Fabio Traversa
{{Short description|Italian actor (born 1952)}}
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Fabio Traversa (born 17 November 1952) is an Italian actor.
Life and career
Born in Naples, a real life friend of Nanni Moretti, Traversa appeared in Moretti's debut medium length film Pâté de bourgeois (1973) and made his feature film debut in 1976, in Moretti's I Am Self Sufficient.{{cite book|author1=Roberto Chiti |author2=Roberto Poppi |author3=Enrico Lancia |title=Dizionario del cinema italiano : Gli attori dal 1930 ai giorni nostri|date=2003 |publisher=Gremese Editore, 2002|isbn=8884402697}}
After the leading roles in two comedy-drama films by Vittorio Sindoni, Gli anni struggenti (1979) and Quasi quasi mi sposo (1982), in the early 1980s Traversa specialized as a character actor, being mainly cast in humorous roles.
Selected filmography
- I Am Self Sufficient (1976)
- Ecce bombo (1978)
- Il minestrone (1981)
- The Lady of the Camellias (1981)
- Sciopèn (1982)
- Compagni di scuola (1988)
- Red Wood Pigeon (1989)
- Le comiche (1990)
- Fantozzi - Il ritorno (1996)
- Fantozzi 2000 – La clonazione (1999)
- It Can't Be All Our Fault (2003)
References
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== External links ==
- {{IMDb name|id =0871328}}
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Category:20th-century Italian male actors
Category:Italian male film actors
Category:Italian male stage actors