Emerging from Rome’s avant-garde theatre, he honed his craft at the Teatro Stabile di Catania before joining Gigi Proietti’s stage company in 1982. Television audiences first recognized him as Inspector Ardenzi in the Canale 5 crime series Distretto di Polizia, a role that propelled him into a stream of screen appearances, including Kaputt Mundi and The Dinner (1998), Bell’amico and Paz! (2002), a…