Tom Conti

Conti was born on 22 November 1941 in Paisley, Renfrewshire, the son of hairdressers Mary McGoldrick and Alfonso Conti.{{cite web|url=http://www.filmreference.com/film/3/Tom-Conti.html|title=Tom Conti Biography|publisher=filmreference.com|access-date=11 June 2017}} After being raised Roman Catholic, he described himself as antireligious in 2011.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2011/mar/27/this-much-know-tom-conti

|title=This much I know: Tom Conti|newspaper=The Guardian |date=27 March 2011 |access-date=6 September 2021 |last1=Shaitly |first1=Shahesta }} His father was Italian, while his mother was born and raised in Scotland to Irish parents.{{cite news| url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22278664|title=Tom Conti: My dad, sent to a prison camp for being Italian|date=27 April 2013| agency=BBC News}}{{cite web| url=https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/theatre-arts/11-angry-men-and-tom-conti-31054618.html|title=11 angry men... and Tom Conti| newspaper=Irish Independent|date=15 March 2015 | access-date=21 June 2018}} Conti was educated at independent Catholic boys' school Hamilton Park{{cite web| url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/8363724/Tom-Conti-Fidelity-is-overrated.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/8363724/Tom-Conti-Fidelity-is-overrated.html |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live| title=Tom Conti: Fidelity is overrated| date=6 March 2011| newspaper=The Daily Telegraph| access-date=27 December 2014}}{{cbignore}} St Aloysius' College, Glasgow;{{Cite news |date=22 August 2016 |title=Sectarian slogan painted on leading Glasgow catholic school |newspaper=The Scotsman |url=https://www.scotsman.com/news/crime/sectarian-slogan-painted-on-leading-glasgow-catholic-school-1469043 |access-date=26 September 2023}} and at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama.{{citation needed|date=January 2024}}

Conti is a theatre, film, and television actor. He began working with the Dundee Repertory in 1959. He appeared on Broadway in Whose Life Is It Anyway? in 1979, and in London, he played the lead in Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell at the Garrick Theatre.{{citation needed|date=January 2024}} Besides taking the leading role in the TV versions of Frederic Raphael's The Glittering Prizes and Alan Ayckbourn's The Norman Conquests, Conti appeared in the "Princess and the Pea" episode of the family television series Faerie Tale Theatre, guest-starred on Friends and Cosby, and played opposite Nigel Hawthorne in a long-running series of Vauxhall Astra car advertisements in the United Kingdom from the early to the mid-1990s.{{citation needed|date=January 2024}}

Conti has appeared in such films as Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence, Reuben, Reuben, American Dreamer, Shirley Valentine, Miracles, Saving Grace, Dangerous Parking, and Voices Within: The Lives of Truddi Chase.{{citation needed|date=January 2024}} Conti's novel The Doctor, about a former secret operations pilot for intelligence services, was published in 2004. According to the foreword, his friend Lynsey De Paul recommended the manuscript to publisher Jeremy Robson.{{cite book| first=Tom| last=Conti| title=The Doctor| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oNr2UdisYXUC| year=2006| publisher=Franz Steiner Verlag| isbn=978-1-86105-841-6}}

He appeared in the BBC sitcom Miranda alongside Miranda Hart and Patricia Hodge, as Miranda's father, in the 2010 seasonal episode "The Perfect Christmas".{{citation needed|date=January 2024}} Most recently he portrayed Albert Einstein in Christopher Nolan's 2023 thriller-drama Oppenheimer. The film had one of the most successful opening weekends of 2023, and received wide critical acclaim.{{cn|date=August 2023}}

Conti has been married to Scottish actress Kara Wilson since 1967 and their daughter Nina is an actress and performs as a ventriloquist. According to Nina, her parents have an open marriage.[http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/scotland/article6954704.ece Tom Conti: there are worse things than being unfaithful]{{dead link|date=September 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}, a 12 December 2009, article from The Sunday Times

Conti is a resident of Hampstead in northwest London, having lived in the area for several decades. Conti was part of a campaign against the opening of a Tesco supermarket in nearby Belsize Park.{{cite news| url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/11332283/Tom-Conti-fights-Tesco-bid-for-store-in-Belsize-Park.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/11332283/Tom-Conti-fights-Tesco-bid-for-store-in-Belsize-Park.html |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live| title=Tom Conti fights Tesco bid for store in Belsize Park| date=8 January 2015| newspaper=The Daily Telegraph| access-date=8 June 2015}}{{cbignore}} Conti put his Hampstead house up for sale in 2015 for £17.5 million after his long-running opposition to the building plans of his neighbour, the footballer Thierry Henry.{{cite news| url=https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/tom-conti-gives-up-on-longrunning-battle-with-neighbour-thierry-henry-over-building-works-and-puts-17m-hampstead-mansion-up-for-sale-10286620.html| title=Tom Conti fights Tesco bid for store in Belsize Park| first=Gareth| last=Vispers| date=30 May 2015| newspaper=Evening Standard| access-date=8 June 2015}} Conti had also opposed development plans for Hampstead's Grove Lodge, the 18th-century Grade II listed former home of novelist John Galsworthy.{{cite news| url=http://www.hamhigh.co.uk/news/environment/financier_withdraws_basement_scheme_for_forsyte_saga_s_grove_lodge_in_hampstead_1_4041076| title=Financier withdraws basement scheme for Forsyte Saga's Grove Lodge in Hampstead| first=Emily| last=Banks| date=20 April 2015| work=Ham & High| access-date=8 June 2015}}

Conti participated in a genetic-mapping project conducted by the company ScotlandsDNA (now called BritainsDNA). In 2012, Conti and the company announced that Conti shares a genetic marker with Napoléon Bonaparte.{{cite news| url=https://www.theguardian.com/science/2012/apr/14/tom-conti-napoleon-bonaparte-genes| title=DNA project reveals Tom Conti's Napoleonic blood and rich roots of Scotland's genetic legacy| last=McKie| first=Robin| date=14 April 2012| newspaper=The Guardian|access-date=17 March 2018}} Conti said that he "burst out laughing" when told he was related to Napoléon on his father's side.

Conti considered running as the Conservative candidate in the 2008 London mayoral election, but did not, and in the following election in 2012, he supported unsuccessful independent candidate Siobhan Benita.{{cite web| title=Tom Conti backs Siobhan running for Mayor| url=http://www.siobhanformayor.com/tom-conti-backs-siobhan-running-for-mayor_N44.html| publisher=Siobhan for MAYOR| access-date=18 April 2012}} In the run up to the 2015 general election, Conti said in an interview published in several newspapers that he was once a Labour supporter but had come to view socialism as a “religion” with a "vicious, hostile spirit".{{cite news| url=http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/13212680.Once_a_Labour_luvvie_Tom_Conti_says_he_now_backs_the_Tories_as_the_party_of_aspiration/| title=Once a Labour luvvie Tom Conti says he now backs the Tories as the party of aspiration| date=6 May 2015| newspaper=The Herald| access-date=17 March 2018}}

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• Galileo (1975) as Andrea Sarti (man)
• Slade in Flame (1975) as Robert Seymour
• The Duellists (1977) as Dr. Jacquin
• Full Circle (1977) as Mark Berkeley
• Eclipse (1977) as Tom / Geoffrey
• Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983) as Col. John Lawrence
• Reuben, Reuben (1983) as Gowan McGland
• American Dreamer (1984) as Alan McMann
• Miracles (1986) as Roger
• Saving Grace (1985) as Pope Leo XIV
• Heavenly Pursuits (1986) as Vic Mathews
• The Quick and The Dead (1987) as Duncan McKaskel
• Beyond Therapy (1987) as Stuart
• Two Brothers Running (1988) as Moses Bornstein
• That Summer of White Roses (1989) as Andrija Gavrilovic
• Shirley Valentine (1989) as Costas
• Caccia Alla Vedova (1991) as Conte Angelo di Bosconero
• Someone Else's America (1995) as Alonso
• Sub Down (1997) as Harry Rheinhartdt
• Something to Believe In (1998) as Monsignor Calogero
• Out of Control (1998) as Eddie
• Don't Go Breaking My Heart (1999) as Dr. Fiedler
• The Enemy (2001) as Insp. John Cregar
• Derailed (2005) as Eliot Firth
• Rabbit Fever (2006) as Prof Rosenberg
• Paid (2006) as Rudi
• Almost Heaven (2006) as Bert Gordon
• O Jerusalem (2006) as Sir Cunningham
• Dangerous Parking (2007) as Doc Baker
• Deeply Irresponsible (2007) as Nate
• A Closed Book (2009) as Sir Paul
• The Tempest (2010) as Gonzalo
• Rekindle (2011) as Dr. Monty Adams
• Streetdance 2 (2012) as Manu
• Run for Your Wife (2012)
• The Dark Knight Rises (2012) as Prisoner
• City Slacker (2012) as Ray
• Paddington 2 (2017) as Judge Gerald Biggleswade
• Oppenheimer (2023) as Albert Einstein

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• Boy Meets Girl (1969) as Frank
• Thirty-Minute Theatre - Revolutions: Fidel Castro (1970) as Che Guevara
• Adam Smith (1972) as Dr. Calvi
• Z Cars (1973) as Gordon Morley
• Barlow at Large (1973) as Myers
• Sam (1974) as David Ellis
• Fall of Eagles (1974) as Glazkov
• Thriller (1975) as Bruno Varella
• Madame Bovary (1975, TV mini-series) as Charles Bovary
• The Glittering Prizes (1976, TV mini-series) as Adam Morris
• The Norman Conquests (1977, TV mini-series) as Norman
• Blade on the Feather (1980, TV film) as Daniel Young
• The Wall (1982, TV film) as Dolek Berson
• Faerie Tale Theatre (1984, "Princess and the Pea") as Prince Richard
• Nazi Hunter: The Beate Klarsfeld Story (1986, TV film) as Serge Klarsfeld
• The Dumb Waiter (1987)
• The Quick and the Dead (1987, TV film) as Duncan McKaskel
• Roman Holiday (1987, TV film) as Joe Bradley
• Fatal Judgement (1988, TV film) as Pat Piscitelli
• Voices Within: The Lives of Truddi Chase (1990, TV film) as Doctor 'Stanley' Phillips
• The Old Boy Network (1992) as Lucas Frye
• The Wright Verdicts (1995) as Charles Wright
• The Inheritance (1997, TV film) as Henry Hamilton
• Friends (1998, "The One After Ross Says Rachel", and "The One with Ross's Wedding") as Stephen Waltham
• Cosby (1999) as William Shakespeare
• Deadline (2000–2001) as Si Beekman
• I Was a Rat (2001, TV mini-series) as Bob Jones
• Andy Pandy (2002) as Narrator (voice)
• DNA (2004) as Joe Donovan
• Four Seasons (2008–2009) as Charles Combe
• Lark Rise to Candleford (2010) as William Bourne / Mr. Reppington
• Miranda (2010) as Charles
• Parents (2012) as Len Miller
• Rosemary's Baby (2014)
• Doc Martin (2019) as Dr Bernard Newton (Series 9 episode 8)

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• Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell
• Whose Life is it Anyway?
• Savages
• The Devil's Disciple{{cite web| url=http://collections.shakespeare.org.uk/search/rsc-performances/ded197607-the-devils-disciple| title=Search - RSC Performances - DED197607 - The Devil's Disciple - Shakespeare Birthplace Trust| website=Collections.shakespeare.org.uk| access-date=21 June 2018}}
• They're Playing Our Song
• The Real Thing
• An Italian Straw Hat (1986)
• The Ride Down Mt. Morgan
• Chapter Two
• Jesus, My Boy (1998–99, 2009)
• Present Laughter{{cite news| url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre-all-dressed-up-with-no-place-to-go-paul-taylor-reviews-present-laughter-at-the-globe-theatre-1493689.html| title=THEATRE / All dressed up with no place to go: Paul Taylor reviews Present Laughter at the Globe Theatre, London| newspaper=The Independent| date=25 June 1993| access-date=14 July 2018}}
• Romantic Comedy
• Rough Justice (2012–13){{cite news| url=https://www.dailyinfo.co.uk/feature/7571/rough-justice| title=Tom Conti stars in explosive courtroom drama which debates whether murder can be justified| newspaper=Daily Info| date=6 November 2012| access-date=22 February 2021}}
• Twelve Angry Men (2014)

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• The Last of the Red Hot Lovers
• Present Laughter
• Otherwise Engaged{{col-end}}

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