Marcello Vincenzo Domenico Mastroianni, Knight Grand Cross
(Italian pronunciation: [mar t llo mastro janni]; 28 September 1924 - 19 December 1996)
was an Italian film actor. His prominent films include La Dolce Vita; 8'; La Notte; Divorce, Italian Style; A Special Day; Stay As You Are; City of Women; and Dark Eyes. His honours included British Film Academy Awards, Best Actor awards at the Cannes Film Festival and two Golden Globe Awards.

Mastroianni was born in Fontana Liri, a small village in the Apennines in the province of Frosinone, Lazio, and grew up in Turin and Rome. He was the son of Ida (n'e Irolle) and Ottone Mastroianni, who ran a carpentry shop, and the nephew of the Italian sculptor Umberto Mastroianni (1910-1998). During World War II, after the division into Axis and Allied Italy, he was interned in a loosely guarded German prison camp, from which he escaped to hide in Venice. His brother Ruggero Mastroianni (1929-1996) was a highly regarded film editor who not only edited a number of his brother's films, but appeared alongside Marcello in Scipione detto anche l'Africano, a spoof of the once popular peplum/sword and sandal film genre released in 1971.