[1] Born in Cosenza, Anselmo attended the Silvio D'Amico National Academy of Dramatic Arts and acted on stage, film and television.
[2] In 1995, he had a role in Mikael Håfström's film Vendetta, from Jan Guillou's novel of the same name and the following year, he started dubbing Nicolas Cage, which would later make him well-known to the Italian public as Cage's primary Italian voice.
Other actors dubbed by Anselmo include John Turturro, David Koechner, Philip Seymour Hoffman, John Ortiz, Woody Harrelson, Clark Gregg and more.
In his animated roles, he voiced Lilliss in the Winx Club films and dubbed Vinny Santorini in the Italian and Spanish editions of Atlantis: The Lost Empire, Rico in the Madagascar franchise, and Pepé the King Prawn in The Muppets since 2005.
Since the death of Vittorio Amandola in 2010, Anselmo took over as the Italian voice of Waylon Smithers in The Simpsons.