Edoardo Leo
Birthday: Born in 1972-04-21 in Rome, Italy
Deathday: Alive
Edoardo Leo (born 21 April 1972) is an Italian actor, director and screenwriter. Born in Rome, Leo, a graduate in Literature and Philosophy from the Sapienza University of Rome, started attending acting courses at young age and made his professional debut in 1995, in the TV-movie La luna rubata. He had his breakout in 2003, with the role of Marcello in the TV-series Un medico in famiglia. In 2009, Leo debuted as screenwriter and director with the road movie 18 Years Later, which got him some awards at several international film festivals, a nomination at David di Donatello for Best New Director and a nomination for a Nastro d'Argento in the same category. In 2014 he received the Nino Manfredi Prize at the Silver Ribbon Awards. His 2015 film The Legendary Giulia and Other Miracles won the David di Donatello of the Youth and the Nastro d'Argento for best comedy film.
TV Credits
Titanic: Blood and Steel
Character: Andrea Valle
Belfast, 1909. The Harland and Wolff shipyard has been handed the greatest project in its history. It will build a great, unsinkable ship. And it will be called the RMS Titanic....
Stasera c’è Cattelan su Raidue
Character: Edoardo Leo
A Late Show with a strong identity that bears the name of Alessandro Cattelan: surprising interviews, monologues, music and guests who face all the challenges, even the most unlikely, but without ever taking themselves seriously....
Crimini
Character: Luca
Anthology crime series penned by some of the foremost contemporary Italian noir writers (Camilleri, Faletti, De Cataldo, Carofiglio, Lucarelli, Fois...)...
Romanzo criminale
Character: Nembo Kid
Follows a criminal gang in Rome that has a near monopoly of the city's heroin trade. Besides their internal feuding, the gang has to deal with the Camorra and Sicilian Mafia that both supply its heroin, the police led by Commissioner Scialoja and the Italian secret services....
Dov'è mia figlia
Character: Marco Valle
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Caterina e le sue figlie
Character:
Caterina e le sue figlie is an Italian television series that aired from December 4, 2005 to March 3, 2010 on Canale 5. The comedy series follows single mother Catherine as she tries to balance raising three daughters alone and dating....
Don Matteo
Character: Franco Rodati
Don Matteo is a thoroughly ordinary Catholic priest with an extraordinary ability to read people and solve crimes. He’s a parish priest who never met an unjustly accused person he didn’t want to help....
I Cesaroni
Character: Stefano
I Cesaroni is an Italian television series produced since 2006 by Publispei and Mediaset RTI. The series is transmitted not only in Italy but also in Portugal, in the Czech Republic, Greece and Turkey. It is inspired by the Spanish series "Los Serrano". In Italy, the series is now in its fifth season and has been renewed for a sixth season....
Festival di Sanremo
Character: Self - Special Guest
The Sanremo Music Festival is the most popular Italian song contest and awards, held annually in the town of Sanremo, Imperia, Italy, and consisting of a competition amongst previously unreleased songs. The Festival was the inspiration for the Eurovision Song Contest....
Ognuno è perfetto
Character: Ivan De Simone
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Lo zio d'America
Character: Fabio #2
Lo zio d'America is an Italian television series....
Il clandestino
Character:
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L'avvocato Porta
Character: Vincenzo
L'avvocato Porta is an Italian television series....
Ho sposato un calciatore
Character: Vito Palma
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Baciati dall'Amore
Character: Stefano
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Stanotte a...
Character: Se stesso
« For over twenty years we have filmed at night in the most important museums in the world. It's the only possible time to film the empty halls or the precious artifacts out of the windows because there are no visitors. But at night the Museum changes face. Just you in front of the masterpieces in the silence. The Museum seems to show and offer you its treasures in an atmosphere of intimacy. I always wanted to transmit and give this atmosphere that I breathed to viewers. » (Alberto Angela)...
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Still Time
Character: Dante
Dante accidentally kisses Alice and they get engaged. After a surprise party for his 40th birthday, he wakes up a year later, not remembering what happened. Not only does he discover that Alice is pregnant... He feels time is passing too quickly and he starts forgetting some of the most important moments of his life....
The Desired War
Character: Tom
A diplomatic incident threatens to break out a war inside Europe that only an unlikely couple of bickering lovers seems able to stop....
La collezione invisibile
Character: Mario
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Luigi Proietti detto Gigi
Character: Self
Documentary about the film and theater career of the roman actor, Gigi Proietti, who passed away on 2 November 2020...
Ari-Cassamortari
Character: Giuseppe Pasti
After the Arcangelo affair, the Pasti brothers, together with an eccentric half-sister they didn't know they had, have made a name for themselves as "gravediggers of VIPs" and are vying for a coveted category award never won before, the Vespillone D'oro. But the evaluation commission finds a gigantic hole in the company's books, which threatens to exclude them from the race for the award. But how is this possible? The answer is in Matteo Pasti's confession: he "borrowed" large sums from company ...
The Move of the Penguin
Character: Bruno
Two temp workers, a pensioner and an old bully discover the sport of curling by chance and, convinced of their potential, plan to compete at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin....
The Order of Time
Character: Enrico
A group of friends gathers for a birthday by the sea, only to face the looming possibility of the world ending within hours, transforming one fleeting, endless night into a life-altering experience....
I migliori giorni
Character: Alessandro (segment "La vigilia")
A quartet of stories unfold across four holidays as family members, friends and colleagues face hard decisions, career setbacks and life-changing events....
I peggiori giorni
Character: Alessandro (segment "Natale")
Four episodes – Christmas, May 1st (Labour Day), August 15th (Ferragosto), Halloween – to tell four stories that delve into the human soul....
We Are Cinema
Character: Self (archive footage)
An Italian documentary about Italian cinema....
Mia
Character: Sergio
The story of a small, simple and happy family in which a boy, a manipulator, violently enters, which distorts the life of this wonderful fifteen-year-old and makes her a nightmare....
If I May - Chapter II
Character:
Over the course of a day, Fausto, invincible in his inertia, watches a paradoxical procession of visitors pass by: the mellifluous parish priest of the town; a mysterious man with his absurd ghost-themed business idea; the captain of the Carabinieri who proposes a shotgun wedding to his daughter, who has become pregnant by a stranger. Finally, late at night, a couple of thieves enter the house with Barbara's complicity. Fausto surprises them, impassive and bored as always, and reassures them: th...
CrazyMinded
Character: Piero
How much do we really know about ourselves when we make a decision? What if there are multiple versions of our I within us, each with something to say?...
I Can Quit Whenever I Want 3: Ad Honorem
Character: Pietro Zinni
Has been an year since Pietro Zinni's gang got caught in the Sopox production laboratory and each of them locked up in different jails. From Regina Coeli jail, Pietro keep warning the authorities a fool syntetized nerve gas and he is ready to make a killing, but no one takes him seriously....
I Can Quit Whenever I Want 2: Masterclass
Character: Pietro Zinni
Pietro Zinni is asked by the police to revive the old gang to create a task force that will stop the spread of smart drugs....
What’s the Big Deal
Character: Claudio
A young man challenges the web to offer money for a sex tape of him and his girlfriend to finance his work and finally be able to afford having a child. Is it really wrong to sell our own intimacy in order to be able to afford making our dreams come true?...
Perfect Strangers
Character: Cosimo
During a dinner, a group of friends decide to share whatever message or phone call they will receive during the evening, with unforeseen consequences....
Them Who?
Character: David
David loses his white collar job, his fiancée and his house after one night with con man Marcello. He tracks him down to exact revenge, but ends up becoming his disciple in order to win back everything....
The Legendary Giulia and Other Miracles
Character: Fausto
Five down-on-their luck strangers meet by chance while looking at a property in the country none of them are able to afford. They decide to join forces and risk everything to turn it into a B&B, only for the local mafia to show up demanding their "fair" share....
Pane e burlesque
Character: Vincenzo
A group of burlesque dancers arrives in a little town....
Ti ricordi di me?
Character: Roberto Marino
Sharing the same psychologist, kleptomaniac Roberto, who writes stories a bit too realistic and scary for kids, and a narcoleptic Beatrice, who documents everything in her life, begin to think that love could be the cure for their problems. But nothing comes easy to either of them, and, just like in one of Roberto's stories, the happy ending really needs to be sought after. Will they find their own?...
I Can Quit Whenever I Want
Character: Pietro Zinni
A university researcher is fired because of the cuts to university. To earn a living he decides to produce drugs recruiting his former colleagues, who despite their skills are living at the margins of society....
Tutta colpa di Freud
Character: Roberto
Francesco is a psychoanalyst grappling with three hopeless causes: a bookseller in love with a book thief, a lesbian hell-bent on becoming straight after a heartbreak, and an 18-year-old in a relationship with a much older married man. Unfortunately, these patients are also his three beloved daughters!...
Out of the Blue
Character: Paolo
Andrea is a handsome and cocky 38-year old man with a successful business career. Shallow, womanizing and a confirmed bachelor, his life seems to be just perfect... until the day he comes home and finds there Layla, a teenage girl who claims to be his daughter. Alongside Layla is her grandfather Enzo, a former rockstar and the father of Andrea's first fleeting and forgotten conquest. And they've come to stay!...
Viva l'Italia
Character: Marco
The story of a leading political man, suddenly telling “all the truth” after a serious illness and therefore overwhelming lifes of anyone surrounding him…...
18 Years Later
Character: Mirko
Mirko and Genziano are two 35-year-old brothers who have not seen each other since their mother died in a freak accident in which they were involved—eighteen years ago. Since then, Genziano left to live in the UK and now is a stockbroker; Mirko instead remained in Rome, to stay with their father Marcello, working at the same run-down family shop. When Marcello dies, he leaves a task for the two brothers in his will: he asks them to take, on an old restored roadster, his ashes to the grave of his...
L'Anno Mille
Character: Commander
In a story that follows some lives and their respective reincarnations over time, Valerio is a prince in the year one thousand and a doctor of the S.e.r.t. in the year two thousand. Altea on the other hand is a princess, who after a thousand years was reincarnated as a university student who volunteers as a mission and it also operates in the same S.e.r.t.. Their antagonist, in the past as in the present, is a man who was an alchemist and who today is the evil director of the same hospital where...
Grazie di tutto
Character: Marzio
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Motori Ruggenti
Character: Self
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Escort in Love
Character: Uomo Al bar
35-year-old Alice has a husband and a son. Her life seems a beautiful dream, but it soon turns out to be a nightmare. Her husband dies in a car accident and her lawyer tells her that she is on her uppers. The only way she has to earn money in a short time is by resorting to the oldest job in history....
To Rome with Love
Character: Reporter at Barbershop
Four tales unfold in the Eternal City: While vacationing in Rome, architect John encounters a young man whose romantic woes remind him of a painful incident from his own youth; retired opera director Jerry discovers a mortician with an amazing voice, and he seizes the opportunity to rejuvenate his own flagging career; a young couple have separate romantic interludes; a spotlight shines on an ordinary man....
La classe non è acqua
Character: Marco Talenti
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Just Believe
Character: Massimo Alberti
The owner of a dilapidated B&B has an idea: in order to dodge bankruptcy, he has to turn his business into a place of worship—a tax-free activity, where he'll host pilgrims in exchange for a generous donation. He joins forces with an unscrupulous accountant and a failed novelist to come up with his new religion....
Dentro la città
Character: Lorenzo Corsi
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All You Need is Crime
Character: Renatino
In the present day, three friends to make ends meet invent a "criminal tour" for the places which were scenes of the Banda della Magliana criminal acts, even with vintage clothes. Suddenly they are catapulted in the 1982, during the Spain World Cup, facing the real Banda della Magliana, which at that time had the control over illegal bets....
Scrivilo sui muri
Character: Fidanzato madre Bronks
Sole, an university student bored of her daily routine, meets graffiti artists Pierpaolo and Alex and her life changes until she falls in love with one of them....
Ci vediamo a casa
Character: Franco
Three different couples are looking for a house to live....
Ritorno al crimine
Character: Renatino
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Golden Men
Character: Il Lupo
A group of desperate men, unsatisfied by their lives, decides to attempt a heist to a postal armored truck guard....
The Goddess of Fortune
Character: Alessandro
Alessandro and Arturo have been together for over 15 years and, despite the feeling they still have for each other, their relationship is now at crisis. When Alessandro’s best friend, out of the blue, asks them to take care of her two kids for a few days, something changes in their daily routine and love will drive them to a crazy and unexpected turn in their life....
18 Presents
Character: Alessio
Elisa is only forty when an incurable disease takes her from her husband and their daughter. Before her heart stops, Elisa finds a way to stay close to her: a gift for every birthday up to her adult age, 18 gifts to try to accompany her child's growth year after year....
La banda
Character: Edoardo "Dado" Diotallevi
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Il signore della truffa
Character:
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People of Rome
Character: Michele
Rome 2003, the camera follows citizens of Rome. Night, in a flat, a woman prepares her husband's lunch. The man takes a bus, but the camera follow another bus ... a woman cleans the mayor's office... A man interviews passengers on a bus about immigration...... the owner of a bar is racist person... a survivor woman of Holocaust remembers the Ghetto deportation... deportation that is filmed by a director... Stefania Sandrelli plays with her grand daughter in a park a man tries to seduce the bus d...
Taxi Lovers
Character: Massimo
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Blindati
Character: Maggiore Lidiano Cruciano
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Operazione Odissea
Character: Vincenzo Marano/Achille
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I cassamortari
Character: Giuseppe Pasti
In Rome, the Cassamortari are people who work in the funeral business. The Pasti family's agency was founded by Giuseppe, who is willing to do anything to turn a corpse into money, preferably in black....
Breaking Up in Rome
Character: Tommaso
Aspiring writer Tommaso makes a living by penning the self-help column of a women's magazine. One day he receives a letter from a reader asking for advice on how to break up with her man: it is none other than Zoe, his partner of ten years, unaware of his pseudonymous side job. Tommaso can't believe his eyes and answers her in private to learn more....
All in That Night
Character: Davide, vicino di casa di Marco
Giorgio, married to Daniela, would like to take his beautiful lover Gloria somewhere to spend the night. So he asks his brother-in-law Marco, who is leaving for a week in New York with his wife Lucia, to lend him the house. Although Marco is a little hesitant, he eventually agrees. After a romantic dinner, Giorgio goes to Marco's house with Gloria to spend a night of sex. But the couple did not take into account Enzo, the boyfriend of Ilenia, the cleaning lady of that house, who, being up to his...
Power of Rome
Character: Se stesso
In this fascinating documentary, journey through the wonders of the Eternal City, an open-air theatre where the history of the world was staged....
C’era una volta il crimine
Character: Renatino
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I Am Not What I Am - The Tragedy of Othello by W. Shakespeare
Character: Iago
Shakespeare’s Othello is revisited exactly as it was written, brought into the present through the power of dialect alone. Iago, Othello, and Desdemona are regrettably still among us, in contemporary events told through a great classic. Set in the early 2000s, it is a timeless story where good and evil intertwine in a maelstrom of deceit, betrayal and mad jealousy....
Uno, nessuno, cento Nino
Character: Self
A documentary about beloved Italian actor Nino Manfredi....
All Star - Ritorno al cinema
Character: Uomo in fila
A short movie about coming back to the cinema after lockdowns....
Io sono un po' matto... e tu?
Character:
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Oltre il tempo, l'amore
Character:
The encounter between physics and cinema and the terribly topical subject of the end of the world turned the set of Liliana Cavani's The order of time into a kind of Noah's Ark, where cast and crew isolated themselves for five weeks. Flooded by the climate emergency, wars, and the dystopian future, while Cavani holds the helm of the ship and Carlo Rovelli explains the end of time, the film's meteorite becomes in the documentary a metaphor for what happens in the protagonists' real lives....
I Cesaroni
Character: Stefano
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