# Roberto Benigni

> He won the Oscar for Best Actor in a language that wasn't English - the first person ever to do it - for a Holocaust film he also wrote and directed, one that dared to find grace in the darkness and somehow made the gamble work.

*Italian actor, comedian, screenwriter and film director (born 1952)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Actor ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999))
- **Category:** Actors
- **Country:** Italy
- **Born:** 1952-10-27
- **Status:** living
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Roberto Benigni started writing and acting in 1977 with Berlinguer, I Love You, then directed his first film in 1983, an anthology that introduced his wife Nicoletta Braschi to the screen. Through the '80s and '90s he built a run of Italian comedies - Nothing Left to Do But Cry, Johnny Stecchino, The Monster - while threading into American indie work with Jim Jarmusch and a Fellini twilight piece. In 1997 he released Life Is Beautiful, a Holocaust comedy-drama that split opinion and swept awards: two Oscars, including Best Actor, making him the first to win that prize in a non-English performance. He followed with Pinocchio in 2002, playing the puppet himself, then The Tiger and the Snow, and later returned to play Geppetto in Garrone's 2019 Pinocchio. The arc is writer-director-star, with one film that changed the ceiling.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 65.5 / 100
- **Momentum:** 1.9 / 100  (trend: FALLING)
- **Historical depth:** 29.3 / 100
- **Attention shift:** 0.0 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 65.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 75.0 / 100
- **Country rank:** #74

## Platforms
- **IMDB**: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000905/ (@nm0000905)

## Topics
#Actors, #Actor, #Television, #Screenwriting, #Comedy, #Classical, #Movies, #Singer-Songwriter

## Timeline
- **2021** - Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement
- **2020** - Honorary Lumière Award
- **2005** - Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
- **2000** - European Film Academy Achievement in World Cinema Award
- **1999** - Academy Award for Best Actor
- **1998** - European Film Award for Best Film
- **1989** - David di Donatello for Best Actor
- **1987** - Nastro d'Argento for Best Actor
- **1977** - Berlinguer: I Love You
- **1952** - Born

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