Roberto Benigni is read about 2,333 times a day, in 79 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 15 October 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 390 days, one point a day.
Something wrong?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.
A life in dates
Alida Valli: In Her Own WordsFilm, 20212020Honorary Lumière AwardAward2019
Cecchi Gori - Una famiglia italianaFilm2016
The Last LaughFilm2014
The Ten CommandmentsSeries, Creator2008
Roberto Benigni - Tutto DanteSeries, Creator2007Honorary Doctor of the Katholieke Universiteit LeuvenAward2006
Collezione di risateSeries2005Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian RepublicAward
The Tiger and the SnowFilm, 2005Director, Writer2003
Caterina in the Big CityFilm2001
Ulisse - The Pleasure of DiscoverySeries2000European Film Academy Achievement in World Cinema AwardAward1999Academy Award for Best ActorAwardBAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading RoleAward
Asterix and Obelix Take On CaesarFilm, 1999Lucius Detritus1998David di Donatello for Best ActorAwardEuropean Film Award for Best ActorAwardEuropean Film Award for Best FilmAwardNastro d'Argento for Best ActorAward
Vivement dimancheSeries, 19981997
HARDtalkSeries1996
TuttoBenigni 95/96Film, Director, Writer1995Willemsens WocheSeries1993
Son of the Pink PantherFilm, Gendarme Jacques Gambrelli1992Nastro d'Argento for Best ActorAward
The Tonight Show with Jay LenoSeries, 19921990
The Voice of the MoonFilm, Ivo Salvini1989David di Donatello for Best ActorAward1987Nastro d'Argento for Best ActorAward1986
Down by LawFilm, Roberto1983
FF.SS. cioè '...che mi hai portato a fare sopra a Posillipo se non mi vuoi più bene?'Film, Lo sceicco Beige1981
The SoupFilm, Il maestro1979
LunaFilm, Upholsterer1977
Berlinguer: I Love YouFilm, Writer1976
Onda LiberaSeries, Writer1952Born27 October 1952Also in Deutsch
Photos 8
Filmography 40
AWAlida Valli: In Her Own Words
PMPaolo Conte, Come Away with Me
PIPinocchio
UNUntouchableCICecchi Gori - Una famiglia italiana
LFLa voce di FantozziTLThe Last Laugh
TLTo Rome with LoveTSThe Tiger and the Snow
CCCoffee and CigarettesCCCaterina in the Big City
FLFellini: I'm a Born Liar
LSLate Night with Conan O'Brien: 10th Anniversary Special
PIPinocchio
TFThe Magic of FelliniACAsterix and Obelix Take On Caesar
LBLife Is BeautifulTUTuttoBenigni 95/96
TMThe MonsterSPSon of the Pink Panther
NENight on Earth
JSJohnny StecchinoTMThe Voice of the Moon
TDThe Little Devil
CCCoffee and CigarettesDLDown by Law
NCNothing Left to Do But Cry
YMYou Upset MeFBFF.SS. cioè '...che mi hai portato a fare sopra a Posillipo se non mi vuoi più bene?'
RTRoberto Benigni: TuttoBenigni
MTMorto Troisi, viva Troisi!TSThe Soup
IEIn the Pope's EyeLULuna
WOWomanlight
SASeeking Asylum
TLTigers in Lipstick
TNThe Days Are Numbered
CICinématonBYBerlinguer: I Love You139 credits on file
Television 20
TCThe Ten Commandments
TWThe Biggest Show After the WeekendRDRoberto Benigni - Tutto Dante
TSThe Graham Norton ShowCRCollezione di risate
RORockpolitikUDUlisse - The Pleasure of Discovery
BEBeckmannVDVivement dimancheHAHARDtalk
TSThe Rosie O'Donnell Show
LBLate Night with Conan O'BrienTLThe Tonight Show with Jay Leno
WDWetten, dass..?
TITelepatria international ovvero niente paura siamo italianiOLOnda Libera
TOThe Oscars
SFSanremo Music FestivalAwards
In their orbit
Spouse: Nicoletta BraschiAbout this person
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.
In common with Roberto
Federico FelliniAlso in The Voice of the Moon (1990)
Yves MontandAlso in Womanlight (1979)
Francesco GucciniAlso in The Days Are Numbered (1979)
Winona RyderAlso in Night on Earth (1991)
Renzo ArboreAlso in FF.SS. cioè '...che mi hai portato a fare sopra a Posillipo se non mi vuoi più bene?' (1983)
GZAAlso in Coffee and Cigarettes (2004)Fame.am measures public visibility signals. It does not measure human value, talent, morality, or credibility.