ACTOR

Roberto Benigni

1952 - Today

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Roberto Remigio Benigni (Italian: [roˈbɛrto beˈniɲɲi]; born 27 October 1952) is an Italian actor, comedian, screenwriter and director. He gained international recognition for writing, directing and starring in the Holocaust comedy-drama film Life Is Beautiful (1997), for which he received the Academy Awards for Best Actor and Best International Feature Film. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Roberto Benigni has received more than 2,866,765 page views. His biography is available in 73 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 72 in 2019). Roberto Benigni is the 114th most popular actor (up from 164th in 2019), the 354th most popular biography from Italy (up from 434th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Italian Actor.

Roberto Benigni is most famous for his 1997 film Life is Beautiful. The film tells the story of an Italian Jew, Guido, who tries to protect his son from the horrors of a Nazi concentration camp by pretending that it is all just a game.

Memorability Metrics

  • 2.9M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 70.93

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 73

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.72

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.29

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Roberto Benignis by language

Over the past year Roberto Benigni has had the most page views in the with 334,856 views, followed by Italian (270,466), and Spanish (146,662). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Telugu (333.10%), Basque (242.02%), and Serbo-Croatian (80.12%)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Roberto Benigni ranks 114 out of 13,578. Before him are Jet Li, Charlotte Rampling, Humphrey Bogart, Peter O'Toole, Giulietta Masina, and Keanu Reeves. After him are Monica Bellucci, Gwyneth Paltrow, Peter Falk, Jason Statham, Aishwarya Rai, and Kevin Costner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1952, Roberto Benigni ranks 7. Before him are Vladimir Putin, Patrick Swayze, Liam Neeson, Harvey Weinstein, Orhan Pamuk, and Steven Seagal. After him are Vajiralongkorn, Park Geun-hye, Emomali Rahmon, Mickey Rourke, Robert Zemeckis, and Nelson Piquet.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Roberto Benigni ranks 354 out of 5,161. Before him are Hippasus (-600), Bronzino (1503), Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710), Bartolomeo Cristofori (1655), Vittore Carpaccio (1465), and Pope Innocent I (378). After him are Monica Bellucci (1964), Pope Alexander IV (1200), Publius Quinctilius Varus (-46), Pope Sixtus I (42), Roger II of Sicily (1095), and Primo Levi (1919).

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Among ACTORS In Italy

Among actors born in Italy, Roberto Benigni ranks 8. Before him are Bud Spencer (1929), Gina Lollobrigida (1927), Terence Hill (1939), Marcello Mastroianni (1924), Yves Montand (1921), and Giulietta Masina (1921). After him are Monica Bellucci (1964), Ornella Muti (1955), Franco Nero (1941), Monica Vitti (1931), Anna Magnani (1908), and Raffaella Carrà (1943).

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Television and Movie Roles

Life Is Beautiful
Guido Orefice
A touching story of an Italian book seller of Jewish ancestry who lives in his own little fairy tale. His creative and happy life would come to an abrupt halt when his entire family is deported to a concentration camp during World War II. While locked up he tries to convince his son that the whole thing is just a game.
Dec 20o 19978.455 / 10
To Rome with Love
Leopoldo
Four tales unfold in the Eternal City: While vacationing in Rome, architect John encounters a young man whose romantic woes remind him of a painful incident from his own youth; retired opera director Jerry discovers a mortician with an amazing voice, and he seizes the opportunity to rejuvenate his own flagging career; a young couple have separate romantic interludes; a spotlight shines on an ordinary man.
Apr 20o 20125.8 / 10
Johnny Stecchino
Johnny Stecchino
Good hearted but not very wordly-wise, Dante is happy driving the school bus for a group of mentally handicapped children, while feeling he is somehow missing out on life and love. So he is very excited when after nearly being knocked down by her car he meets Maria, who seems immediately enamoured of him. He is soon invited to her sumptuous Palermo villa, little suspecting that this is part of a plot. He bears an amazing likeness to Maria's stool-pigeon gangster husband and it would be convenient for them if the mobster, in the shape of Dante, was seen to be dead and buried.
Oct 24o 19917.34 / 10