Daniel Caltagirone was born on June 18, 1972 in London, where he attended St Ignatius College, Enfield.
Caltagirone went on to attend the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, graduating in 1997. It was during his last year at Guildhall that he was discovered by an ITV talent scout and cast as a lead in Ruth Rendell's Going Wrong. He finished filming his first role in a cinema movie, Legionnaire, alongside Jean-Claude Van Damme in the summer of 1998.
Shortly after, he spent a season at the Royal Shakespeare Company. Whilst at the RSC he was spotted by director Danny Boyle and cast as Unhygenix in The Beach starring Leonardo Di Caprio Before commencing work on The Beach, he joined the cast of Friends for a role in "The One with Ross's Wedding", shot mostly in London. In 1999, he was cast by Guy Ritchie as one of the leads in Lock Stock, the TV spin off to hit British film Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.
Caltagirone then starred in Roman Polanski's The Pianist which went on to win an array of international awards, including Academy Awards for Best Actor, Best Director and Best Screen Play.


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