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Carla Gravina
ActorBorn August 5, 1941 (83 years)
Carla Gravina (born 5 August 1941) is an Italian actress and politician. She appeared in 40 films between 1957 and 1993.
Born in Gemona, Gravina made her film debut at fifteen years old, in Alberto Lattuada's Guendalina. Very active in films and on television series, both in comedic and dramatic roles, from the late 1970s she gradually focused her activities on stage and in political activism, being a PCI deputy between 1980 and 1983.
During her career Gravina won a number of international awards, including the Best Actress Award for her performance in Alessandro Blasetti's Love and Chatter at the 1958 Locarno International Film Festival, the award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Ettore Scola's La terrazza at the 1980 Cannes Film Festival, and the award for Best Actress for Margarethe von Trotta's The Long Silence at the 1993 Montreal World Film Festival.
Born in Gemona, Gravina made her film debut at fifteen years old, in Alberto Lattuada's Guendalina. Very active in films and on television series, both in comedic and dramatic roles, from the late 1970s she gradually focused her activities on stage and in political activism, being a PCI deputy between 1980 and 1983.
During her career Gravina won a number of international awards, including the Best Actress Award for her performance in Alessandro Blasetti's Love and Chatter at the 1958 Locarno International Film Festival, the award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Ettore Scola's La terrazza at the 1980 Cannes Film Festival, and the award for Best Actress for Margarethe von Trotta's The Long Silence at the 1993 Montreal World Film Festival.
Filmography
| 1993 | Il lungo silenzio · as Dr. Carla Aldrovandi |
| 1988 | Days of Inspector Ambrosio · as Tullia Bandelli |
| 1982 | |
| 1980 | La terrazza · as Carla |
| 1979 | Orient-Express (TV Series) · as Hélène |
| 1978 | Madame Bovary (TV Series) · as Emma Bovary |
| 1976 | Boomerang · as Muriel |
| 1974 | The Antichrist · as Ippolita Oderisi |
| 1974 | And Now My Love · as Sarah's Italian Girlfriend |
| 1973 | |
| 1973 | No Way Out · as Sandra |
| 1973 | The Inheritor · as Liza Rocquencourt |
| 1972 | Alfredo, Alfredo · as Carolina |
| 1971 | Without Apparent Motive · as Jocelyne Rocca |
| 1971 | Il segno del comando (TV Series) · as Lucia |
| 1969 | I fratelli Karamazov (TV Series) · as Katerina Ivànovna |
| 1969 | The Invisible Woman · as Delfina |
| 1969 | The Lady of Monza · as Caterina Da Meda |
| 1969 | Nero Wolfe (1969) (TV Series) · as Helen Frost |
| 1969 | Mother's Heart · as Lorenza Garrone |
| 1968 | The Violent Four · as Anna |
| 1968 | The Seven Cervi Brothers · as Verina, Moglie Di Aldo Cervi |
| 1967 | A Bullet for the General · as Rosario |
| 1967 | Caravaggio's life (TV Series) · as Tullia |
| 1965 | Scaramouche (TV Series) · as Marietta Biancolella |
| 1961 | A Day for Lionhearts · as Mariuccia |
| 1960 | Everybody Go Home! · as Silvia Modena |
| 1960 | 5 Branded Women · as Mira |
| 1959 | First Love · as Betty |
| 1959 | Esterina · as Esterina |
| 1959 | Policarpo · as Celeste |
| 1958 | Big Deal on Madonna Street · as Nicoletta |
| 1958 | Love and Chatter · as Maria Furlani |
| 1957 | Guendalina · as Amica Di Guendalina (uncredited) |