Abatantuono was born in Milan to a father of Apulian origin and a mother from Como. The latter worked as wardrober in a Milanese jazz and later cabaret club, Derby, whose owner was Abatantuono's uncle. He started to work at Derby first in lighting, then as artistic director and later as an actor.

Фільмографія

• 2026Il malloppo — Diego Viani
• 2026Un tranquillo funerale di famiglia
• 2025Life Is Life — Giacomo
• 2025Make a Wish — Ettore, Screenplay
• 2025Mrs. Christmas — Guru
• 2025Un milanese a Milano - Walter Valdi — Sé stesso
• 2024Mostruosamente Villaggio — Sé stesso
• 2024The Last Week of September — Pietro Rinaldi
• Amazing - Fabio de Luigi
• GialappaShow
• 2023Improvvisamente a Natale mi sposo — Lorenzo
• 2022Il mammone — Piero Bonelli
• 2022Improvised Christmas — Lorenzo
• 2022Steno — Sé stesso
• Dinner Club — Diego Abatantuono
• 2021Doctor on Call — Pierfrancesco Mai
• 2021Pupi Avati, la tavola racconta
• Ridatemi mia moglie — Renato
• 2020La mia banda suona il pop — Franco Masiero
• 2020When Mom Is Away... With the Family — Babbo Natale
• 2019Compromessi sposi — Diego
• 2019Volare — Mario
• 2018My Beloved Enemy — Enzo Stefanelli, Screenplay
• 2018My Big Gay Italian Wedding — Roberto
• 2017Mister Happiness — Guglielmo Gioia
• 2016I babysitter — Gianni Porini
• 2016The Strongest Weapon — Luigi Freddi (voice)
• 2015Belli di papà — Vincenzo Liuzzi
• 2014L'assalto — Giancarlo
• 2014Soap Opera — Gaetano
• 2014Well-Off People — Patrizio Azzesi
• 2013Indovina chi viene a Natale? — Giulio Sereni
• 2012Area paradiso — Furio, Screenplay, Director
• 2012Buona giornata — Romeo Telleschi
• 2012The Worst Christmas of My Life — Alberto
• 2012Ti stimo fratello
• 2011Things from Another World — Mariso Golfetto
• 2010Happy Family — Marta's Father
• 2009The Friends at the Margherita Café — Al
• 2009The New Monsters Today
• 20072061 - Un anno eccezionale — Professor Maroncelli, Screenplay
• 2007A Dinner for Them to Meet — Sandro
• Buona la prima! — Suggeritore
• 2007L'abbuffata — Neri
• 2006Eccezzziunale... veramente - Capitolo secondo... me — Donato Cavallo / Franco Alfano / Felice 'Tirzan', Writer
• 2006Fiorello & Baldini Visti da dietro
• Il giudice Mastrangelo — Diego Mastrangelo
• Sensualità a corte — Stefano
• 2004Christmas Rematch — Franco Mattioli
• Colorado — Presentatore, Conduttore, Creator
• 2003I'm Not Scared — Sergio
• 2002Amnèsia — Sandro
• 2001Momo — Mastro Hora (voice)
• 2001Our Tropical Island — Alberto Brogini
• 2001Unfair Competition — Umberto Melchiorri
• 2000Metronotte
• Chi ha incastrato Peter Pan? — Ospite
• 1999Tifosi — Vito 'Zebrone' La Monica
• 1998Children of Hannibal — Tommaso, Story, Screenplay
• Comici
• 1998Marriages — Paolo
• 1998Paparazzi — Ugo "King" Conti
• 1997Camere da letto — Dario
• 1997In barca a vela contromano — Screenplay
• 1997Nirvana — Solo
• 1997The Best Man — Angelo Beliossi
• 1996Il barbiere di Rio — Matteo
• 1995Camerieri — Mario Tangaro
• 1995Viva San Isidro! — Padre Pedro
• 1994Il toro — Franco Montagner
• 1993Here Comes the Storm — Damiano Fortezza
• 1993On the Dark Continent — Fulvio Colombo
• 1993Per amore, solo per amore — Joseph
• 1992Puerto Escondido — Mario Tozzi, Screenplay
• Scherzi a parte — Conduttore
• Il commissario Corso — commissario Bruno Corso
• 1991Mediterraneo — Sgt. Nicola Lo Russo
• 1990Christmas Vacation '90 — Nick
• 1990Turné — Dario Nigri
• 1989La moglie ingenua e il marito malato — L'inquirente
• 1989Marrakech Express — Ponchia
• Eurocops — Commissario Bruno Corso
• 1988I cammelli — Camillo
• 1988Strana la vita — Dario
• The Secret of the Sahara — Orso
• 1987A Boy from Calabria — Nicola Sileca
• 1987Kamikazen (Ultima notte a Milano) — Man at the racecourse (uncredited)
• 1987The Last Minute — Duccio Venturi
• 1986Christmas Present — Franco Mattioli
• 1983Arrivano i miei — Julio Navarro
• 1983The Boss of the District — Domingo Ras, Screenplay
• 1982An Ideal Adventure — Duccio
• 1982Attila Scourge of God — Aldarico/Attila
• Che fai... ridi?
• 1982Eccezzziunale... veramente — Donato Cavallo/Franco Alfano/Felice "Tirzan", Story, Screenplay
• 1982Grand Hotel Excelsior — Il mago di Segrate
• 1982Unfaithfully Yours — Piero
• 1982Viuuulentemente mia — Achille Cotone
• 1981I Carabbinieri — Brigadiere Esposito
• 1981I Fichissimi — Felice
• Telepatria international ovvero niente paura siamo italiani — Se stesso
• 1981The Tango of Jealousy — Diego
• 1980Arrivano i gatti — Felice
• 1980Fantozzi Against the Wind — Cecco, il nipote del fornaio
• 1980Il resto del Pap'occhio — Don Gabriele
• 1980In the Pope's Eye — Don Gabriele
• 1980Lend Me Your Wife — Uomo dell'Enel
• 1980Prickly Pears — Capo delle "Belve"
• 1980Una vacanza bestiale — Galeazzo
• 1978Saxofone — The chatty Guest at the restaurant
• 1976Young, Violent, Dangerous — Lucio
• Poco a poco — agente De Rosa

Ток-шоу, премії та інші появи (9)

• 2024C'era una volta il Derby Club — Himself
• 2023Amazing - Fabio de Luigi — Himself
• 2023Enzo Jannacci - Vengo anch'io — Self
• LOL: Chi ride è fuori — Self
• 2021We Are Cinema — Self (archive footage)
• 2019Carlo Vanzina - Il cinema è una cosa meravigliosa — Self
• 2012Gli Squallor — Self
• 2002Il mondo alla rovescia: appunti sul cabaret milanese — Self
• Sanremo Music Festival — Self - Special Guest