Elio Germano
Acting • Born 1980-09-25
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.
Filmography
89 credits
Nine
Movie • 2009
Pierpaolo
Fame Chimica
Movie • 2004
Ragazzo in discoteca
As God Commands
Movie • 2008
Quattro Formaggi
Napoleon and Me
Movie • 2006
Martino Papucci
My Brother Is an Only Child
Movie • 2007
Accio Benassi
The Bee and the Wind
Movie • 2009
Matteo
Quo Vadis, Baby?
Movie • 2005
Lucio
Do You Like Hitchcock?
Movie • 2005
Giulio
What Will Become of Us
Movie • 2004
Manuel
Mary
Movie • 2005
Matteo
Our Life
Movie • 2010
Claudio
The End Is My Beginning
Movie • 2010
Folco Terzani
Call Me Salomè
Movie • 2005
Profeta
Break Free
Movie • 2003
Vince
Beautiful People
Movie • 2009
Giulio
The Past Is a Foreign Land
Movie • 2008
Giorgio
Unfair Competition
Movie • 2001
Paolo Della Rocca
Diaz - Don't Clean Up This Blood
Movie • 2012
Luca Gualtieri
Faccia d'angelo
Movie • 2012
Il Toso
A Magnificent Haunting
Movie • 2012
Pietro
Sicilian Letters
Movie • 2024
Matteo
Il cielo in una stanza
Movie • 1999
Paolo da giovane
Ci hai rotto papà
Movie • 1993
Andrea 'Cotoletta' Cecconi
Scattered Cloud
Movie • 2011
Venditore
The Early Bird Catches the Worm
Movie • 2008
Marco Baldini
Sangue - La morte non esiste
Movie • 2005
Iuri
The Landlords
Movie • 2012
Elia
Pavilion 22
Movie • 2006
Uomo Bambino
The Fifth Wheel
Movie • 2013
Ernesto
La storia chiusa
Movie • 2001
Amico
The Great Ambition
Movie • 2024
Enrico Berlinguer
Leopardi
Movie • 2014
Giacomo Leopardi
Flaiano: il meglio è passato
Movie • 2010
Melissa P.
Movie • 2005
Arnaldo
Trust
Movie • 2024
Pietro
Palazzina LAF
Movie • 2023
Giancarlo Basile
Liberi e pensanti - Uno maggio Taranto
Movie • 2020
Self
Fallen Heroes
Movie • 2008
Luca
The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun
Movie • 2015
Stefano
3.87
Movie • 2005
Andrea
Suburra
Movie • 2015
Sebastiano
Alaska
Movie • 2015
Fausto
Lost and Beautiful
Movie • 2015
Sarchiapone (voice)
A Whole Life Ahead
Movie • 2008
Lucio 2
L'ami
Movie • 2016
Francesco
Tenderness
Movie • 2017
Fabio
It's All About Karma
Movie • 2017
Mario Pitagora
In arte Nino
Movie • 2016
Nino Manfredi
Romanzo Criminale
Movie • 2005
Sorcio
A Judge of Honor
Movie • 2004
Manfredi Borsellino
Ferrari
Movie • 2003
Enzo Ferrari at 18 years
Io sono Tempesta
Movie • 2018
Bruno
Lucia's Grace
Movie • 2018
Arturo
Archiviato - L'obbligatorietà dell'azione penale in Valsusa
Movie • 2018
Narrator (voice)
Respiro
Movie • 2002
Pier Luigi
Ultimo stadio
Movie • 2002
Billo
Binxet - Under the border
Movie • 2017
Narrator
Hidden Away
Movie • 2020
Antonio Ligabue
Honey Horn
Movie • 2000
Ernesto
Now or Never
Movie • 2003
Doveri
Rose Island
Movie • 2020
Giorgio Rosa
The Man Without Gravity
Movie • 2019
Oscar
Bad Tales
Movie • 2020
Bruno Placido
Uno, nessuno, cento Nino
Movie • 2021
Self
America Latina
Movie • 2022
Massimo Sisti
Lord of the Ants
Movie • 2022
Ennio Scribani
Noi c'eravamo
Movie • 2011
Self
All Star - Ritorno al cinema
Movie • 2021
Uomo delle pulizie
Three Goodbyes
Movie • 2025
Antonio
Segnale d'Allarme | La mia battaglia VR
Movie • 2019
Sé stesso
Street Opera
Movie • 2015
Sé stesso
No Borders
Movie • 2016
Sé stesso
The Italian Baba
Movie • 2021
Baba Cesare
Così è (o mi pare)
Movie • 2021
N-Ego
Movie • 2024
Noi un po' meglio
Movie
Noi e la grande ambizione
Movie • 2025
Himself
Anatomia di un grande sogno
Movie • 2025
Self
LIBERO sempre comunque mai
Movie • 2025
Self
The Man Who Could Have Changed the World
Movie
Ranuccio
La Storia
TV • 2024
Giuseppe 'Eppetondo' Cucchiarelli
Padre Pio: Miracle Man
TV • 2000
Padre Pio ragazzo
Ferrari
TV • 2003
Enzo Ferrari a 18 anni
Il sequestro Soffiantini
TV • 2002
Paolo Soffiantini
Faccia d'angelo
TV • 2012
il Toso
Via Zanardi, 33
TV • 2001
Ivan
Ulisse - The pleasure of discovery
TV • 2001
Self
Per Amore
TV • 2002
Gabriele Mariani
A Judge of Honor
TV • 2004
Manfredi Borsellino