Luca Marinelli

Luca Marinelli is an Italian actor born on October 22, 1984. He is widely recognized for his work across film and television, including performances in feature films such as The Solitude of Prime Numbers, Every Blessed Day, The Great Beauty, Don't Be Bad, They Call Me Jeeg, Martin Eden, and Diabolik. He has also appeared in international screen projects including the film The Old Guard and the television series Trust.

Born in Rome, Marinelli comes from an artistic family as the son of actor and voice actor Eugenio Marinelli and the nephew of actress and voice actress Sonia Scotti. He pursued formal training in acting at the Silvio D'Amico National Academy of Dramatic Art, graduating in 2009. Prior to his full transition to film work, he made occasional stage appearances starting in 2006.

Marinelli achieved his breakout film role in 2010 when he starred as Mattia, the leading character in Saverio Costanzo's drama film The Solitude of Prime Numbers. He followed this success with his portrayal of Guido in Paolo Virzì's 2012 film Every Blessed Day. For this performance, he was appointed an EFP Shooting Star at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2013. That same year, he appeared as Andrea in Paolo Sorrentino's Academy Award-winning drama The Great Beauty.

Throughout the mid-to-late 2010s, Marinelli earned multiple awards for his acting roles. He played Cesare in Claudio Caligari's final feature film Don't Be Bad in 2015, winning the Pasinetti Award for Best Actor at the 72nd Venice International Film Festival. In 2016, his role as The Gipsy in They Call Me Jeeg earned him both the David di Donatello and the Nastro d'Argento for Best Supporting Actor. He later portrayed the title character in the 2019 film Martin Eden, earning the Volpi Cup for Best Actor at the 76th Venice International Film Festival.

In television and international cinema, Marinelli played the antagonist Primo in the 2018 series Trust and portrayed Italian singer-songwriter Fabrizio De André in the work Fabrizio De André: Principe libero. He gained further global visibility starring as Nicky in the 2020 Netflix feature film The Old Guard.

In 2021, Marinelli took on the title character in the film adaptation of the comic series Diabolik. He subsequently starred as Pietro Guasti in the 2022 film The Eight Mountains (Le otto montagne), directed by Felix Van Groeningen and Charlotte Vandermeersch and based on Paolo Cognetti's novel. He received critical acclaim for playing Benito Mussolini in the 2024 series Mussolini: Son of the Century. In 2025, it was announced that Marinelli and his wife, Alissa Jung, would perform as the characters Neil and Lucy in Hideo Kojima's video game Death Stranding 2: On the Beach.