Tony Nardi(I)
- Actor
- Writer
- Director
Tony Nardi is a two-time winner of the Genie Award for Best Actor for
his roles in La Sarrasine and My Father's Angel. In 2010, the year of
the 30th Annual Genie Awards, Tony Nardi made the Academy of Canadian
Cinema & Television's 30th Anniversary Top Ten list in the lead actor
category. His numerous award-winning film appearances include Caffè
Italia (lead), Concrete Angels (1988 Genie nomination), La Sarrazine
(1992 Genie Award), La Déroute (1998 Guy L'Écuyer Award, Genie
nomination), and My Father's Angel (2000 Sonoma Wine & Country Film
Festival Co-winner; Genie Award). Tony's television credits include
Rossini's Ghost; Galileo: On the Shoulders of Giants; Bonanno: A
Godfather's Story; Almost America, Il Duce Canadese (miniseries) for
which he received a Gemini Award Nomination; and Indian Summer: The Oka
Crisis (miniseries). Tony Nardi has performed extensively in theatre.
He's appeared at Montreal Theatre Lab, Theatre 2000, the Stratford
Festival and the Great Canadian Theatre Company, and earned acclaim for
his roles in Nineteen Eighty-Four (Montreal Gazette Critic's Award
1979); La Storia Calvino (Dora Mavor Moore Award nomination 1985); A
Flea in Her Ear (Dora Mavor Moore Award nomination, 2001); and The
Lesson (Dora Mavor Moore Award 2002). Tony Nardi is co-author (with
Vincent Ierfino) of La Storia dell'Emigrante, produced in 1979 in
Montreal and Toronto. In 1982 La Storia dell'Emigrante received the
inaugural James Buller Award for best original Canadian play at the
Ontario Multicultural Theatre Festival. In 1990 Nardi's second play, A
Modo Suo: A Fable (written in Calabrian) received a Dora Award
Nomination for Best Play. An English translation was published in its
entirety in the Fall 2000 issue of Canadian Theatre Review. His
theatrical (documentary) monologues, Two Letters...And Counting!, are
based on actual correspondence sent to "middle-men" of the Canadian
cultural scene - a television producer, two theatre critics, and an
arts council officer. Two Letters received a 2007 Dora Award Nomination
for Outstanding New Play. The three Letters have been filmed in front
of a live audience in one take. His newly published book, Two
Letters...And Counting!, is based on the earlier staged versions. In
1992 he received the 125th Anniversary of the Confederation of Canada
Medal, awarded to Canadians for significant contribution to their
fellow citizens, to their community, or to Canada.
