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Toni Servillo

He also directed famous theatrical opera like Il marito disperato by Cimarosa and Fidelio by Beethoven for the San Carlo Opera House in Naples and Boris Godunov by Modest Mussorgsky at the Teatro São Carlos in Lisbon, where in 2003 he also staged Ariadne auf Naxos by Richard Strauss.

In 2013, Servillo was selected as best actor at the 26th European Film Awards for his appearance in Paolo Sorrentino's film The Great Beauty.



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Great Beauty

The Great Beauty, 2013 Italian film (original title La grande bellezza) directed by Paolo Sorrentino and starring Toni Servillo; nominated for numerous awards, it examines sense of unfulfilled existence which overtakes comfortably living writer/socialite as he wanders through streets of Rome on his 65th birthday