Oreste Baldini

Oreste Baldini (born 8 July 1962) 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.

Born in Milan, Baldini made his big 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. A year later, he returned to Italy and acted in the film The Flower in His Mouth.

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, Crispin Glover, and Johnny Depp in some of their movies. Baldini's Italian voice dubbing roles include 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, Linus Riley in the Scream saga, 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 ("Water"), focused on environmentalism, followed by Bastabuste ("Stop plastic bags") in 2021 with the painting Dantenostrum. Inferni in terra, a 40-meters tribute to Dante Alighieri. He has designed sets for theatre plays.

He is the brother of voice actors Antonella, Rita and Nanni Baldini.