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Movie Stars

Italian and Italian-American movie stars and what they cook, open and order — from Tucci's regional obsessions to De Niro's restaurants and Loren's Neapolitan recipes. Live headlines from public news feeds, paired with the best public clips.

6 movie stars tracked

Sophia Loren

Screen legend and cookbook author

The face of Italian cinema also wrote In Cucina con Amore and Recipes & Memories — Neapolitan home cooking, told through her own life. Famously said everything she has she owes to spaghetti.

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Robert De Niro

Actor and restaurateur

Co-founder of Nobu and Tribeca Grill, with an Italian-American table at the center of half his filmography. One of the few actors who is genuinely a restaurant operator.

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Al Pacino

Actor

The Godfather taught a generation how to brown sausage and add a little wine — the most quoted Italian-American cooking scene ever filmed.

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Monica Bellucci

Actress

Umbrian to the core, Bellucci talks openly about olive oil, truffles and the long family lunches of Città di Castello whenever the subject turns to food.

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Giancarlo Giannini

Actor

A fixture of Italian cinema whose on-screen tables — Wertmüller, Bond, Hannibal — are as memorable as his performances, and a vocal defender of traditional Ligurian cooking.

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Roberto Benigni

Actor and director

Tuscany's loudest ambassador. Life Is Beautiful put an Italian family table on the Oscars stage, and his riffs on Tuscan bread and wine are their own genre.

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Questions readers ask

Which movie stars are covered on this page?
We track Stanley Tucci, Sophia Loren, Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Monica Bellucci, Giancarlo Giannini and other Italian and Italian-American actors and directors whose food stories are worth following.
How often does the movie star food news update?
Headlines refresh continuously from public news feeds and are re-checked every few minutes, so each star's block shows their latest food, restaurant and cooking stories.
Where do the videos come from?
Each star block shows the best-matching public YouTube clips — cooking segments, restaurant features and interviews. Nothing loads until you press play.
Which Italian movie stars actually cook?
Stanley Tucci and Sophia Loren have both published cookbooks, Robert De Niro co-founded Nobu and Tribeca Grill, Danny DeVito makes limoncello, and Isabella Rossellini runs a working farm.

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