Luca Argentero Italian Actor Born 1978 in Turin

Early life

Luca Argentero was born on 12 April 1978 in Turin and grew up in the neighbouring town of Moncalieri. After finishing school at the Catholic Collegio San Giuseppe, he worked as a bartender in a local nightclub while he studied at the University of Turin. He graduated in 2004 with a degree in economics and commerce.

Career

Argentero first became publicly known in 2003 as a contestant on the third season of the Italian reality programme Grande Fratello, the local version of Big Brother. He reached the final and finished in third place with about nine percent of the public vote. Afterwards he made guest appearances on a range of television shows and worked as a model, posing for a calendar produced by the monthly magazine Max.

His acting debut came in 2005 in the television series Carabinieri, in which he played the character Marco Tosi across the fourth, fifth and sixth seasons. In 2006 he took the lead in the short film Il Quarto Sesso and made his cinema debut in Our Country, directed by Francesca Comencini. His role in Ferzan Özpetek's Saturn in Opposition, in which he played a gay man, followed. He was also in Claudio Cupellini's Lezioni di cioccolato in 2007 and appeared on television as one of the two leads in the miniseries La Baronessa di Carini.

In 2008 he played the protagonist in Solo un padre, directed by Luca Lucini. Production began in January 2008 in Turin, his home city. A year later he starred in Different from Whom?, again as a gay man, and the part earned him his first nomination for the David di Donatello award for best actor. In 2009 he also appeared in The Big Dream and Oggi sposi.

The 2010s widened his range. He was in the international production Eat Pray Love in 2010, which is recorded with a worldwide box office of $205 million, and he had the leading billing in Some Say No in 2011. Other films from these years include The Woman of My Dreams (2010), Lezioni di cioccolato 2 (2011), They Call It Summer (2012), the French thriller Le Guetteur (2012), White as Milk, Red as Blood (2013), Cha cha cha (2013), A Boss In The Living Room (2014), Unique Brothers (2014), The Legendary Giulia and Other Miracles (2015) and Al posto tuo (2016). The actress Paola Cortellesi appears alongside him in two of his listed titles, one of which is A Boss In The Living Room.

In 2019 he played Leonardo da Vinci in the film I, Leonardo, and he also appeared in Good Gals that year. On television, he took part in the series Doc - Nelle tue mani in 2020, and Avvocato Ligas in 2026 is the most recent title on his credit list. In all, his screen credits come to 21 films and two television series between 2006 and 2026.

Alongside acting, his early profile as a presenter and model is reflected in the descriptions given to his work: he is described as an actor, a model and a television personality.

Personal life

Argentero was married to Myriam Catania from 2009 to 2016. Since 2021 he has been married to Cristina Marino. He has two children.