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GIFFONI EXPERIENCE 2016 - 15.24 July

CLAUDIO SANTAMARIA

JULY 23th

BIOGRAPHY

Claudio Santamaria is one of the most popular Italian actors of recent years. He started acting while he was in his teens: after working as a voice actor he made his stage debut with La nostra città by Stefano Molinari. In 1997 he made his silver screen debut in Fuochi d’artificio by Leonardo Pieraccioni. He then went on to play more relevant roles in Gabriele Muccino's Ecco fatto, L’ultimo capodanno by Marco Risi and L’assedio by maestro Bernardo Bertolucci. 

He is a versatile actor showing his ability in very diverse roles ranging from comedy, drama and Thrillers. His big break came with Ma quando arrivano le ragazze? by Pupi Avati and then Romanzo Criminale directed by Michele Placido.

He became a household name thanks to his interpretation of Rino Gaetano in the TV film produced by Claudia Mori. Santamaria stars as the main character in Italian box office success Lo chiamavano Jeeg Robot/They Call Him Jeeg which won him a David di Donatello award for best actor in a leading role.

  • Filmography:

    CINEMA
    Fuochi d’artificio, by Leonardo Pieraccioni (1997)
    L’ultimo capodanno, by Marco Risi (1998)
    L’assedio, by Bernardo Bertolucci (1998)
    Ecco fatto, by Gabriele Muccino (1998)
    The building, by Nicola Barnaba (1999)
    Terra del fuoco, by Miguel Littin (2000)
    Almost Blue, by Alex Infascelli (2000)
    L’ultimo bacio, by Gabriele Muccino (2000)
    La stanza del figlio, by Nanni Moretti (2001)
    Amarsi può darsi, by Alberto Taraglio (2001)
    Paz!, by Renato De Maria (2002)
    La vita come viene, by Stefano Incerti (2002)
    Passato prossimo, by Maria Sole Tognazzi (2003)
    Il posto dell’anima, by Riccardo Milani (2003)
    Il Cartaio, by Dario Argento (2004)
    Agata e la tempesta, by Silvio Soldini (2004)
    Ma quando arrivano le ragazze?, by Pupi Avati (2005)
    Romanzo criminale, by Michele Placido (2005)
    Melissa P., by Luca Guadagnino (2005)
    Apnea, by Roberto Dordit (2006)
    Casino Royale, by Martin Campbell (2006)
    Fine pena mai, by Davide Barletti and Lorenzo Conte (2007)
    Aspettando il sole, by Ago Panini (2008)
    La terra degli uomini rossi, by Marco Bechis (2008)
    Il caso dell’infedele Klara, by Roberto Faenza (2009)
    Baciami ancora, by Gabriele Muccino (2010)
    600 kilos d’or pur, by Eric Besnard (2010)
    Gli sfiorati, by Matteo Rovere (2011)
    Terraferma, by Emanuele Crialese (2011)
    I primi della lista, by Roan Johnson (2011)
    Diaz, by Daniele Vicari (2012)
    Pauline detective, by Marc Fitoussi (2012)
    Torneranno i prati, by Ermanno Olmi (2014)
    Il venditore di medicine, by Antonio Morabito (2014)
    Lo chiamavano Jeeg Robot, by Gabriele Mainetti (2016)

    SHORTS
    Dead Train, by Davide Marengo (1997)
    Appuntamento al buio, by Herbert Simone Paragnani (2002)
    Rosso, by Claudio Santamaria (2003)
    Il quarto sesso,by Marco Costa (2006)
    È stata lei, by Francesca Archibugi (2013)

    TV
    La vita che verrà, by Pasquale Pozzessere (1998)
    Ama il tuo nemico, by Damiano Damiani (1999)
    Il sequestro Soffiantini, by Riccardo Milani (2001)
    Rino Gaetano - Ma il cielo è sempre più blu, by Marco Turco
    Le cose che restano, by Gianluca Maria Tavarelli (2010)
    Non è mai troppo tardi, by Giacomo Campiotti (2014)
    È arrivata la felicità, by Riccardo Milani and Francesco Vicario (2015 - present)

    THEATRE
    La notte poco prima della foresta, by Juan Diego Puerta Lopez (2010)
    Occidente solitario, by Jean Diego Puerta Lopez (2011)
    Gospodin, by Giorgio Barberio Corsetti (2014-2015)

    VOICE ACTING
    Eric Bana in Munich
    Christian Bale in Batman Begins, The Black Knight
    Will Arnett in The Lego Movie

    AUDIOBOOKS
    La camera azzurra, by Georges Simenon (2010)
    Uomini che odiano le donne, by Stieg Larsson (2010)
    La ragazza che giocava con il fuoco, by Stieg Larsson (2010)
    La regina dei castelli di carta, by Stieg Larsson (2011)
    Il grande Gatsby, by Francis Scott Fitzgerald (2011)
    Le più belle fiabe dei fratelli Grimm (2012)
    Il piccolo libraio di Achangelsk, by Georges Simenon (2013)
    Limonov, by Emmanuel Carrere (2015)