Andrea Tidona (born 30 November 1951) is an Italian actor and voice actor.

Life and career

Born in

Modica Modica (; ) is a city and municipality (''comune'') in the Province of Ragusa, Sicily, southern Italy. The city is situated in the Hyblaean Mountains. It has 53,413 inhabitants. Modica has neolithic origins and it represents the historical cap ...

Sicily Sicily (Italian language, Italian and ), officially the Sicilian Region (), is an island in the central Mediterranean Sea, south of the Italian Peninsula in continental Europe and is one of the 20 regions of Italy, regions of Italy. With 4. ...

, Tidona formed at the

Accademia dei Filodrammatici The Accademia dei Filodrammatici (literally "Academy of Drama Lovers"), is a drama school located in Milan, Italy and founded in 1796. It is the oldest theatre school in Italy. The theatre was designed by neoclassic architect Luigi Canonica, ba ...

and later worked several years at the Piccolo Teatro in

Milan Milan ( , , ; ) is a city in northern Italy, regional capital of Lombardy, the largest city in Italy by urban area and the List of cities in Italy, second-most-populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of nea ...

, under

Giorgio Strehler Giorgio Strehler (; ; 14 August 1921 – 25 December 1997) was an Italian stage director, theatre practitioner, actor, and politician. Strehler was one of the most significant figures in Italian theatre during his lifetime, described by Mel Gu ...

. In 2004, he won the

Nastro d'Argento The (plural: ''Nastri d'Argento''; English: Silver Ribbon) is an Italian film award, held since 1946 by the ''Sindacato Nazionale Giornalisti Cinematografici Italiani'' (Italian National Union of Film Journalists). Awards are given annually in ...

for best actor for his performance in

Marco Tullio Giordana Marco Tullio Giordana (born 1 October 1950) is an Italian film director and screenwriter. Biography Born in Milan, during the 1970s he approached the cinema by collaborating on the screenplay of Roberto Faenza's 1977 documentary ''Forza Itali ...

's ''

The Best of Youth ''The Best of Youth'' () is a 2003 Italian romantic drama film directed by Marco Tullio Giordana and written by Sandro Petraglia and Stefano Rulli. A family saga set in Italy from 1966 through 2003, it chronicles the life of the middle-class Car ...

''. He is well known for the role of Carmine Fazio in '' The Young Montalbano''.

Selected filmography

* ''

Life Is Beautiful ''Life Is Beautiful'' (, ) is a 1997 Italian period comedy-drama film directed by and starring Roberto Benigni, who co-wrote the film with Vincenzo Cerami. Benigni plays Guido Orefice, a Jewish Italian bookshop owner, who employs his imagin ...

'' (1997) * '' One Hundred Steps'' (2000) * '' Il commissario'' (2001) * ''

'' (2001) * '' Once You're Born You Can No Longer Hide'' (2005) * ''

The Caiman ''The Caiman'' (, referring to the caiman) is a 2006 Italian satirical comedy-drama film directed by Nanni Moretti and starring Silvio Orlando and Margherita Buy. Focusing on Silvio Berlusconi's vicissitudes, it was released just before the be ...

'' (2006) * '' The Listening'' (2006) * '' Butta la luna'' (2006) * ''

Il 7 e l'8 ''Il 7 e l'8'' () is a 2007 film, directed by Ficarra e Picone, Salvatore Ficarra, Ficarra e Picone, Valentino Picone and Giambattista Avellino and portrayed by the comic duo Ficarra e Picone, Ficarra and Picone. Together with the two comedians, t ...

'' (2007) * '' Il Capo dei Capi'' (2007) * '' Pius XII: Under the Roman Sky'' (2010) * '' The Entrepreneur'' (2011) * '' The Young Montalbano'' (2012) * '' The Face of an Angel'' (2014) * '' Italo'' (2014)

References

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Tidona, Andrea 1951 births People from Modica Italian male stage actors Italian male film actors Italian male television actors Italian male voice actors Living people 21st-century Italian male actors Nastro d'Argento winners Actors from the Province of Ragusa Male actors from Sicily