- Dario Argento
Dario Argento was born in Rome in 1940, the son of influential film producer Salvatore Argento , and established Brazilian photographer Elda Luxardo . While these parental influences assured Argento's filmic fascination from an early age, he assimilated influences from a wide range of the fantastic arts.
- Asia Argento
Asia Aria Anna Maria Vittoria Rossa Argento (born 20 September, 1975, Rome) is an Italian television and film actress and director. In Rome, the city's register office refused to acknowledge "Asia" as an appropriate name, and instead officially inscribed her as Aria Argento. Despite this, she uses the name Asia Argento professionally. Asia is pronounced ['a:sia] in Italian.
- Isabella Rossellini
Isabella Fiorella Elettra Giovanna Rossellini (born June 18 1952 in Rome, Italy) is an Italian actress, filmmaker, author, philanthropist, and model.
- Roberto Rossellini
Roberto Rossellini was an Italian film director. Rossellini was one of the most important directors of Italian neorealist cinema, contributing films such as "Roma città aperta" to the movement.
- Simonetta Stefanelli
Simonetta Stefanelli (November 30 1954 - July 23 2006) was an Italian actress, born in Rome, Italy. Stefanelli was best known outside Italy for her role in "The Godfather" (1972), in which she played Apollonia Vitelli-Corleone, Michael Corleone's (played by Al Pacino) wife. She also appeared in more than a dozen Italian films, sometimes in leading roles. In the 1992 movie "Le Amiche del Cuore" (a.k.a. "Close Friends"), she plays the character Giuliana.
- Ennio Morricone
Ennio Morricone (born November 10, 1928; sometimes also credited as "Dan Savio" or "Leo Nichols") is an Italian composer especially noted for his film scores. He has composed and arranged scores for more than 400 film and television productions, more than any other composer living or deceased. He is best known for the characteristic sparse and memorable soundtracks of Sergio Leone's spaghetti westerns "A Fistful of Dollars" (1964), …
- Lucio Fulci
Lucio Fulci was an Italian film director, screenwriter, and actor. He is best known for his directorial work on splatter films, including "Zombi II" (1979) and "The Beyond" (1981), although he made films in genres as diverse as giallo, western, and comedy.
- Lea Massari
Lea Massari is an Italian actress. She was born Anna Maria Massetani in Rome, but changed name after the death of her fiancé. She studied architecture in Switzerland. Massari become a celebrity in art cinema for two roles, the missing girl Anna in Michelangelo Antonioni's "L'avventura", and the mother in Louis Malle's "Murmur of the Heart". She worked both in Italian and French Cinema.
- Sabrina Ferilli
Sabrina Ferilli (born June 28, 1964 in Rome, Italy) is an Italian theater and movie actress mainly popular inside her homeland, where she is one of the most prevalent celebrities.
- Raoul Bova
Raoul Bova (born 14 August 1971 Rome, Italy) is an Italian actor. His father is an employee of Alitalia Airline and his mother is a housewife. He has two sisters, Daniela and Tiziana, with whom he is very close. At the age of 16 he became a champion with the S.S. Lazio swim team of Rome, swimming the 100 meter backstroke. At the age of 21 he joined the Italian Army and performed his military duty in the Bersaglieri (sharpshooters) corps.
- Alberto Sordi
Alberto Sordi, also known as Albertone, (June 15 1920 - February 25 2003) was a beloved Italian actor and a film director. He was also the voice of Oliver Hardy in the Italian version of the Laurel & Hardy films.
- Claudia Gerini
Claudia Gerini (born December 18, 1971) is a Italian actress and showgirl.
- Francesca Gregorini
Francesca Gregorini (born Countess Francesca McKnight Donatella Romana Gregorini di Savignano di Romagna in Rome, Italy, August 7, 1968) is an Italian-born singer and songwriter.
- Vittorio Storaro
Vittorio Storaro (born 24 June, 1940 in Rome, Italy) is a three-time Academy Award winning Italian cinematographer.
- Sergio Castellitto
Sergio Castellitto is an Italian actor and director. Castellitto attended the academy of dramatic art and dedicated himself to theatre soon after, working with many famous actors such as Luigi Squarzina, Aldo Trionfo and Enzo Muzii. He interpreted many films like "Sembra morto...ma è solo svenuto" directed by Felice Farina, "Piccoli equivoci" by Ricky Tognazzi and "Stasera a casa di Alice" by Carlo Verdone.
- Lamberto Bava
Lamberto Bava (born April 3 1944, Rome) is an Italian film director, specializing in horror films. He is the son of cinematographer/director Mario Bava, and grandson of cameraman Eugenio Bava. He is also a protege of director Dario Argento. After working as a personal assistant, assistant director and screenwriter with his father, …
- Giovanna Mezzogiorno
Giovanna Mezzogiorno (born November 9, 1974) is an Italian theater and film actress.
- Gabriele Muccino
Gabriele Muccino (born May 20, 1967) is an Italian director. Born in Rome, Muccino gained success with films such as "L'ultimo bacio (One Last Kiss)" and "Remember Me, My Love (Ricordati di me)". He is currently making a switch to directing Hollywood films after "L'ultimo bacio" won the Audience Award for World Cinema at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival bringing him to the attention of American film industry.
- Anna Galiena
Anna Galiena is an Italian actress, best known to English-speaking audiences for her appearances in "Le Mari de la coiffeuse", "Jamón, jamón" and "Being Human". In her youth, Galiena starred in numerous off and on-Broadway shows, including several revivals of Shakespeare plays. She had made over a dozen films, mainly in her native Italy before her role in "Le Mari de la coiffeuse" brought her to international attention.
- Luciana Paluzzi
Luciana Paluzzi (born June 10, 1939 in Rome, Italy), is a redheaded Italian actress. She is best known for playing SPECTRE assassin Fiona Volpe in the fourth James Bond film "Thunderball". Paluzzi's very first film was an uncredited walk-on part in "Three Coins in the Fountain" (1954). She went on to appear in many movies, most of which were made in her native Italy. In her early films, she is credited as Luciana Paoluzzi.
- Alessandro Gassman
Alessandro Gassman (born February 24, 1965) is an Italian actor. Born in Rome, he is the son of the famous actor Vittorio Gassman and Juliette Maynel. He debuted at 17 in "Di padre in figlio", written and directed by his father, and later studied in the Teathre Workshop of Florence. Among his theatrical activity, he was noted for his playing in Pier Paolo Pasolini's "Affabulazione" (1984).
- Carlo Lizzani
Carlo Lizzani (born 1922 April 3) is an Italian film director, scriptwriter and critic. Born in Rome, after World War II Lizzani worked on such notable films of the late 1940s as Roberto Rossellini's "Germany Year Zero", Alberto Lattuada's "The Mill on the Po" (both 1948) and Giuseppe De Santis' "Bitter Rice" (1950, for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Story).
- Ambra Angiolini
Ambra Angiolini is an Italian television presenter, singer and actress. Her career began in 1992, at the early age of 15, when she took part in the second edition of "Non è la Rai" Her first Album was recorded in 1994 and its name was "T'appartengo". which included 10 songs. This same album was recorded too in spanish and it contained a new song called "Nel cuore, nell'anima". The production was titled "Te pertenezco".
- Silvio Muccino
Silvio Muccino (born April 14, 1982) is an Italian actor.
- Guillaume Apollinaire
Guillaume Apollinaire (August 26, 1880 - November 9, 1918) was a French poet, writer, and art critic born in Italy to a Polish mother. Among the foremost poets of the early 20th century, he is credited with coining the word surrealism and writing one of the earliest works described as surrealist, the play "Les Mamelles de Tirésias" (1917). Two years after being wounded in World War I, he died at 38 of the Spanish flu during a pandemic.
- Daniela Bianchi
Daniela Bianchi (born January 31,1942) is an Italian actress, whose best known part was Tatiana Romanova in the 1963 James Bond movie "From Russia with Love". Born in Rome, she was the 1st runner-up in the 1960 Miss Universe contest, where she was also voted Miss Photogenic by the press. Her film career began in 1958. In "From Russia with Love", her voice was dubbed by Barbara Jefford. She made a number of movies after "From Russia with Love", …
- Dardano Sacchetti
Dardano Sacchetti (born 1944) is an Italian screenwriter most well-known for his work in the horror genre. Beginning his career in the early 1970's, Sacchetti has been associated with some of the best-known horror film directors to emerge from Italy in the latter part of the century. He first collaborated with Dario Argento on the script for 1971's "The Cat o' Nine Tails", which attracted the attention of famed director Mario Bava, …
- Alessandra Mussolini
Alessandra Mussolini (born December 30 1962) is an Italian right-wing politician and Member of the European Parliament.
- Francesco Quinn
Francesco Daniele Quinn is an American actor. The son of Oscar winner Anthony Quinn, Francesco is perhaps best known in the breakout role as the underground drug lord Rhah in Oliver Stone’s Academy Award-winning "Platoon" (1986).
- Nicola Piovani
Nicola Piovani (b. 26 May 1946, Rome, Italy) is a classical light musician, and theater and film score composer. He received his degree in piano from the Verdi Conservatory in Milan in 1967, and later studied orchestration under the Greek composer Manos Hadjidakis. Rumors have abounded for years that Nicola Piovani was a pseudonym of better-known composer Ennio Morricone, a fact Piovani uses to humorous effect when speaking in public.
- Antonio Margheriti
Antonio Margheriti (born in Rome, September 19, 1930 - died in Monterosi, Viterbo, November 4, 2002), better known under the pseudonym Anthony M. Dawson, was a prolific Italian filmmaker. He was born in Rome and died from a heart attack, near Rome at the age of 72. Margheriti is known for his science fiction, horror, spaghetti western and action movies. He is the director of such cult movies as "Horror Castle", "Danza macabra", "Spacemen", …
- Gabriele Ferzetti
Gabriele Ferzetti (born 17 March 1925 in Rome, Italy) is an Italian film and stage actor. He is famous for his appearance in three classic films: In 1960, he made his international breakthrough as an oversexed, restless playboy in Michelangelo Antonioni's controversial "L'avventura". Then in 1968, he played railroad baron Morton in Sergio Leone's celebrated "Once Upon a Time in the West".
- Francesco Maselli
Francesco Maselli or "Citto Maselli" (December 9 1930 in Rome) is an award winning Italian film director and screenwriter. He has directed 38 films since 1949
- Silvana Pampanini
Silvana Pampanini (Roma, September 25, 1925) is an Italian actress.
- Giuseppe Rotunno
Giuseppe Rotunno, sometimes credited as Peppino Rotunno (born March 19, 1923 in Rome) is an Italian cinematographer. He was a frequent collaborator of the famous Italian director Federico Fellini.
- Elio Petri
Elio Petri (January 29, 1929 - November 10, 1982) was a political Italian filmmaker. Elio Petri was born in Rome on January 29th, 1923 into a modest family, his father being a coppersmith. As only son, he grew up in the working-class area of the city before attending school where he was noted for his intelligence. After being expelled for political reason from San Giuseppe di Merode, a school run by priest on Piazza di Spagna, …
- Valentina Cervi
Valentina Cervi is an Italian actress. She is the daughter of director Tonino Cervi and granddaughter of the famous Italian actor Gino Cervi. Cervi started her acting career at age ten (in Carlo Cotti's 1986 "Portami la luna"). She also played an English-language role in Jane Campion's 1996 "Portrait of a Lady". One of her most acclaimed roles was the 1997 film "Artemisia", directed by Agnès Merlet and starring Valentina Cervi.
- Claudio Argento
Claudio Argento (born September 15, 1943 in Rome, Italy), is an Italian film producer and screenwriter. Most of the titles he has produced have been the horror films directed by his older brother, Dario Argento. One major exception was Alejandro Jodorowsky's cult film "Santa Sangre" (1989); in addition to producing, Claudio Argento co-wrote the screenplay for the film.
- Franco Interlenghi
Franco Interlenghi is an Italian actor. At 15 years old, He starts acting in Vittorio De Sica's Italian Neorealism film Sciuscià. He has worked with great directors such Federico Fellini in "I Vitelloni", Michealgelo Antonioni in "I Vinti" or Luchino Visconti on stage with his adaptation of "Death of a salesman". Married to Antonella Lualdi; their daughter, Antonellina Interlenghi, is an actress too.
- Luciano Salce
Luciano Salce (September 25 1923 - December 17 1989) was an Italian Film Director and Actor. He was born in Rome.