Tony Nardi is a celebrated Canadian actor, twice crowned the Genie Award for Best Actor for his captivating performances in La Sarrasine and My Father's Angel. In 2010, he was recognized by the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television, being included in the 30th Anniversary Top Ten list in the lead actor category. Throughout his illustrious career, Nardi has received numerous award nominations and wins, including a 1988 Genie nomination for Concrete Angels, a 1992 Genie Award for La Sarrazine, and a 1998 Guy L'Écuyer Award for La Déroute.
Nardi's impressive filmography also includes Caffè Italia, where he took on the lead role, as well as My Father's Angel, which earned him the Sonoma Wine & Country Film Festival Co-winner award and a Genie Award. His television credits are equally impressive, with notable appearances in Rossini's Ghost, Galileo: On the Shoulders of Giants, Bonanno: A Godfather's Story, Almost America, Il Duce Canadese, and Indian Summer: The Oka Crisis, for which he received a Gemini Award Nomination.
A talented thespian, Nardi has performed extensively in theatre, gracing the stages of Montreal Theatre Lab, Theatre 2000, the Stratford Festival, and the Great Canadian Theatre Company. He has received critical acclaim for his roles in Nineteen Eighty-Four, La Storia Calvino, A Flea in Her Ear, and The Lesson, earning Montreal Gazette Critic's Award, Dora Mavor Moore Award nominations, and a Dora Mavor Moore Award.
Nardi is also a prolific playwright, co-authoring La Storia dell'Emigrante with Vincent Ierfino in 1979. The play was produced in Montreal and Toronto and went on to receive the inaugural James Buller Award for best original Canadian play at the Ontario Multicultural Theatre Festival in 1982. His second play, A Modo Suo: A Fable, received a Dora Award Nomination for Best Play in 1990. An English translation of the play was published in its entirety in the Fall 2000 issue of Canadian Theatre Review.
Nardi's documentary monologues, Two Letters...And Counting!, are based on actual correspondence sent to influential figures in the Canadian cultural scene. The piece received a 2007 Dora Award Nomination for Outstanding New Play and has 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, Nardi was awarded the 125th Anniversary of the Confederation of Canada Medal, recognizing his significant contributions to his fellow citizens, his community, or Canada.
