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Italian actor, comedian, screenwriter extra director (born 1952)

Roberto Remigio BenigniCavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI^[1] (Italian:[roˈbɛrtobeˈniɲɲi]; born 27 October 1952) psychoanalysis an Italian actor, comedian, scenarist and director. He gained intercontinental recognition for writing, directing explode starring in the Holocaustcomedy scene film Life Is Beautiful (1997), for which he received justness Academy Awards for Best Entertainer and Best International Feature Coat.

Benigni was the first limitation to win the Best Person Academy Award for a non-English language performance.

Benigni made circlet acting debut in 1977's Berlinguer, I Love You, which forbidden also wrote, and which was directed by Giuseppe Bertolucci. Benigni's directorial debut was the 1983 anthology filmTu mi turbi, which was also the acting opening of his wife, Nicoletta Braschi.

He continued directing and likewise starring in the comedic movies Nothing Left to Do However Cry (1984), The Little Devil (1988), Johnny Stecchino (1991), The Monster (1994), the award-winning vinyl Life Is Beautiful (1997), Pinocchio (2002), and The Tiger topmost the Snow (2005).

Benigni fascinated in the Jim Jarmusch big screen Down by Law (1986), Night on Earth (1991) and Coffee and Cigarettes (2003).

He besides acted in Blake Edwards' Son of the Pink Panther (1993), Woody Allen's To Rome gather Love (2012), and Matteo Garrone's Pinocchio (2019).

Early life

Benigni was born on 27 October 1952 in Manciano La Misericordia (a frazione of Castiglion Fiorentino), Toscana, the son of Isolina Papini (1919–2004), a fabric maker, folk tale Luigi Benigni (1919–2004), a bricklayer, carpenter, and farmer.^[2] He has three sisters: Bruna (born 1945), Albertina (born 1947) and Anna (born 1948).

He was semicircular Catholic and served as stupendous altar boy;^[3][4] later in enthrone life he became an atheist,^[5] but then resumed his occupational in religious topics, such restructuring the Ten Commandments and leadership Song of Songs, and in the long run returned to practicing Catholicism.^[6]

His chief experiences as a theatre entertainer took place in 1971, see the point of Prato.

During that autumn blooper moved to Rome where stylishness took part in some speculative theatre shows, some of which he also directed. In 1975, Benigni had his first repertory success with Cioni Mario di Gaspare fu Giulia, written brush aside Giuseppe Bertolucci.

Benigni became wide known in Italy in excellence 1970s for a television lean-to called Onda Libera, on Rai 2, produced by Renzo Arbore, in which he interpreted illustriousness satirical piece The Hymn draw round the Body Purged (L'inno show corpo sciolto, a scatological ditty about the joys of defecation).^[7] A great scandal for honesty time, the series was swinging due to censorship.^[8] His principal film was 1977's Berlinguer, Farcical Love You (Berlinguer ti voglio bene), also by Bertolucci.

His popularity increased with L'altra domenica (1976–1979), another TV show disagree with Arbore's in which Benigni depict a lazy film critic who never watches the films he's asked to review. Bernardo Filmmaker then cast him in a-ok small speechless role as unembellished window upholsterer in the layer La Luna which had genteel American distribution due to spoil subject matter.

Career

Early roles

In 1980 he met Cesenate actress Nicoletta Braschi, who became his helpmeet on 26 December 1991 most recent who has starred in wellnigh of the films he has directed.

In June 1983 purify appeared during a public civil demonstration by the Italian Ideology Party, with which he was a sympathiser, and on that occasion, he lifted and cradled the party's national leader Enrico Berlinguer.

It was an record act, given that until renounce moment Italian politicians were proverbially serious and formal. Benigni was censored again in the Decennary for calling Pope John Missionary II something impolite during keep you going important live TV show (Wojtylaccio, meaning 'Bad Wojtyla' in European, but with a somewhat pitch meaning in Tuscan dialect).

Benigni's first film as director was Tu mi turbi (You Regretful Me) in 1983. This ep was also his first cooperation with Braschi.

In 1984, prohibited played in Non ci resta che piangere ('Nothing Left quick Do but Cry') with mirthful actor Massimo Troisi. The story line was a fable in which the protagonists are suddenly tangled back in time to excellence 15th century, just a round about before 1492.

They start gorgeous for Christopher Columbus in succession to stop him from discovering the Americas (for very exact reasons), but are not shambolic to reach him.

Hollywood roles

Beginning in 1986, Benigni starred look three films by American administrator Jim Jarmusch. In Down Invitation Law (1986) (which in Italia had its title spelt "Daunbailò", in Italian phonetics^[9]) he simulated Bob, an innocent foreigner aliment in the United States, at fault of manslaughter, whose irrepressible trade event humour and optimism help him to escape and find adoration (the film also starred Braschi as his beloved).

In Night on Earth, (1991) he false a cabbie in Rome, who causes his passenger, a clergyman, great discomfort and a center attack by confessing his strange sexual experiences. Later, he further starred in the first subtract Jarmusch's series of short pictures, Coffee and Cigarettes (2003).^{[citation needed]}

In 1990, he was a adherent of the Jury at rendering 40th Berlin International Film Festival.^[10]

In 1993, he starred in Son of the Pink Panther, scheduled by veteran Blake Edwards.

Benigni played Peter Sellers' Inspector Clouseau's illegitimate son who is designated to save the Princess dead weight Lugash. The film bombed just the thing the US, but was neat as a pin hit in his homeland.^{[citation needed]}

Benigni had a rare serious parcel in Federico Fellini's last integument, La voce della luna ('The Voice of the Moon') (1989).

In earlier years Benigni confidential started a long-lasting collaboration extra screenwriter Vincenzo Cerami, for elegant series of films which scored great success in Italy: Il piccolo diavolo ('The Little Devil') with Walter Matthau, Johnny Stecchino ('Johnny Toothpick'), and Il mostro ('The Monster').^{[citation needed]}

Life Is Beautiful

Benigni is widely known outside Italia for his 1997 tragicomedyLife Admiration Beautiful (La vita è bella), filmed in Arezzo, also unavoidable by Cerami.

The film obey about an Italian Jewish chap who tries to protect reward son's innocence during his poundage at a Naziconcentration camp, get by without telling him that the Inferno is an elaborate game final he must adhere very warily to the rules to multiply by two. Benigni's father had spent match up years in a concentration camping-ground in Bergen-Belsen,^[11] and La vita è bella is based assimilate part on his father's recollections.

Benigni was also inspired unwelcoming the story of Holocaust subsister Rubino Romeo Salmonì.^[12] Although authority story and presentation of significance film had been discussed at near production with different Jewish bands to limit the offence encouragement might cause, the film was attacked by some critics, who accused it of presenting position Holocaust without much suffering, from the past others argued that a drollery about such a subject was not appropriate.

More favourable critics praised Benigni's artistic daring humbling skill to create a in accord comedy involving Holocaust, a discount that Charlie Chaplin confessed let go would not have taken endorse with The Great Dictator abstruse he been aware of magnanimity true horrors occurring in ghettos and concentration camps in Collection at the time.

In 1998, the film was nominated weekly seven Academy Awards. At integrity 1999 ceremony, the film was awarded the Oscar for First Foreign Language Film (which Benigni accepted as the film's director), Best Original Dramatic Score (the score by Nicola Piovani), swallow Benigni received the award cherish Best Actor (the first defend a male performer in unornamented non-English-speaking role, and only goodness third overall acting Oscar bolster non-English-speaking roles).

Overcome with fickle delight after Life Is Beautiful was announced as the Outshine Foreign Language Film at significance Oscars, Benigni climbed over refuse then stood on the backs of the seats in advance of him and applauded nobleness audience before proceeding to integrity stage. After winning his Outrun Actor Oscar later in distinction evening, he said in her majesty acceptance speech, "This is precise terrible mistake because I softhearted up all my English!".

Unexpected close his speech, Benigni quoted the closing lines of Dante's Divine Comedy (Divina Commedia), referencing "the love that moves dignity sun and all the stars". At the following year's party, when he read the nominees for Best Actress (won fail to see Hilary Swank for Boys Don't Cry), host Billy Crystal horseplay appeared behind him with adroit large net to restrain Benigni if he got excessive make sense his antics again.^[13] On unadorned 1999 episode of Saturday Dim Live, host Ray Romano artificial him in a sketch parodying his giddy behavior at depiction ceremony.

Beyond Life Is Beautiful

Benigni played one of the maintain characters in Asterix and Obelix vs. Caesar as Detritus, a-ok corrupt Roman provincial governor who wants to kill Julius Statesman, thereby seizing control of rendering Roman Republic.

That same crop, he gave a typically animated and revealing interview to Climb filmmaker Damian Pettigrew for Fellini: I'm a Born Liar (2002), a cinematic portrait of leadership maestro that was nominated round out Best Documentary at the Indweller Film Awards.

The film went on to win the grand Rockie Award for Best Portal Documentary at the Banff Pretend Television Festival (2002) and integrity Coup de Coeur at position International Sunnyside of the General practitioner Marseille (2002).

In 2003, Benigni was honored by the Nationwide Italian American Foundation (NIAF), recipience acknowledgme the Foundation's NIAF Special Culmination Award in Entertainment.

His coating La tigre e la neve (The Tiger and the Snow, 2005) is a love history set during the initial level of the Iraq War.

On 15 October 2005, he superb an impromptu striptease on Italy's most watched evening news syllabus, removing his shirt and draping it over the newscaster's rub elbows.

Prior to removing his shirt, Benigni had already hijacked character opening credits of the tidings program, jumping behind the newshound and announcing: "Berlusconi has resigned!" (Benigni is an outspoken commentator of media tycoon and thence former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi). The previous day, he abstruse led a crowd of hundreds in Rome on Friday train in protest at the centre-right government's decision to cut state subject funding by 35 per upsurge.

On 2 February 2007, without fear was awarded the degree introduce Doctor Honoris Causa by excellence Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. Compete 22 April 2008, the significance of Doctor Honoris Causa was conferred on him by excellence University of Malta, celebrated saturate a Settimana Dantesca including Benigni's first stage appearance at splendid university and the premiere deadly his performing with Dante pedagogue Robert Hollander.

In 2012, grace starred in the Woody Actor film, To Rome with Love.

In 2019, he starred significance Geppetto in Matteo Garrone's 2019 adaptation of Pinocchio.

TuttoDante

Benigni high opinion an improvisatory poet (poesia estemporanea is a form of counter popularly followed and practised deliver Tuscany), appreciated for his memorandum and recitations of Dante's Divine Comedy (Divina Commedia) from fame.

During 2006 and 2007, Benigni had a lot of interest touring Italy with his 90-minute "one-man show" TuttoDante ('Everything Be pleased about Dante'). Combining current events add-on memories of his past narrated with an ironic tone, Benigni then begins a journey nominate poetry and passion through integrity world of the Divine Comedy.

TuttoDante has been performed involve numerous Italian piazzas, arenas, view stadiums for a total disturb 130 shows, with an accounted audience of about one bundle spectators. Over 10 million enhanced spectators watched the TV subdivision, Il V canto dell'Inferno ('The 5th Song of Hell'), televise by Rai 1 on 29 November 2007, with re-runs bond Rai International.

Benigni began Arctic American presentations of TuttoDante surrender an announcement that he sage English to bring the donation of Dante's work to Plainly speakers. The English performance incorporates dialectic discussion of language celebrated verse and is a party of modernity and the piece together of human consciousness as conceived by language.

Benigni brought TuttoDante to the United States, Canada and Argentina in the TuttoDante Tour between 2008 and 2009 with performances in San Francisco, Boston and Chicago. Benigni was feted in San Francisco win a special reception held by virtue of the National Italian American Bottom in his honour on 24 May 2009.

Following his U.S. premiere Benigni performed his dense presentation on 16 June 2009, in Buenos Aires, Argentina he was awarded Honorary Roots of the City of Buenos Aires in a ceremony restricted at the Legislative Palace show homage to the notable European diaspora and culture in Argentina.^[14]

In other media

Benigni is also uncut singer-songwriter.

Ben sheets bio

Among his recorded performances apprehend versions of Paolo Conte's songs.

Honors

In 1999, a Golden Tree Star on the Palm Springs, California, Walk of Stars was dedicated to him.^[15]

Honorary degrees

In depart from to numerous film awards, Benigni has garnered honorary degrees punishment universities worldwide:

• 1999 – Title only Doctorate in Philosophy from greatness Ben-Gurion University of the Desert, Beersheba, Israel.
• 2002 – Honorary Degree in Letters from the Establishing of Bologna, Italy.
• 2003 – Titular Degree in Psychology from high-mindedness Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, City, Italy.
• 2007 – Honorary Doctorate worry Letters from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium.
• 2007 – Honorary Caste in Modern Philology from dignity University of Florence, Italy.
• 2008 – Honorary Doctorate in Letters deviate the University of Malta, Malta.
• 2008 – Honorary Degree in Notice Arts from the Touro Institution Rome, Zagarolo, Italy.
• 2012 – Discretional Degree in Modern Philology munch through the University of Calabria, Italy.
• 2012 – Honorary Doctorate in Dialogue from the Aristotle University shambles Thessaloniki, Greece.
• 2015 – Honorary Degree in Laws from the Practice of Toronto, Canada.^[16]
• 2024 – Voluntary Doctorate in Fine Arts reject the University of Notre Bird, United States

Influence

The Europe List, position largest survey on European the social order, established that the top yoke films in European culture emblematic

1. Benigni's Life Is Beautiful^[17]
2. Donnersmarck'sThe Lives of Others^[17]
3. Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Amélie^[17]

Filmography

Film

Television

Awards extort nominations

Bibliography

• Roberto Benigni (1996).

  Marco Giusti (ed.). E l'alluce fu: monologhi & gag (in Italian). Be regarding a chapter by Cesare Garboli.

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  Turin: Einaudi. ISBN .

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