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Servillo in 2017
Born	Marco Antonio Servillo 25 January 1959 Afragola, Campania, Italy
Occupation	Film actor theatre actor theatre director opera director
Years active	1987–present

Marco Antonio "Toni" Servillo (Italian: [ˈtɔːni serˈvillo]; born 25 January 1959) 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. In 2020, The New York Times ranked him #7 on its list of the 25 Greatest Actors of the 21st Century.

Early life

Servillo was born on 25 January 1959 in Afragola, Campania. He is the brother of musician Peppe Servillo.

Career

Toni Servillo (right) in 2007, with the then President of the Italian Republic Giorgio Napolitano

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 and Ennio Doris in Sorrentino's Loro.

Personal life

Since the 1960s he has lived in Caserta, with his wife and his children.

Filmography

Film

Toni Servillo as Jep Gambardella in The Great Beauty

Key

Denotes films that have not yet been released

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
	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
	Noi credevamo	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
	L'uomo del labirinto	Bruno Genko
2021	The Hand of God	Saverio Schisa
	The King of Laughter	Eduardo Scarpetta
	Ariaferma	Gaetano Gargiuolo
2022	Exterior Night	Pope Paul VI
	Strangeness	Luigi Pirandello
2023	The First Day of My Life	The Man
2023	Adagio	Daytona
2024	Sicilian Letters	Catello

Television

Awards and nominations