Biography

Oreste Baldini (born 8 July 1962) is an Italian voice actor and voice 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 an adult dubbing in both animated and live-action films, including the Madagascar and Fast & Furious franchises. Born in Milan, Baldini made his big international screen debut at twelve years of age in 1974. He portrayed 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. He is the official Italian voice of John Cusack. He also dubbed Tim Roth, Seth Rogen, Ludacris, Crispin Glover, Johnny Depp and David Arquette 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 and Quackerjack in Darkwing Duck.

Baldini works at C.D. Cine Dubbing, LaBibi.it, Dubbing Brothers, Pumaisdue, and other Italian dubbing studios. He is the brother of voice actors Antonella, Rita and Nanni Baldini.