Toni Servillo
Italian actor (born 1959)
Marco Antonio "Toni" Servillo (Italian: [ˈtɔːni serˈvillo]; born 25 January 1959) is an Italian actor and theatrical director.2
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Born Jan 25, 1959.1
About
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 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.
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Companies
- Teatri UnitiFounder16
Early life and education
Servillo was born on 25 January 1959 in Afragola, Campania. He is the brother of musician Peppe Servillo.
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Career
Occupation: screenwriter, director, theatre director, film actor, actor.4
- Date not recordedFounded Teatri Uniti3
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.
Servillo has frequently collaborated with director Paolo Sorrentino, notably portraying Italian political figures such as Giulio Andreotti in Il Divo (2008) and Silvio Berlusconi in Loro (2018). In 2013, he was selected as Best Actor at the 26th European Film Awards for his performance in The Great Beauty. He later appeared in The Hand of God (2021). In 2025, he starred in La grazia, for which he won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor at the 82nd Venice International Film Festival.
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Personal life
Since the 1960s he has lived in Caserta, with his wife and his children.
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Awards
- 2026CineMerit Award9 13
- 2025Volpi Cup for Best Actor for La grazia9 12
- 2013European Film Award for Best Actor for The Great Beauty9 11
- 2008European Film Award for Best Actor for Gomorrah, Il Divo9 10
- Date not recordedCiak d'oro - Best Lead Actor9
- Date not recordedDavid di Donatello for Best Actor9
- Date not recordedFlaiano Prizes for Theatre9
- Date not recordedHystrio Award9
- Date not recordedNastro d'Argento Lifetime Achievement Award9
- Date not recordedNastro d'Argento Special9
- Date not recordedNastro d'Argento for Best Actor9
- Date not recordedUbu Prize9
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- 1WikidataToni Servillo on Wikidata
- 2WikipediaToni Servillo on Wikipedia
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- 10Wikidataaward, as reported
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- 15WikidataToni Servillo: IMDb, on Wikidata
- 16WikidataTeatri Uniti, Founder
- 17Wikimedia CommonsToni Servillo photo by Unknown author Unknown author, Attribution