Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#104773
of 909177 performers
Top 25%
Luigi Lo Cascio works on quiet performance rather than volume, and the catalogue keeps proving that the quieter choice was the correct one.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Luigi Lo Cascio appears in 6 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Luigi. The Best of Youth is the clearest case: a film rated 7.5 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are quiet performance, drama, versatility. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for drama, crime, thriller. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Susanna Nicchiarelli, Daniele Luchetti, Marco Bellocchio and others, Luigi Lo Cascio helped set a standard other performers now audition against. Awards bodies have been slower than the work, which is usually the sign of a career built on choices rather than campaigns.
The Best of Youth (2003) as Nicola Carati · The Traitor (2019) as Salvatore Contorno · Baaria (2009) as giovane con sindrome di Down
Career snapshot
Ranked #104773 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
6
2003–2022
Career length
19 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.5
The Best of Youth
Average Nutevio score
6.7
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.0
The Best of Youth
Most frequent director
Susanna Nicchiarelli
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Susanna Nicchiarelli
Most common genre
Drama
6 titles
Average runtime
2h 54m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
6.8
out of 10
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio metric
Cultural impact and legacy, measured separately from craft — how far the work travelled once it left the cinema.
Nutevio Influence Score
6.5
out of 10
A quieter influence — felt inside the films rather than across the industry.
How far the work travelled past the people who saw it first.
What survives once the release-week conversation has burned off.
Institutional acknowledgement, weighted but never decisive.
Years of chosen, relevant work rather than years merely employed.
Statuettes, read as evidence rather than verdict.
Roles named without needing the film named alongside them.
Directors who wrote parts because this performer existed.
The reading other performers now have to answer.
Actor DNA
A fingerprint derived from the roles themselves — register, range and the kind of film they carry.
The shape of a career
Every performance plotted in time. Hover a point to read the title behind it.
Peak years
Where the scores, the awards and the sheer volume of work agree with each other.
Best decade
2010s
7.3 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. The Traitor — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
7.3
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
7.6
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2000s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Baaria, Miracle at St. Anna, The Best of Youth.
Most productive era
2000s
3 films
The busiest stretch of the catalogue — volume that reads as appetite rather than availability.
Range, mapped
Genres down the side, decades across the top. Warmer cells mean stronger titles.
| Genre | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.93 films | 7.31 film | 6.22 films |
| Thriller | — | 7.31 film | — |
| Comedy | 7.01 film | — | — |
| Crime | — | 7.31 film | — |
| Romance | 7.32 films | — | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio · Highest rated performance · Career peak
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Nicola Carati. 7.5 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer. Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
2022Chiara
The current state of the argument, as Cardinale Ugolino / Papa Gregorio IX.
Our order
Every performance in the catalogue, ordered by Nutevio Score.
Every title
Filter by genre or decade, and compare any two titles side by side.
6 of 6 films
as Nicola Carati
Directed by Marco Tullio Giordana
as Salvatore Contorno
Directed by Marco Bellocchio
as Aldo prima
Directed by Daniele Luchetti
as giovane con sindrome di Down
Directed by Giuseppe Tornatore
as Cardinale Ugolino / Papa Gregorio IX
Directed by Susanna Nicchiarelli
From the library
Every movie and TV credit stored for this name in the Nutevio catalogue — filter by media, role or sort by rating.
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The defining work
#1
Nicola Carati
The Best of Youth (2003)
Performance score8.1
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Nicola Carati gives Luigi Lo Cascio a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Salvatore Contorno
The Traitor (2019)
Performance score7.4
The Traitor asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Salvatore Contorno is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Aldo prima
The Ties (2020)
Performance score7.0
The Ties asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Aldo prima is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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giovane con sindrome di Down
Baaria (2009)
Performance score6.9
Baaria asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. giovane con sindrome di Down is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as Nicola Carati
Start here. The Best of Youth is the clearest statement of what Luigi Lo Cascio does — accessible, 367 minutes, and rated 7.5 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Luigi at the most legible performance, then move forward in time so each film reads as a response to the one before it rather than a repetition of it.
Baaria (2009)
Keeps the romance register of The Best of Youth but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Traitor (2019)
Keeps the drama register of Baaria but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Ties (2020)
Keeps the drama register of The Traitor but asks for a colder reading of it.
Chiara (2022)
Keeps the drama register of The Ties but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Marco Tullio Giordana
Director
1 film together
Notably The Best of Youth
Spike Lee
Director
1 film together
Notably Miracle at St. Anna
Giuseppe Tornatore
Director
1 film together
Notably Baaria
Marco Bellocchio
Director
1 film together
Notably The Traitor
Daniele Luchetti
Director
1 film together
Notably The Ties
Susanna Nicchiarelli
Director
1 film together
Notably Chiara
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Marco Tullio Giordana
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Best of YouthMarco Bellocchio
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The TraitorGiuseppe Tornatore
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BaariaDaniele Luchetti
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The TiesSpike Lee
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Miracle at St. AnnaSusanna Nicchiarelli
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ChiaraSix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
The Traitor
as Salvatore Contorno
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
The Best of Youth
as Nicola Carati
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
The Best of Youth
as Nicola Carati
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Miracle at St. Anna
as Angelo Torancelli (Adult)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The Best of Youth
as Nicola Carati
If the career had to be argued in a single scene, our editors would pick one from this film and rest the case.
In their films' words
“You can build a whole film around a performer who knows when not to speak. Luigi Lo Cascio has known it for a long time.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
Ours alone
Recognitions handed out by this desk, on criteria no awards body uses.
Modern Classic Performer
Awarded
Defining performances delivered inside the last twenty-five years, in films already being taught rather than merely remembered.
Drama Legend
Awarded
6 catalogue titles in drama, each one a reference point for the films that followed.
Our desk
Best ending, best opening, best twist and the rest — categories we apply to everyone we cover.
Best ending
The Best of Youth
as Nicola Carati
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Traitor
as Salvatore Contorno
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Best of Youth
as Nicola Carati
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Traitor
as Salvatore Contorno
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Best of Youth
as Nicola Carati
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Best of Youth
as Nicola Carati
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Baaria
as giovane con sindrome di Down
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Chiara
as Cardinale Ugolino / Papa Gregorio IX
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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