---
name: "Salvatore Cascio"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/salvatore-cascio"
fi1m_id: "salvatore-cascio"
imdb_id: "nm0143150"
tmdb_id: 68635
wikidata_id: "Q2279307"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "8 November 1979"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T23:11:13.076706+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."
---

# Salvatore Cascio

## Identity

Salvatore Cascio

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/salvatore-cascio
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** salvatore-cascio
- **IMDb ID:** nm0143150
- **TMDB ID:** 68635
- **Wikidata ID:** Q2279307
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvatore_Cascio, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2279307, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0143150/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/68635

Actor. Born 8 November 1979 in Palermo, Sicily, Italy.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 8 November 1979, Palermo, Sicily, Italy
- **Also known as:** Totò Cascio, Сальваторе Кашо
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvatore_Cascio, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2279307, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0143150/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/68635

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Cinema Paradiso*](https://film.one/film/cinema-paradiso.md) (84)

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

## Biography

Salvatore Cascio, also known as Totò Cascio, is an Italian actor. Born on 8 November 1979 in Palazzo Adriano, Sicily, he first appeared on television as a child on the *Maurizio Costanzo Show*. At the age of nine he made his screen debut in Giuseppe Tornatore’s *Nuovo Cinema Paradiso* (1988), playing the young Salvatore 'Totò' Di Vita.

The role brought him international recognition and a BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role, making him the youngest recipient at the time. He subsequently appeared in Tornatore’s *Stanno tutti bene* (1990, released in English as *Everybody’s Fine*), playing the child Alvaro, as well as in films including *Breath of Life* (1990) and *The Pope Must Die* (1991). Cascio has retinitis pigmentosa, a condition that progressively affected his vision and led to a long hiatus from acting. He published the autobiography *La gloria e la prova* in 2022.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Cinema Paradiso* (1988), Fi1m 84, as Salvatore 'Totò' Di Vita (child) — [page](https://film.one/film/cinema-paradiso.md)

## Complete filmography (8)

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

- *Protagonisti per sempre* (2014), as Se stesso
- *Father Hope* (2002), as Nino Carbone
- *Cyber Eden* (1992), as Cosimo
- *The Pope Must Die* (1991), as Paulo
- *Breath of Life* (1990), as Adelmo
- *Everybody's Fine* (1990), as Alvaro enfant
- *There Was a Castle with Forty Dogs* (1990), as Tom
- *Cinema Paradiso* (1988), as Salvatore 'Totò' Di Vita (child) — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/cinema-paradiso.md)

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