| Birth date | 25 January 1959 (age 67) |
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| Birth place | Afragola, Campania, Italy |
| Birth name | Marco Antonio Servillo |
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| Years active | 1987–present |
| Website | www.toniservillo.it |
Marco Antonio "Toni" Servillo[1] (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 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.[2]
Early life
Servillo was born on 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,[1] 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.[3]
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.[4] 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.[5]
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 | |
| 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 | |
| We Believed | 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 | |
| Into the Labyrinth | Bruno Genko | ||
| 2021 | The Hand of God | Saverio Schisa | |
| The King of Laughter | Eduardo Scarpetta | [6] | |
| The Inner Cage | Gaetano Gargiuolo | ||
| 2022 | Exterior Night | Pope Paul VI | |
| Strangeness | Luigi Pirandello | ||
| 2023 | The First Day of My Life | The Man | |
| Adagio | Daytona | ||
| 2024 | Sicilian Letters | Catello | |
| 2025 | The Illusion | Vincenzo Giordano Orsini | |
| La grazia | President Mariano De Santis |
Television
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | Sabato, domenica e lunedì | Peppino Priore | Television film |
| 2014 | Le voci di dentro | Antonio Saporito | Television film |
Awards and nominations
References
- ^ Roberti, Bruno (2015). "Servillo, Toni" (in it-IT). Enciclopedia Italiana - IX Appendice. Treccani. Archived 21 June 2019 at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ Dargis, Manohla & Scott, A.O. (25 November 2020). "The 25 greatest actors of the 21st century (so far)". The New York Times. Retrieved 22 December 2020.
- ^ "Biografia" (in it-IT). Il sito Ufficiale di Toni Servillo. 13 December 2014. Archived 22 June 2019 at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ "Winners 2013". European Film Awards. European Film Academy. Retrieved 9 December 2013.
- ^ Dargis, Manohla (2020-11-25). "Toni Servillo". The New York Times. Retrieved 2026-04-22.
- ^ Lodge, Guy (September 8, 2021). "'The King of Laughter' Review: Mario Martone's Lavish, Ultra-Italian Theatrical Biopic Is a Lot to Digest". Variety. Retrieved 27 October 2021.
- ^ "Toni Servillo Awards". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved July 14, 2017.
External links
- Toni Servillo at IMDb