Marco Antonio Servillo (), known as Toni Servillo, is an Italian actor and theatrical director. He has won the European Film Award for Best Actor twice, in 2008 for both '' Gomorrah'' and ''

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'' and in 2013 for ''

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'', as well as winning the

David di Donatello for Best Actor The David di Donatello Award for Best Actor (Italian: ''David di Donatello per il miglior attore protagonista'') is a film award presented annually by the Accademia del Cinema Italiano (ACI, ''Academy of Italian Cinema'') to recognize the outst ...

four times from 2002 to 2013. In 2020, ''

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'' ranked him #7 on its list of the 25 Greatest Actors of the 21st Century.

Early life

Servillo was born 25 January 1959 in

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. He is the brother of musician Peppe Servillo.

Career

His international breakthrough roles came in 2008 as Giulio Andreotti in ''

'' and

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's boss Franco in '' Gomorrah''. Both films were nominated in the

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awards. Between 2000 and 2007, he also directed several opera productions, including Cimarosa's ''Il marito disperato'' and Beethoven's ''

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'' for the

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in Naples, and Mussorgsky's '' Boris Godunov'' at the

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in Lisbon, where in 2003 he also staged Richard Strauss's ''

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''. In 2013, Servillo was selected as best actor at the 26th European Film Awards for his appearance in

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's film ''

''. In 2018 he portrayed

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and Ennio Doris in Sorrentino's '' Loro''.

Personal life

Since the 1960s he has lived in

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, with his wife and his children.

Filmography

Film

Television

Awards and nominations

References

External links

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