{{Short description|Italian actor (born 1952)}} {{Infobox person | name =Fabio Traversa | image = | caption = | image_size = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth-date and age|17 November 1952}} | birth_place = Naples, Italy | death_date = | death_place = | death_cause = | other_names = | occupation = Actor | height = {{convert|1.80|m|ftin|abbr=on}} | years_active = }} '''Fabio Traversa''' (born 17 November 1952) is an Italian actor.
== Life and career == Born in Naples, a real life friend of Nanni Moretti, Traversa appeared in Moretti's debut medium length film ''Pâté de bourgeois'' (1973) and made his feature film debut in 1976, in Moretti's ''I Am Self Sufficient''.<ref name="bio">{{cite book|author1=Roberto Chiti |author2=Roberto Poppi |author3=Enrico Lancia |title=Dizionario del cinema italiano : Gli attori dal 1930 ai giorni nostri|date=2003 |publisher=Gremese Editore, 2002|isbn=8884402697}}</ref>
After the leading roles in two comedy-drama films by Vittorio Sindoni, ''Gli anni struggenti'' (1979) and ''Quasi quasi mi sposo'' (1982), in the early 1980s Traversa specialized as a character actor, being mainly cast in humorous roles.<ref name="bio"/>
== Selected filmography == * ''I Am Self Sufficient'' (1976) * ''Ecce bombo'' (1978) * ''Il minestrone'' (1981) * ''The Lady of the Camellias'' (1981) * ''Sciopèn'' (1982) * ''Compagni di scuola'' (1988) * ''Red Wood Pigeon'' (1989) * ''Le comiche'' (1990) * ''Fantozzi - Il ritorno'' (1996) * ''Fantozzi 2000 – La clonazione'' (1999) * ''It Can't Be All Our Fault'' (2003)
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