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
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,
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. == Filmography ==