Claudio Santamaria
Birthday: Born in 1974-07-22 in Roma, Lazio, Italy
Deathday: Alive
Claudio Santamaria is an italian actor, known for Romanzo criminale (2005) and Diaz - Don't clean up this blood (2012). In 2016 he won the David di Donatello for best leading actor for Lo chiamavano Jeeg Robot.
TV Credits
Stasera c’è Cattelan su Raidue
Character: Self
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....
L'Ora - Inchiostro contro piombo
Character: Antonio Nicastro
In October 1958, the Sicilian newspaper L’ORA coins the term “MAFIA” for the very first time to denounce the endemic organized crime in the region. Shortly thereafter, a bomb detonates in front of the editorial offices; only two days later the daily reappears with the headline: ‘The Mafia may threaten us, our investigation continues.’ Inspired by true events, L’ORA takes place in Palermo of the late 50 ́s and early 1960s. Newly minted Editor-in-Chief with his group of fearless journalists focus ...
Christian
Character: Matteo
Christian lives in a "city-palace" where he earns his living doing dirty work for LINO, the criminal boss of neighborhood. When stigmata appear on his hands, Christian finds physically impossible to carry out his work, but also discovers he has gained mysterious healing powers to fight against Lino. But MATTEO, a mysterious Vatican postulator in search of signs and confirmations, is tracking him down bringing too close to a truth that could upset his life and that of the whole world....
Viva Radio 2
Character:
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GialappaShow
Character:
Marco Santin and Giorgio Gherarducci - supported in the studio by Mago Forest, a great cast of comedians and many surprise guests - comment with biting irony on the most popular TV programs, the main sporting events and the last web trends....
Le Cose Che Restano
Character: Andrea
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Il sequestro Soffiantini
Character: Samuele Donatoni
In 1997, a group of bandits kidnaps businessman Giuseppe Soffiantini, keeping him imprisoned for 237 days in their hideout in the mountains of Sardinia....
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....
Call My Agent - Italia
Character: Claudio Santamaria
Welcome behind the scenes of Italian show business from the point of view of those in charge of managing the careers - and lives - of the stars: the agents. Lea, Gabriele, Vittorio and Elvira are the soul of CMA and they give their souls to it, ready for anything to make their stars shine. Managers, friends, confidants and psychologists: a good agent is all that and more. And they, each with their own style, are the best. Between hectic days and mundane nights, it's their personal lives that los...
LOL: Chi ride è fuori
Character: Self
Is a comedy show where ten professional comedians face off for six hours in a row to keep a straight face, while they try to make their opponents laugh. The first time someone laughs the contestant gets warned, the second time, they get eliminated from the game. Whoever manages to resist without laughing all the way through the six hours wins EUR100,000 to turn over to the charity of their choice....
È arrivata la felicità
Character: Orlando Mieli
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Celebrity Hunted: Caccia all'uomo
Character: Self
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Movie Credits
The Son's Room
Character: Dive Shop Clerk
A psychoanalyst and his family go through profound emotional trauma when their son dies in a scuba diving accident....
Melissa P.
Character: Custode del museo
An adolescent girl, living with her mother and her grandmother, will have her first sexual experiences in a heavy and excessive way....
Kiss Me Again
Character: Paolo
A look at the lives of Carlo, Giulia, and their friends some 10 years after the events of L'Ultimo bacio....
Agatha and the Storm
Character: Nico
The story of a middle-aged bookshop owner, who becomes embroiled in a surreal swirl of romance and family secrets of infidelity, her energy levels registering in bursts of electrical interference - causing lightbulbs, traffic lights, toasters and computers to spontaneously spark and malfunction....
Casino Royale
Character: Carlos
Le Chiffre, a banker to the world's terrorists, is scheduled to participate in a high-stakes poker game in Montenegro, where he intends to use his winnings to establish his financial grip on the terrorist market. M sends Bond—on his maiden mission as a 00 Agent—to attend this game and prevent Le Chiffre from winning. With the help of Vesper Lynd and Felix Leiter, Bond enters the most important poker game in his already dangerous career....
The Case of Unfaithful Klara
Character: Luca
In Prague, a musician is consumed by jealousy for his beautiful girlfriend. He hires a private eye to spy on her, but the plan backfires......
Elf Me
Character: Ciocca / Santa Claus
A bumbling Christmas elf whose Santa's helper job is jeopardized by a complete inability in building toys teams up with a kid harassed by bullies....
Romanzo Criminale
Character: Dandi
After serving prison time for a juvenile offense, Freddo gathers his old buddies Libano and Dandi and embarks on a crime spree that makes the trio the most powerful gangsters in Rome. Libano loves their new status, and seeks to spread their influence throughout the underworld, while the other two pursue more fleshly desires. For decades, their gang perpetrates extravagant crimes, until paranoia threatens to split the friends apart....
Aspettando il sole
Character: Toni
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Apnea
Character: Paolo
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Past Perfect
Character: Andrea
A pair of summer and winter weekends intertwine in a series of flashbacks involving five friends. Their dreams and expectations overlap with memories of events that took place in the house that they are sharing, which has a particular significance for all of them....
Gym Class
Character: Franco Zucca
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In Gold We Trust
Character: Enzo
A group of adventurers make off with 600 kilograms of gold in Guyana, but when their helicopter crashes in the jungle, gold fever takes over....
The Return
Character: Eumeas
After twenty years away, Odysseus washes up on the shores of Ithaca, haggard and unrecognizable. The king has finally returned home, but much has changed in his kingdom since he left to fight in the Trojan war....
Terraferma
Character: Finanziere
A Sicilian family deals with the arrival of a group of immigrants on their island....
Ma quando arrivano le ragazze?
Character: Nick Cialfi
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Diaz - Don't Clean Up This Blood
Character: Max Flamini
On July 19–21, 2001, over 200,000 people took to the streets of Genoa to protest against the ongoing G8 summit. Anti-globalization activists clashed with the police, with 23-year-old protester Carlo Giuliani shot dead after confronting a police vehicle. In the aftermath, the police organized a night raid on the Diaz high school, where around a hundred people between unarmed protesters—mostly students—and independent reporters who documented the police brutality during the protests had took shelt...
The First on the List
Character: Pino Masi
It’s June 1st, 1970, and Pisa is the epicenter of the movement Lotta Continua. There are rumors of an imminent coup d’état, and the most visible exponents fear being arrested before dawn. One of them is Pino Masi, a singer-songwriter who wrote the hit “La ballata del Pinelli.” He invites two high school students, Renzo Lulli and Fabio Gismondi, to flee Italy with him, and the three set off. A series of misunderstandings ensues, starting with an unnerving encounter with soldiers on their way to R...
Life Sentence
Character: Antonio Perrone
A college student gets caught up in a spiral that leads him to become a real Mafia godfather....
Drifters
Character: Bruno
A man develops an attraction to the daughter of his father's fiancee....
Amarsi può darsi
Character: Davide
During their divorce trial, Davide and Giulia go back through episodes of their life together while they listen to a series of witnesses. Do they really want to go different ways?...
The Medicine Seller
Character: Bruno Donati
A farmaceutical salesman is involved in the spiral of corruption in the medical assistance of the welfare state system....
Sei come sei
Character:
Six shorts....
The Fourth Sex
Character: Jesus
Initially produced for the Surreal Sit-Com "The Fourth Sex" starring Claudio Santamaria in the role of Jesus that on the night of his 34th birthday goes to visit his new neighbors....
In the Hand of Dante
Character:
When the original manuscript of The Divine Comedy emerges in the clutches of a black-market smuggling ring in New York City's dangerous underbelly, the mob calls weary scholar Nick to authenticate it. Overwhelmed by temptation, Nick defies the mafia and steals the manuscript. As he follows a dark and violent path from a metaphorical Hell into Paradise with his love Giulietta, a parallel tale unfolds: the odyssey of Dante himself, a man who, trapped in a loveless marriage with Gemma and bolstered...
Ecco fatto
Character: Piterone
Two friends reminisce about their last days of high school, when one of them ruined his shot at young love due to his jealousy and possessiveness....
Non riattaccare
Character: Pietro
It's one of the many anonymous nights of quarantine when Irene's phone rings. It's Pietro, her ex. Irene hasn't heard him for months, since their story ended, she hesitates, but in the end she answers. Pietro is beside himself and his confused words suggest a desperate act. Irene just has to travel, to a ghostly city, without ever hanging up, with the hope of reaching him in time....
Three Touches
Character: uomo nel sogno
Several actors are members of a amateur soccer team. They followed in their preparations for a particular audition and in their personal life. With about 6 actors this delivers a broad picture of Italian life in which the question what it means to be a man is posed in the challenging circumstances of familily life, sex relationships, sport, cross gender roles and mafia....
The Card Player
Character: Carlo Sturni
Policewoman Anna Mari is forced to play a dangerous game with the title serial killer. If she loses, she witnesses the maniac's tortured victims having their throats cut in explicit close-up detail via webcam. She teams up with British cop John Brennan to find out the identity of the murderer....
Greenery Will Bloom Again
Character: Major
World War I, Italian north-eastern front after the 1917 bloody battles on the Altipiano. A group of soldiers face the difficulty of war in a story that unfolds in the space of one night. Events follow one after the other without any kind of pattern: the peaceful mountains suddenly become a place where men die. But every story told in this film is a true story....
Besieged
Character: Agostino
While in exile in Italy, an African woman finds herself trying to get back home and free her imprisoned husband. But the only man that can help her do so is in love with her....
My Summer with the Shark
Character: Antonio
School's out and 13-year-old Walter has lost his father. In his seemingly aimless wanderings around the Roman coast, a fascinating and mysterious place catches his eye: an abandoned villa with a huge, murky swimming pool. But the villa is not unguarded......
Non è mai troppo tardi
Character: Alberto Manzi
Alberto Manzi is twenty years old and wants to be a teacher. He gets the job at a juvenile correctional facility, to then get transfered to a proper school, who he deems inadequate. At that time the public broadcasting network Rai decides to realize a program to educate millions of Italians....
They Call Me Jeeg
Character: Enzo Ceccotti
Exposed to radioactive waste, small-time crook Enzo gains super-strength. A misanthropic, introverted brute, he uses his powers for personal gain until he meets Alessia, a mentally ill girl who believes Enzo is the hero from her favorite anime, Steel Jeeg....
Almost Blue
Character: Simone Martini
A police inspector suspects a serial killer is afoot in the university city of Bologna, luring in his victims through online video chats before murdering them and assuming their identity....
The War of Bumpkins
Character: Signore a cavallo
Global politics in a fairytale nutshell: the eternal struggle between the ruling elite and the underclass, condemned to ignorance....
Una terapia di gruppo
Character:
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PIIGS
Character:
PIIGS is a documentary that challenges prevalent European budgetary policies and the austerity dogma. It does so by bringing in lesser-known facts and evidence that have the effect of ridiculing prevalent European monetary policies and dominant political certainties....
Birdwatchers
Character: Roberto
Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, the present. When a young Guarani-Kaiowá woman commits suicide, Nádio leads his community to form a protest camp on the borders of a local farm that sits on their ancestral burial ground....
Ugly Nasty People
Character: Benito 'Il Papero' Miranda
A group of physically disabled lowlifes plans the the perfect heist, but things go south as each reveals an agenda of their own....
The Last Kiss
Character: Paolo
Giulia and Carlo have been happy together for three years, but Giulia's announcement that she is pregnant sends him into a secret panic. Terrified at his imminent entry into the adult world of irreversible responsibilities, Carlo finds himself tempted by a bewitching 18-year-old girl, Francesca, whom he meets by chance at a wedding. The possibility of one last youthful crazy fling before the impending prison of parenthood proves to be too attractive to resist....
Fireworks
Character: Er Banana
Ottone, a professional dog sitter who's uncertain about most things in life, asks an analyst if he made the right decision love-wise while recounting the significant relationships he had with four women....
Il posto dell'anima
Character: Mario
Three workers of a tire factory, in southern Italy, lead the struggle against the American company owner of the factory who wants to close the Italian branch in which they work....
Forgive Us Our Debts
Character: Guido
Threatened by creditors, a newly unemployed man agrees to work for a debt collector, but soon discovers his deal with the devil has unexpected costs....
La vita come viene
Character: Marco
Max believes that existence is just a game, and his wife will have the arduous task of bringing him back to reality....
Paz!
Character: Pentothal
Inspired by the work of Italian underground comic book prodigy Andrea Pazienza, "Paz!" is a 24-hour slice of life of a group of university students sharing a flat in 1970s Bologna, grappling with drugs, classes, girls and half-hearted political activism....
Rino Gaetano - Ma il cielo è sempre più blu
Character: Rino Gaetano
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The Last New Year's Eve
Character: Cristiano Carucci
New year's eve at "The Islands" condos. An aging countess's party is crashed by the soccer team from her gigolo's town. While dressing for a dinner party, the wealthy Guilia discovers her husband's affair with her best friend and vows revenge. Next door, a family prepares their vintage Dodge for a drive through the streets. A call girl ties up a lawyer while, unbeknownst to him, three men await the right moment to break into his office. Across the hall, a woman downs pills in a lonely suicide at...
Freaks Out
Character: Fulvio
Four super-powered circus freaks find themselves trapped in war-torn Rome after their foster father is captured by the Nazis....
The Best Years
Character: Riccardo Morozzi
Italy from the '80s to the present day, through the dreams, loves, successes and failures of four friends....
Volare
Character: Willy
The true story of Andrea and Franco Antonello, a father and autistic son who traveled by motorbike for three months between the United States and South America....
Dead Train
Character: Andrea
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Tierra del fuego
Character: Spiro
The film is based on the novel (of the same name) by the Chilean writer Francisco Coloane, and on the chronicles of the Romanian engineer Julius Popper, a nationalized Argentine and one of the principle actors in the genocide of the Selk'nam, one of the indigenous peoples who inhabited the Tierra del Fuego Archipelago....
CareBonara - The Origins of Carbonara
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Rome, 1944. An Italian cook meets a young American soldier with a mission: to set up a special meal for the Allied forces stationed in the city....
Pauline détective
Character: Simone
After she has been dumped by her boyfriend, Pauline allows her sister to take her to a palace on the Italian Riviera. Instead of savouring the delights of a carefree existence, Pauline prefers to take on the role of an amateur sleuth, convinced that a crime has been committed in the environs. She ropes a handsome lifeguard into her investigation......
Io sono un po' matto... e tu?
Character:
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The Kite
Character: Nicola Calipari
In 2005, Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena was kidnapped in Iraq by a group of terrorists. Nicola Calipari, a SISMI agent, is tasked with rescuing her, but interference from US forces in Iraq compromises the operation. Despite the difficulties, and after lengthy negotiations, Nicola manages to save the journalist, but at the cost of his own life....