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Marco Leonardi
Marco Leonardi
Born	14 November 1971 (age 53); Melbourne, Australia
Nationality	Italian
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1987–present

Marco Leonardi (born 14 November 1971) is an Australian-born Italian film and television actor. He has been nominated twice for the Nastro d'Argento for Best Actor.

Leonardi was born in Australia to Italian parents. He moved to Italy at the age of four and at 17 starred in the acclaimed Italian film Cinema Paradiso (1988). He later starred in the Mexican movie Like Water for Chocolate (1992). He has made several movies in the United States, including Once Upon a Time in Mexico and From Dusk Till Dawn 3: The Hangman's Daughter (2000). Other appearances include the Canadian film The Five Senses (1999).

Filmography

Film

La Sposa era Bellissima (1987, directed by Pál Gábor) – Giuseppe
Il Coraggio di Parlare (1987, directed by Leandro Castellani) – Fortunato, the shepard
Ultimo Minuto (1987, directed by Pupi Avati) – Paolo
Ciao Ma (1988, directed by Giandomenico Curi) – Paolo
Cinema Paradiso (1988, directed by Giuseppe Tornatore) – Salvatore 'Totò' Di Vita – Teenager
Scugnizzi (1989, directed by Nanni Loy) – Salvatore
Dimenticare Palermo (1990, directed by Francesco Rosi)
Ferdinando, un uomo d'amore (1990, directed by Mème Perlini) – Ferdinando
Like Water for Chocolate (1992, directed by Alfonso Arau) – Pedro Muzquiz
La Ribelle (1993, directed by Aurelio Grimaldi) – Sebastiano
Le Buttane (1994, directed by Aurelio Grimaldi) – Maurizio
Viva San Isidro (1995, directed by Alessandro Cappeletti) – Quintino
Manhattan Merengue! (1995) – Carmelo
In the Flesh [de] (1995) – Eddie Sanchez
Banditi (1995, directed by Stefano Mignucci) – David
La sindrome di Stendhal (1996, directed by Dario Argento) – Marco Longhi
Italiani (1996, directed by Maurizio Ponzi) – Fortunato
Para vivir o morir (1996)
La frontiera (1996, directed by Franco Giraldi) – Franco Velich
My Brother Jack (1997) – Jack Casale
Una vacanza all'inferno (1997, directed by Tonino Valerii) – Angelo
I cinque sensi (1999, directed by Jeremy Podeswa) – Roberto 'Luigi'
From Dusk Till Dawn 3: The Hangman's Daughter (2001, directed by P. J. Pesce) – Johnny Madrid
The Knights of the Quest (2001, directed by Pupi Avati) – Ranieri di Panico
Texas Rangers (2001) – Jesus Sandoval
It's Better to Be Wanted for Murder Than Not to Be Wanted at All (2003) – Ben Clemons
Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003, directed by Robert Rodriguez) – Fideo
Mary (2005, directed by Abel Ferrara) – Apostle Peter
Maradona, La Mano de Dios (2007) – Diego Maradona
Red Gold (2009)
Cha cha cha (2013) – Fotografo
Anime nere (2014) – Luigi
Ustica: The Missing Paper (2016) – Corrado di Acquaformosa
Worldly Girl (2016) – Celestino
The Space Between (2016) – Di Stasio
Prigioniero della mia libertà (2016) – Sovritendente Maggio
A Family (2017) – Pietro
All the Money in the World (2017, directed by Ridley Scott) – Mammoliti
La banalità del crimine (2018) – Conte
The Last Man (2018) – Antonio
Soledad (2018) – Belmonte
Lucania (2019) – Fortunato
Aspromonte – La terra degli ultimi (2019) – Cosimo
From the Vine (2019) – Luca
Martin Eden (2019) – Bernardo Fiore
The Great Salento war (2022) – Ernesto
My Place Is Here (2024) – Lorenzo

Television

Villa Maltraversi (1993, TV Movie, directed by Fabrizio Laurenti) – Mirko Cavicchi
Pensando all'Africa (1998, directed by Ruggero Deodato)
Elisa di Rivombrosa (2003, directed by Cinzia Torrini) – Gaetano Capece (2005)
Don Matteo 4 (2004, directed by Andrea Barzini and Giulio Base) – Saverio Donini
San Pietro (2005, directed by Giulio Base) – Marco
Il Capo dei Capi (2007, directed by Enzo Monteleone and Alexis Sweet)
L'ultimo padrino (2008, directed by Marco Risi) – Emanuele alias 'Africano'

External links

Marco Leonardi at IMDb

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