Toni Servillo
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 Il Divo and in 2013 for The Great Beauty, as well as winning the David di Donatello for Best Actor four times from 2002 to 2013.
Early life
Servillo was born 25 January 1959 in Afragola, Campania. He is the brother of musician Peppe Servillo.Career
His international breakthrough roles came in 2008 as Giulio Andreotti in Il Divo and Roberto's boss, Franco in Gomorrah. Both films were nominated in the Golden Palm awards.Between 2000 and 2007, he also directed several opera productions, including Cimarosa's Il marito disperato and Beethoven's Fidelio for the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, and Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov at the Teatro Nacional de São Carlos in Lisbon, where in 2003 he also staged Richard Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos.
In 2013, Servillo was selected as best actor at the 26th European Film Awards for his appearance in Paolo Sorrentino's film The Great Beauty.
In 2018 he portrayed Silvio Berlusconi in Loro.
Personal life
Since the 1960s he has lived in Caserta, with his wife and his children.Filmography
Film
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 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 | |
| 2001 | Red Moon | Amerigo | |
| 2004 | The Consequences of Love | Titta di Girolamo | |
| 2004 | Changing Destiny | Angelo Cardi | As Antonio Servillo |
| 2004 | Notte senza fine | Salem | |
| 2005 | Incidenti | Narrator | |
| 2007 | Il pianto della statua | Narrator | |
| 2007 | The Girl by the Lake | Giovanni Sanzio | |
| 2007 | Don't Waste Your Time, Johnny! | Maestro Domenico Falasco | |
| 2008 | Gomorrah | Franco | |
| 2008 | Il Divo | Giulio Andreotti | |
| 2008 | Non chiederci la parola | Narrator | |
| 2009 | L'ultima salita | Narrator | |
| 2009 | Deserto rosa | Narrator | |
| 2010 | Gorbaciof | Gorbaciof | |
| 2010 | Noi credevamo | Giuseppe Mazzini | |
| 2010 | A Quiet Life | Rosario Russo | |
| 2010 | A View of Love | Sergio Bartoli | |
| 2011 | The Jewel | Ernesto Botta | |
| 2012 | It Was the Son | Nicola Ciarlo | |
| 2012 | Dormant Beauty | Uliano Beffardi | |
| 2012 | Il viaggio della signorina Vila | Narrator | Short film |
| 2013 | Long Live Freedom | Enrico Oliveri / Giovanni Ernani | |
| 2013 | The Great Beauty | Jep Gambardella | |
| 2016 | The Confessions | Roberto Salus | |
| 2017 | Lasciati andare | Elia | |
| 2017 | The Girl in the Fog | Agente Vogel | |
| 2018 | Loro | Silvio Berlusconi / Ennio Doris | |
| 2019 | 5 is the Perfect Number | Peppino Lo Cicero | |
| 2019 | L'uomo del labirinto | Bruno Genko | - |