Claudio Santamaria is an Italian actor; in 2016 he was awarded the David di Donatello for Best Actor award for portraying the superhero Enzo "Jeeg" Ceccotti in They Call Me Jeeg.
His cinema debut came in 1997, with Leonardo Pieraccioni's Fuochi d'artificio. His first important film roles are in Gabriele Muccino's first film Ecco fatto, and in the films Marco Risi's L'ultimo capodanno and Bernardo Bertolucci's L'assedio.
He played the terrorist Carlos in Casino Royale. He was also the voice of Christian Bale in the Italian version of Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, The Dark Knight Rises and the voice of Eric Bana in Munich.
