Toni Servillo
Toni Servillo ( born August 9, 1959 in Afragola ) is an Italian actor and theater director. The self-taught artist began his career in the 1970s in the Neapolitan theater and a wide audience from the 1990s became known as a film actor. For his minimalist illustrations that evoked comparisons to Buster Keaton, he was awarded several prizes in his home country.
Biography
Education and theater work
Toni Servillo was born in the Province of Naples in 1959. In the 1960s, he moved with his family to Caserta. Fascinated since childhood by the Acting Servillo visited a boarding school, but graduated from high school at a state school. The autodidact who never went to drama school, was in the 1970s, for the first time in Bertolt Brecht The Visions of Simone Machard in the theater and founded in 1977 in Caserta, the avant-garde theater Teatro Studio. At this he worked as a director and actor in plays such as Propaganda ( 1979), Norma ( 1982 ) and Billy Liar (1983 ) with, in which he went on tour in Italy and in other European countries. For the self-written one-act plays Guernica, in which he directed the film and played the lead role, won the Premio Servillo Gennaro Vitiello.
From the year 1986, Servillo joined the free -known Neapolitan theater group Falso Movimento by Mario Martone. Under Martone he played in the play Ritorno ad Alphaville and showed himself for the work E. .. texts by Eduardo De Filippo responsible. The oeuvre of the Italian actor and author inspired Servillo in the following years to other theater productions. These include Ha da passa a nuttata (1989) and the winner of the Premio Gassman production Sabato, domenica e lunedì (2002 ), which he began with the 1987 co-founded in Theatres Uniti scene. In addition to traditional materials of the Neapolitan theater itself Servillo also ventured on such well-known foreign authors such as Moliere ( The Misanthrope, 1995; Tartuffe, 2000) or Marivaux (Les Fausses confidences, 1998) approach. In Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro (2000 ), Richard Strauss' Ariadne auf Naxos (2003) and Ludwig van Beethoven's Fidelio (2005 ), he also staged classical operas on Italian and Portuguese stages.
Film career
Parallel to his work in the theater celebrated Servillo early 1990s under the direction of his companions Mario Martone his debut as a film actor. On the side of Carlo Cecchi and Anna Bonajuto he was napoletano to see 1992 in the award-winning drama Morte di un Matematico, which further roles in feature films martone Rasoi (1993) and Teatro di guerra (1998) followed. His breakthrough as a film actor in Italy paved for him by working with the young writer-director Paolo Sorrentino, with whom he collaborated for the first time in 2001 at L' uomo in più. In the drama that was inspired by the biographies of the musician Franco Califano and Agostino Di Bartolomei soccer player, Servillo slipped together with Andrea Renzi in the role of a pair of brothers whose successful careers followed in the 1980s, the economic and social crash. For the part of the singer Tony Pisapia, who takes refuge in drug addiction and in a relationship with an underage girl, the experimental actor David di Donatello and the Nastro d' Argento of Sindacato Nazionale Giornalisti Cinematografici Italiani was the first time for the most important Italian film awards, nominated.
This success Servillo was able to build three years later with the title role in Le conseguenze dell'amore Sorrentino, who was represented in 2004 in competition at the 57th Cannes Film Festival. The acclaimed by German critics as subtle and elegant character study about a reclusive money launderers who pursues for years in a hotel in Italian-speaking Switzerland of his work was in 2005 with the David di Donatello award as the best Italian film of the year. Likewise, high praise from the critics received Servillo who was awarded for his " masterful minimalism " that some recalled Buster Keaton with the Italian film award Nastro d'Argento and the.
His biggest success came the actor in 2008. At the 61st Cannes Film Festival, he was represented with leading roles in two films in competition for the Golden Palm. Directed by Matteo Garrone Servillo acted in the best-selling film Gomorrah - journey into the realm of the Camorra as maliziöser Campanian waste manager for the hochlobte him the German Tagesspiegel as minimalist comedian in the style of Buster Keaton. In Paolo Sorrentino's Il Divo political satire of the actors mimed a mask and with jerky movements seven-time Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti, which is also said to have links with the mafia. The Italian was then as favorites for the Best Actor award, but had opposite Benicio del Toro ( Revolución and Guerrilla ) in the cold, which was awarded for his performance as Che Guevara. Months later Servillo also received Il Divo enforce the European Film Award for Best Actor and was able to hold such well-known colleagues such as James McAvoy ( Atonement ) and Mads Mikkelsen ( day of wrath ) for both as Gomorrah. Also in 2008, he was for the lead role of the taciturn Kriminalkommissar in Andrea Molaiolis La ragazza del lago, the film adaptation of a novel by Karin Fossum, honored with his second David di Donatello. A year later he was again awarded the David di Donatello and Nastro d' Argento for the his performance in Il Divo.
The repeated association with Sorrentino assured him that Contribute to its internationally previously known film La Grande Bellezza - The great beauty celebrated on 21 May 2013 for the framework of the 66th International Film Festival of Cannes premiered and won, among others, in 2014 each Oscar and Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2013, and four awards at the European Film Awards, one of which was again presented to Servillo personally for Best Actor. Among the other nominees this time were, among others, Jew Law and Tom Schilling.
Servillo is married to Manuela La Manna since 1990. His brother is the singer Peppe Servillo, with whom he perdere in Fabrizio Bentivoglios feature film Lascia 2007 together, Johnny! standing in front of the camera.
Filmography (selection)
Awards (selection)
Angers European First Film Festival
- 2002: Jean- Carmet price for L' uomo in più
David di Donatello
- 2002: nominated for Best Actor for L' uomo in più
- 2005: Best Actor for Le conseguenze dell'amore
- 2008: Best Actor for La ragazza del lago
- 2009: Best Actor for Il Divo
European Film Awards
- 2005: nominated for the Audience Award for Best Actor for Le conseguenze dell'amore
- 2008: Best Actor for Gomorrah - journey into the realm of the Camorra and Il Divo
- 2013: Best Actor for La Grande Bellezza - The great beauty
Sindacato Nazionale Giornalisti Cinematografici Italiani
- 2002: nominated for the Nastro d' Argento Best Actor for L' uomo in più
- 2005: Nastro d' Argento Best Actor for Le conseguenze dell'amore
- 2009: Nastro d' Argento Best Actor for Il Divo
- 2011: nominated for the Nastro d' Argento Best Actor for a quiet life and Il gioiellino
International Film Festival of Venice
- 2007: Pasinetti Award for Best Actor for La ragazza del lago
International Film Festival of Locarno
- 2009: Excellence Award for Lifetime Achievement
Awards for La Grande Bellezza - The great beauty
- Oscar 2014: Best Foreign Language Film
- European Film Awards 2013: Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor ( Toni Servillo ) and Best Editing
- Nastro d' Argento Best Supporting Actress ( Sabrina Ferilli ), Best Supporting Actor (Carlo Verdone ), Best Sound ( Emanuele Cecere )
- Golden Globe Awards 2014: Best Foreign Language Film
- British Academy Film Awards 2014: Best Foreign Language Film