Tom Conti

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Tom Conti
Conti in 2007
Born
Tommaso Antonio Conti

(1941-11-22) 22 November 1941 (age 82)
Alma materRoyal Conservatoire of Scotland
OccupationActor
Years active1963–present
Spouse
(m. 1967)
ChildrenNina Conti

Tommaso Antonio Conti (born 22 November 1941) is a Scottish actor. Conti has received numerous accolades including a

BAFTA Award and two Golden Globe Awards
.

He won 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
(1989).

Conti received an Academy Award for Best Actor nomination for Reuben, Reuben (1983). Conti also acted in such films as The Duellists (1977), Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983), Saving Grace (1986), The Quick and the Dead (1987), Shirley Valentine (1989), The Tempest (2010), The Dark Knight Rises (2012), and Paddington 2 (2017). He portrayed Albert Einstein in Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer (2023).

Early life

Tommaso Antonio Conti was born on 22 November 1941 in

Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama.[citation needed
]

Career

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? in 1979, and in London, he played the lead in Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell at the Garrick Theatre.[citation needed] Besides taking the leading role in the TV versions of Frederic Raphael's The Glittering Prizes and Alan Ayckbourn's The Norman Conquests, Conti appeared in the "Princess and the Pea" episode of the family television series Faerie Tale Theatre, guest-starred on Friends and Cosby, and played opposite 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

Lynsey De Paul recommended the manuscript to publisher Jeremy Robson.[7]

He appeared in the BBC sitcom Miranda alongside 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. The film had one of the most successful opening weekends of 2023, and received wide critical acclaim.[citation needed]

Personal life

Conti has been married to Scottish actress

ventriloquist. According to Nina, her parents have an open marriage.[8]

Conti is a resident of

Grade II listed former home of novelist John Galsworthy.[11]

Conti participated in a

Napoléon Bonaparte.[12] Conti has said that he "burst out laughing" when told he was related to Napoléon on his father's side.[12]

Political views

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] In the run up to the 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]

Work

Awards

  • 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

  1. ^ "Tom Conti Biography". filmreference.com. Retrieved 11 June 2017.
  2. ^ Shaitly, Shahesta (27 March 2011). "This much I know: Tom Conti". The Guardian. Retrieved 6 September 2021.
  3. ^ "Tom Conti: My dad, sent to a prison camp for being Italian". BBC News. 27 April 2013.
  4. ^ "11 angry men... and Tom Conti". Irish Independent. 15 March 2015. Retrieved 21 June 2018.
  5. ^ "Tom Conti: Fidelity is overrated". The Daily Telegraph. 6 March 2011. Archived from the original on 12 January 2022. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
  6. ^ "Sectarian slogan painted on leading Glasgow catholic school". The Scotsman. 22 August 2016. Retrieved 26 September 2023.
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  8. ^ Tom Conti: there are worse things than being unfaithful, a 12 December 2009, article from The Sunday Times
  9. ^ "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.
  10. ^ Vispers, Gareth (30 May 2015). "Tom Conti fights Tesco bid for store in Belsize Park". Evening Standard. Retrieved 8 June 2015.
  11. ^ Banks, Emily (20 April 2015). "Financier withdraws basement scheme for Forsyte Saga's Grove Lodge in Hampstead". Ham & High. Retrieved 8 June 2015.
  12. ^ 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.
  13. ^ "Tom Conti backs Siobhan running for Mayor". Siobhan for MAYOR. Retrieved 18 April 2012.
  14. ^ "Once a Labour luvvie Tom Conti says he now backs the Tories as the party of aspiration". The Herald. 6 May 2015. Retrieved 17 March 2018.
  15. ^ "Search - RSC Performances - DED197607 - The Devil's Disciple - Shakespeare Birthplace Trust". Collections.shakespeare.org.uk. Retrieved 21 June 2018.
  16. ^ "THEATRE / All dressed up with no place to go: Paul Taylor reviews Present Laughter at the Globe Theatre, London". The Independent. 25 June 1993. Retrieved 14 July 2018.
  17. Daily Info
    . 6 November 2012. Retrieved 22 February 2021.

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