Roberto Benigni News

IMAGES Main Italian actor and director born Oct. 27, 1952, Misericordia, Arezzo, Italy Italian actor and director known for his comedic work, most notably La vita bella , for which he won an Academy Award for best actor.

Actress Nanette Fabray is 89. Actress Ruby Dee is 85. Actor-comedian John Cleese is 70.

Set to open around Halloween, Stecchino, an American restaurant with Italian flair , gets its name from the Roberto Benigni film Johnny Stecchino .

JOHN Travolta, Antonio Banderas, Roberto Benigni and Heather Graham are just a few big name stars who have suffered the indignity of having their films judged as the worst of the worst.

What's better than watching a movie with a bunch of friends and popcorn? Watching a movie with a bunch of friends and pizza in the garden of a great restaurant.

With brilliant acting, a heartwarming story, and superb direction, "Life is Beautiful" will be, without a doubt, one of the most beautiful films you have ever seen.

Roberto Benigni simply 'Divine' in one-man 'TuttoDante' June 12, 2009 BY MIRIAM DI NUNZIO mdinunzio@suntimes.com "There stands horrible Minos, gnashing his teeth, who examines the sins of all who enter, encircling them with his tail as he sentences and sends them below." The above excerpt from Dante's immortal epic poem "The Divine Comedy" sounds ...

The fast-talking, quick-quipping, Oscar-winning Roberto Benigni was in fine form at a news conference in Montreal, holding forth on everything from his "Tutto Dante" show in Montreal to Quebecers to his meeting with the Pope.

For the record, the Italian actor Roberto Benigni does not believe that New Yorkers are going to Hell.

Roberto Benigni Will Send You Straight to Hell! Does anybody in this country still remember Roberto Benigni? No? What if we mention his star-making turn in the critically-lauded 1997 Nazi concentration camp tragicomedy Life is Beautiful? Ringing any bells? How about his brilliant performances in several classic Jim Jarmusch art-house movies? Still ...

A one-man show about Italian poet Dante Alighieri may not sound like a bundle of laughs but when the man doing it is Roberto Benigni, famous for his exuberant antics after winning an Oscar, it won't be a snooze.

Roberto Benigni leapt up with a riff on the 26th Canto of Dante's "Inferno," in which fraudulent advisers are engulfed by flames that scorch them.

Oscar-winning Italian actor-auteur Roberto Benigni is getting his act together and taking it to New York.

"I would like to kidnap everybody and lie down making love to everybody!" said Benigni , upon accepting his Oscars 10 years after winning the Best Actor and Best Foreign Film Oscars for " Life is Beautiful ," Italian alterna-clown Roberto Benigni is still best known for this loved and loathed Holocaust comedy.

From "Goodbye Solo," with Soulymane Sy Savan as Solo, his step- child in tow, as he tries to help a troubled man.