Tony Nardi

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Tony Nardi (born 1958 in Calabria, Italy) is a Canadian actor. He is a two-time winner of the Genie Award for Best Actor, for his roles in La Sarrasine and My Father's Angel.

Tony Nardi has performed in over 50 plays incl. Montreal Theatre Lab (Solzhenitsyn), Theatre 2000 (For Those in the Peril on the Sea), Stratford Festival (Tyrone Guthrie Apprentice Award 1982), Great Cdn. Theatre Co. (cross-country tour in Sandinista); other award-winning roles: Nineteen Eighty-Four (Montreal Gazette Critic's Award 1979), La Storia Calvino (Dora Mavor Moore Award nom. 1985), 'Homenides' in A Flea in Her Ear (Dora Mavor Moore Award nom. 2001), 'The Professor' in The Lesson (Dora Mavor Moore Award 2002); num. movie roles incl. Caffè Italia (lead), Concrete Angels 1988 (Genie nom.), La Sarrazine 1992 (Genie Award), La Déroute 1998 (Guy L'Écuyer Award, Genie nom.), My Father's Angel 2000 (Sonoma Wine & Country Film. Fest. Co-winner; Genie Award); TV credits incl. Rossini's Ghost, Galileo: On the Shoulders of Giants, Bonanno: A Godfather's Story, Almost America, Il Duce Canadese (miniseries) and Indian Summer: The Oka Crisis (miniseries); awarded, Canada 125 Medal 1992 for significant contrib. to Canada, to the community, or to fellow Cdns.; co-author (with Vincent Ierfino) La Storia dell'Emigrante (play) 1979 (James Buller Award for best original Cdn. play 1982); author A Modo Suo: A Fable 1990 (Dora Award nom.; pub. in Cdn. Theatre Review 2000); Two Letters (received a 2008 Dora Mavor Moore Nomination for Outstanding New Play).