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Actor
Gender
Male
Date of Birth
1972-06-18
Location
England, United Kingdom
Edit pageDaniel Caltagirone
Biography
Daniel Caltagirone (born 18 June 1972) is an English actor, best known for his roles in The Beach, Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life, and the Oscar-winning film The Pianist. His breakthrough role came in the television series Lock Stock, where he played series lead Moon. He is a father to two children with ex-wife Melanie Sykes.
Caltagirone went on to attend the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, graduating in 1997. It was during his last year at Guildhall that he was discovered by an ITV talent scout and cast as a lead in Ruth Rendell's Going Wrong. He finished filming his first film role, Legionnaire, alongside Jean-Claude Van Damme in the summer of 1998.
In 2003 he appeared in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider – The Cradle of Life with Angelina Jolie and Gerard Butler. Shortly after finishing filming on Tomb Raider, he was cast in the movie The Fall. Directed by Tarsem Singh, Caltagirone played the dual roles of Hollywood star Archibald Sinclair and Governor Odious.
In 2006 Caltagirone starred in The Path to 9/11, the two-part miniseries that aired in the United States on ABC. The film starring Harvey Keitel and Donnie Wahlberg dramatizes the events leading up to the September 11, 2001 attacks.
Caltagirone was cast as one of the CIA operatives who were allegedly sent to kill Osama bin Laden. In 2009, he played ex-SAS Captain Gideon Stone in The Fixer. He portrayed aristocrat Girolamo de Treviso in The Tudors in 2010.
He then performed at The Hampstead Theatre in .45, playing alongside fellow Tudors alumna Natalie Dormer in 2011. In 2016, he appeared in the TV series Medici: Masters of Florence. In 2020 he played Will Arnot in Death in Paradise.
In September 2021, Caltagirone was honored with the Nations Award in Venice for Outstanding Contribution to Film.
