Max Martini

Cast · Director · Writer

Born

December 11, 1969 · Kingston, New York, USA

Birth name

Maximilian Carlo Martini

Max Martini was born in New York to an Italian father and an American mother. He is a citizen of the United States, Canada, and Italy and speaks Italian fluently. His Roman father was a sculptor and Doctor of Philosophy and Phenomenology and instilled in him an appreciation for all things creative. His mother was a Texas law enforcement officer. After moving around a bit as a child, Martini made his way back to New York City and began to study acting. He started out at the Neighborhood Playhouse intensive he but did the majority of his training with Michael Howard in Manhattan. After launching Theater North Collaborative (NYC) and staging new works from both the United States and Canada, Martini took a break from the stage to focus on his early love of fine art. He attended the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan where he received his BFA in painting and sculpture while working as an artist assistant to fine artist and film director Julian Schnabel. After completing university Martini began to work steadily in both film and television. Max Martini can be found starring the soon to be released feature films 'Bethesda' (2026), 'Flint'(2026)'Hollywood Grit'(2025),'Osiris' (2025) and season 2 of Taylor Sheridan's 'Lioness' with Nicole Kidman, Zoe Saldana and Morgan Freeman. Additionally, Martini starred in action feature 'The Channel'(2023) as well as season 2 of 'Bosch Legacy' (2023). Martini had a supporting lead in George Clooney's (dir) feature 'The Tender Bar'(2022) with Ben Affleck for Amazon Studios as well as starred in the recently aired USA network television series 'The Purge'. He also starred in the Netflix original movie 'Eli'. In 2019 he completed directing his second feature film 'The Manson Brothers Midnight Zombie Massacre'. His directorial debut; 'Sgt. Will Gardner' he starred in along with Omari Hardwick, Lily Rabe, Robert Patrick, Dermot Mulroney, Elisabeth Röhm and Gary Sinise. Martini starred in season one of the Netflix series 'The Order. Additionally, he starred in 'Bigger' (2019); the Joe Weider biopic, Michael Bay's '13 Hours', Guillermo Del Toro's 'Pacific Rim' and Paul Greengrass' 'Captain Phillips'. Martini is recognized from such films as Steven Spielberg's 'Saving Private Ryan', Robert Zemeckis' 'Contact', the 'Fifty Shades of Grey' trilogy, David Mamet's 'Red Belt', David Ayer's 'Sabotage' and the Legendary/Universal feature 'Spectral'. Max Martini also starred in the television series 'The Unit' which ran for four years on CBS.