-08-01
From: La Spezia, Liguria, Italy
Gender: Male
Popularity: 1.7

Also Known As

John Charlie Johnsجانکارلو جانینی

Biography

Giancarlo Giannini (Italian: [dʒaŋˈkarlo dʒanˈniːni]; born 1 August 1942) is an Italian actor. He won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor for his performance in Love and Anarchy (1973) and received an Academy Award nomination for Seven Beauties (1975). He is also a four-time recipient of the David di Donatello Award for Best Actor. Giannini began his career on stage, starring in Franco Zeffirelli's productions of Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night's Dream. After appearing predominantly on television throughout the early 1960s, he had his first lead role in a film in Rita the Mosquito (1965), the first of many collaborations with filmmaker Lina Wertmüller. He rose to international stardom through Wertmüller's The Seduction of Mimi (1972), Love and Anarchy (1973), Swept Away (1974), culminating in his Oscar-nominated turn in Seven Beauties (1975). His other films include The Innocent (1976), Lili Marleen (1980), New York Stories (1990), A Walk in the Clouds (1995), Hannibal (2001), Man on Fire (2004), and the James Bond films Casino Royale (2006) and Quantum of Solace (2008). He is also a dubbing artist, contributing voice work to the Italian-language versions of dozens of films since the 1960s. He has been the main Italian dubber of Al Pacino since 1975, and has also dubbed Jack Nicholson, Michael Douglas, and Helmut Berger. Description above from the Wikipedia article Giancarlo Giannini, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Awards & Nominations7 won · 1 nominated

Nominated

Academy Award for Best Actor

Seven Beauties

1977
🏆 Won

Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor

1973
🏆 Won

Silver Shell for Best Actor

1973
🏆 Won

David di Donatello for Best Actor

🏆 Won

Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic

🏆 Won

Cinearti La chioma di Berenice Prize

🏆 Won

Targa d'Oro

🏆 Won

David di Donatello for Best Supporting Actor

Acting195 titles

Directing2 titles

Writing1 title

Production2 titles

Art1 title