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name: "Luca Canfora"
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roles: ["Costume designer"]
born: "10 March 1972"
died: "1 September 2023"
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# Luca Canfora

Costume designer. Born 10 March 1972 in Naples, Italy. Died 1 September 2023.

## Details

- **Work:** Costume designer
- **Born:** 10 March 1972, Naples, Italy
- **Died:** 1 September 2023
- **Active:** 2013–2016
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1646085

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*The Young Pope*](https://film.one/tv/the-young-pope.md) (80)

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## Biography

Luca Canfora was an Italian costume designer. Born in Naples in 1972, he trained at the Filippo Palizzi State Institute of Art before moving to Rome, where he began his career at the tailor's shop of the Teatro dell'Opera.

He collaborated with designers including Danilo Donati, Maurizio Millenotti, Gabriella Pescucci and Milena Canonero on films such as *Pinocchio* (2002), *The Passion of the Christ* (2004) and *The Grand Budapest Hotel* (2014). From 2013 he worked extensively with Paolo Sorrentino on projects including *The Great Beauty* (2013, as assistant costume designer), *Youth* (2015), *Loro* (2018), *The Young Pope* (2016) and *The New Pope* (2020), the last two co-designed with Carlo Poggioli. He designed the costumes for *The Two Popes* (2019). Canfora received a Nastro d'Argento for *The Young Pope* and a Satellite Award nomination for *The Two Popes*. He died in Capri in 2023.

*Sources: imdb.com, it.wikipedia.org, variety.com, napoli.corriere.it.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *The Young Pope* (2016), Fi1m 80, Costume Design, Costume design — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-young-pope.md)
- *The Great Beauty* (2013), Fi1m 83, Assistant Costume Designer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-great-beauty.md)

## Complete filmography (6)

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

- *Dostoyevsky* (2024), series, Costume Design
- *The Beautiful Game* (2024), Costume Design
- *The New Pope* (2020), series, Costume Design
- *The Two Popes* (2019), Costume Design
- *The Young Pope* (2016), series, Costume Design — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-young-pope.md)
- *The Great Beauty* (2013), Assistant Costume Designer — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/film/the-great-beauty.md)

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