# Riccardo Scamarcio

Riccardo Dario Scamarcio (Italian pronunciation:; born 13 November 1979) is an Italian actor and film producer.

## Early life

Scamarcio was born in Trani, Apulia, the son of Irene Petrafesa, a painter, and Emilio Scamarcio.
He went to train as an actor at the Scuola Nazionale di Cinema in Rome, where he now lives.

## Career

His debut acting role was in a TV series in 2000, while his first ever lead role in a feature film was in Three Steps Over Heaven (2004), directed by Luca Lucini. Through this he immediately became well known to the Italian speaking public, especially a young audience. His success brought him prominence as a sex symbol and boosted requests for his acting skills, leading to his role in Texas (2005), directed by Fausto Paravidino and soon to him joining the cast of Romanzo Criminale, playing a monosyllabic, enigmatic thug character in a powerful portrait of a mafiosi community directed by Michele Placido.
In 2006 he acted in The Black Arrow, a TV series broadcast by Canale 5, adapted from the novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, and took on four new film roles: My Brother Is an Only Child (2007), directed by Daniele Luchetti, based on the novel Il fasciocomunista by Antonio Pennacchi. Scamarcio won a David di Donatello nomination for Best Supporting Actor for this work. He also played in Manual of Love 2 (2007), directed by Giovanni Veronesi, Ho voglia di te (2007), directed by Luis Prieto, and Go Go Tales (2007), directed by Abel Ferrara.
In 2007 he began work on At a Glance (2008) directed by Sergio Rubini, Italians (2009), a comedy directed by Giovanni Veronesi, and The Big Dream (2009), set in Italy in 1968, directed by Michele Placido. Eden à l'Ouest, directed by Costa-Gavras, saw Scamarcio playing an illegal immigrant-cum-innocent abroad. The Cézanne Affair (2009), directed by Sergio Rubini, co-starred Scamarcio's then partner, Italian-Greek actress, Valeria Golino, who played his sister.
The lead in Golino's 2018 movie Euforia is considered to be one of Scamarcio's best performances.
He starred in John Wick: Chapter 2, playing the Italian Mob boss, Santino D'Antonio, the antagonist in the film.
In 2024 he starred as the lead character in the Netflix film Vanished into the Night, directed by Renato De Maria and co-starring Annabelle Wallis. This film was in Netflix's top 10 in July of that year.

## Personal life

From 2006 to 2016 Scamarcio dated actress and director Valeria Golino. They continue working together even after the break-up and maintain a good bond. Scamarcio has a daughter (b. 2020) with Angharad Wood. Since 2021, he has been in a relationship with Italian actress Benedetta Porcaroli.

## Filmography
### Film

| Title | Year | Role(s) | Director | Notes |
| The Best of Youth | 2003 | Andrea Utano | Marco Tullio Giordana | |
| Prova a volare | 2003 | Alessandro | Lorenzo Cicconi | |
| Now or Never | 2003 | Biri | Lucio Pellegrini | |
| Three Steps Over Heaven | 2004 | Stefano Mancini | Luca Lucini | |
| L'uomo perfetto | 2005 | Antonio | Luca Lucini | |
| Texas | 2005 | Gianluca | Fausto Paravidino | |
| Romanzo Criminale | 2005 | Il Nero | Michele Placido | |
| Manual of Love 2 | 2007 | Nicola | Giovanni Veronesi | |
| Ho voglia di te | 2007 | Stefano Mancini | Luis Prieto | |
| My Brother Is an Only Child | 2007 | Manrico Benassi | Daniele Luchetti | |
| Go Go Tales | 2007 | Dr. Steven | Abel Ferrara | |
| At a Glance | 2008 | Adrian Scala | Sergio Rubini | |
| Italians | 2009 | Marcello Polidori / Walter LoRusso | Giovanni Veronesi | Segment: "Primo episodio" |
| Eden Is West | 2009 | Elias | Costa-Gavras | |
| The Big Dream | 2009 | Nicola | Michele Placido | |
| The Front Line | 2009 | Sergio Segio | Renato De Maria | |
| The Cézanne Affair | 2009 | Pinuccio | Sergio Rubini | |
| Loose Cannons | 2010 | Tommaso Cantone | Ferzan Özpetek | |
| Polisse | 2011 | Francesco | Maïwenn | |
| The Ages of Love | 2011 | Roberto | Giovanni Veronesi | |
| To Rome with Love | 2012 | Hotel thief | Woody Allen | Cameo appearance |
| The Red and the Blue | 2012 | Professor Giovanni Prezioso | Giuseppe Piccioni | |
| Cosimo and Nicole | 2012 | Cosimo | Francesco Amato | |
| A Small Southern Enterprise | 2013 | Arturo | Rocco Papaleo | |
| The Informant | 2013 | Mario / Claudio Pasco Lanfredi | Julien Leclercq | |
| Third Person | 2013 | Marco | Paul Haggis | |
| A Golden Boy | 2014 | Davide Bias | Pupi Avati | |
| Effie Gray | 2014 | Raffaele | Richard Laxton | |
| Pasolini | 2014 | Ninetto Davoli | Abel Ferrara | |
| Wondrous Boccaccio | 2015 | Gentile Carisendi | Paolo and Vittorio Taviani | |
| You Can't Save Yourself Alone | 2015 | Gaetano | Margaret Mazzantini | |
| First Light | 2015 | Marco Mauri | Vincenzo Marra | |
| Io che amo solo te | 2015 | Damiano Scagliusi | Marco Ponti | |
| Burnt | 2015 | Max | John Wells | |
| Pericle | 2016 | Pericle | Stefano Mordini | Also producer |
| La verità sta in cielo | 2016 | Enrico De Pedis | Roberto Faenza | |
| Ali and Nino | 2016 | Melik Nakahararyan | Asif Kapadia | |
| La cena di Natale | 2016 | Damiano Scagliusi | Marco Ponti | |
| Dalida | 2017 | Orlando | Lisa Azuelos | |
| John Wick: Chapter 2 | 2017 | Santino D'Antonio | Chad Stahelski | |
| Loro | 2018 | Sergio Morra | Paolo Sorrentino | |
| Early Man | 2018 | Dug (voice) | Nick Park | Italian dub; voice role |
| Welcome Home | 2018 | Federico | George Ratliff | |
| Euphoria | 2018 | Matteo | Valeria Golino | |
| The Summer House | 2018 | Luca | Valeria Bruni Tedeschi | |
| The Invisible Witness | 2018 | Adriano Doria | Stefano Mordini | |
| Cosa fai a Capodanno? | 2018 | Valerio | Filippo Bologna | |
| I'm Not a Killer | 2019 | Francesco Prencipe | Andrea Zaccariello | |
| If Only | 2019 | Carlo | Ginevra Elkann | |
| Il ladro di giorni | 2019 | Vincenzo De Benedettis | Guido Lombardi | |
| The Translators | 2019 | Dario Farelli | Régis Roinsard | |
| The Ruthless | 2019 | Santo Russo | Renato De Maria | |
| The Players | 2020 | Lorenzo | Stefano Mordini | Also producer and writer |
| The Binding | 2020 | Francesco | Domenico De Feudis | Also producer |
| The Last Paradise | 2021 | Ciccio Paradiso / Antonio Paradiso | Rocco Ricciardulli | Also producer and writer |
| Three Floors | 2021 | Lucio Polara | Nanni Moretti | |
| The Catholic School | 2021 | Raffaele Guido | Stefano Mordini | |
| The Shadow of the Day | 2022 | Luciano Traini | Giuseppe Piccioni | Also producer |
| Tu choisiras la vie | 2022 | Elio De Angelis | Stéphane Freiss | |
| Quasi orfano | 2022 | Valentino | Umberto Carteni | |
| Caravaggio's Shadow | 2022 | Caravaggio | Michele Placido | |
| A Haunting in Venice | 2023 | Vitale Portfoglio | Kenneth Branagh | |
| I Told You So | 2023 | Riccardo | Ginevra Elkann | |
| Race for Glory: Audi vs. Lancia | 2024 | Cesare Fiorio | Stefano Mordini | Also producer and writer |
| Sei fratelli | 2024 | Marco | Simone Godano | |
| Modì, Three Days on the Wing of Madness | 2024 | Amedeo Modigliani | Johnny Depp | |
| Vanished into the Night | 2024 | Pietro Torre | Renato De Maria | |
| Close to Me | 2024 | Luca | Stefano Sardo | |

### Television

| Title | Year | Role(s) | Network | Notes |
| Compagni di scuola | 2001 | Michele Reale | Rai 2 | 26 episodes |
| La freccia nera | 2006 | Marco di Monforte | Canale 5 | 6 episodes |
| Il segreto dell'acqua | 2011 | Angelo Caronia | Rai 1 | 6 episodes |
| London Spy | 2015 | Dopplergänger | BBC Two | Episode: "I Know" |
| Master of None | 2017 | Pino | Netflix | 3 episodes |
| Liberi sognatori | 2018 | Antonio Montinaro | Canale 5 | Episode: "La scorta di Borsellino: Emanuela Loi" |
| The Woman in White | 2018 | Count Fosco | BBC One | 5 episodes |
| Maradona: Blessed Dream | 2021 | Carmine Giuliano | Prime Video | Episode: "Vesuvio" |

### Other credits

| Title | Year | Role(s) |
| Diarchia | 2010 | Short film; producer |
| L'uomo doppio | 2012 | Producer |
| Miele | 2013 | Producer |
| La vita oscena | 2014 | Co-producer |
| The Dream | 2014 | Short film; producer |
| Per amor vostro | 2015 | Producer |
| Pericle | 2016 | Producer |
| Dei | 2018 | Producer |
| The Players | 2020 | Writer and producer |
| The Binding | 2020 | Producer |
| The Last Paradise | 2021 | Writer and producer |
| The Shadow of the Day | 2022 | Producer |
| Race for Glory: Audi vs. Lancia | 2024 | Writer and producer |

### Stage

| Title | Year | Role(s) | Venue | Director |
| Romeo and Juliet | 2011 | Romeo | Teatro Smeraldo; Milan | Valerio Binasco |