Marcello Fonte

Marcello Fonte
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Born	(1978-11-07) 7 November 1978 Melito di Porto Salvo, Calabria, Italy
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1997–present

Marcello Fonte (born 7 November 1978) is an Italian actor. He received the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor for his role in the film Dogman.

Biography

Fonte lived his childhood and adolescence in the suburbs of Reggio Calabria, where at the age of 10 he learned to play the snare drum in the town's band. He then moved to Rome in 1999, where he worked as guardian at the Teatro Valle and became passionate about acting and got small parts in television and film productions.

In 2018, Fonte received critical acclaim for his performance in Matteo Garrone's Dogman and was awarded the Best Actor Award at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival. For this role, Fonte has also been awarded the European Film Award for Best Actor at the 31st European Film Awards.

Partial filmography

Film

• Unfair Competition (2001)
• Gangs of New York (2002)
• The Order (2003)
• Blood of the Losers (2008)
• Heavenly Body (2011)
• Asino vola (2015)
• Dogman (2018)
• Io sono Tempesta (2018)
• Pinocchio (2019)
• Vivere (2019)
• The New Gospel (2020)

TV

• Stracult (2001)
• Don Matteo (2001)
• Diritto di difesa (2004)
• The Mafia Kills Only in Summer (2016)
• I Know This Much Is True (2020)

External links

• Marcello Fonte at the Internet Movie Database