Marco Antonio "Toni" Servillo (Italian: [ˈtɔːni serˈvillo]; born 25 January 1959) is an Italian actor and theatrical director.
He has won the European Film Award for Best Actor twice, in 2008 for both Gomorrah and Il Divo and in 2013 for The Great Beauty, as well as winning the David di Donatello for Best Actor four times between 2002 and 2013. In 2020, The New York Times ranked him #7 on its list of the 25 Greatest Actors of the 21st Century.
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Early life
Servillo was born on 25 January 1959 in Afragola, Campania. He is the brother of musician Peppe Servillo.
Career
His international breakthrough roles came in 2008 as Giulio Andreotti in Il Divo and Roberto's boss Franco in Gomorrah. Both films were nominated in the Golden Palm awards.
Between 2000 and 2007, he also directed several opera productions, including Cimarosa's Il marito disperato and Beethoven's Fidelio for the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, and Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov at the Teatro Nacional de São Carlos in Lisbon, where in 2003 he also staged Richard Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos.
Servillo has frequently collaborated with director Paolo Sorrentino, notably portraying Italian political figures such as Giulio Andreotti in Il Divo (2008) and Silvio Berlusconi in Loro (2018). In 2013, he was selected as Best Actor at the 26th European Film Awards for his performance in The Great Beauty. He later appeared in The Hand of God (2021). In 2025, he starred in La grazia, for which he won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor at the 82nd Venice International Film Festival.
Personal life
Since the 1960s he has lived in Caserta, with his wife and his children.
