# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/roberto-benigni
# Generated: 2026-09-01T00:25:28.932Z

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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
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.