Editing Tom Conti (section)

==Personal life==
Conti has been married to Scottish actress [[Kara Wilson]] since 1967 and their daughter [[Nina Conti|Nina]] is an actress and performs as a [[ventriloquist]]. According to Nina, her parents have an [[open marriage]].<ref name="timesuk">[http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/scotland/article6954704.ece Tom Conti: there are worse things than being unfaithful]{{dead link|date=September 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}, a 12 December 2009, article from ''[[The Sunday Times]]''</ref>

Conti is a resident of [[Hampstead]] in northwest London, having lived in the area for several decades. Conti was part of a campaign against the opening of a [[Tesco]] supermarket in nearby [[Belsize Park]].<ref name=TelegJan14>{{cite news| url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/11332283/Tom-Conti-fights-Tesco-bid-for-store-in-Belsize-Park.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/11332283/Tom-Conti-fights-Tesco-bid-for-store-in-Belsize-Park.html |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live| title=Tom Conti fights Tesco bid for store in Belsize Park| date=8 January 2015| newspaper=The Daily Telegraph| access-date=8 June 2015}}{{cbignore}}</ref> Conti put his Hampstead house up for sale in 2015 for [[Pound sterling|£]]17.5 million after his long-running opposition to the building plans of his neighbour, the footballer [[Thierry Henry]].<ref name=ESMay15>{{cite news| url=https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/tom-conti-gives-up-on-longrunning-battle-with-neighbour-thierry-henry-over-building-works-and-puts-17m-hampstead-mansion-up-for-sale-10286620.html| title=Tom Conti fights Tesco bid for store in Belsize Park| first=Gareth| last=Vispers| date=30 May 2015| newspaper=[[Evening Standard]]| access-date=8 June 2015}}</ref> Conti had also opposed development plans for Hampstead's Grove Lodge, the 18th-century [[Grade II listed]] former home of novelist [[John Galsworthy]].<ref name=HamHighApr15>{{cite news| url=http://www.hamhigh.co.uk/news/environment/financier_withdraws_basement_scheme_for_forsyte_saga_s_grove_lodge_in_hampstead_1_4041076| title=Financier withdraws basement scheme for Forsyte Saga's Grove Lodge in Hampstead| first=Emily| last=Banks| date=20 April 2015| work=[[Archant#Weekly free newspapers|Ham & High]]| access-date=8 June 2015}}</ref>

Conti participated in a [[Genetic linkage|genetic-mapping]] project conducted by the company ScotlandsDNA (now called BritainsDNA). In 2012, Conti and the company announced that Conti shares a [[genetic marker]] with [[Napoléon Bonaparte]].<ref name=":0">{{cite news| url=https://www.theguardian.com/science/2012/apr/14/tom-conti-napoleon-bonaparte-genes| title=DNA project reveals Tom Conti's Napoleonic blood and rich roots of Scotland's genetic legacy| last=McKie| first=Robin| date=14 April 2012| newspaper=The Guardian|access-date=17 March 2018}}</ref> Conti said that he "burst out laughing" when told he was related to Napoléon on his father's side.<ref name=":0" />

===Political views===
Conti considered running as the [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] candidate in the [[2008 London mayoral election]], but did not, and in the following election in 2012, he supported unsuccessful independent candidate [[Siobhan Benita]].<ref name="Siobhan mayor">{{cite web| title=Tom Conti backs Siobhan running for Mayor| url=http://www.siobhanformayor.com/tom-conti-backs-siobhan-running-for-mayor_N44.html| publisher=Siobhan for MAYOR| access-date=18 April 2012}}</ref> In the run up to the [[2015 United Kingdom general election|2015 general election]], Conti said in an interview published in several newspapers that he was once a [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]] supporter but had come to view socialism as a “religion” with a "vicious, hostile spirit".<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/13212680.Once_a_Labour_luvvie_Tom_Conti_says_he_now_backs_the_Tories_as_the_party_of_aspiration/| title=Once a Labour luvvie Tom Conti says he now backs the Tories as the party of aspiration| date=6 May 2015| newspaper=[[The Herald (Glasgow)|The Herald]]| access-date=17 March 2018}}</ref>