Andrea Di Stefano

Andrea Di Stefano is an Italian actor and film director from Rome who trained at the Actors Studio in New York City and appeared in the independent movie Smile, directed by Andrew Hunt. He took the lead in Marco Bellocchio's The Prince of Homburg (1997), which entered the Cannes Film Festival in 1997, and later worked with Dario Argento, Alex Infascelli, Roberta Torre and Ferzan Özpetek, playing Giancarlo in the latter's Sacred Heart. His television work included Fabrizio Canepa in Ama il tuo nemico in 1999 and Giacomo Pogliani in Medicina generale in 2007. In Life of Pi (2012), an Academy Award-winning film, he played a priest, and he was Philip Catelli in At War for Love (2016). He wrote and directed his first feature, Escobar: Paradise Lost, in 2014, then co-wrote and directed The Informer in 2019. He also directed Last Night of Amore, screened at the 2023 Berlin Film Festival, and the 2025 sports drama My Tennis Maestro.