Riccardo Scamarcio

Riccardo Scamarcio
Scamarcio in 2008
Born	(1979-11-13) 13 November 1979 Trani, Apulia, Italy
Education	Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia
Occupation	Actor • film producer
Years active	2000–present
Partner(s)	Angela Liso (1996–2006) Valeria Golino (2006–2016) Benedetta Porcaroli (2021–present)
Children	1

Riccardo Dario Scamarcio (Italian pronunciation: [rikˈkardo skaˈmartʃo]; born 13 November 1979) is an Italian actor and film producer.

Early life

Scamarcio was born in Trani, Apulia, the son of Irene Petrafesa, a painter, and Emilio Scamarcio.

He went to train as an actor at the Scuola Nazionale di Cinema in Rome, where he now lives.

Career

His debut acting role was in a TV series in 2000, while his first ever lead role in a feature film was in Three Steps Over Heaven (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: My Brother Is an Only Child (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 Manual of Love 2 (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 At a Glance (2008) directed by Sergio Rubini, Italians (2009), a comedy directed by Giovanni Veronesi, and The Big Dream (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. The Cézanne Affair (2009), directed by Sergio Rubini, co-starred Scamarcio's partner, Italian-Greek actress Valeria Golino, who plays his sister.

He also starred in John Wick: Chapter 2, playing the Italian Mob boss Santino D'Antonio, the antagonist in the film.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Actor	Producer	Notes
2003	The Best of Youth	Andrea Utano	Yes
	Now or Never	Biri	Yes
	Le mani in faccia	Francesco	Yes		Short film
2004	Three Steps Over Heaven	Step	Yes
	The Smell of Blood		Yes
2005	L'uomo perfetto	Antonio	Yes
	Texas	Gianluca Baretti	Yes
	Romanzo Criminale	Nero	Yes
2007	Manual of Love 2	Nicola	Yes
	Ho voglia di te	Step	Yes
	My Brother Is an Only Child	Manrico Benassi	Yes		Nominated − David di Donatello for Best Supporting Actor
	Go Go Tales	Doctor Steven	Yes
	Prova a volare	Alessandro	Yes
2008	At a Glance	Adrian	Yes
2009	Italians	Marcello Polidori	Yes
	Eden Is West	Elias	Yes
	The Big Dream	Nicola	Yes
	The Front Line	Sergio Segio	Yes
	The Cézanne Affair	Pinuccio	Yes
2010	Loose Cannons	Tommaso Cantone	Yes
	Diarchia	Giano	Yes	Yes	Short film
2011	Polisse	Francesco	Yes
	The Ages of Love	Roberto	Yes
	Armandino e il Madre			Yes	Short film
2012	Una commedia italiana che non fa ridere	Narrator	Yes		Short film; Voice role
	To Rome with Love	Hotel Robber	Yes
	The Red and the Blue	Professor Giovanni Prezioso	Yes
	Cosimo e Nicole	Cosimo	Yes
	Giulia ha picchiato Filippo		Yes		Short film
	L'uomo doppio			Yes
2013	The Informant	Mario / Claudio Pasco Lanfredi	Yes
	Third Person	Marco	Yes
	A Small Southern Enterprise	Arturo	Yes
	Miele			Yes
2014	A Golden Boy	Davide Bias	Yes
	Pasolini	Ninetto Davoli	Yes
	Effie Gray	Rafael	Yes
	La vita oscena			Yes
2015	Wondrous Boccaccio	Gentile Carisendi	Yes
	You Can't Save Yourself Alone	Gaetano	Yes		Nominated − David di Donatello for Best Actor
	First Light	Marco	Yes
	Burnt	Max	Yes
	Io che amo solo te	Damiano	Yes
	Per amor vostro			Yes
2016	Pericle	Pericles	Yes	Yes
	La verità sta in cielo	Enrico De Pedis	Yes
	La cena di Natale	Damiano	Yes
	Ali and Nino	Malik Nakhararyan	Yes
2017	Dalida	Orlando	Yes
	John Wick: Chapter 2	Santino D'Antonio	Yes
	Andorra	Lieutenant Afgroni	Yes
2018	Loro	Sergio Morra	Yes
	Welcome Home	Federico	Yes
	The Summer House	Luca	Yes
	Euphoria	Matteo	Yes
	Dei			Yes
	Early Man	Dag	Yes		Only Italian dub; Voice role
2019	The Ruthless	Santo Russo	Yes
	John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum	Santino D'Antonio	Yes		Cameos as Santino d'Antonio's corpse
	The Translators	Dario Farelli	Yes		Italian Translator
	If Only	Carlo
	I'm Not a Killer	Francesco Prencipe	Yes
2020	The Players	Lorenzo	Yes	Yes	Also scriptwriter
	The Binding	Francesco	Yes
2021	The Last Paradiso	Ciccio Paradiso	Yes	Yes
	Three Floors	Lucio	Yes
	Caravaggio's Shadow	Caravaggio	Yes
	The Shadow of the Day	Luciano Traini	Yes	Yes
2023	A Haunting in Venice	Vitale Portfoglio	Yes
2024	Race for Glory: Audi vs. Lancia	Cesare Fiorio	Yes	Yes	Also scriptwriter
TBA	Modì	Amedeo Modigliani	Yes		Post-production

Television

• Ama il tuo nemico 2 (2000)
• Io ti salverò (2001)
• Compagni di scuola (2001)
• La freccia nera (2006)
• Il segreto dell'acqua (Palermo Connection) (2011)
• London Spy (2015)
• Master of None (2017)
• The Woman in White (2018)
• Maradona: Blessed Dream (2021; episode 6)

Music video

• Ti scatterò una foto (Tiziano Ferro) (2007)
• Drammaturgia (Le Vibrazioni) (2008)
• Insolita (Le Vibrazioni) (2008)
• Meraviglioso (Negramaro) (2009)
• Dove cadono i fulmini (Erica Mou) (2011)

Theatre

• Non essere - Mise en espace di Leonardo Petrillo (2003)
• I tre moschettieri (2004)
• L'intelligenza, il cuore, le dita (2009)
• Romeo and Juliet (2011)

External links

• Riccardo Scamarcio at IMDb
• Riccardo Scamarcio Fanlisting