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

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