[1] He won the David di Donatello for Best Actor in 2019 for his portrayal of building surveyor Stefano Cucchi, a victim of police brutality, in the film On My Skin.

He gained international attention for his leading role in the Netflix crime series Suburra: Blood on Rome (2017–2020) and his portrayal of Stefano Cucchi in On My Skin (2018), which earned him the David di Donatello Award for Best Actor.

He then starred in the international drama Devils (2020), as a high-powered financier alongside Patrick Dempsey, in the David di Donatello winning The Eight Mountains, and in the biographical series Supersex (2024) as Italian adult film actor Rocco Siffredi.

[10] He then starred in the Italian historical epic The First King, produced by Rai Cinema,[11] directed by Matteo Rovere, and co-starring with Alessio Lapice.

In 2020, he starred in the international co-production Devils, a television series based on the novel of the same name by Guido Maria Brera and set in the world of high finance in London.