| Children: | 1 |
| Birth Date: | 1979 11, df=y |
| Birth Place: | Trani, Apulia, Italy |
| Occupation: | Actor • film producer |
| Education: | Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia |
| Years Active: | 2000–present |
| Partner: | Angela Liso (1996–2006) Valeria Golino (2006–2016) Benedetta Porcaroli (2021–present) |
Riccardo Dario Scamarcio (pronounced as /it/; born 13 November 1979) is an Italian actor and film producer.
Scamarcio was born in Trani, Apulia, the son of Irene Petrafesa, a painter, and Emilio Scamarcio.[1]
He went to train as an actor at the Scuola Nazionale di Cinema in Rome, where he now lives.
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.[2]
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.[3]
He starred in , 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 landed in Netflix's top 10 in July of that year.
From 2005 to 2016 Scamarcio dated actress and director Valeria Golino. They continued working together even after the break-up and preserved a good relationship.[4] Scamarcio has a daughter (b. 2020) from Angharad Wood. As of 2024, he dates Italian actress Benedetta Porcaroli.[5] [6]
| Year | Title | Role | Actor | Producer | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | The Best of Youth | Andrea Utano | |||
| Now or Never | Biri | ||||
| Le mani in faccia | Francesco | Short film | |||
| 2004 | Three Steps Over Heaven | Step | |||
| The Smell of Blood | |||||
| 2005 | L'uomo perfetto | Antonio | |||
| Texas | Gianluca Baretti | ||||
| Romanzo Criminale | Nero | ||||
| 2007 | Manual of Love 2 | Nicola | |||
| Ho voglia di te | Step | ||||
| My Brother Is an Only Child | Manrico Benassi | Nominated − David di Donatello for Best Supporting Actor | |||
| Go Go Tales | Doctor Steven | ||||
| Prova a volare | Alessandro | ||||
| 2008 | At a Glance | Adrian | |||
| 2009 | Italians | Marcello Polidori | |||
| Eden Is West | Elias | ||||
| The Big Dream | Nicola | ||||
| The Front Line | Sergio Segio | ||||
| The Cézanne Affair | Pinuccio | ||||
| 2010 | Loose Cannons | Tommaso Cantone | |||
| Diarchia | Giano | Short film | |||
| 2011 | Polisse | Francesco | |||
| The Ages of Love | Roberto | ||||
| Armandino e il Madre | Short film | ||||
| 2012 | Una commedia italiana che non fa ridere | Narrator | Short film; Voice role | ||
| To Rome with Love | Hotel Robber | ||||
| The Red and the Blue | Professor Giovanni Prezioso | ||||
| Cosimo e Nicole | Cosimo | ||||
| Giulia ha picchiato Filippo | Short film | ||||
| L'uomo doppio | |||||
| 2013 | The Informant | Mario / Claudio Pasco Lanfredi | |||
| Third Person | Marco | ||||
| A Small Southern Enterprise | Arturo | ||||
| Miele | |||||
| 2014 | A Golden Boy | Davide Bias | |||
| Pasolini | Ninetto Davoli | ||||
| Effie Gray | Rafael | ||||
| La vita oscena | |||||
| 2015 | Wondrous Boccaccio | Gentile Carisendi | |||
| You Can't Save Yourself Alone | Gaetano | Nominated − David di Donatello for Best Actor | |||
| First Light | Marco | ||||
| Burnt | Max | ||||
| Io che amo solo te | Damiano | ||||
| Per amor vostro | |||||
| 2016 | Pericle | Pericles | |||
| La verità sta in cielo | Enrico De Pedis | ||||
| La cena di Natale | Damiano | ||||
| Ali and Nino | Malik Nakhararyan | ||||
| 2017 | Dalida | Orlando | |||
| Santino D'Antonio | |||||
| Andorra | Lieutenant Afgroni | ||||
| 2018 | Loro | Sergio Morra | |||
| Welcome Home | Federico | ||||
| The Summer House | Luca | ||||
| Euphoria | Matteo | ||||
| Dei | |||||
| Early Man | Dag | Only Italian dub; Voice role | |||
| 2019 | The Ruthless | Santo Russo | |||
| Santino D'Antonio | Cameo | ||||
| The Translators | Dario Farelli | ||||
| If Only | Carlo | ||||
| I'm Not a Killer | Francesco Prencipe | ||||
| 2020 | The Players | Lorenzo | |||
| The Binding | Francesco | ||||
| 2021 | The Last Paradiso | Ciccio Paradiso | |||
| Three Floors | Lucio | ||||
| Caravaggio's Shadow | Caravaggio | ||||
| The Shadow of the Day | Luciano Traini | ||||
| 2023 | A Haunting in Venice | Vitale Portfoglio | |||
| I Told You So (Te l’avevo detto) | Riccardo | ||||
| 2024 | Cesare Fiorio | Also scriptwriter | |||
| Vanished into the Night | Pietro | ||||
| Close to Me | Luca | Post-production[7] | |||
| Modì | Amedeo Modigliani | Post-production[8] | |||