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.
Acting (74 movies)
Nine
2009
Fame chimica
2004
As God Commands
2008
Napoleon and Me
2006
My Brother Is an Only Child
2007
The Bee and the Wind
2009
Quo Vadis, Baby?
2005
Do You Like Hitchcock?
2005
What Will Become of Us
2004
Mary
2005
Our Life
2010
The End Is My Beginning
2010
Call Me Salomè
2005
Break Free
2003
Beautiful People
2009
The Past Is a Foreign Land
2008
Unfair Competition
2001
Diaz - Don't Clean Up This Blood
2012
Faccia d'angelo
2012
A Magnificent Haunting
2012
Sicilian Letters
2024
Il cielo in una stanza
1999
Ci hai rotto papà
1993
Scattered Cloud
2011
The Early Bird Catches the Worm
2008
Sangue - La morte non esiste
2005
The Landlords
2012
Pavilion 22
2006
The Fifth Wheel
2013
The Great Ambition
2024
Leopardi
2014
Melissa P.
2005
Trust
2024
Palazzina LAF
2023
Liberi e pensanti - Uno maggio Taranto
2020
Fallen Heroes
2008
The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun
2015
3.87
2005
Suburra
2015
Alaska
2015
Lost and Beautiful
2015
A Whole Life Ahead
2008
L'ami
2016
Tenderness
2017
It's All About Karma
2017
In arte Nino
2016
Romanzo Criminale
2005
A Judge of Honor
2004
Ferrari
2003
Io sono Tempesta
2018
Lucia's Grace
2018
Archiviato - L'obbligatorietà dell'azione penale in Valsusa
2018
Respiro
2002
Ultimo stadio
2002
Binxet - Under the border
2017
Hidden Away
2020
Honey Horn
2000
Now or Never
2003
Rose Island
2020
The Man Without Gravity
2019
Bad Tales
2020
Uno, nessuno, cento Nino
2021
America Latina
2022
Lord of the Ants
2022
All Star - Ritorno al cinema
2021
Three Goodbyes
2025
Segnale d'Allarme | La mia battaglia VR
2019
Street Opera
2015
No Borders
2016
The Italian Baba
2021
Così è (o mi pare)
2021
N-Ego
2024
Noi e la grande ambizione
2025
LIBERO sempre comunque mai
2025
Directing (3 movies)
| Title | Year | Job |
|---|---|---|
| Sangue - La morte non esiste | 2005 | Screenplay |
| No Borders | 2016 | Writer |
| No Borders | 2016 | Producer |
| Segnale d'Allarme | La mia battaglia VR | 2019 | Producer |
| Segnale d'Allarme | La mia battaglia VR | 2019 | Writer |
| The Italian Baba | 2021 | Writer |
| The Italian Baba | 2021 | Producer |
| Così è (o mi pare) | 2021 | Producer |