Massimo Ranieri

Massimo Ranieri is an Italian singer, actor, television presenter and theatre directo known for Metello, which won him the David DiDonatello Award for Best Actor. He co-starred in the film La Sciantosa later that year. In 1974, he filmed Salvo D'Acquisto, where he portrayed a carabiniere who was executed by the Nazis during World War II.

In 1996, Ranieri provided the speaking and the singing voice of  Quasimodo in the Italian-Language version of Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

In 2004, he starred in his first French film, a trilogy series called Les Parisiens, where he played a street artist. In 2005, he returned on the stage with the show "Accussì Grande", after a long bout with illness, from which he fully recovered. In 2007, he was in a docu-film called Civico 0, where he played Guilano, a fruit vendor, who becomes homeless after the death of his mother. In 2008, he starred in the film L'Ultimo Pulcinella.

In 2009, he played the storyteller in the play, Polvere di Baghdad, directed by Maurizio Scaparro.