Carlo Gregorio Verdone (born 17 November 1950) is an Italian actor, screenwriter and film director.

His career was jumpstarted by his first three successes, Fun Is Beautiful (1980), Bianco, rosso e Verdone (1981) and Talcum Powder (1982).

Since the 1990s, he has been introducing more serious subjects in his work, linked to the excesses of society and the individual's hardships in confronting it; some examples are Damned the Day I Met You (1992), My Best Enemy (2006) and Me, Them and Lara (2010).

He used the same formula of the first work in 1981, when he directed Bianco, rosso e Verdone, a movie about three different men during election day in Italy.

The movie, produced by his mentor Sergio Leone, was very successful in Italy and had a soundtrack composed by Ennio Morricone.