Roberto Benigni as Guido

Nicoletta Braschi as Dora

Giorgio Cantarini as Giosué

Giustino Durano as Zio

Sergio Bini Bustric as Ferruccio

Marisa Paredes as Dora's Mother

Horst Buchholz as Doctor Lessing

Lidia Alfonsi as Mrs. Guicciardini

Giuliana Lojodice as School Principal

Amerigo Fontani as Rodolfo

Pietro De Silva as Bartolomeo

Francesco Guzzo as Vittorino

Raffaella Lebboroni as Elena

Claudio Alfonsi as Rodolfo's Friend

Gil Baroni as Prefect

Massimo Bianchi as Man with Key

Jürgen Bohn as German Party Attendant

Verena Buratti as German Auxilliary

Robert Camero as German Executioner

Ennio Consalvi as General Graziosi

Giancarlo Cosentino as Waiter Ernesto

Aaron Craig as US Tank Driver

Alfiero Falomi as King

Daniela Fedke as German Auxiliary

Antonio Fommei as School Janitor

Stefano Frangipani as Card Player

Ernst Frowein Holger as German Sergeant

Alessandra Grassi as Teacher

Hannes Hellmann as German Corporal

Wolfgang Hillinger as German Major at Party

Margarita Lucia Krauss as Female Soldier at Children's Dinner

Patrizia Lazzarini as 1st Lady at the Grand Hotel

Maria Letizia as 2nd Lady at the Grand Hotel

Concetta Lombardo as Gigliola

Maria Rita Macellari as Regina

Carlotta Mangione as Eleonora

Franco Mescolini as Public Education Inspector

Francesca Messinese as Lady at the Opera

Inger Lise Middelthon as German Auxiliary

Andrea Nardi as Upholsterer

Günther Pfanzelter as German Soldier

Cristiana Porchiella as Spinster Teacher

Antonio Prester as Bruno

Gina Rovere as Dora's Maid

Laura Susanne Ruedeberg as German Auxilliary

Massimo Salvianti as Policeman in Stationery Shop

Richard Sammel as German Lieutenant at Station

James Schindler as Solid German

Andrea Tidona as Grand Hotel Doorman

Dirk van den Berg as German Soldier

Giovanna Villa as Common Secretary

Omero Antonutti as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Adelaide Alaïs as German Auxilliary (uncredited)

Daniela Fedtke as German Auxiliary (uncredited)