Gaetano Aronica

Actor

September 30, 1963 (62 years)

Agrigento, Sicily, Italy

Biography

Gaetano Aronica (born 30 September 1963, in Agrigento) is an Italian actor known for playing the Roman general Varus in the 2020 Netflix television series Barbarians. He also starred in Malèna (2000), Il Capo dei Capi (2007) and Baarìa (2009). Description above from the Wikipedia article Gaetano Aronica, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

6.3

Father Matteo

Ernesto Berti

Don Matteo is a thoroughly ordinary Catholic priest with an extraordinary ability to read people and solve crimes. He’s a parish priest who never met an unjustly accused person he didn’t want to help.

7.5

Malena

Nino Scordia

12-year-old Renato experiences three significant events on the same day: the beginning of the Second World War, getting a bike, and witnessing the arrival of the gorgeous Malèna. Through his eyes, we see the curse of beauty and loneliness of Malena, whose husband is presumed dead, and, through his soul, we see his love for her.

7.3

Barbarians

Varus

Three people's fates are interwoven in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest in 9 A.D., during which Germanic warriors halt the spread of the Roman Empire.

7.9

Corleone

Paolo Borsellino

The story of Salvatore Riina, a mafioso boss from Corleone, Sicily.

7.2

Anti-Mafia Squad

avvocato Cifalà

Fighting a modern, fragmented and brutal Mafia, the Sicilian Anti-Mafia Squad seeks to crush the criminal network that holds a death grip on the region. Sophisticated surveillance helps, unless the enemy lies within.

4.7

Squad Team

Questore Longhi

Set in Rome, it is a spin-off of the series Distretto di Polizia, which aired on the same network from 2000 to 2012, reprising the character of Roberto Ardenzi, played by the protagonist Giorgio Tirabassi.

7.2

Baaria

Ciccio Terranuova

In 1920s Bagheria, Giuseppe 'Peppino' Torrenuova works as a shepherd to financially help his poor family. Over the next fifty years, Giuseppe's life, as well as the life of the village, is observed. Giuseppe grows up, joins the Communist Party, marries a local girl, has children, and forges a political career for himself.

8.0

On My Skin

P.M. - Tribunale

The incredible true story behind the most controversial Italian court cases in recent years. Stefano Cucchi was arrested for a minor crime and mysteriously found dead during his detention. In one week's time, a family is changed forever.

N/A

La leggenda del bandito e del campione

Padre di Costante

It is 1926 when the famous cyclist Costante Girardengo finds himself in Paris for an important race; his friend Sante Pollastri, a bandit wanted in Italy and France, is also in the French capital. The destinies of the two seem to come together again.

2.0

Paolo VI - Il Papa nella tempesta

Aldo Moro

No description available

4.8

The Final Inquiry

alto prelato

In 35 A.D., a Roman tribune is sent to Palestine to investigate the death and possible resurrection of a certain Jesus from Nazareth.

N/A

Deadly Game

Losarno (2013)

Police detective Olivia uses the help of Natasha, a gambling addict, to dismantle a network of illegal gambling houses.

6.0

Come un delfino

avvocato Sciacca, padre di Bibbi

A man is forced to retire from competitive swimming due to a heart condition.

6.5

Amiche da morire

Tonino

Gilda has long since moved to a small southern island and earns her living as a prostitute in a context suspended between retrograde traditions and modernity. During one summer, his destiny intersects with that of Olivia and Crocetta, two women from the area, the former a happy wife and the latter an ugly, unlucky wife. The three are forced by fortuitous circumstances to come together to save themselves but their behavior attracts the suspicions of Nino Malachia, a brusque police commissioner who is convinced that they are hiding something.

5.8

White Wolf

Dottore Scarrone

No description available

7.1

A Woman of Courage

Antonino Caponnetto

Felicia Impastato, mother of the brave Peppino Impastato, tries to keep the memory of his son alive after his murder.

7.0

Before the Night

Lo Certo

The life and times of Pippo Fava, a Sicilian journalist who fought the Mafia through his local newspaper in the '70s and early '80s, meeting an untimely end.

7.5

Con il fiato sospeso

A passionate pharmacy student gradually realizes that her university's chemistry lab poses a health and safety hazard.

5.9

Three Days of Anarchy

Salvatore

The three days power vacuum in a Sicilian village shortly after the American landing in Sicily in July 1943.

N/A

Un'Avventura Romantica

Carlo Rustichelli

No description available