Lino Guanciale

Lino Guanciale was born in Avezzano, Italy on 21 May 1979. In 2003, he graduated from the Accademia d'arte drammatica "Silvio d'Amico", where he won the Gassman Prize as Best Actor of the previous ten years. Immediately upon graduation, he began working in the theatre, with Gigi Proietti on Romeo e Giulietta, the inaugural show of the Silvano Toti Globe Theatre in Rome.

More work quickly followed, and he started to collaborate with great names of Italian theatre as Luca Ronconi (Atti di guerra), Walter Le Moli (Gli incostanti, Antigone), Massimo Popolizio and Michele Placido. Placido later, upon directing him in the play Fontamara, cast him as Nunzio in his award-winning film Vallanzasca: L'ange du mal (2010).

Since 2005, Lino has also taught theatre classes and workshops in middle schools, high schools and universities. He made his film debut in 2008, playing none other than Mozart in Don Giovanni, naissance d'un opéra (2009) directed by Carlos Saura, followed by La prima linea (2009). In 2011, besides "Vallanzasca", he was also featured in L'empire des Rastelli (2011) by the director Andrea Molaioli as Filippo Magnaghi, the honest executive devastated by shame over his company's fraudulent activities; Marina Spada's Il mio domani (2011); and the Rai1 television series Il segreto dell'acqua (2011) directed by Renato De Maria.

His movie career includes Woody Allen's To Rome with Love (2012), La scoperta dell'alba (2012) by Susanna Nicchiarelli and Contes italiens (2015) directed by the brothers Paolo Taviani and Vittorio Taviani, in addition to a promising collaboration with the musician and director Davide Cavuti in Un'avventura romantica (2016), Preghiera per la vita (2020), Lectura Ovidii (2019) and Un marziano di nome Ennio (2022).

His work on TV has achieved success of public and critics, as protagonist in shows like Una grande famiglia (2012), La dama velata (2015), L'allieva (2016), La porta rossa (2017), Il Commissario Ricciardi (2021) and Noi (2022), the Italian adaptation of the american series This Is Us (2016).