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Scottish actor (born 1941)
Tom Conti
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Tommaso Antonio Conti
(1941-11-22 ) 22 November 1941 (age 82 ) Alma mater Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Occupation Actor Years active 1963–present Spouse
(m. 1967) Children Nina Conti
Tommaso Antonio Conti (born 22 November 1941) is a Scottish actor. Conti has received numerous accolades including a Tony Award and a Laurence Olivier Award as well as nominations for an Academy Award , a BAFTA Award and two Golden Globe Awards .
He won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play and the Laurence Olivier Award for Actor of the Year in a New Play in role in Whose Life Is It Anyway? Broadway and the West End in 1978 and 1979. He also directed the Frank D. Gilroy play Last Licks (1979) on Broadway. Conti returned to the West End portraying Jeffrey Bernard in the Keith Waterhouse play Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell
Conti received an Academy Award for Best Actor nomination for Reuben, Reuben The Duellists Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence Saving Grace The Quick and the Dead Shirley Valentine The Tempest The Dark Knight Rises Paddington 2 Albert Einstein in Christopher Nolan 's Oppenheimer
Early life [ edit ]
Tommaso Antonio Conti was born on 22 November 1941 in Paisley, Renfrewshire , the son of hairdressers Mary McGoldrick and Alfonso Conti.[1] Roman Catholic , he described himself as antireligious in 2011.[2] [3] [4] [5] St Aloysius' College, Glasgow ;[6] Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama .[citation needed
Conti is a theatre, film, and television actor. He began working with the Dundee Repertory in 1959. He appeared on Broadway in Whose Life Is It Anyway? Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell Garrick Theatre .[citation needed Besides taking the leading role in the TV versions of Frederic Raphael 's The Glittering Prizes Alan Ayckbourn 's The Norman Conquests Princess and the Pea " episode of the family television series Faerie Tale Theatre Friends Cosby Nigel Hawthorne in a long-running series of Vauxhall Astra car advertisements in the United Kingdom from the early to the mid-1990s.[citation needed
Conti has appeared in such films as Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence Reuben, Reuben American Dreamer Shirley Valentine Miracles Saving Grace Dangerous Parking Voices Within: The Lives of Truddi Chase [citation needed Conti's novel The Doctor , about a former secret operations pilot for intelligence services, was published in 2004. According to the foreword, his friend Lynsey De Paul recommended the manuscript to publisher Jeremy Robson.[7]
He appeared in the BBC sitcom Miranda Miranda Hart and Patricia Hodge , as Miranda's father, in the 2010 seasonal episode "The Perfect Christmas".[citation needed Most recently he portrayed Albert Einstein in Christopher Nolan 's 2023 thriller-drama Oppenheimer [citation needed
Personal life [ edit ]
Conti has been married to Scottish actress Kara Wilson since 1967 and their daughter Nina is an actress and performs as a ventriloquist . According to Nina, her parents have an open marriage .[8]
Conti is a resident of Hampstead in northwest London, having lived in the area for several decades. Conti was part of a campaign against the opening of a Tesco supermarket in nearby Belsize Park .[9] £ 17.5 million after his long-running opposition to the building plans of his neighbour, the footballer Thierry Henry .[10] Grade II listed former home of novelist John Galsworthy .[11]
Conti participated in a genetic-mapping project conducted by the company ScotlandsDNA (now called BritainsDNA). In 2012, Conti and the company announced that Conti shares a genetic marker with Napoléon Bonaparte .[12] [12]
Political views [ edit ]
Conti considered running as the Conservative candidate in the 2008 London mayoral election , but did not, and in the following election in 2012, he supported unsuccessful independent candidate Siobhan Benita .[13] 2015 general election , Conti said in an interview published in several newspapers that he was once a Labour supporter but had come to view socialism as a “religion” with a "vicious, hostile spirit".[14]
Television [ edit ]
Boy Meets Girl (1969) as Frank
Thirty-Minute Theatre - Revolutions: Fidel Castro (1970) as Che Guevara
Adam Smith
Z Cars
Barlow at Large
Sam
Fall of Eagles
Thriller
Madame Bovary
The Glittering Prizes
The Norman Conquests
Blade on the Feather
The Wall (1982, TV film) as Dolek Berson
Faerie Tale Theatre Princess and the Pea ") as Prince Richard
Nazi Hunter: The Beate Klarsfeld Story
The Dumb Waiter
The Quick and the Dead
Roman Holiday
Fatal Judgement (1988, TV film) as Pat Piscitelli
Voices Within: The Lives of Truddi Chase
The Old Boy Network
The Wright Verdicts
The Inheritance (1997, TV film) as Henry Hamilton
Friends The One After Ross Says Rachel ", and "The One with Ross's Wedding ") as Stephen Waltham
Cosby William Shakespeare
Deadline
I Was a Rat
Andy Pandy
Four Seasons (2008–2009) as Charles Combe
Lark Rise to Candleford
Miranda
Parents
Rosemary's Baby
Doc Martin
National Board of Review for Best Actor (Reuben, Reuben and Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence )
Academy Award nomination as Best Actor (Reuben, Reuben )
Golden Globe nominations for Reuben, Reuben and Nazi Hunter: The Beate Klarsfeld Story
Tony Award for Best Actor (Whose Life Is It Anyway? )
Laurence Olivier Award for Actor of the Year in a New Play (Whose Life is it Anyway? )
Variety Club Award for Best Actor (Whose Life is it Anyway? )
References [ edit ]
^ "Tom Conti: My dad, sent to a prison camp for being Italian" . BBC News. 27 April 2013.
^ "11 angry men... and Tom Conti" . Irish Independent . Retrieved 21 June 2018 .
^ "Tom Conti: Fidelity is overrated" The Daily Telegraph Archived from the original on 12 January 2022. Retrieved 27 December 2014 .
^ "Sectarian slogan painted on leading Glasgow catholic school" . The Scotsman . 22 August 2016. Retrieved 26 September 2023 .
^ Conti, Tom (2006). The Doctor ISBN 978-1-86105-841-6
^ Tom Conti: there are worse things than being unfaithful , a 12 December 2009, article from The Sunday Times
^ "Tom Conti fights Tesco bid for store in Belsize Park" The Daily Telegraph . 8 January 2015. Archived from the original on 12 January 2022. Retrieved 8 June 2015 .
^ Vispers, Gareth (30 May 2015). "Tom Conti fights Tesco bid for store in Belsize Park" . Evening Standard . Retrieved 8 June 2015 .
^ Banks, Emily (20 April 2015). "Financier withdraws basement scheme for Forsyte Saga's Grove Lodge in Hampstead" . Ham & High . Retrieved 8 June 2015 .
^ a b McKie, Robin (14 April 2012). "DNA project reveals Tom Conti's Napoleonic blood and rich roots of Scotland's genetic legacy" . The Guardian . Retrieved 17 March 2018 .
^ "Tom Conti backs Siobhan running for Mayor" . Siobhan for MAYOR. Retrieved 18 April 2012 .
^ "Once a Labour luvvie Tom Conti says he now backs the Tories as the party of aspiration" . The Herald . Retrieved 17 March 2018 .
^ "Search - RSC Performances - DED197607 - The Devil's Disciple - Shakespeare Birthplace Trust" . Collections.shakespeare.org.uk . Retrieved 21 June 2018 .
^ "THEATRE / All dressed up with no place to go: Paul Taylor reviews Present Laughter at the Globe Theatre, London" . The Independent . Retrieved 14 July 2018 .
^ "Tom Conti stars in explosive courtroom drama which debates whether murder can be justified" . Daily Info . Retrieved 22 February 2021 .
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