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Roberto Benigni lecturer Nicoletta Braschi on Johnny Stecchino
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Roberto Benigni
Italian actor, comedian, screenwriter and director (born 1952)
Roberto Remigio BenigniCavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI[1] (; Italian:[roˈbɛrtobeˈniɲɲi]; born 27 October 1952) is an Italian actor, comedian, screenwriter and director. He gained international recognition for writing, directing and starring in the Holocaustcomedy drama film Life Is Beautiful (1997), for which he received the Academy Awards for Best Actor and Best International Feature Film. Benigni was the first actor to win the Best Actor Academy Award for a non-English language performance.
Benigni made his acting debut in 1977's Berlinguer, I Love You, which he 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 debut of his wife, Nicoletta Braschi. He continued directing and also starring in the comedic films Nothing Left to Do But Cry (1984), The Little Devil (1988), Johnny Stecchino (1991), The Monster (1994), the award-winning film Life Is Beautiful (1997), Pinocchio (2002), and The Tiger and the Snow (2005).
Benigni acted in the Jim Jarmusch films Down by Law (1986), Night on Earth (1991) and Coffee and Cigarettes (2003). He also acted in Bla
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Nicoletta Braschi
Italian actress and producer (born 1960)
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| Born | (1960-04-19) 19 April 1960 (age 64) Cesena, Italy |
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| Years active | 1983–present |
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Nicoletta Braschi (Italian:[nikoˈlettaˈbraski]; born 19 April 1960) is an Italian actress and producer, best known for her work with her husband, actor and director Roberto Benigni.
Life and career
[edit]Born in Cesena, Braschi studied in Rome's Academy of Dramatic Arts where she first met Benigni in 1980. Her first film was with Benigni in 1983, the comedy Tu mi turbi (You Upset Me). She later appeared in two Jim Jarmusch films, Down by Law and Mystery Train.
Braschi's two most successful collaborations with her husband were Johnny Stecchino (1992) and La vita è bella (Life is Beautiful) (1997). The first, an Italian comedy that cast the actress as the girlfriend of a mobster (Benigni), was a huge hit in Italy, while the second, in which Braschi played the wife of an Italian Jew (Benigni) imprisoned in a concentration camp, was a widely praised success that launched both Braschi and her husband into the international spotlight. She was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild award as a cast member of that film.
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