Carmine Recano

Carmine Recano — Biography

Carmine Recano is a Neapolitan actor working in Italian television and cinema. He is best known for playing Commander Massimo Esposito in the series Mare Fuori (The Sea Beyond) from 2020 to 2023, and on the big screen he is a familiar face in the films of director Ferzan Özpetek.

He was born in Naples and grew up in the Secondigliano district; his father was a baker and his mother a homemaker. He fell into acting by chance at seventeen, when he went with a friend to an audition. His first film role came in 2001 with The Ignorant Fairies (Cahil Periler). Later came Aşk ve Cinayet Eğitimi Gören Bazı Çocuklar (2006) and Özpetek's Loose Cannons (Serseri Mayınlar, 2010), in which he played Marco.

He kept working with Özpetek: he played Domenico in Naples in Veils (2017), then appeared in The Goddess of Fortune (2019) and Diamonds (2024). In 2025 he took the part of Massimiliano Tamburi in the series Sara: Woman in the Shadows and also appeared in Noi del Rione Sanità. He shared the casts of Loose Cannons and Diamonds with Elena Sofia Ricci. He has worked for some twenty years in both cinema and television and is married with two children.