Giacomo Gianniotti was born in Rome, Italy June 19th, 1989. He immigrated with his family at a young age and grew up in Toronto. Giacomo splits his time in the year between Toronto, Canada and Rome, Italy, working in: stage, film, and television. He is a bilingual actor working both in English and Italian. He graduated from Humber College's Theatre Program and has also completed an actor's residency at Norman Jewison's Canadian Film Centre, in Toronto.

His first experience in film was a small role in a Giulio Base's feature film featuring Shelley Winters and Vittorio Gassman, shot in "Cinecitta" in Rome.