Francesco Cabras (born 27 May 1966, in Rome) is an Italian actor and film director. He played the role of Gesmas on Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ,[1] the chief of the rebels in Kurt Wimmer's Equilibrium, and Grigori Rasputin in Louis Nero's 2011 film Rasputin.[2]
He is currently working as a director, writer, cinematographer, cameraman and producer. His acting debut won him the 1996 Nanni Moretti's Sacher Festival Award for best leading actor.
He directed, together with Alberto Molinari, The Big Question, a feature documentary selected at AFI Festival in Los Angeles[3] about the faith and the perception of the divine distributed by ThinkFilm. The film was originally produced by Mel Gibson.