 He is the son of Fabio Calenda, a journalist, and Cristina Comencini, a film director and screenwriter, and the grandson of Luigi Comencini, a popular director of Italian comedy movies, and Giulia Grifeo di Partanna, descended from an ancient aristocratic family from Sicily.In 1983, at the age of ten years, he played the lead role in an Italian movie "Cuore", directed by his grandfather, Luigi Comencini.During his adolescence, his aristocratic background did not prevent him from joining the Italian Communist Youth Federation (FGCI).