Massimo Popolizio

• Born — 4 July 1961 • Birthplace — Genoa, Italy • Occupation — * Actor • voice actor • Years Active — 1983–present

Massimo Popolizio studied at the Silvio D'Amico National Academy of Dramatic Arts in Rome in 1984, Popolizio started his career as a stage actor and, after graduation, started a fruitful artistic collaboration with theater director Luca Ronconi. In 1995 he won a UBU Award as Best Actor for his work in Shakespeare's King Lear and Towards Peer Gynt inspired by Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen, and again in 2001 for his role in Carlo Goldoni's 1747 play The Venetian Twins. In 2006 he won the Golden Aeschylus, conferred by the National Classic Drama Institute (INDA). In 2012, Popolizio returned to Ibsen in the title role of the stage work John Gabriel Borkman, with Lucrezia Lante della Rovere and Manuela Mandracchia. In 2013 he played Don Palma in the TV show Una grande famiglia. Popolizio lent his voice for the Italian dubbing of Lord Voldemort in the Harry Potter films, to Tom Cruise (Dr. William "Bill" Harford) in Eyes Wide Shut and to the voice of Lionel Abelanski (Shlomo) in Train of Life. He acquired visibility with his more recent film roles in Crime Novel, Black Sea and My Brother Is an Only Child, as well as in the role of Victor Sbardella in Il Divo by Paolo Sorrentino. In 1998 he won the Nastro d'Argento for Best Dubbing for the dubbing of the title character of the film Hamlet, played by director Kenneth Branagh. In 1998 he voiced Tim Roth in the role of Danny Boodman TD Lemon 1900 in the film The Legend of 1900. In 2009 he was the Italian voice of actor Cal Lightman, the protagonist of the series Lie to Me (also played by Tim Roth). In 2013, he returned to the cinema with Welcome Mr. President and The Great Beauty.

• Year — Title — Role(s) — Notes • 1996 — That Awful Mess on Via Merulana — Giuliano Valdarena — Television movie • 2001 — L'attentatuni — Angelo Branca — Two-parts television movie • 2005 — Il grande Torino — Erno Erbstein — Television movie • 2007 — La stagione dei delitti — Michele Mangano — 6 episodes • 2011 — Il delitto di via Poma — Inspector Massimo Del Frate — Television movie • 2013 — Il clan dei camorristi — Don Palma — 5 episodes • Una grande famiglia — Vincenzo De Lucia — 6 episodes • 2014 — Qualunque cosa succeda — Michele Sindona — Television movie • 2016 — Io non mi arrendo — Gaetano Russo — Two-parts television movie • 2018 — Il confine — General Cadorna — Television movie • 2021 — Svegliati amore mio — Ettore Tagliabue — 3 episodes • 2025 — Sara: Woman in the Shadows — Corrado Lembo — 4 episodes

• S. Giovanna, directed by Luca Ronconi (1983) • Due Commedie in Commedia, G. B. Andreini, directed by Luca Ronconi (1984) • Tasso, Goethe, directed by Cesare Lievi (1986) • Il Gabbiano, Anton Cechov, directed by Massimo Castri (1987) • Aiace, Sofocle, directed by Antonio Calenda (1988) • La Sposa di Messina, Friedrich Schiller, directed by Elio De Capitani (1990) • Gli Ultimi Giorni dell'Umanità, Karl Kraus, directed by Luca Ronconi (1992) • Misura per misura, William Shakespeare, directed by Luca Ronconi (1992) • Aminta, Torquato Tasso, directed by Luca Ronconi (1993) • Venezia Salva, Simone Weil, directed by Luca Ronconi (1993) • Peer Gynt, Henrik Ibsen, directed by Luca Ronconi (1995) • Re Lear, William Shakespeare, directed by Luca Ronconi (1995) • I Fratelli Karamazov, Fedor Dostoevskij, directed by Luca Ronconi (2001) • I Due Gemelli Veneziani, Carlo Goldoni, directed by Luca Ronconi (2001) • Lolita, Nabokov, directed by Luca Ronconi (2002) • Baccanti, Euripide, directed by Luca Ronconi (2002) • Rane, Aristofane, directed by Luca Ronconi (2002) • Professor Bernhardi, by Arthur Schnitzler, directed by Luca Ronconi (2005) • Cyrano de Bergerac, Rostand, directed by Daniele Abbado (2009) • Il misantropo, Molière, directed by Massimo Castri (2010) • Blackbird, D. Harrower, directed by Lluis Pasqual (2011) • John Gabriel Borkman, by Ibsen, directed by Piero Maccarinelli (2012) • Visita al padre, by Roland Schimmelpfennig, directed by Carmelo Rifici (2014)

• Ralph Fiennes in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 • Daniel Auteuil in Sostiene Pereira, Sade and in The Eighth Day • Bruce Willis in Armageddon • Tom Cruise in Eyes Wide Shut • Tim Roth in The Legend of 1900 and Lie to Me • Kenneth Branagh in Hamlet and Othello • Lionel Abelanski in Train of Life • Mark Rylance in Anonymous • Crispin Glover in Beowulf • Ulrich Noethen in Comedian Harmonists • Ulrich Mühe in My Führer – The Really Truest Truth about Adolf Hitler