FRANCO NERO has captivated international audiences over the last forty-five years as an award-winning leading man, and sometime character-actor, refusing to be stereotyped, and now also works as a writer-producer-director. He was discovered by director John Huston, who cast him as Abel in “The Bible: In the Beginning”(1965) but his big break was with the internationally acclaimed cult-classic Spaghetti-Western, “Django”. The following year he was cast in the film version of “Camelot” opposite Vanessa Redgrave, for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe award. Nero has appeared in more than 185 movies around the world and has worked with Europe’s top directors. He has also played the role of leading national heroes such “Garibaldi” (Italy), “Arpad” (Hungary), and “Banovic Strakigna” (Former Yugoslavia). In the US he has been seen in successful mini-series such as “The Pirate”, “The Last Days of Pompei”, “Young Catherine”, “Bella Mafia”, “The Painted Lady”, “Saint Augustine”, and movies such as “The Legend of Valentino”, “21 Hours to Munich” , “Force Ten from Navarone”, “Enter the Ninja”, “The Versace Murder”, “Die Hard 2”, and recently “Letters to Juliet”.  In 1992 Italy’s most prestigious honour, Commendatore of the Republic, was conferred on him by the then President of Italy.