Filippo Timi, born 27 February 1974, is known for his versatility in the Italian entertainment scene as an actor, director, and writer. He has won various awards including the ‘Best Actor under 30’ at the 2004 UBU Awards, the prime accolade for Italian theatre. His roles have featured a plethora of characters like Orpheus, Danton, Perceval, Cupid, Hamlet, and Satan. Despite personal challenges like stuttering and partial blindness, Timi has proven his prowess across various domains including TV, film, theatre, magazines, and musical shows. He's also authored best-seller trilogy, published between 2006 and 2008, featuring an intense love for life, sketched through an ironically vivid and phantasmagoric lens.

His film career skyrocketed with roles in Ferzan Ozpetek's Saturn in Opposition and Saverio Costanzo's In Memory of Me, earning him a nomination for a best supporting actor award by the Italian Syndicate of Film Journalists. He appeared in high-profile roles in films by directors like Wilma Labate and Giuliano Montaldo, eventually clinching the Best Actor award for his role in Gabriele Salvatores' As God Commands. Since 2009, Timi's works have featured in major festivals, playing the young Benito Mussolini in Vincere by Marco Bellocchio at Cannes, and winning the Coppa Volpi at the Venice International Film Festival for The Double Hour. He made his English-language debut in Anton Corbijn's The American alongside George Clooney. He had also dubbed for prominent Hollywood figures like Tom Hardy in The Dark Knight Rises.