Emerging from Montale, he honed his craft at the Silvio d’Amico Academy of Dramatic Arts before joining Dario Fo’s stage company, where his theatrical foundation was laid. Transitioning to cinema, his first screen appearance came in Marco Leto’s Al piacere di rivederla, and he achieved wider recognition with the 1982 Taviani brothers’ film The Night of the Shooting Stars, a collaboration that recu…