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Franco Nero
🎂 Nov 23, 1941 (84)
San Prospero Parmense, Emilia-Romagna, Italy 2.6 popularity
Francesco Clemente Giuseppe Sparanero (born November 23, 1941), known professionally as Franco Nero, is an Italian actor, producer, and director. His breakthrough role was as the title character in the Spaghetti Western film Django (1966), which made him a pop culture icon and launched an international career that includes over 200 leading and supporting roles in a wide variety of films and television programmes.
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84
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Oscars
50
Movies
21
Series
Movies
Django Unchained
2012
Cars 2
2011
John Wick: Chapter 2
2017
Die Hard 2
1990
The Lost City of Z
2017
Letters to Juliet
2010
The Pope's Exorcist
2023
Force 10 from Navarone
1978
The Bible: In the Beginning...
1966
Keoma
1976
Django
1966
Camelot
1967
Submission
1976
In the Hand of Dante
2025
Killer Mermaid
2014
Bathory: Countess of Blood
2008
Tristana
1970
Querelle
1982
Li chiamarono... briganti!
1999
Hitch Hike
1977
The Visitor
1979
Bella Mafia
1997
The Mercenary
1968
The Collini Case
2019
The Girl
1987
Rasputin
2010
The Man from Rome
2022
Recon
2019
The Match
2021
The Crusaders
2001
The Final Inquiry
2007
The Harder They Come
1972
Mimi
1979
The Battle of Neretva
1969
The Day of the Owl
1968
The Innocent Sleep
1996
Pope Joan
1972
Red Bells Part I: Mexico in Flames
1982
I Knew Her Well
1965
The Salamander
1981
White Fang
1973
Megiddo: The Omega Code 2
2001
Red Bells Part II: I Saw the Birth of a New World
1982
The Man with Bogart's Face
1980
Talk of Angels
1998
Restless Heart: The Confessions of Augustine
2010
Iceman
2017
Off the Rails
2021
Blood Brothers
1974
Young Toscanini
1988
TV Shows
I promessi sposi
1989
Delicious
2016
The Return of Sandokan
1996
Desert of Fire
1997
The Last Days of Pompeii
1984
Le rose di Danzica
1981
Painted Lady
1997
Desideria e l'anello del drago
1995
Young Catherine
1991
L'inchiesta - Anno Domini XXXIII
2007
Django
2023
Augustine: The Decline of the Roman Empire
2010
La voce del sangue
2001
David
1997
Saint Paul
2000
Mein Herz in Chile
2008
The Crusaders
2001
The Hitchhiker
1983
Rosamunde Pilcher's Four Seasons
2008
Liebe, Lügen, Leidenschaften
2002
Der Fürst und das Mädchen
2003
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Franco Nero
1941-11-23 · San Prospero Parmense, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
Francesco Clemente Giuseppe Sparanero (born November 23, 1941), known professionally as Franco Nero, is an Italian actor, producer, and director. His breakthrough role was as the title character in the Spaghetti Western film Django (1966), which made him a pop culture icon and launched an international career that includes over 200 leading and supporting roles in a wide variety of films and television programmes.
During the 1960s and 1970s, Nero was actively involved in many popular Italian "genre trends", including poliziotteschi, gialli, and Spaghetti Westerns. His best-known films include The Bible: In the Beginning... (1966), Camelot (1967), The Day of the Owl (1968), The Mercenary (1968), Battle of Neretva (1969), Tristana (1970), Compañeros (1970), Confessions of a Police Captain (1971), The Fifth Cord (1971), High Crime (1973), Street Law (1974), Keoma (1976), Hitch-Hike (1977), Force 10 from Navarone (1978), Enter the Ninja (1981), Die Hard 2 (1990), Letters to Juliet (2010), Cars 2 (2011), and John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017).
Nero has had a long relationship with Vanessa Redgrave, which began during the filming of Camelot. They were married in 2006, and are the parents of the actor Carlo Gabriel Nero.