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==Early life== Conti was born on 22 November 1941 in [[Paisley, Renfrewshire]], the son of hairdressers Mary McGoldrick and Alfonso Conti.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.filmreference.com/film/3/Tom-Conti.html|title=Tom Conti Biography|publisher=filmreference.com|access-date=11 June 2017}}</ref> After being raised [[Catholic Church|Roman Catholic]], he described himself as [[antireligious]] in 2011.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2011/mar/27/this-much-know-tom-conti |title=This much I know: Tom Conti|newspaper=The Guardian |date=27 March 2011 |access-date=6 September 2021 |last1=Shaitly |first1=Shahesta }}</ref> His father was Italian, while his mother was born and raised in Scotland to Irish parents.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22278664|title=Tom Conti: My dad, sent to a prison camp for being Italian|date=27 April 2013| agency=BBC News}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/theatre-arts/11-angry-men-and-tom-conti-31054618.html|title=11 angry men... and Tom Conti| newspaper=[[Irish Independent]]|date=15 March 2015 | access-date=21 June 2018}}</ref> Conti was educated at independent Catholic boys' school Hamilton Park<ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/8363724/Tom-Conti-Fidelity-is-overrated.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/8363724/Tom-Conti-Fidelity-is-overrated.html |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live| title=Tom Conti: Fidelity is overrated| date=6 March 2011| newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph]]| access-date=27 December 2014}}{{cbignore}}</ref> [[St Aloysius' College, Glasgow]];<ref>{{Cite news |date=22 August 2016 |title=Sectarian slogan painted on leading Glasgow catholic school |newspaper=The Scotsman |url=https://www.scotsman.com/news/crime/sectarian-slogan-painted-on-leading-glasgow-catholic-school-1469043 |access-date=26 September 2023}}</ref> and at the [[Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama]].{{citation needed|date=January 2024}}
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