Marcello Fonte and Sergio Rubini – Signed Photo – Aspromonte (La terra degli ultimi)

Marcello Fonte (born 7 November 1978) is an Italian actor. He received the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor for his role in the film Dogman. Fonte lived his childhood and adolescence in the suburbs of Reggio Calabria, where at the age of 10 he learned to play the snare drum in the town’s band. He then moved to Rome in 1999, where he worked as guardian at the Teatro Valle and became passionate about acting and got small parts in television and film productions. In 2018, Fonte received critical acclaim for his performance in Matteo Garrone’s Dogman and was awarded the Best Actor Award at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival. For this role, Fonte has also been awarded the European Film Award for Best Actor at the 31st European Film Awards.

Sergio Rubini (born 21 December 1959) is an Italian actor and film director.
Life and career
Rubini was born in Grumo Appula, Apulia, but soon moved to Rome to study acting. After some roles in theater, he debuted in a feature film with Figlio mio infinitamente caro (1985), which was followed by Desiderando Giulia and Il caso Moro. In 1987 he appeared in Federico Fellini’s Intervista. In 1989 Rubini debuted also as director with La stazione, written with his friend Umberto Marino. The film won a Silver Ribbon and a David di Donatello as best debut work. In 1994 he was again actor in Carlo Verdone’s Al lupo al lupo, and the following year he directed himself and Nastassja Kinski in La bionda. In 1994 he co-wrote Giuseppe Tornatore’s Una pura formalità. In 1997 he had a caméo appearing into the Gabriele Salvatores’ film Nirvana, and the same year he directed and starred in The Bride’s Journey (Il viaggio della sposa) with Giovanna Mezzogiorno. In 2000 Rubini was directed again by Salvatores in Denti. In 2004, he cast as Saint Dismas in Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ.