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Elio Germano (born September 25, 1980) is an Italian actor. He made his film debut in 1993 as a child actor, before gaining prominence with a string of roles in youth-oriented movies in the early 2000s. He achieved stardom following his lead role in Daniele Luchetti's My Brother Is an Only Child (2007), for which he won his first David di Donatello for Best Actor. He won the award for Best Actor at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival for Luchetti's La Nostra Vita (tied with Javier Bardem for Biutiful) and at the 2020 Berlin Film Festival for Volevo Nascondermi, portraying painter Antonio Ligabue. Subsequent starring roles include Tutta La Vita Davanti (2008), Diaz: Don't Clean Up This Blood (2012), Il Giovane Favoloso (2014), Suburra (2015), The Man Without Gravity (2019), Bad Tales (2020) and Rose Island (2020). Outside of Italy he appeared in the Abel Ferrara's Mary (2005), and Nine (2009), opposite Daniel Day-Lewis.
The story takes place between the mid-1890s and the late 1900s. Basil Monaldo is a homely, dorky painter and friend of the young hedonistic "dandy" Dorian Gray. Lord Henry Wotton, an old acquaintance of Basil, notices the majestic handsomeness of the young male and encourages the real-life Dorian to be passionately proud of his beauty. Dorian wishes of never getting old nor ugly, and the wish comes to life. But little Dorian knows he just cursed himself... Influences: "Leopardi" (2014), "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen", "Sherlock Holmes" (2009), "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban", "Loki".
