Overview

• Italian media reported that he died suddenly at his home in the Principality of Monaco, where he lived with his wife, actor Victoria Zinny.
• He was born in Asmara, Eritrea, on December 1, 1948, and moved to Rome at 13 before graduating from the Accademia Nazionale d’Arte Drammatica “Silvio d’Amico.”
• His breakthrough came in 1987 when Luigi Perelli cast him as Gaetano “Tano” Cariddi in La Piovra, a character emblematic of collusion between organized crime and finance.
• He built a distinguished stage career with directors Luca Ronconi, Orazio Costa and Peter Stein, earning a 1996 Edinburgh Festival prize for Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya.
• He balanced Italian and international cinema, portraying Enzo Ferrari in Le Mans ’66 and appearing in The Equalizer 3, with collaborations that included Bellocchio, Scola, Greenaway, Tykwer and Zanussi.