Oreste Baldini

Oreste Baldini is an Italian actor, voice actor and dubbing director. After entering the film industry as a child performing in The Godfather Part II and The Flower in His Mouth, he later found a successful career as a voice actor in both animated and live action films.

Biography

Born in Milan and the brother of voice actors Antonella, Rita and Nanni, Oreste Baldini made his international screen debut at twelve years of age in 1974, portraying Vito Corleone as a child in the opening scenes of The Godfather Part II, also acting in the film The Flower in His Mouth the following year.
Besides performing a few other film and television roles, Baldini later found success as a voice actor, dubbing characters into the Italian language and voicing Italian animated characters. He regularly dubs John Cusack in Italian and has dubbed Ken Jeong, Noah Taylor, David Arquette, Ludacris, Tim Roth, Seth Rogen, and Johnny Depp in some of their movies. Baldini's Italian voice dubbing roles include Madagascar (franchise) characters#King Julien XIII|King Julien XIII] in the Madagascar films, Shaggy Rogers in Scooby-Doo, Courage in Courage the Cowardly Dog, Sideshow Mel in The Simpsons, Quackerjack in Darkwing Duck, George McFly in Back to the Future, Dewey Riley in the Scream saga, List of [Fast & Furious characters#Tej Parker|Tej Parker] in the Fast & Furious franchise, and Leslie Chow in The Hangover films. Baldini works at C.D. Cine Dubbing, LaBibi.it, Dubbing Brothers, Pumaisdue, and other Italian dubbing studios.
Baldini is also a sculptor and painter, showcasing in Rome, Milan, Tokyo and New York. In 2019, some works of his appeared at the Museo nazionale etrusco di Villa Giulia in the exhibition Acqua, focused on environmentalism, followed by Bastabuste in 2021 with the painting Dantenostrum. Inferni in terra, a 40-meters tribute to Dante Alighieri. He has designed sets for theatre plays.