Roberto Benigni

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Roberto Benigni Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI
Benigni at the 70th Berlin International Film Festival in 2020
Born	Roberto Remigio Benigni (1952-10-27) 27 October 1952 (age 72) Castiglion Fiorentino, Tuscany, Italy
Occupations	Actor film director screenwriter comedian
Years active	1970–present
Style	Comedy Comedy drama Tragicomedy
Spouse	Nicoletta Braschi ​ (m. 1991)​

Roberto Remigio Benigni Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI^[1] (Italian: [roˈbɛrto beˈniɲɲi]; born 27 October 1952) is an Italian actor, comedian, screenwriter and director. He gained international recognition for writing, directing and starring in the Holocaust comedy-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 film Tu 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 Blake Edwards' Son of the Pink Panther (1993), Woody Allen's To Rome with Love (2012), and Matteo Garrone's Pinocchio (2019).