1. Giancarlo Giannini won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor for his performance in Love and Anarchy and received an Academy Award nomination for Seven Beauties.
21 Facts About Giancarlo Giannini
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Giancarlo Giannini is a four-time recipient of the David di Donatello Award for Best Actor.
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Giancarlo Giannini rose to international stardom through Wertmuller's The Seduction of Mimi, Love and Anarchy, Swept Away, culminating in his Oscar-nominated turn in Seven Beauties.
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Giancarlo Giannini is a dubbing artist, contributing voice work to the Italian-language versions of dozens of films since the 1960s.
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Giancarlo Giannini has been the official Italian dubber of Al Pacino since 1975, and has dubbed Jack Nicholson, Michael Douglas, and Helmut Berger.
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Giancarlo Giannini was born in La Spezia and he spent most of his childhood in the settlement of Pitelli.
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Giancarlo Giannini made his stage debut at the age of 18, opposite Lilla Brignone in In memoria di una signora amica, directed by Giuseppe Patroni Griffi.
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Giancarlo Giannini's breakthrough came when he was cast by Franco Zeffirelli in a production of Romeo and Juliet which played at The Old Vic.
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Giancarlo Giannini made his film debut in a small part in I criminali della metropoli in 1965.
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Giancarlo Giannini appeared in supporting roles in Anzio and The Secret of Santa Vittoria, and starred in the original version of Swept Away.
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Giancarlo Giannini won a Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor for his performance in Love and Anarchy.
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Giancarlo Giannini is known for his starring roles in films directed by Lina Wertmuller.
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Giancarlo Giannini played Alberto Aragon in A Walk in the Clouds in 1995, and Emperor Shaddam IV in the 2000 Dune miniseries.
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Giancarlo Giannini later portrayed French agent Rene Mathis in the James Bond films Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace.
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In 2009, Giancarlo Giannini received a star on the Italian Walk of Fame in Toronto, Canada.
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Giancarlo Giannini has had a successful career as a voice actor and dubber.
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Giancarlo Giannini is the official Italian voice dubber of Al Pacino.
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Giancarlo Giannini dubbed Jack Nicholson's voice as Jack Torrance in the Italian release of The Shining and the Joker in Batman and Michael Douglas as Gordon Gekko in Wall Street and the 2010 sequel as well as dubbing other actors such as Dustin Hoffman, Gerard Depardieu, Ryan O'Neal, Jeremy Irons, Mel Gibson, Tim Allen, Leonard Whiting and Ian McKellen in some of their work.
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Giancarlo Giannini provided the Italian voice of Raul Menendez in the Call of Duty game franchise.
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Giancarlo Giannini collaborated with Gabriella Greison on his memoir Sono ancora un bambino which was published by Longanesi in 2014.
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From 1967 until 1975, Giancarlo Giannini was married to actress Livia Giampalmo and they had two children.