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Anna Magnani
Actor, Writer
Born March 7, 1908Died September 26, 1973 (65 years)
Anna Magnani (pronounced: mahn-YANEE; 7 March 1908 – 26 September 1973) was an Italian stage and film actress. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress, along with four other international awards, for her portrayal of a Sicilian widow in The Rose Tattoo.
Born in Rome to an Egyptian father and an Italian mother, 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 was 18 months old and remained crippled.
She was referred to as "La Lupa," the "perennial toast of Rome" and a "living she-wolf symbol" of the cinema. Time magazine described her personality as "fiery", and drama critic Harold Clurman said her acting was "volcanic". In the realm of Italian cinema, she was "passionate, fearless, and exciting," an actress that film historian Barry Monush calls "the volcanic earth mother of all Italian cinema." Director Roberto Rossellini called her "the greatest acting genius since Eleonora Duse. Playwright Tennessee Williams became an admirer of her acting and wrote The Rose Tattoo specifically for her to star in, a role for which she received her first Oscar in 1955.
After meeting director Goffredo Alessandrini she received her first screen role in La cieca di Sorrento (The Blind Woman of Sorrento) (1934) and later achieved international fame in Rossellini's Rome, Open City (1945), considered the first significant movie to launch the Italian neorealism movement in cinema. As an actress she became recognized for her dynamic and forceful portrayals of "earthy lower-class women" in such films as The Miracle (1948), Bellissima (1951), The Rose Tattoo (1955), The Fugitive Kind (1960), with Marlon Brando and directed by Sidney Lumet, and Mamma Roma (1962). As early as 1950, Life magazine had already stated that Magnani was "one of the most impressive actresses since Garbo".
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Born in Rome to an Egyptian father and an Italian mother, 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 was 18 months old and remained crippled.
She was referred to as "La Lupa," the "perennial toast of Rome" and a "living she-wolf symbol" of the cinema. Time magazine described her personality as "fiery", and drama critic Harold Clurman said her acting was "volcanic". In the realm of Italian cinema, she was "passionate, fearless, and exciting," an actress that film historian Barry Monush calls "the volcanic earth mother of all Italian cinema." Director Roberto Rossellini called her "the greatest acting genius since Eleonora Duse. Playwright Tennessee Williams became an admirer of her acting and wrote The Rose Tattoo specifically for her to star in, a role for which she received her first Oscar in 1955.
After meeting director Goffredo Alessandrini she received her first screen role in La cieca di Sorrento (The Blind Woman of Sorrento) (1934) and later achieved international fame in Rossellini's Rome, Open City (1945), considered the first significant movie to launch the Italian neorealism movement in cinema. As an actress she became recognized for her dynamic and forceful portrayals of "earthy lower-class women" in such films as The Miracle (1948), Bellissima (1951), The Rose Tattoo (1955), The Fugitive Kind (1960), with Marlon Brando and directed by Sidney Lumet, and Mamma Roma (1962). As early as 1950, Life magazine had already stated that Magnani was "one of the most impressive actresses since Garbo".
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Known For
Filmography
| 2020 | Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation · as Lady Torrance |
| 2017 | Quand Jean devint Renoir · as Camilla (archive Footage) |
| 2012 | Girlfriend in a Coma · as Maddalena Cecconi (archive Footage) (uncredited) |
| 2005 | My Dad Is 100 Years Old · as Pina (archive Footage) (uncredited) |
| 2004 | Bellissime · as (archive Footage) |
| 1975 | |
| 1972 | 1870 · as Teresa Parenti |
| 1971 | The Automobile · as Anna |
| 1971 | Tre donne - 1943: Un incontro · as Jolanda |
| 1971 | Tre donne - La sciantosa · as Flora Torres |
| 1969 | The Secret of Santa Vittoria · as Rosa |
| 1965 | Made in Italy · as Adelina (segment "5 'la Famiglia', Episode 3") |
| 1964 | Full Hearts and Empty Pockets · as Woman |
| 1963 | Josefa's Loot · as Josefa |
| 1962 | Mamma Roma · as Mamma Roma |
| 1960 | The Passionate Thief · as Gioia 'tortorella' Fabbricotti |
| 1960 | The Fugitive Kind · as Lady Torrance |
| 1959 | ...and the Wild Wild Women · as Egle |
| 1957 | Wild Is the Wind · as Gioa |
| 1956 | The Awakening · as Suor Letizia |
| 1955 | The Rose Tattoo · as Serafina Delle Rose |
| 1953 | We, the Women · as Anna (segment "anna Magnani") |
| 1952 | The Golden Coach · as Camilla |
| 1952 | Anita Garibaldi · as Anita Garibaldi |
| 1951 | Bellissima · as Maddalena Cecconi |
| 1950 | Vulcano · as Maddalena Natoli |
| 1948 | Love · as The Woman (segment "una Voce Umana") / Nannina (segment "il Miracolo") |
| 1948 | Woman Trouble · as Linda Bertoni |
| 1948 | Scarred · as Assunta Spina |
| 1948 | Unknown Men of San Marino · as Liana, La Prostituta |
| 1947 | Angelina · as Angelina Bianchi |
| 1946 | Peddlin' in Society · as Gioconda Perfetti |
| 1946 | The Bandit · as Lidia |
| 1946 | Before Him All Rome Trembled · as Ada |
| 1946 | Revenge · as Adele Vicarelli |
| 1945 | Down with Misery · as Nannina Straselli |
| 1945 | Rome, Open City · as Pina |
| 1945 | Crazy Quartet · as Elena |
| 1943 | The Last Wagon · as Mary Dunchetti |
| 1943 | The Peddler and the Lady · as Elide |
| 1943 | La vita è bella · as Virginia |
| 1942 | La fortuna viene dal cielo · as Zizì |
| 1941 | Doctor, Beware · as Loletta Prima |
| 1941 | La fuggitiva · as Wanda Reni |
| 1938 | Betrayal · as Marietta, La Cameriera |
| 1936 | Cavalleria · as Fanny |
| 1935 | Quei due · as Pierotta |
| 1934 | Full Speed · as Emilia - La Cameriera |
| 1934 | The Blind Woman of Sorrento · as Anna, La Sua Amante |