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Giorgio Cantarini | |
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| Born | 12 April 1992 |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1997–present |
Giorgio Cantarini (born 12 April 1992) is an Italian actor who, to date, has appeared in two Academy Award winning films: Life Is Beautiful (1997) and Gladiator (2000).
Raised in Orvieto, Italy, Giorgio Cantarini was born to Giuseppe Cantarini and Giovanna Martini. The couple separated after Giorgio's fifth birthday.
Cantarini made his film debut in the 1997 Roberto Benigni directed comedy-drama Life is Beautiful, playing Benigni's four-year-old son 'Giosuè Orefice', who is sent with his Jewish-Italian father to a German concentration camp during World War II. The film won three Academy Awards. In 1998, Cantarini was nominated alongside his Life Is Beautiful castmates for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture and the same year he won the Young Artist Award.
His second film appearance was in the 2000 Ridley Scott-directed period action/drama Gladiator. Giorgio was cast as the son of Oscar winner Russell Crowe's character 'Maximus'.
In 2001, Cantarini appeared in the Hallmark Hall of Fame American television film adaptation of author Eric Newby's autobiographical novel Love and War in the Apennines (retitled In Love and War) as 'Slavko'.
In 2005, Cantarini competed in the second season of Ballando con le Stelle , the Italian reality television version of the series Dancing With The Stars .
In January 2020, he appeared in the show "Lions don't hug" at the Hudson Guild Theater in Chelsea, New York. [1]
Cantarini currently resides in New York City, where he is studying and performing. [2]
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| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 1997 | Life Is Beautiful | Giosuè Orefice | Nominated - Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture |
| 2000 | Gladiator | Maximus's son | |
| 2000 | In Love and War | Slavko | Television film |
| 2007 | Il giorno la notte poi l'alba | Giuseppe | |
| 2008 | Il mattino ha l'oro in bocca | — | Short film |
| 2015 | Psicko Shakespeare | Amedeo Leto | Short film |
| 2015 | Dante's Project | Narrator | Direct-to-video |
| 2018 | Il dottore dei pesci | Luigi | Short film |
| 2018 | Ferrini | Bersagliere | Short film |
| 2019 | Giorno di gloria | Marcello | Short film |
| 2022 | Divine Comedy | Dante | Short film |
| 2022 | Lamborghini: The Man Behind the Legend | Giorgio Lamborghini | |
| 2023 | Comandante | Vezio Schiassi | |
| TBA | Hands Off My Granddaughters!† | Ali | Post-production |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | AUS: Adotta uno studente | Himself | Episode: "Ecco cosa succede quando sbagli coinquilina" |
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