Paolo Noto(1907-2003)
- Actor
Paolo Noto was born in Monterosso Almo, a little mountain town in
Sicily (Italy), in 1907. His parents, Salvatore and Maria, already had
another son, Pietro. Since he was 10 years old, until he was almost 80
years old, he worked as a peasant, in the land inherited from his
family. The Starman, by Giuseppe Tornatore, is obviously the only movie
he made. Tornatore personally chose him for the role of "zu' Leonardo"
(uncle Leonardo), an old Garibaldi's soldier who hates priests and
religion. Ironically, in the real life, he was very pious and devoted
to the Virgin Mary. When he died, in 2003, he was 95 years old.