Pierfrancesco Favino
Acting · Directing
Born August 24, 1969, Rome, Italy
Favino was born in Rome, Italy. He has appeared in more than forty European films and television series' since the early 1990s, including Gabriele Muccino's The Last Kiss, Gianni Amelio's The Keys to the House, Giuseppe Tornatore's The Unknown Woman and Ferzan Özpetek's Saturn in Opposition. In 1999 he starred in the HBO film Excellent Cadavers, adaptation of Alexander Stille's novel of the same name. He received the David di Donatelloaward - Italian equivalent of the Oscar - in 2006 for his role in the crime film Romanzo Criminale, directed by Michele Placido.
Filmography
- 2026God Laughs — Frate Leopoldo da Casamacchia
- 2026Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Opening Ceremony: Harmony
- 2026People, Places & Things — Director
- 2025Enzo — Paolo
- 2025My Tennis Maestro — Raul Gatti
- 2024Maria — Ferruccio
- 2024Naples to New York — Domenico Garofalo
- 2024The Count of Monte Cristo — Abbé Faria
- 2023Adagio — Cammello
- Call My Agent: Italy
- GialappaShow
- 2023Last Night of Amore — Franco Amore
- 2023The Commander — Salvatore Todaro
- 2022Nostalgia — Felice Lasco
- 2022Run to You — Gianni
- Stasera c’è Cattelan su Raidue — Pierfrancesco Favino
- 2022The Hummingbird — Marco Carrera
- 2021All Star - Ritorno al cinema — Maschera
- Dinner Club — Pierfrancesco Favino
- 2021Er Collera Moribbus - Conversazione all'Osteria di Piazza della Gensola — Narratore
- 2021Promises — Alexander
- 2020Hammamet — Bettino Craxi
- 2020Our Father — Alfonso Le Rose, Producer
- 2020The Best Years — Giulio Ristuccia
- 2020The Boat Show 2020: Riva in the Movie — se stesso
- 2020Tutti per 1 - 1 per tutti — d'Artagnan
- 2019The Traitor — Tommaso Buscetta
- 2018The Catcher Was a Spy — Martinuzzi
- 2018The King's Musketeers — D'Artagnan
- 2018There's No Place Like Home — Carlo
- 2017Chi m'ha visto — Peppino
- 2017Husband & Wife — Andrea
- 2017My Cousin Rachel — Rinaldi
- 2016The Confessions — Ministro italiano
- 2015A Mother — Pierre
- 2015Suburra — Filippo Malgradi
- Qualunque cosa succeda — Giorgio Ambrosoli
- 2014Senza nessuna pietà — Mimmo, Producer
- 2013Lino Micciché, mio padre - Una visione del mondo — Narrator
- 2013Rush — Clay Regazzoni
- 2013Secchi — Narratore
- 2013World War Z — W.H.O. Doctor
- 2012A Flat for Three — Fulvio Brignola
- 2012A.C.A.B. - All Cops Are Bastards — Cobra
- 2012Garibaldi's Lovers — Giuseppe Garibaldi (voice)
- 2012Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy — Giuseppe Pinelli
- 2011General della Rovere — Bertone
- 2011La vita facile — Luca
- 2011The Entrepreneur — Nicola
- 2010Come Undone — Domenico
- 2010Kiss Me Again — Marco
- 2010Unlikely Revolutionaries — Pepe
- 2009Angels & Demons — Inspector Olivetti
- 2009Pane e libertà — Giuseppe 'Peppino' Di Vittorio
- Pane e libertà — Giuseppe 'Peppino' Di Vittorio
- 2008Miracle at St. Anna — Peppi 'The Great Butterfly' Grotta
- 2008The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian — Lord Glozell
- 2008The Man Who Loves — Roberto
- 2007Saturn in Opposition — Davide
- 2006Bartali: The Iron Man — Gino Bartali
- Bartali: The Iron Man — Gino Bartali
- 2006Night at the Museum — Christopher Columbus
- 2006The Unknown Woman — Donato Adacher
- 2005Amatemi — Claudio
- 2005Crime Novel — Libano
- Sensualità a corte — Pierfrancesco Favino
- 2005Sorry, You Can't Get Through! — Piero
- 2004Our Italian Husband — Vincenzo Scocozza
- 2004The Keys to the House — Alberto
- 2003Al cuore si comanda — Riccardo
- 2003Ferrari — Filippo
- Ferrari — Filippo
- 2003Gli insoliti ignoti — Commissario Piero Cucciolla
- 2003Ladri ma non troppo — Commissario Piero Cucciolla
- 2003Past Perfect — Filippo
- 2002Da zero a dieci — Biccio
- 2002El Alamein: The Line of Fire — Serg. Rizzo
- 2002Emma sono io — Carlo
- 2001Judas: Close to Jesus — Simone
- 2001La verità, vi prego, sull'amore — Michelangelo
- 2001The Friends of Jesus: Thomas — Simone
- 2001The Last Kiss — Marco
- 2000La carbonara — Sergente
- Padre Pio: Miracle Man — Emanuele Brunatto
- 1999Bonanno: A Godfather's Story — Felice Buccellato
- 1999Excellent Cadavers — Mario
- 1999Sweet Idleness — Rossini
- 1997In barca a vela contromano — Castrovillari
- 1997The Prince of Homburg — Sparren
- 1996Running Against — Giacomo
- 1995Pugili
- Amico mio — Giuseppe 'Beppe' Vanni
- 1993Una questione privata — Ivan
- Falcon — Sergio Marchionne
- L’équipe — Diego Prince
- Nemesi
Appearances as themselves (13)
- 2026Marco Bellocchio - La porta della realtà — Self
- 2026NBC's Milan Cortina Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony — Self
- 2024Cover Story - 20 anni di Vanity Fair — Self
- 2024Volonté: The Man of a Thousand Faces — Self
- 2022Behind the Scenes: The Traitor — Himself
- Mostra, Venise — Self
- Ligabue - È andata così — Himself
- 2021We Are Cinema — Self (archive footage)
- 2013Carlo! — Himself
- 2011Noi c'eravamo — Self
- X Factor — Self - Guest
- 2004La vita è breve ma la giornata è lunghissima — Self
- Sanremo Music Festival — Self - Special Guest, Self - Host