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Toni Servillo | |
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 Servillo in 2025 | |
| Born | Marco Antonio Servillo (1959-01-25)25 January 1959 (age 66) |
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| Years active | 1987–present |
| Website | www |
Marco Antonio "Toni"Servillo[1] (Italian:[ˈtɔːniserˈvillo]; born 25 January 1959) is an Italian actor and theatrical director.
He has won theEuropean Film Award for Best Actor twice, in 2008 for bothGomorrah andIl Divo and in 2013 forThe Great Beauty, as well as winning theDavid di Donatello for Best Actor four times between 2002 and 2013. In 2020,The New York Times ranked him #7 on its list of the 25 Greatest Actors of the 21st Century.[2]
Servillo was born on 25 January 1959 inAfragola,Campania. He is the brother of musicianPeppe Servillo.
His international breakthrough roles came in 2008 asGiulio Andreotti inIl Divo andRoberto's boss Franco inGomorrah. Both films were nominated in theGolden Palm awards.
Between 2000 and 2007, he also directed several opera productions,[1] includingCimarosa'sIl marito disperato and Beethoven'sFidelio for theTeatro di San Carlo in Naples, and Mussorgsky'sBoris Godunov at theTeatro Nacional de São Carlos in Lisbon, where in 2003 he also staged Richard Strauss'sAriadne auf Naxos.[3]
In 2013, Servillo was selected as best actor at the26th European Film Awards for his appearance inPaolo Sorrentino's filmThe Great Beauty.[4]
In 2018 he portrayedSilvio Berlusconi andEnnio Doris in Sorrentino'sLoro.
Since the 1960s he has lived inCaserta, with his wife and his children.
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| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 1992 | Death of a Neapolitan Mathematician | Pietro | |
| 1993 | Rasoi | Il guappo | Also screenwriter |
| 1997 | The Vesuvians | Mayor of Naples | Segment:La Salita |
| 1998 | Rehearsals for War | Franco Turco | |
| 2001 | One Man Up | Tony Pisapia | |
| Red Moon | Amerigo | ||
| 2004 | The Consequences of Love | Titta di Girolamo | |
| Changing Destiny | Angelo Cardi | As Antonio Servillo | |
| Notte senza fine | Salem | ||
| 2005 | Incidenti | Narrator (voice) | |
| 2007 | Il pianto della statua | ||
| The Girl by the Lake | Giovanni Sanzio | ||
| Don't Waste Your Time, Johnny! | Maestro Domenico Falasco | ||
| 2008 | Gomorrah | Franco | |
| Il Divo | Giulio Andreotti | ||
| Non chiederci la parola | Narrator (voice) | ||
| 2009 | L'ultima salita | ||
| Deserto rosa | |||
| 2010 | Gorbaciof | Gorbaciof | |
| We Believed | Giuseppe Mazzini | ||
| A Quiet Life | Rosario Russo | ||
| A View of Love | Sergio Bartoli | ||
| 2011 | The Jewel | Ernesto Botta | |
| 2012 | It Was the Son | Nicola Ciarlo | |
| Dormant Beauty | Uliano Beffardi | ||
| Il viaggio della signorina Vila | Narrator (voice) | Short film | |
| 2013 | Long Live Freedom | Enrico Oliveri / Giovanni Ernani | |
| The Great Beauty | Jep Gambardella | ||
| 2016 | The Confessions | Roberto Salus | |
| 2017 | Lasciati andare | Elia | |
| The Girl in the Fog | Agente Vogel | ||
| 2018 | Loro | Silvio Berlusconi /Ennio Doris | |
| 2019 | 5 is the Perfect Number | Peppino Lo Cicero | |
| Into the Labyrinth | Bruno Genko | ||
| 2021 | The Hand of God | Saverio Schisa | |
| The King of Laughter | Eduardo Scarpetta | [5] | |
| The Inner Cage | Gaetano Gargiuolo | ||
| 2022 | Exterior Night | Pope Paul VI | |
| Strangeness | Luigi Pirandello | ||
| 2023 | The First Day of My Life | The Man | |
| Adagio | Daytona | ||
| 2024 | Sicilian Letters | Catello | |
| 2025 | The Illusion | Vincenzo Giordano Orsini | |
| La grazia† | President Mariano De Santis |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 2004 | Sabato, domenica e lunedì | Peppino Priore | Television film |
| 2014 | Le voci di dentro | Antonio Saporito | Television film |
