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Alessandra Martines

ActorBorn September 19, 1963 (61 years)
Alessandra Martines (born 19 September 1963) is an Italian French dancer and actress mainly working in the English-, French-, and Italian-speaking worlds. She started young in ballet on opera stages in Switzerland, France, the United States and then Italy before becoming a lead on television for RAI captured ballets and entertainment shows (the Italian national public broadcasting) in the eighties.

She is primarily known for portraying the main role in the cult Fantaghirò series, consisting of five films (1991–1996) still regularly re-run across Europe as of 2020, and for her work in auteur productions such as nine films by Claude Lelouch to whom she was married until 2009.

She was awarded numerous prizes including the Best Actress Telegatto for The Cave of the Golden Rose (1991), the Grolla d'oro for Edda [it] (2005), the Silver Hugo for Best Actress at the Chicago International Film Festival (1998) for Chance or Coincidence, the Diamanti al Cinema Award in Cannes (2007) or the 2009 European Golden Globe in Rome. In 2008, she was made Knight of the Ordre national du Mérite awarded by the President of the French Republic. She received the lifetime achievement Kineo Award at the 71st Venice International Film Festival in 2014.

Second cousin of Carla Bruni and Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, she moved to France with her family at the age of five. As a teenager, she enrolled at the Conservatoire de Paris where she studied solfeggio, history and theory of dance and classical music and dance.

Martines debuted at a young age as a dancer at the Zurich Opera House in 1972. After some time working in the United States, including the Chicago City Ballet, she moved to Rome where she worked at the Teatro dell'Opera. In 1985 she began her collaboration with RAI, with the lunchtime chat / quiz show Pronto, chi gioca?; she later gained great popularity with the Saturday Night shows Fantastico and Europa Europa, and then for her portrayal of Princess Fantaghirò in the Fantaghirò series.

In cinema, she is best known for her interpretations under the direction of her ex-husband, the French director Claude Lelouch, in several film including Les Misérables and And now... Ladies and Gentlemen. She also starred on stage, most notably in L'appartamento by Franca Valeri.

Movies & Shows on Plex

  • And Now Ladies & Gentlemen

Known For

  • Les Misérables
  • Love Me No More
  • Cave of the Golden Rose
  • And Now Ladies & Gentlemen
  • Hasards ou coïncidences
  • Sinbad of the Seven Seas
  • Hommes, femmes, mode d'emploi
  • Day Off
  • Amnèsia
  • Towards Zero
  • Tout ça... pour ça!
  • Une pour toutes
  • J'ai faim!!!
  • My Name Is Bernadette
  • Miss Arizona
  • My Daughters

Filmography

2014
Furore (TV Series) · as Luciana Belgrano
2011
My Name Is Bernadette · as Louise Soubirous
2009
The Queen and the Cardinal · as Anne D'autriche
2009
Panique! · as Clémentine
2008
Il sangue e la rosa (TV Series) · as Contessa Ortensia Damiani
2008
Love Me No More · as Marion
2008
Il commissario Rex (TV Series) · as Malice Bonomi
2007
Towards Zero · as Marie-Adeline
2006
Honor And Respect (TV Series) · as Giudice Francesca De Santis
2005
My Daughters (TV Series) · as Adele Parisi
2005
Le courage d'aimer · as Alessandra
2005
2004
Don Bosco · as Marchesa Barolo
2003
2002
2002
Amnèsia · as Virginie
2001
J'ai faim!!! · as Anaïs Pommard
2001
Day Off · as Madame Socoa
1999
Une pour toutes · as Maxime
1998
Hasards ou coïncidences · as Myriam Lini
1996
Hommes, femmes, mode d'emploi · as Docteur Nitez
1995
Lumière and Company · as (segment "claude Lelouch")
1995
Les Misérables · as Elise Ziman
1994
1994
1993
1993
Tout ça... pour ça! · as Allessandra Barrucq
1991
1991
Cave of the Golden Rose (TV Series) · as Fantaghirò
1990
The Cave of the Golden Rose · as Fantaghirò
1989
1988
Miss Arizona · as Marta

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