Antonio Iacono (or Jacono) was born in Tunis in 1930 (according to Andrea Pini in 1934),[1] raised by the immigrants from Caltanissetta, and in his hometown he began his first theater practice.
[2] Around the age of twenty he moved to Paris, where he studied acting at a theater school with Jacques Toulsa of the Comédie-Française.
[3] At the end of the 1950s he settled permanently in Rome, where he attended the café society portrayed in the film La Dolce Vita, without hiding his homosexuality, and befriending among others, Giò Stajano and Vinicio Diamanti [it].
[6] In 1984, Dominot opened his own club in Rome, Il baronato quattro bellezze, where he performed (into his eighties) en travestì singing the repertoire of chanson française, from Édith Piaf to Juliette Gréco.
[2][7] In 2005 he returned to the big screen, thanks to Abel Ferrara, who made him perform during the opening credits of his Mary, and in 2007 in Go Go Tales.