Mattia Sbragia is an Italian character actor. Mattia Sbragia has been performing in films, on television, and in the theater for almost thirty years. He made his motion picture debut in 1974, in Franco Rossetti's Nipoti Miei Diletti. He has since become a clear favorite of several of Italy's top directors, appearing in Tonino Cervi's Ritratto di borghesia in nero, Mauro Bolognini's La Dame Aux Camelias, with Isabelle Huppert, and Pupi Avati's Storia di ragazzi e di ragazze, to name only a few. He has also acted often in international productions such as John Frankenheimer's The Year of the Gun, Norman Jewison's Only You, and James Ivory's The Golden Bowl. Sbragia's most recent film appearances have been in Tom Tykwer's Heaven and Brian Helgeland's The Order. He has also appeared frequently on television, in productions such as Damiano Damiani's landmark MOW Lenin: The Train, with Ben Kingsley, and Josee Dayan's 1998 version of The Count of Monte Cristo, with G�rard Depardieu. On stage, he has had major roles in productions of The Tempest, Orestes, Faust, and The Iliad. [More at Wikipedia]

April 17th, 1952 in Rome (Age 72)