Tommaso Ragno
Tommaso Ragno is an italian actor. Tommaso Ragno, leading actor in Oscar nominated Italian film Vermiglio (2024), was born in Vieste, a coastal town in the province of Foggia, as the eldest of two children. His family, mainly from Apulia and on the grand-maternal side from ex-Yugoslavia, moved to Piacenza when he was two years old. Always having been very introverted, he spent a lot of time in solitude reading books and studying literature, planning on becoming a writer.
However, later he went on to study acting at the Paolo Grassi School of Dramatic Art in Milan. After having spent a part of his life living in Berlin, Ragno resides in Rome. In 1988, he debuted as a stage actor in the Greek tragedy La seconda generazione with a collection of pieces by Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides directed by Mario Martone. Since the 1990s, he has worked repeatedly with Carlo Checci, whom he calls his "greatest teacher".
He made his film debut in 1997 starring in We all fall down by Davide Ferrario. In 2001 he was the lead in Chimera, directed by Pappi Corsicato, and in 2007, he starred alongside Isabelle Huppert in Medea Miracle by Tonino De Berdani. Other works feature The Council of Egypt (2002), Unseen (2007), Me and You (2012), Like Crazy (2016) and Bloody Richard (2017). In 2018, he starred in Happy as Lazzaro, directed by Alice Rohrwacher. The film won the Best Screenplay Award at the Cannes Film Festival as well as the American National Board of Review's Best Foreign Language Film Award. For his work in the film as the grown-up Tancredi, Ragno was nominated for the CinEuphoria Awards for Best Ensemble - International Competition. Other notable works he starred in include Nanni Moretti's Three Floors in 2021 and Paolo Virzì's Dry in 2022 shot before the pandemic. In 2022 he won the Nastro d'Argento for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Mario Martone's Nostalgia.
He played Marcello in the 2018 TV series The Miracle, directed by Niccolò Ammaniti, for which he won the Flaiano Prize as well as the Golden Screen Award. In 2020, he played the Italian mafia boss Donatello Fadda in the fourth season of Fargo, written and directed by Noah Hawley.
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Movies (58)
Arsa
2026
The Fire Within You
2026
Studio di una metamorfosi
2026 · Narratore
Anna Magnani – The Untold Story
2025 · Roberto Rossellini
Tutti giù per terra
2025
The Island of Idealists
2025 · Celestino Reffi
The Illusion
2025 · Giuseppe Garibaldi
Europa Centrale
2024
Sicilian Letters
2024 · Papacena
Vermiglio: La novia de la montaña
2024 · Cesare
Luce
2024
With the Grace of a God
2023 · Luca
Like Sheep Among Wolves
2023 · Sante
Luka
2023
Robbing Mussolini
2022 · Marcello Davoli
My Soul Summer
2022 · Vins
Dry
2022 · Alfredo
Burning Hearts
2022 · Michele Malatesta
Nostalgia
2022 · Oreste Spasiano
Crystal Girl
2022 · Padre / Poliziotto
Yaya & Lennie - The Walking Liberty
2021 · Zio Giò (voice)
Three Floors
2021 · Luigi
With or Without You
2021 · Rigoni
#Stayhome
2021 · Spatola
Seguridad
2021 · Walter Spezi
The Bad Poet
2021 · Giancarlo Maroni
A Hole in the Head
2020 · Guido Mandelli
Divine
2020 · Inspector
Resurrection
2019
La stagione della caccia
2019 · Filippo Peluso / Don Totò
Copperman
2019 · Silvano il fabbro
Happy as Lazzaro
2018 · Tancredi
Hotel Gagarin
2018 · Franco Paradiso
Fabrizio De André: Principe libero
2018 · Riccardo Mannerini
Bloody Richard
2017 · Edoardo La Jena
Like Crazy
2016 · Dott. Giorgio Lorenzini
A metà luce
2016
Opposites Attract
2015 · Doctor Beck
Land of Saints
2015 · Alfredo Raso
I Killed Napoleon
2015 · Gabriele
A Golden Boy
2014 · marito di Ludovica
Me & You
2012 · Ferdinando
Missione di pace
2011 · Colonnello Cervo
Medea Miracle
2011 · Jason
La passione
2010 · Stefano
Peopling The Palaces
2007 · Bravo
L'uomo privato
2007 · L'uomo privato
Amatemi
2005 · Angelo
L'Iguana
2004 · Don Fidenzio
Doppio agguato
2003 · Paolo
Il consiglio d'Egitto
2002 · Francesco Paolo Di Blasi
Chimera
2001 · Sal
A Lighter Burden to Bear
1998 · Paolo
We All Fall Down
1997 · Giovanni 'Il Lurido'
Shakespeare a Palermo
1997
La meraviglia del mondo
Petrichor
Astrea
TV shows (20)
Portobello
2026 · Marco Pannella
Hotel Costiera
2025 · Augusto
No Activity: Italy
2024 · Leonida De Luca
Monterossi - La serie
2022 · Carella
Luna Park
2021 · Antonio Marini
One Captain
2021
The Trial
2019 · Gabriele Monaco
Imma Tataranni
2019 · Vasco Parisi
Baby
2018 · Preside Fedeli
The Miracle
2018 · Père Marcello
Fabrizio De André: Free Prince
2018 · Riccardo Mannerini
1993
2017 · Michele Mainaghi
The Red Door
2017 · Elvio Mayer
1992
2015 · Michele Mainaghi
Fargo
2014 · Donatello Fadda
The Thirteenth Apostle
2012 · Bonifacio Serventi
Orgoglio
2004 · Danilo Foschi
Kommissarin Lucas
2003 · Daniele Grasso
Police District
2000 · Antonio Corallo
The Marshal Rocca
1996 · Corrado Gianni