Dario Cantarelli

Dario Cantarelli (born 16 September 1945) is an Italian actor.

Biography He began his acting career on stage in 1973 with Carlo Cecchi's Granteatro company, playing roles in plays by William Shakespeare (Antony and Cleopatra), Eduardo De Filippo (Filumena Marturano), Molière, Luigi Pirandello, Harold Pinter and Bertolt Brecht. During those same years, he began acting in movies, directed by filmmakers such as Nanni Moretti, Marco Bellocchio, Paolo Sorrentino and the Taviani brothers.

He also works with the Ater company in Alexandr Vasiljevič Suchovo-Kobylin's The Vampire of St. Petersburg and Italo Svevo's La burla riuscita. Later, with Valeria Moriconi's company, he took part in Eduardo De Filippo's Filumena Marturano, Hugo von Hofmannsthal's The Knight of the Rose, William Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, Victorien Sardou and Émile Moreau's Madame Sans-Gêne, Thomas Bernhard's Alla meta, and Aldo Palazzeschi's Interrogatorio della contessa Maria.

He flanked his career as a theater actor, with a film career, working with directors such as Marco Bellocchio, Nanni Moretti, Daniele Luchetti, Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, Pupi Avati and Paolo Sorrentino. He also worked for television taking part in the series Un commissario a Roma with Nino Manfredi.

Filmography Year Title Role Notes1976 Victory March 1981 Sweet Dreams Critic 1982 The Night of the Shooting Stars Priest 1984 Sweet Body of Bianca Dean 1984 Softly, Softly 1985 The Mass Is Ended Gianni 1988 It's Happening Tomorrow Abbé Flambert 1991 The Yes Man Carissimi 1995 L'assassino è quello con le scarpe gialle Otto 1997 The Best Man Edgardo Osti 1998 You Laugh Dottore (segment "Felice")2001 The Son's Room Patient 2006 The Caiman Critico gastronomico 2007 The Right Distance Tiresia 2011 We Have a Pope Attore 2013 The Great Beauty Assistante Santa 2016 Children of the Night 2017 Metti una notte Renato 2018 The Invisible Boy - Second Generation Morfeo 2018 Loro Paolo Spagnolo 2022 Marcel! The suitor

Television A commissioner in Rome - TV series (1993) Linda and the brigadier - TV series, one episode (2000) I am Gaetano, directed by Rolando Colla - TV movie (2016) 1993, by Giuseppe Gagliardi - TV series, episode 2x01 (2017)