Dominot, pseudonym of Antonio Iacono (Tunis, 1930 - Velletri, October 17, 2014), was an Italian actor and mime; change artist, drag queen and transvestite, he was for many years among the protagonists of the Roman avant-garde.
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Dominot, pseudonym of Antonio Iacono (Tunis, 1930 - Velletri, October 17, 2014), was an Italian actor and mime; change artist, drag queen and transvestite, he was for many years among the protagonists of the Roman avant-garde.
Antonio Iacono was born in Tunis, the son of immigrants from Caltanissetta, and began his first theater studies in his hometown. Very young, he performs, disguised as a woman, in the local "la Pochinierre". Around the age of twenty he moved to Paris, where he studied acting at the Academy of Theater with Jacques Toulsa of the Comédie Française. To pay for his studies, he dresses up and does striptease shows at the "Madame Arthur" (which at the time was, in Europe, the most famous club of this type) in Pigalle, and sings at the Carousel. Later he also performed in Tehran, the city where he lived for a short time. At the end of the 1950s he settled permanently in Rome, where he attended the café society described in the film La dolce vita, without hiding his homosexuality, and frequenting, among others, Giò Stajano and Vinicio Diamanti. In 1958 he met Federico Fellini, who cast him for a part in the film La dolce vita. The final line of the film belongs to Dominot, who plays himself: an openly homosexual, as well as a transvestite, in Rome in the 1960s. In the 1970s he devoted himself to avant-garde theatre, with the theater director Giancarlo Nanni. Finally, in 1984, Dominot opened a club in Rome, Il baronato quattro bellezze, where she performed en travestì singing the great repertoire of French author music, from Édith Piaf to Juliette Gréco. In 2005 he returned to the big screen thanks to Abel Ferrara who made him act during the opening credits of his Mary , and in 2007 in Go go Tales.
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