Gian Piero Rotoli grew up in Naples and then moved to New York with his parents where he graduated from The Dwight high school in 1996. He then moved back to Rome where he started his training as an actor at Duse Studio International, held by Francesca De Sapio, and also graduated with honors at John Cabot University in English Literature. In 2005 was cast by Giorgio Capitani for the TV movie Callas e Onassis (2005), starring Luisa Ranieri and Gérard Darmon and few months later he was also cast by John Kent Harrison for another TV movie: Pope John Paul II (2005), starring Jon Voight.