Marcello Fonte
Born	1978 (age 46–47) Melito di Porto Salvo,Calabria, Italy
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1997–present

Marcello Fonte (born 1978) is an Italian actor. He received theCannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor for his role in the filmDogman.

Fonte lived his childhood and adolescence in the suburbs ofReggio Calabria, where at the age of 10 he learned to play the snare drum in the town's band. He then moved toRome in 1999, where he worked as guardian^{[further explanation needed]} at theTeatro Valle. Here he became passionate about acting, and was given small parts in television and film productions.^[1]

In 2018, Fonte received critical acclaim for his performance inMatteo Garrone'sDogman^[2] and was awarded theBest Actor Award at the2018 Cannes Film Festival.^[3] He was also awarded theEuropean Film Award for Best Actor at the31st European Film Awards for his performance in this film.^[4]

• Unfair Competition (2001)
• The Order (2003)
• Blood of the Losers (2008)
• Heavenly Body (2011)
• Asino vola (2015)
• Dogman (2018)
• Io sono Tempesta (2018)
• Pinocchio (2019)
• Vivere (2019)
• The New Gospel (2020)^[5]
• The Turning Point (2022)
• Il sesso degli angeli (2022)

• Stracult (2001)
• Don Matteo (2001)
• Diritto di difesa (2004)
• The Mafia Kills Only in Summer (2016)
• I Know This Much Is True (2020)

• Marcello Fonte atIMDb

• 1978 births
• 20th-century Italian male actors
• 21st-century Italian male actors
• Living people
• Italian male film actors
• Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor winners
• Best Actor European Film Award winners
• People from Melito di Porto Salvo
• Male actors from Calabria

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