Plinio Fernando

Biography

Plinio Fernando is an Italian actor and sculptor born on September 15, 1947, in Tunis, France. He studied theatre at the Academy of Theatre Arts, where he was trained in the Stanislavski system, and later graduated to play in several theatrical productions. Fernando's film career spanned eight films as Mariangela Fantozzi in the popular Fantozzi series, before retiring from acting in 1993 to focus on painting and sculpture, which he has studied for over a decade.