Luca Argentero

Luca Argentero
Argentero in 2017
Born	(1978-04-12) April 12, 1978 Turin, Italy
Occupations	Actor model television personality
Years active	1985–present
Spouse	Myriam Catania ​ ​ (m. 2009; div. 2016)​

Luca Argentero (born 12 April 1978) is an Italian actor, model and television personality. He has appeared in more than 18 films since 2006.

Biography

Born in Turin to Guido and Agata, Argentero grew up in neighboring Moncalieri. After completing high school at the Catholic "Collegio San Giuseppe", he worked as a bartender in a local nightclub while earning a degree in Economy & Commerce in 2004. Argentero rose to fame in 2003 as a participant in the third season of the popular reality TV series Grande Fratello (Big Brother), arriving to the final and earning third place, with 9% of the Italian votes. After this experience, Argentero began guest appearing on a variety of television shows and worked as a model, posing for a sensual calendar made by the Italian monthly magazine Max.

In 2005, Argentero made his debut as an actor in the television series Carabinieri, in which he portrayed the character of Marco Tosi in the fourth, fifth, and sixth seasons. In 2006, he played the main character in the short film Il Quarto Sesso (The Fourth Sex). That same year, Argentero also made his cinematic debut in A Casa Nostra (Our Country), directed by Francesca Comencini. In 2007, he was in Saturno Contro (Saturn in Opposition), a film by Ferzan Özpetek, playing the role of a homosexual man. The same year, Argentero also appeared in Lezioni di Cioccolato, a film by Claudio Cupellini. In addition, he appeared on television as one of the two main characters in the miniseries La Baronessa di Carini.

In 2008, Argentero took the role of the protagonist in the film Solo un padre, directed by Luca Lucini. Production on this movie began in January 2008 in Argentero's hometown of Turin. In 2009 he was in Diverso da Chi? (Different from Whom?), in which he again portrayed a gay man. This role earned Argentero his first David di Donatello nomination as best actor.

Filmography

Films

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2006	Our Country	Gerry
2007	Saturn in Opposition	Lorenzo Marchetti
	Lessons in Chocolate	Mattia Cavedoni
2008	Solo un padre	Carlo
2009	Different from Whom?	Piero
	The Big Dream	Libero
	Oggi sposi	Nicola Impanato
2010	The Woman of My Dreams	Leonardo
	Eat Pray Love	Giovanni
2011	Some Say No	Max Rizzi
	Hop	Fred DeLepris	Voice
	Lezioni di cioccolato 2	Mattia Cavedoni
2012	The Lookout	Nico
	Gladiators of Rome	Timo	Voice
	They Call It Summer	Alessandro
	Evil Things - Cose cattive	—	Producer
2013	Women Drive Me Crazy	Corrado
	White as Milk, Red as Blood	The Professor
	Cha Cha Cha	Corso
2014	A Boss in the Living Room	Michele Coso
	Unique Brothers	Francesco
	Tre tocchi	Dream Man #1	Cameo
2015	The Legendary Giulia and Other Miracles	Diego
	Poli opposti	Stefano
	Vacanze ai Caraibi	Fausto
2016	Al posto tuo	Luca Molteni
	The Last Shaman	—	Producer
2017	Il permesso - 48 ore fuori	Donato
2018	Hotel Gagarin	Sergio
	Cosa fai a Capodanno?	Mirko
2019	Copperman	Anselmo/ Copperman
	Io, Leonardo	Leonardo da Vinci
	Brave ragazze	Giovanni Morandi
2021	Luca	Lorenzo Paguro	Voice
	Like a Cat on a Highway 2	Don Davide
2023	I migliori giorni	Gianni

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2003	Grande Fratello	Himself	Contestant (season 3)
2005–2007	Carabinieri	Marco Tosi	Main role (seasons 4–6); 74 episodes
2007	La baronessa di Carini	Luca	Television film
2011	Tiberio Mitri - Il barone e la miss	Tiberio Mitri	Television film
2013–2014	Amici di Maria De Filippi	Himself	Judge
2015	Ragion di Stato	Andrea Rosso	2 episodes
2017	Sirene	Salvatore Gargiulo	Main role; 6 episodes
2020–present	Doc – Nelle tue mani	Dr. Andrea Fanti	Lead role; 16 episodes
2022	The Ignorant Angels	Massimo	Lead role; 8 episodes

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Work	Result	Ref.
2023	Ciak d'Oro Serie TV	Best Italian Actor	The Ignorant Angels Doc – Nelle tue mani	Nominated

External links

• Luca Argentero at IMDb