Riccardo Scamarcio
| Riccardo Scamarcio | |
|---|---|
 Scamarcio in 2008 | |
| Born |
13 November 1979 Trani, Apulia, Italy |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 2000–present |
| Partner(s) | Valeria Golino (2006-2016) |
Riccardo Scamarcio (born 13 November 1979) is an Italian film actor and film producer.
Life and career
Scamarcio was born in Trani, Apulia, to Irene, a painter.
He went to train as an actor at the Scuola Nazionale di Cinema in Rome, where he now lives. His debut acting role was in a TV series in 2000, while his first ever lead role in a feature film was in Tre metri sopra il cielo (2004), directed by Luca Lucini. Through this he immediately became well known to the Italian speaking public, especially a young audience. His success brought him prominence as a sex symbol and boosted requests for his acting skills, leading to his role in Texas (2005), directed by Fausto Paravidino and soon to him joining the cast of Romanzo criminale, playing a monosyllabic, enigmatic thug character in a powerful portrait of a mafiosi community directed by Michele Placido.
In 2006 he acted in The Black Arrow, a TV series broadcast by Canale 5, adapted from the novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, and took on four new film roles: Mio fratello è figlio unico (2007), directed by Daniele Luchetti, based on the novel Il Fasciocomunista by Antonio Pennacchi. Scamarcio won a David di Donatello nomination for Best Supporting Actor for this work. He also played in Manuale d'amore - Capitoli successivi (2007), directed by Giovanni Veronesi, Ho voglia di te (2007), directed by Luis Prieto, and Go Go Tales (2007), directed by Abel Ferrara.
In 2007 he began work on Colpo d'occhio (2008) directed by Sergio Rubini, and Italians (2009), a comedy directed by Giovanni Veronesi and Il grande sogno (2009), set in Italy in 1968, directed by Michele Placido. Eden à l'Ouest, directed by Costa-Gavras, saw Scamarcio playing an illegal immigrant-cum-innocent abroad. L'uomo nero (2009), directed by Sergio Rubini, co-starred Scamarcio's partner, Italian-Greek actress Valeria Golino, who plays his sister.
Filmography
Film
- The Best of Youth (2003. dir. Marco Tullio Giordana)
- Now or Never (2003, dir. Lucio Pellegrini)
- Le mani in faccia (2003. dir. Daniele Basilia)
- Tre metri sopra il cielo (2004, dir. Luca Lucini)
- The Smell of Blood (2004, dir. Mario Martone)
- L'uomo perfetto (2005. dir. Luca Lucini)
- Texas (2005, dir. Fausto Paravidino)
- Romanzo Criminale (2005, dir. Michele Placido)
- Manual of Love 2 (2007, dir. Giovanni Veronesi)
- Ho voglia di te (2007, dir. Luis Prieto)
- My Brother Is an Only Child (2007, dir. Daniele Luchetti)
- Go Go Tales (2007, dir. Abel Ferrara)
- Prova a volare (2007, dir. Lorenzo Cicconi Massi)
- At a Glance (2007, dir. Sergio Rubini)
- Italians (2009, dir. Giovanni Veronesi)
- Eden Is West (2009. dir. Costa-Gavras)
- The Big Dream (2009, dir. Michele Placido
- The Cézanne Affair (2009, dir. Sergio Rubini)
- The Front Line (2009, dir. Renato De Maria)
- Loose Cannons (2010, dir. Ferzan Özpetek
- Polisse (2011, dir. Maiwenn Le Besco)
- Manuale d'amore 3 (2011, dir. Giovanni Veronesi)
- To Rome with Love (2012, dir. Woody Allen)
- The Red and the Blue (2012, dir. Giuseppe Piccioni)
- Effie Gray (2013)
- Third Person (2013)
- The Informant (2013)
- A Small Southern Enterprise (2013)
- Pasolini (2014)
- A Golden Boy (2014)
- Wondrous Boccaccio (2015)
- You Can't Save Yourself Alone (2015)
- First Light (2015)
- Burnt (2015)
- Io che amo solo te (2015)
- John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017)
- Andorra (2017)
TV
- Ama il tuo nemico 2 (2000)
- Io ti salverò (2001)
- Compagni di scuola (2001)
- La freccia nera (2006)
- London Spy (2015)
Video
- Drammaturgia (Le Vibrazioni) (2008)
- Insolita (Le Vibrazioni) (2008)
- Meraviglioso (Negramaro) (2008)
- Ti scatterò una foto (Tiziano Ferro) (2007)
Short films
- Diarchia (2010)
- Le mani in faccia (2003)
Theatre
- Non essere - Mise en espace di Leonardo Petrillo (2003)
- I tre moschettieri (2004)
- Romeo e Giulietta (2011)