Tom Conti

Tom Conti
Conti (Glasgow, December 2007), still in costume after a performance from his starring role in the play Romantic Comedy.
Born	Thomas Antonio Conti (1941-11-22) 22 November 1941 (age 75) Paisley, Scotland
Occupation	Actor, theatre director, novelist
Years active	1963–present
Spouse(s)	Kara Wilson (m. 1967)
Children	Nina Conti

Thomas Antonio "Tom" Conti (born 22 November 1941) is a Scottish actor, theatre director and novelist of Italian Scots descent. He has won a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play in 1979 for his performance in Whose Life Is It Anyway?. He has also been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor for the 1983 film, Reuben, Reuben.

Conti was born in Paisley, Renfrewshire, the son of hairdressers Mary (née McGoldrick) and Alfonso Conti. He was brought up Roman Catholic, but he considers himself anti-religious. Conti's father was Italian and his mother was Scottish.

Conti was educated at Hamilton Park School, an independent Catholic boys' school in Glasgow, and at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow.

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.

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, guested on Friends and Cosby, and played opposite Nigel Hawthorne in a long-running series of Vauxhall Astra car advertisements in the UK during the mid-1990s.