He began his acting career on stage in 1973 with Carlo Cecchi's Granteatro company, playing roles in plays by William Shakespeare (Antony and Cleopatra), Eduardo De Filippo (Filumena Marturano), Molière, Luigi Pirandello, Harold Pinter and Bertolt Brecht.
[1] During those same years, he began acting in movies, directed by filmmakers such as Nanni Moretti, Marco Bellocchio, Paolo Sorrentino[2] and the Taviani brothers.
He also works with the Ater company in Alexandr Vasiljevič Suchovo-Kobylin's The Vampire of St. Petersburg and Italo Svevo's La burla riuscita.
Later, with Valeria Moriconi's company, he took part in Eduardo De Filippo's Filumena Marturano, Hugo von Hofmannsthal's The Knight of the Rose, William Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, Victorien Sardou and Émile Moreau's Madame Sans-Gêne, Thomas Bernhard's Alla meta, and Aldo Palazzeschi's Interrogatorio della contessa Maria.
He also worked for television taking part in the series Un commissario a Roma with Nino Manfredi.