Dario Cantarelli (born 16 September 1945) is an Italian actor.

He began his acting career on stage in 1973 with Carlo Cecchi's Granteatro company, playing roles in plays by William Shakespeare (Antony and Cleopatra), Eduardo De Filippo (Filumena Marturano), Molière, Luigi Pirandello, Harold Pinter and Bertolt Brecht.^[1] During those same years, he began acting in movies, directed by filmmakers such as Nanni Moretti, Marco Bellocchio, Paolo Sorrentino^[2] and the Taviani brothers.

He also works with the Ater company in Alexandr Vasiljevič Suchovo-Kobylin's The Vampire of St. Petersburg and Italo Svevo's La burla riuscita. Later, with Valeria Moriconi's company, he took part in Eduardo De Filippo's Filumena Marturano, Hugo von Hofmannsthal's The Knight of the Rose, William Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, Victorien Sardou and Émile Moreau's Madame Sans-Gêne, Thomas Bernhard's Alla meta, and Aldo Palazzeschi's Interrogatorio della contessa Maria.

He flanked his career as a theater actor, with a film career, working with directors such as Marco Bellocchio, Nanni Moretti, Daniele Luchetti, Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, Pupi Avati and Paolo Sorrentino. He also worked for television taking part in the series Un commissario a Roma with Nino Manfredi.

• A commissioner in Rome - TV series (1993)
• Linda and the brigadier - TV series, one episode (2000)
• I am Gaetano, directed by Rolando Colla - TV movie (2016)
• 1993, by Giuseppe Gagliardi - TV series, episode 2x01 (2017)