Born into a theatrical family-his father Giancarlo Sbragia was an actor-director and his mother Princess Esmeralda Ruspoli an actress-Mattia Sbragia entered cinema with Franco Rossetti’s Nipoti Miei Diletti in 1974. He quickly became a familiar face in Italian cinema, appearing in Tonino Cervi’s Nest of Vipers, Mauro Bolognini’s La Dame aux Camélias, Giuseppe Ferrara’s The Moro Affair and Pupi Ava…