Adriano Giannini

Adriano Giannini
Giannini at the 2024 Berlin Film Festival
Born	(1971-05-10) 10 May 1971 (age 53) Rome, Italy
Occupations	Actor voice actor
Years active	1990–present
Spouse	Gaia Trussardi ​ (m. 2019)​
Parents	Giancarlo Giannini (father) Livia Giampalmo (mother)

Adriano Giannini (born 10 May 1971) is an Italian actor and voice actor. ^[1]

Biography

Adriano Giannini was born in Rome on 10 May 1971, to actors Giancarlo Giannini and Livia Giampalmo. He began his career when he was 18 years old. ^[2] His earliest notable role was alongside Madonna in the widely panned 2002 film Swept Away , a remake of the 1974 Italian film of the same name. Giannini played the same role that his father played in the original, also re-dubbing his own character's lines for the Italian and Spanish edition. ^[3]

Giannini's international roles include the voice of Rat in the 2003 animated film Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas and Giancarlo Rossi in the 2012 ABC television series Missing , starring Ashley Judd and Sean Bean. In 2024 he starred in two Netflix productions, playing Tommaso, Rocco Siffredi's half-brother, in the series Supersex and Ugo Jacomelli in the film Lonely Planet .

As a voice dubber, Giannini dubbed the voice of Heath Ledger's portrayal of the Joker in the Italian release of The Dark Knight . He also dubbed Joaquin Phoenix's incarnation of the character in Joker and Joker: Folie à Deux . ^[4] Giannini has provided the Italian voices of Christian Bale, Tom Hardy, Raz Degan, Benicio del Toro, Steven Strait, Ryan Reynolds and Laz Alonso in some of their work ^[5] and the animated characters Metro Man in Megamind and Mandrake in Epic .

Personal life

In 2019, Giannini married Trussardi creative director Gaia Trussardi after two years of dating. ^[6] Giannini had an older brother, Lorenzo, who died from an aneurysm at the age of 21. He also has two younger half-brothers from his father's marriage to actress Eurilla del Bono.

Filmography

Cinema

Year	Title	Role(s)	Notes
2001	Off to the Revolution by a 2CV	Marco
2002	Swept Away	Giuseppe Esposito
2004	Stay with Me	Nanni
	The Consequences of Love	Valerio Di Girolamo
	Una talpa al bioparco	David
	Ocean's Twelve	Museum director	Cameo appearance
2007	13 Roses	Fontenla
	Nero bifamiliare	Ossobuco
2008	Sandrine in the Rain	Leonardo
2009	La casa sulle nuvole	Adriano Raggi
2010	Kiss Me Again	Simone
2011	Black Gold	Pilot
2014	A Fairy-Tale Wedding	Luca Maggi
	A Woman as a Friend	Giovanni
	Without Pity	Manuel
	The Ice Forest	Lorenzo
	Ambo	Giulio
2015	I Killed Napoléon	Paride Presca
	Per amor vostro	Michele Migliaccio
2017	Il colore nascosto delle cose	Teo Moscone
2018	The Legend of Red Hand	Davide	Short film
2019	Vivere	Luca Attorre
2020	The Ties	Adult Sandro
2021	Three Floors	Giorgio
2023	Adagio	Vasco
2024	Lonely Planet	Ugo Jaconelli

Television

Year	Title	Role(s)	Notes
2004	Luisa Sanfelice	Salvato Palmieri	Television film
2006	48 ore	Renato Tenco	12 episodes
2008	Tigri di carta	Gerard	3 episodes
2009	L'isola dei segreti: Koré	Vasco Brandi	4 episodes
2011	L'amore proibito	Valerio	Television film
2012	6 passi nel giallo	Marco Ventura	Episode: "Sotto protezione"
	Missing	Giancarlo Rossi	10 episodes
2013–2016	In Treatment	Pietro	14 episodes
2014	The Cosmopolitans	Sandro	Television film
2016	Boris Giuliano: Un poliziotto a Palermo	Boris Giuliano	Television film
2017	Il coraggio di vincere	Rocco Di Santo	Television film
2022	Bang Bang Baby	Santo Maria Barone	10 episodes
2024	Supersex	Tommaso	7 episodes

Voice work

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2003	Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas	Rat	Animated film [7]
2015	They Call Me Jeeg	Reporter	Voice cameo

Dubbing

Films (Animation, Italian dub)

Year	Title	Role	Ref
2010	Megamind	Metro Man
2013	Epic	Mandrake
2021	Sing 2	Jimmy Crystal

Films (Live action, Italian dub)

Year	Title	Role	Original actor	Ref
2004	Bad Education	Enrique Goded	Fele Martínez
	Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events	Lemony Snicket	Jude Law
2005	Edmond	Edmond Burke's cellmate	Bokeem Woodbine
2006	Candy	Dan	Heath Ledger
	The Black Dahlia	Dwight "Bucky" Bleichert	Josh Hartnett
	The Stone Merchant	Alceo	Jordi Mollà
2007	Goodbye Bafana	James Gregory	Joseph Fiennes
	I'm Not There	Robbie Clark	Heath Ledger
2008	Definitely, Maybe	Will Hayes	Ryan Reynolds
	10,000 BC	D'Leh	Steven Strait
	The Dark Knight	The Joker	Heath Ledger
	Miracle at St. Anna	Hector Negron	Laz Alonso
	Australia	The Drover	Hugh Jackman
2009	Star Trek	Captain Nero	Eric Bana
	Whatever Works	Randy Lee James	Henry Cavill
	Couples Retreat	Salvadore	Carlos Ponce
	Avatar	Tsu'tey	Laz Alonso
2010	Date Night	Tom "Taste" Felton / Tripplehorn	James Franco
	The Fighter	Dicky Eklund	Christian Bale
2011	Midnight in Paris	Ernest Hemingway	Corey Stoll
	Green Lantern	Hal Jordan / Green Lantern	Ryan Reynolds
2012	On the Road	Dean Moriarty	Garrett Hedlund
	Lawless	Forrest Bondurant	Tom Hardy
	The Master	Freddie Quell	Joaquin Phoenix
2013	The Counselor	Westray	Brad Pitt
2014	Exodus: Gods and Kings	Moses	Christian Bale
2015	Fathers and Daughters	Cameron	Aaron Paul
	The Revenant	John Fitzgerald	Tom Hardy
2017	Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Last Jedi	DJ	Benicio del Toro
2018	Mary Magdalene	Jesus Christ	Joaquin Phoenix
	Venom	Eddie Brock / Venom	Tom Hardy
2019	Hellboy	Anung Un Rama / Hellboy	David Harbour
	Joker	Arthur Fleck / Joker	Joaquin Phoenix
2024	Joker: Folie à Deux

Television (Animation, Italian dub)

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref
2007	Pat & Stan	Pat	39 episodes (1st voice)

Television (Live action, Italian dub)

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Original actor	Ref
2005	Pope John Paul II	Young Karol Wojtyła	TV miniseries	Cary Elwes
2009	Sisi	Gyula Andrássy	TV miniseries	Benjamin Sadler
2010	La ladra	Dante Mistretta	TV miniseries	Johannes Brandrup
2014–present	True Detective	Rust Cohle	Main cast	Matthew McConaughey

Dubbers

• Carlos Alazraqui in Kiss Me Again

References

1. "Adriano Giannini's voice acting and dubbing contributions". Il mondo dei doppiatori, antoniogenna.net (in Italian). Retrieved 18 December 2019.
2. "Adriano Giannini". MYmovies. Retrieved 11 February 2020.
3. "Travolti dal testino". Il mondo dei doppiatori, antoniogenna.net.; "Barridos Por La Marea". eldoblaje.com.
4. "Il Joker di Joaquin Phoenix sarà doppiato da Adriano Giannini?" (in Italian). badtaste.it. 28 August 2019. Retrieved 11 February 2020.
5. "ADRIANO GIANNINI e il DOPPIAGGIO (2012) | enciclopediadeldoppiaggio.it". 7 November 2012. Retrieved 3 July 2024– via YouTube.
6. "Gaia Trussardi ha sposato Adriano Giannini: non c'erano alle nozze Michelle e Tomaso" (in Italian). 8 August 2019. Retrieved 9 January 2021.
7. In the Italian dub of the film, Giannini was replaced by Francesco Vairano.

External links

Media related to Adriano Giannini at Wikimedia Commons

• Adriano Giannini at IMDb  
• Adriano Giannini at AllMovie
• Adriano Giannini at Behind The Voice Actors