Elio Germano
Acting
90 titles
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
Ritorno al tratturo
2026
LIBERO sempre comunque mai
2025
Noi e la grande ambizione
2025
Anatomia di un grande sogno
2025
Three Goodbyes
2025
N-Ego
2024
The Great Ambition
2024
Sicilian Letters
2024
Trust
2024
The Story
2024
Palazzina LAF
2023
Lord of the Ants
2022
America Latina
2022
All Star - Ritorno al cinema
2021
Così è (o mi pare)
2021
The Italian Baba
2021
Uno, nessuno, cento Nino
2021
Rose Island
2020
Bad Tales
2020
Liberi e pensanti - Uno maggio Taranto
2020
Hidden Away
2020
The Man Without Gravity
2019
Segnale d'Allarme | La mia battaglia VR
2019
Lucia's Grace
2018
Archiviato - L'obbligatorietà dell'azione penale in Valsusa
2018
Io sono Tempesta
2018
Binxet - Under the border
2017
Tenderness
2017
It's All About Karma
2017
In arte Nino
2016
L'ami
2016
No Borders
2016
Lost and Beautiful
2015
Alaska
2015
Street Opera
2015
Suburra
2015
The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun
2015
Leopardi
2014
The Fifth Wheel
2013
The Landlords
2012
Diaz - Don't Clean Up This Blood
2012
A Magnificent Haunting
2012
Angel Face
2012
Faccia d'angelo
2012
Noi c'eravamo
2011
Scattered Cloud
2011
The End Is My Beginning
2010
Our Life
2010
Flaiano: il meglio è passato
2010
The Bee and the Wind
2009
Nine
2009
Beautiful People
2009
As God Commands
2008
The Early Bird Catches the Worm
2008
The Past Is a Foreign Land
2008
Fallen Heroes
2008
A Whole Life Ahead
2008
My Brother Is an Only Child
2007
Napoleon and Me
2006
Pavilion 22
2006
Mary
2005
Melissa P.
2005
Romanzo Criminale
2005
Sangue - La morte non esiste
2005
Quo Vadis, Baby?
2005
3.87
2005
Do You Like Hitchcock?
2005
Call Me Salomè
2005
A Judge of Honor
2004
A Judge of Honor
2004
Fame Chimica
2004
What Will Become of Us
2004
Now or Never
2003
Break Free
2003
Ferrari
2003
Ferrari
2003
Respiro
2002
Ultimo stadio
2002
Per Amore
2002
Il sequestro Soffiantini
2002
Ulisse - The Pleasure of Discovery
2001
Unfair Competition
2001
Via Zanardi, 33
2001
La storia chiusa
2001
Honey Horn
2000
Padre Pio: Miracle Man
2000
Il cielo in una stanza
1999
Ci hai rotto papà
1993
Noi un po' meglio
The Man Who Could Have Changed the World