Emerging from Caserta, he completed his studies at Rome’s Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in 1987 before joining Mario Martone’s Compagnia dei Teatri Uniti, where collaborations with Toni Servillo became a recurring feature of his theatrical work. The same year marked his transition to the screen with a debut in Giuseppe Piccioni’s Il grande Blek, launching a film career that soon earned cri…