Giorgio Cantarini (born 12 April 1992) is an Italian actor who, to date, has appeared in two Academy Award winning films: Life Is Beautiful (1997) and Gladiator (2000).
Cantarini made his film debut in the 1997 Roberto Benigni directed comedy-drama Life is Beautiful, playing Benigni's four-year-old son 'Giosuè Orefice', who is sent with his Jewish-Italian father to a German concentration camp during World War II.
In 1998, Cantarini was nominated alongside his Life Is Beautiful castmates for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture and the same year he won the Young Artist Award.
In 2005, Cantarini competed in the second season of Ballando con le Stelle, the Italian reality television version of the series Dancing With The Stars.
In January 2020, he appeared in the show "Lions don't hug" at the Hudson Guild Theater in Chelsea, New York.