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- Height5′ 7″ (1.70 m)
- Giancarlo Giannini is an Oscar-nominated Italian actor, director and multilingual dubber who made an international reputation for his leading roles in Italian films as well as for his mastery of a variety of languages and dialects.
He was born August 1, 1942, in La Spezia, Italy. For 10 years he lived and studied in Naples, earning a degree in electronics. At 18 he enrolled in the Academy of Dramatic Art D'Amico in Rome and made his stage acting debut there. His credits included performances in contemporary Italian plays as well, as in Italian productions of William Shakespeare's plays "Romeo and Juliet" and "A Midsummer's Night Dream". In 1965 he made his television debut starring as David Copperfield in the TV miniseries made by RAI ,the Italian national TV company. He made his big-screen debut in Libido (1965), a Freudian psychological thriller. Since 1966 he has been in a successful collaboration with legendary Italian director Lina Wertmüller, who made several award-winning films with Giannini as a male lead. He appears as peasant Tonino who prepares to assassinate dictator Benito Mussolini in Love & Anarchy (1973), as a sailor in the irony-laden comedy Swept Away (1974), and as a concentration-camp survivor in the Oscar-nominated Seven Beauties (1975). He also starred as a Jewish musician arrested by the Nazis in Rainer Werner Fassbinder's masterpiece Lili Marleen (1981).
Giannini also made a reputation for dubbing international stars in films released on the Italian market, such as Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, Michael Douglas, Dustin Hoffman, Gérard Depardieu, and Ian McKellen, among others. He received a compliment from Stanley Kubrick for his dubbing of Nicholson in The Shining (1980). Giannini's fluency in English and his mastery of dialects has brought him a number of supporting roles in Hollywood productions, such as A Walk in the Clouds (1995), Hannibal (2001), Darkness (2002), and Man on Fire (2004), among many others. He appears as Rene Mathis in the 21st James Bond film Casino Royale (2006), and reprises the role in the sequel, Quantum of Solace (2008).- IMDb Mini Biography By: Steve Shelokhonov
- SpousesEurilla del Bono(1983 - present) (2 children)Livia Giampalmo(1967 - 1975) (divorced, 2 children)
- ChildrenLorenzo GianniniEmanuele GianniniFrancesco Giannini
- Short, slender frame
- Gregarious demeanor
- After dubbing Jack Nicholson's voice in the Italian version of The Shining (1980), he received a telegram of congratulations from Stanley Kubrick.
- His great passion is inventing. Among other things, he invented the moving, playing jacket Robin Williams was wearing in Toys (1992).
- Italian dubbing voice of Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, Michael Douglas, Gérard Depardieu, Dustin Hoffman and Ryan O'Neal.
- He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6361 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on March 6, 2023. Producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli were guest speakers at the ceremony.
- In 2003, he was christened Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic, Italy's highest civilian honor, for his services to the arts. In 2007, he was re-christened Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic.
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