1. Tommaso Antonio Conti was born on 22 November 1941 and is a Scottish actor.
20 Facts About Tom Conti
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Tom Conti directed the Frank D Gilroy play Last Licks on Broadway.
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Tom Conti returned to the West End portraying Jeffrey Bernard in the Keith Waterhouse play Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell.
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Tom Conti received an Academy Award for Best Actor nomination for Reuben, Reuben.
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Tom Conti acted in such films as The Duellists, Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence, Saving Grace, The Quick and the Dead, Shirley Valentine, The Tempest, The Dark Knight Rises, and Paddington 2.
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Tom Conti portrayed Albert Einstein in Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer.
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Tom Conti was born on 22 November 1941 in Paisley, Renfrewshire, the son of hairdressers Mary McGoldrick and Alfonso Tom Conti.
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Tom Conti's father was Italian, while his mother was born and raised in Scotland to Irish parents.
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Tom Conti was educated at independent Catholic boys' school Hamilton Park St Aloysius' College, Glasgow; and at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama.
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Tom Conti began working with the Dundee Repertory in 1959.
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Besides taking the leading role in the TV versions of Frederic Raphael's The Glittering Prizes and Alan Ayckbourn's The Norman Conquests, Tom 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.
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Tom 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.
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Tom Conti appeared in the BBC sitcom Miranda alongside Miranda Hart and Patricia Hodge, as Miranda's father, in the 2010 seasonal episode "The Perfect Christmas".
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Tom Conti has been married to Scottish actress Kara Wilson since 1967 and their daughter Nina is an actress and performs as a ventriloquist.
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Tom Conti is a resident of Hampstead in northwest London, having lived in the area for several decades.
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Tom Conti was part of a campaign against the opening of a Tesco supermarket in nearby Belsize Park.
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Tom Conti had opposed development plans for Hampstead's Grove Lodge, the 18th-century Grade II listed former home of novelist John Galsworthy.
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Tom Conti participated in a genetic-mapping project conducted by the company ScotlandsDNA.
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Tom Conti said that he "burst out laughing" when told he was related to Napoleon on his father's side.
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Tom 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.