---
name: "Jo Prestia"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/jo-prestia"
fi1m_id: "jo-prestia"
imdb_id: "nm0696353"
tmdb_id: 14610
wikidata_id: "Q3179414"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "5 June 1960"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 64
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-26T18:06:19.047688+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."
---

# Jo Prestia

## Identity

Jo Prestia

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/jo-prestia
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** jo-prestia
- **IMDb ID:** nm0696353
- **TMDB ID:** 14610
- **Wikidata ID:** Q3179414
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo_Prestia, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3179414, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0696353/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/14610

Actor. Born 5 June 1960 in Porto Empedocle (AG), Sicilia, Italia.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 5 June 1960, Porto Empedocle (AG), Sicilia, Italia
- **Also known as:** Prestia, Joe Prestia, Joé Prestia, Joseph Prestia
- **Average Fi1m score:** 64, as actor, over 2 titles
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo_Prestia, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3179414, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0696353/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/14610

## Streaming the US now

- **The Roku Channel:** [*Irreversible*](https://film.one/film/irreversible.md) (55)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Jo Prestia (born 5 June 1960) is an Italian-born French actor and former professional Muay Thai kickboxer. He arrived in France at the age of ten and competed successfully in the 1980s and 1990s, winning multiple French, European and world titles before retiring from the ring with a record of 70 wins from 85 bouts.

Prestia began acting in the mid-1990s and has appeared in more than seventy films and television productions. He is best known for his role as Le Tenia (The Tapeworm) in Gaspar Noé's *Irreversible* (2002). Other credits include *Femme Fatale* (2002), *36th Precinct* (2004), *The Horde* (2010), *Alibi.com* (2017) and *The Takedown* (2022).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Femme Fatale* (2002), Fi1m 74, as Napoleon — [page](https://film.one/film/femme-fatale.md)
- *Irreversible* (2002), Fi1m 55, as The Tapeworm — [page](https://film.one/film/irreversible.md)

## Complete filmography (48)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Vache Folle* (2025), as L'ancien
- *Blazing Neon* (2022), as Adur
- *Super Z* (2022), as The cousin
- *The Takedown* (2022), as Goran
- *Vagabondes* (2019), Actor
- *Quand on crie au loup* (2019), as Sbire balafré
- *Crocs* (2019), as Raoul
- *A jamais* (2018), series, as Gaetan véron
- *Thugocratie* (2018), as Maurice
- *Alibi.com* (2017), as Prosper
- *Ares* (2016), as Zito
- *Colt 45* (2014), as Marco
- *En pays cannibale* (2013), Actor
- *Cosimo and Nicole* (2012), as Jean
- *The Blonde with Bare Breasts* (2010), as Nino
- *Paris Express* (2010), as Sharas
- *The Pimp* (2010), as Marco
- *The Horde* (2010), as José
- *Le Baltringue* (2010), as Le marchand d'armes
- *The Girl from Monaco* (2008), as Aldo
- *Par suite d'un arrêt de travail...* (2008), as un routier gréviste
- *Rivoallan* (2008), as Rivoallan
- *Vent mauvais* (2007), as Max
- *Madame Irma* (2006), as Le client patibulaire
- *13 Tzameti* (2006), as Pierre Bléreau
- *Joseph* (2005), as Rafael
- *I Saw Ben Barka Get Killed* (2005), as Dubail
- *Calvaire* (2005), as Fermier Mylène
- *Ze Film* (2005), as Dédé
- *36th Precinct* (2004), as Victor Dragan
- *Dernier Cri* (2004), as Ben
- *Léa Parker* (2004), series, as Eric Raynal
- *Crimson Rivers II: Angels of the Apocalypse* (2004), as Emilio
- *Grande école* (2004), Actor
- *Lovely Rita* (2003), as Lapointe
- *Livraison à domicile* (2003), as Duval
- *Rage* (2003), as Jo
- *Irreversible* (2002), as The Tapeworm — Fi1m 55, [page](https://film.one/film/irreversible.md)
- *Femme Fatale* (2002), as Napoleon — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/femme-fatale.md)
- *Requiem* (2001), as Gippé
- *Total Western* (2000), as Johan
- *The Little Thief* (1999), as Tony
- *Poker de charme* (1999), as Manzoni
- *The Dreamlife of Angels* (1998), as Fredo
- *Melody for a Hustler* (1998), as Le petit
- *Salut cousin !* (1996), Actor
- *Rai* (1995), Actor
- *Police Commissioner Moulin* (1976), series, as Fred Angeli, Thierry Bossais, Frère Muller n°1, Romani, Le forain, Getlif, Patrick Klotz

## Gallery

- ![Jo Prestia](https://film.one/media/person/1259416/gallery-13c23a62b290.jpg) Jo Prestia — Olivier Strecker, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/Jo_Prestia.JPG/1280px-Jo_Prestia.JPG?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Jo Prestia](https://film.one/media/person/1259416/gallery-7b72b73a6b58.jpg) Jo Prestia — Image via TMDB
- ![Jo Prestia](https://film.one/media/person/1259416/gallery-4a5d1d8a62f1.jpg) Jo Prestia — Image via TMDB
- ![Jo Prestia](https://film.one/media/person/1259416/gallery-40bbf3a07811.jpg) Jo Prestia — Image via TMDB

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