Carlo Monni

{{Short description|Italian film, television, and stage actor}}

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1943|10|23|df=y}}

| birth_place = Campi Bisenzio, Florence, Italy

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2013|5|19|1943|10|23|df=y}}

| death_place = Florence, Italy

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| occupation = Actor

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Carlo Monni (23 October 1943 – 19 May 2013) was an Italian film, television and stage actor.

Born in Campi Bisenzio, Florence, Monni started his artistic activity in early seventies, as an actor in the Tuscan vernacular comic theater.{{cite book|author1=Enrico Lancia |author2=Roberto Poppi |title=Dizionario del cinema italiano: Gli attori dal 1930 ai giorni nostri.|publisher=Gremese Editore, 2003|isbn=8884402697|page=52}} After having played some minor roles in a number of low-budget films, the popularity came in the second half of 1970s, as the sidekick of his real life friend Roberto Benigni in a series of successful stage works, TV-programs, and then films (Berlinguer, I Love You, Seeking Asylum, Tu mi turbi, Nothing Left to Do But Cry).{{cite book|author1=Massimo Giraldi |author2=Enrico Lancia |author3=Fabio Melelli |title=Cento caratteristi del cinema italiano|year=2006 |publisher=Gremese Editore, 2006|isbn=8884403839|pages=142–143}} From then Monni started a productive career as a character actor, collecting over 300 appearances between cinema and theater.{{cite news|last=Iacopo Gori|title=Addio al poeta che amava il vento Grazie Carlo, per la bellezza che ci hai regalato|url=http://www.corriere.it/spettacoli/13_maggio_20/carlo-monni-gori_32f309f6-c0df-11e2-9979-2bdfd7767391.shtml|access-date=20 May 2013|newspaper=Corriere della Sera|date=20 May 2013}}