--- name: "Giorgio Cantarini" canonical: "https://film.one/person/giorgio-cantarini" fi1m_id: "giorgio-cantarini" imdb_id: "nm0134493" tmdb_id: 9236 wikidata_id: "Q735360" roles: ["Actor"] born: "5 December 1992" reviewed_on_fi1m: 1 average_as: "actor" average_over: 1 updated: "2026-09-17T22:20:37.777023+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Giorgio Cantarini ## Identity Giorgio Cantarini - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/giorgio-cantarini - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** giorgio-cantarini - **IMDb ID:** nm0134493 - **TMDB ID:** 9236 - **Wikidata ID:** Q735360 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgio_Cantarini, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q735360, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0134493/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/9236 Actor. Born 5 December 1992 in Orvieto, Terni, Umbria, Italy. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 5 December 1992, Orvieto, Terni, Umbria, Italy - **Also known as:** 喬治・肯特利尼 - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgio_Cantarini, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q735360, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0134493/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/9236 ## Streaming the US now - **Apple TV:** [*Life Is Beautiful*](https://film.one/film/life-is-beautiful.md) (65) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Fi1m on Giorgio Cantarini > In *Life Is Beautiful*, Giorgio Cantarini makes the child feel real while Roberto Benigni works hard to keep him entertained. We value that unforced presence, even when the film asks for more reassurance than we can accept. Roberto Benigni’s Guido has to keep being funny for his son, and Giorgio Cantarini gives that effort a reason. As Giosué in *Life Is Beautiful* (1997), he makes the boy feel like someone to protect rather than a convenient reason for the audience to cry. His performance is unforced enough to make the father’s anxiety matter. We were moved by Guido’s struggle to hide his fear from the boy, because the effort to stay cheerful is allowed to show. With Benigni directing and playing his father, Cantarini has a conspicuously busy partner. He does not need to compete with the clowning. Their scenes together give us something immediate to care about, even when the film’s larger choices are difficult to accept. The Holocaust setting is softened too much, and the affection these performances earn cannot make that convincing. We rate Cantarini’s contribution more highly than the film around him, without pretending he can repair its problems. His next prominent film, Ridley Scott’s *Gladiator* (2000), gave him a cameo as Maximus’s son, a much smaller opportunity than Benigni had offered. The subsequent return to screen work included Giuseppe in *Il giorno la notte poi l’alba* (2007), followed much later by Giorgio Lamborghini in *Lamborghini: The Man Behind the Legend* (2022). The intervening career took in Italian features, shorts, television and theatre. His later naturalistic approach developed through formal acting training, though we would be cautious about treating greater technical preparation as proof of more persuasive acting. Early recognition also narrowed his initial adult casting opportunities: some directors continued to see the child from *Life Is Beautiful*. That makes those two familiar early titles an incomplete guide to what he might offer another director. His adult work deserves to be judged role by role, without either nostalgia or a compensating rush to praise. Start with his scenes opposite Benigni, but keep our reservations about the film in mind. ## Biography Giorgio Cantarini is an Italian actor. He was born on 12 April 1992 in Orvieto, Umbria, and made his screen debut at the age of five as Giosuè in Roberto Benigni's *Life Is Beautiful* (1997). He received a Young Artist Award for the performance and was part of the cast nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award. Cantarini next appeared as the son of Russell Crowe's character in Ridley Scott's *Gladiator* (2000). He later trained at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome, graduating in 2014. His subsequent credits include the television film *In Love and War* (2001), the feature *Lamborghini: The Man Behind the Legend* (2022) as Giorgio Lamborghini, and various short films and television appearances. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.* ## On Fi1m (1) - *Life Is Beautiful* (1997), Fi1m 65, as Giosué — [page](https://film.one/film/life-is-beautiful.md) ## Complete filmography (10) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Love Wine & Salt: A Tuscan Romance* (2024), as Ali - *MalaMente* (2024), as Alessio Bencini - *Mercato libero* (2024), Actor - *A.P. Giannini - Bank to the Future* (2024), Actor - *Lamborghini: The Man Behind the Legend* (2022), as Giorgio Lamborghini - *Protagonisti per sempre* (2014), as Se stesso - *The Early Bird Catches the Worm* (2008), as Baldini piccolo - *Il giorno, la notte. Poi l'alba* (2007), as Giuseppe - *Gladiator* (2000), as Maximus' Son — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/gladiator.md) - *Life Is Beautiful* (1997), as Giosué — Fi1m 65, [page](https://film.one/film/life-is-beautiful.md) ## Gallery - ![Giorgio Cantarini](https://film.one/media/person/87940/gallery-3cb5a1cb3c8f.png) Giorgio Cantarini — Kiariladyboss (New York City 4 All), CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/89/Giorgio_Cantarini_2023.png?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Giorgio Cantarini](https://film.one/media/person/87940/gallery-e2690b34a896.jpg) Giorgio Cantarini — Image via TMDB - ![Giorgio Cantarini](https://film.one/media/person/87940/gallery-046c365b5604.jpg) Giorgio Cantarini — Image via TMDB --- © Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. 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