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Roberto Benigni Trivia
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- Only the fifth actor in history to win the Oscar for Best Actor in a comedy after Clark Gable in "It Happened One Night" (1934), James Stewart in "The Philadelphia Story" (1940), Lee Marvin in "Cat Ballou" (1965)and Richard Dreyfuss in "The Goodbye Girl" (1977).
- On the day the "L'Ulivo" party won the elections, Benigni jumped on the stage and kissed Veltroni, one of the party components.
- Father: Luigi Benigni, farmer, carpenter, bricklayer, b. 1918, prisoner in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp 1943-1945. Roberto used his father's stories as the basis for his film Vita e bella, La (1997).
- His father was a prisoner in a Nazi labor camp for two years.
- Mother: Isolina Benigni (fabric inspector), born 1918.
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