Valeria Golino Greek: Βαλέρια Γκολίνο; born 22 October 1965 is an Italian actress and director. She is best known to English-language audiences for her roles in Rain Man, Big Top Pee-wee and the two Hot Shots! films. In addition to David di Donatello, Silver Ribbon, Golden Ciak and Italian Golden Globe awards, she is one of three actresses to have twice won the Best Actress award at the Venice Film Festival.
Ornella Muti born Francesca Romana Rivelli; 9 March 1955 is an Italian actress. Contents 1Early life 2Career 3Personal life 4Selected filmography 5References 6External links Early life Muti was born in Rome as Francesca Romana Rivelli, to a Neapolitan journalist father and Ilse Renate Krause, a Baltic German sculptor from Estonia. Her maternal grandparents emigrated from Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg, Russia) to Estonia. She has an older sister,
Asia Argento Italian: ; born Aria Maria Vittoria Rossa Argento, 20 September 1975 is an Italian actress, singer, and director. The daughter of filmmaker Dario Argento, she had roles in the films XXX (2002), Land of the Dead (2005), and Marie Antoinette (2006). She has won two David di Donatello awards for Best Actress for Let’s Not Keep in Touch (1994) and Traveling Companion (1996). After the Weinstein scandal in 2017, she became a leader of
Monica Anna Maria Bellucci Italian pronunciation: ; born 30 September 1964 is an Italian actress and model. She began her career as a fashion model, modelling for Dolce & Gabbana and Dior, before making a transition to Italian films and later American films and French films. Bellucci played a Bride of Dracula in Francis Ford Coppola’s gothic romance film Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992)
Monica Vitti born Maria Luisa Ceciarelli on 3 November 1931 is an Italian actress best known for her starring roles in films directed by Michelangelo Antonioni during the early-to-mid 1960s. After working with Antonioni, Vitti changed focus and began making comedies, working with director Mario Monicelli on many films. She has appeared with Marcello Mastroianni, Alain Delon, Richard Harris, Terence Stamp, Michael Caine, and Dirk Bogarde. Vitti won
Baroness Alida Maria Laura Altenburger von Marckenstein-Frauenberg 31 May 1921 – 22 April 2006, better known by her stage name Alida Valli (or simply Valli), was an Italian actress who appeared in more than 100 films, including Mario Soldati’s Piccolo mondo antico, Alfred Hitchcock’s The Paradine Case, Carol Reed’s The Third Man, Michelangelo Antonioni’s Il Grido, Luchino Visconti’s Senso, Bernardo Bertolucci’s 1900, Georges Franju’s Les Yeux sans Visage, and Dario Argento’s Suspiria. Contents 1Biography 1.1Early
Sandra Milo born Salvatrice Elena Greco; 11 March 1933 in Tunis is an Italian actress. She won a Silver Ribbon best supporting actress award for each of her roles in Federico Fellini’s 8½ and Juliet of the Spirits. Contents 1Career 2Selected filmography 3References 4External links Career She made her film debut in 1955 alongside Alberto Sordi in The Bachelor. Her first major role came in 1959
Mariangela Melato 19 September 1941 – 11 January 2013 was an Italian cinema and theater actress. She began her stage career in the 1960s. Her first film role was in Thomas e gli indemoniati (1969), directed by Pupi Avati. She played in many memorable films during the 1970s, a period which was considered her golden age, and she
Silvana Mangano Italian pronunciation: ; Rome 21 April 1930 – Madrid 16 December 1989 was an Italian actress. Raised in poverty during World War II, Mangano trained as a dancer and worked as a model before winning a Miss Rome beauty pageant in 1946. This led to work in films; she achieved success in Bitter Rice (1949) and continued working in films
Anna Maria Magnani Italian pronunciation: ; 7 March 1908 – 26 September 1973 was an Italian actress. She was known for her explosive acting and earthy, real life portrayals of characters. Born in Rome, she worked her way through Rome’s Academy of Dramatic Art by singing at night clubs. During her career, her only child was stricken by polio when he