{{Short description|Italian actor and stage director}} {{Infobox person | name = Saverio Marconi | image = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1948|4|1}} | birth_place = Rome | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = actor }} '''Saverio Marconi''' (born 1 April 1948) is an Italian stage director and actor.
== Life and career == Born in Rome, after his debut as a stage actor, Marconi had his breakout role in 1977 playing Gavino Ledda in the Paolo and Vittorio Taviani's drama film ''Padre Padrone''.<ref name=bio2>{{cite book|last=Enrico Lancia, Roberto Poppi|title=Dizionario del cinema italiano. Gli attori|publisher=Gremese Editore, 2003|isbn=8884402697}}</ref> For his performance in that film he was nominated to a BAFTA Award and won the Nastro d'Argento for best new actor.<ref name=premi>{{cite book|last=Enrico Lancia|title=I premi del cinema|year=1998|publisher=Gremese Editore, 1998|isbn=8877422211}}</ref><ref name=Viventi>Giorgio Dell’Arti, Massimo Parrini. ''Catalogo dei viventi''. Marsilio, 2009. {{ISBN|978-88-317-9599-9}}.</ref>
After some other significant roles in films directed by, among others, Gillo Pontecorvo, Luigi Comencini and Pasquale Squitieri, in the mid-eighties Marconi retired from acting to devote himself to a career of stage director, especially of Italian editions of famous American musicals.<ref name="bio2"/><ref name="Viventi"/>
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== External links == *{{official website|http://www.saveriomarconi.it}} *{{IMDb name|0545877}}
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Marconi, Saverio}} Category:1948 births Category:Male actors from Rome Category:Italian male stage actors Category:Italian male film actors Category:Living people Category:Nastro d'Argento winners Category:Italian theatre directors