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Toni Servillo, one of Italy’s most prolific and respected performers, won the best actor award at the Venice Film Festival on Saturday for his role as a morally upright Italian president struggling to overcome his indecision and take a stance.<\/p>\n
A Venice regular, Servillo has enjoyed a rich, decades-long collaboration with director Paolo Sorrentino, who often casts him in his films.<\/p>\n
Saturday’s prize was awarded for his work in the Neapolitan director’s “La Grazia”, and in accepting the award Servillo thanked Sorrentino.<\/p>\n
He was also one of many at the awards ceremony speaking out against the war in Gaza, calling Gaza “a land where human dignity is cruelly trampled on every day”.<\/p>\n
In “La Grazia”, Servillo portrays a politician nearing the end of an illustrious career who wrestles with a moral dilemma after being asked to sign a bill that would legalise euthanasia, and to pardon two convicted murderers.<\/p>\n
In a long career in theatre and film, Servillo’s expressive face has lent itself to everything from larger-than-life politicians — such as former prime ministers Giulio Andreotti or Silvio Berlusconi — to Sorrentino’s kindly father in the director’s autobiographical “The Hand of God”.<\/p>\n
But he is probably best known outside of Italy for his tour-de-force performance in Sorrentino’s “The Great Beauty,” a Fellini-inspired ode to Rome whose man-about-town hero, Jep Gambardella, questions his cynicism and ennui.<\/p>\n
Other leading man roles include the famous turn-of-the-century Neapolitan actor Eduardo Scarpetta in Mario Martone’s “The King of Laughter,” which premiered at Venice in 2021; and his turn as a shady businessman in 2008’s “Gomorrah” by Matteo Garrone, based on the Roberto Saviano novel about the Camorra mafia.<\/p>\n
Born in 1958 in Naples, Servillo honed his craft in experimental theatre in the 1970s and 1980s in the southern city before going on to win acclaim in films.<\/p>\n
Servillo — who has called himself a “theatre militant” and continues to perform onstage — has won two European Film Awards and four David di Donatello awards, Italy’s Oscar equivalent.<\/p>\n
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