Tomas Milian

Tomas Milian fascinates me because his story crosses three film cultures. A Cuban who trained at the Actors Studio in New York, then planted himself in Italy in the late 1950s, he became a fixture of Italian cinema while keeping ties to American work. That Nastro d'Argento for Best Supporting Actor signals he wasn't just a transplanted face but someone Italian critics genuinely respected. I read the long list of crafts here, actor, screenwriter, voice work, as the mark of a restless performer who refused to be boxed in. Living until 2017, he had decades to build that reputation, and the relocation gamble clearly paid off.

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Name (English)

Tomas Milian

Name (Japanese)

トーマス・ミリアン

Reading

とーます・みりあん

Born

March 3, 1933 – March 22, 2017

Origin

Havana, Havana Province, Cuba

Occupation

film actor / television actor / screenwriter / stage actor / voice actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Rooster

Awards & achievements

• Nastro d'Argento for Best Supporting Actor

• Official sitehttps://www.tomasmilian.it
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomas%20Milian
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%88%E3%83%BC%E3%83%9E%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9F%E3%83%AA%E3%82%A2%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q432638

Tags

• Havana Province
• film actor
• television actor
• screenwriter

Last updated

September 18, 2026

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.