Life and career

Favino was born in Rome, Italy. He has appeared in more than forty European films and television series since the early 1990s, including Gabriele Muccino's The Last Kiss, Gianni Amelio's The Keys to the House, Giuseppe Tornatore's The Unknown Woman and Ferzan Özpetek's Saturn in Opposition. In 1999 he starred in the HBO film Excellent Cadavers, an adaptation of Alexander Stille's novel of the same name. In 2006 he received the David di Donatello award - the Italian equivalent of the Oscar - for his role in the crime film Romanzo Criminale, directed by Michele Placido.

In 2006 he portrayed Christopher Columbus in Twentieth Century Fox's Night at the Museum. In 2008 he played General Glozelle, the leader of Miraz's Telmarine troops in The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian. He has worked with American director Ron Howard twice: in the 2009 film Angels & Demons, the adaptation of the novel of the same name by Dan Brown, in which he played the role of Inspector Ernesto Olivetti, and in the 2013 film Rush, in which he played the role of Formula One racing car driver Clay Regazzoni.

Other significant roles include the partisan leader Peppi Grotta in Spike Lee's Miracle at St. Anna in 2008, the sadistic riot control force policeman Cobra in Stefano Sollima's ACAB - All Cops Are Bastards in 2012, the anarchist Giuseppe Pinelli in Marco Tullio Giordana's Piazza Fontana, and the W.H.O. doctor in Marc Forster's apocalyptic-horror World War Z (2013).

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Director
1995	Pugili	Pugile	Lino Capolicchio
1997	Physical Jerks (In barca a vela contromano)	Castrovillari	Stefano Reali
1997	The Prince of Homburg (Il principe di Homburg)	Sparren	Marco Bellocchio
1998	Dolce far niente	Rossini	Nae Caranfil
1999	Excellent Cadavers	Mario	Ricky Tognazzi
2000	La Carbonara	The sergeant	Luigi Magni
2001	The Last Kiss (L'ultimo bacio)	Marco	Gabriele Muccino
2001	Da zero a dieci	Biccio	Luciano Ligabue
2001	Let's Have the Truth About Love (La verità, vi prego, sull'amore)	Michaelangelo	Francesco Apolloni
2002	I Am Emma (Emma sono io)	Carlo	Francesco Falaschi
2002	El Alamein: The Line of Fire (El Alamein - La linea del fuoco)	Sergeant Rizzo	Enzo Monteleone
2003	Instructing the Heart (Al cuore si comanda)	Riccardo	Giovanni Morricone
2003	Past Perfect (Passato prossimo)	Filippo	Maria Sole Tognazzi
2004	Our Italian Husband (Mariti in affitto)	Vincenzo Scocozza	Ilaria Borrelli
2004	The Keys to the House (Le chiavi di casa)	Alberto	Gianni Amelio
2005	Sorry, You Can't Get Through! (Nessun messaggio in segreteria)	Piero (shy)	Paolo Genovese and Luca Miniero
2005	Amatemi	Claudio	Renato De Maria
2005	Romanzo Criminale	Libano	Michele Placido
2006	The Unknown Woman (La sconosciuta)	Donato Adacher	Giuseppe Tornatore
2006	Night at the Museum	Christopher Columbus	Shawn Levy
2007	Saturn in Opposition (Saturno contro)	Davide	Ferzan Özpetek
2008	The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian	General Glozelle	Andrew Adamson
2008	Miracle at St. Anna	Peppi ”The Great Butterfly” Grotta	Spike Lee
2008	The Man Who Loves (L'uomo che ama)	Roberto	Maria Sole Tognazzi
2009	Angels & Demons	Inspector Ernesto Olivetti	Ron Howard
2010	Unlikely Revolutionaries (Figli delle stelle)	Pepe	Lucio Pellegrini
2010	Kiss Me Again (Baciami ancora)	Marco	Gabriele Muccino
2010	Come Undone (Cosa voglio di più)	Domenio	Silvio Soldini
2011	The Perfect Life (La vita facile)	Mario	Lucio Pellegrini
2012	The Entrepreneur (L'industriale)	Nicola	Giuliano Montaldo
2012	ACAB - All Cops Are Bastards	Cobra	Stefano Sollima
2012	A Flat for Three (Posti in piedi in paradiso)	Fulvio Brignola	Carlo Verdone
2012	Garibaldi's Lovers (Il comandante e la cicogna)	Giuseppe Garibaldi (voice only)	Silvio Soldini
2012	Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy (Romanzo di una strage)	Giuseppe Pinelli	Marco Tullio Giordana
2013	World War Z	WHO Doctor	Marc Forster
2013	Rush	Clay Regazzoni	Ron Howard
2014	Without Pity	Mimmo	Michele Alhaique
2015	Une mère	Pierre	Christine Carrière
2015	Suburra	Filippo Malgradi	Stefano Sollima

Television

Year	Title
1991	Una questione privata (TV film)
1993	Amico mio (TV series)
1996	Correre contro (TV film)
1998	Amico mio 2 (TV series)
1999	Bonanno: A Godfather's Story (TV film)
2000	Padre Pio: Miracle Man (TV film)
2001	La sindone (TV film)
2001	24 ore, 14 ostaggi (TV film)
2001	Giuda (TV film)
2001	Tommaso (TV film)
2003	Ladri ma non troppo (TV film)
2003	Ferrari (TV film)
2004	Part-time (TV film)
2005	Gino Bartali - L'intramontabile (TV film)
2007	Liberi di giocare (TV film)
2009	Pane e libertà (TV film)
2011	Il generale della Rovere (TV film)
2014	Marco Polo (TV series)

Short films

Year	Title
1994	Tutti i giorni sì
1996	B.B.K.
1996	Baci proibiti, segment of Corti stellari
2000	Adidabuma
2004	Non ci sarebbe niente da fare!

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