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Born · November 28, 1941
Died · June 22, 2015 (73 years old)
Known For: Acting
Place of Birth: Pola, Croatia
Laura Antonelli (née Antonaz; 28 November 1941 – 22 June 2015) was an Italian film actress, who appeared in 45 films between 1964 and 1991, and she is best known for the movie Malizia. Antonelli was born Laura Antonaz in Pola, Kingdom of Italy (in Croatian, Pula), former capital of Istria. After the war, her parents fled what was then Yugoslavia, lived in Italian refugee camps and eventually settled in Naples, where her father found work as a hospital administrator. Antonelli had a childhood interest in mathematics, but as a teenager, she became proficient at gymnastics. In an interview for The New York Times, she recalled, "My parents had made me take hours of gym classes during my teens ... They felt I was ugly, clumsy, insignificant and they hoped I would at least develop some grace. I became very good, especially in rhythmical gym, which is a kind of dance." Setting aside ambitions to make a career in mathematics, she graduated as a gymnastics instructor. She moved to Rome, where she became a secondary-school gym teacher and was able to meet people in the entertainment industry, who helped her find modelling jobs. Antonelli's earliest engagements included Italian advertisements for Coca-Cola. In 1965, she made her first feature-film appearance in Le sedicenni, although her performance went uncredited. Her American debut came in 1966 in Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs. Other roles followed; her breakthrough came in 1973's Malizia. She appeared in a number of sex farces such as Till Marriage Do Us Part/Mio Dio come sono caduta in basso!. She worked in more serious films, as well, including Luchino Visconti's last film, The Innocent (1976). In Wifemistress, a romance film of 1977, she played a repressed wife experiencing a sexual awakening. Later, she appeared in Passione d'Amore (1981). From 1986 she mostly worked on Italian television series. Antonelli's final film role was in the sequel Malizia 2000 (1991), following which she retired. She won the Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists Award, Nastro d'Argento, in 1974 for Malizia. Antonelli was married to publisher Enrico Piacentini but they divorced. From 1972 to 1980, she was the companion of actor Jean-Paul Belmondo. On 27 April 1991, cocaine was found during a police raid on Antonelli's home. She was subsequently convicted of possession and dealing and sentenced to house arrest. She spent ten years appealing the conviction, which was eventually overturned. In 2006, the Italian court of appeals ruled in favor of Antonelli and ordered the Ministry of Justice to pay the actress 108,000 euros. Antonelli died on 22 June 2015, aged 73, from a heart attack. Source: Article "Laura Antonelli" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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2023
Angela
5.6
1991
Lisa
2.0
1991
Frosina
6.4
1990
Carmen Milkovich · (6 episodes)
0.0
1989
Mapi Petruzzell (2° episodio)
5.2
1987
Noce Bove
4.8
1987
Helèna Anzellotti, moglie del capo del personale
5.8
1986
Angela
5.1
1986
Marie Colbert
3.8
1985
Monica Belli, la star
5.4
1985
Anna Tassotti Maloni
5.6
1982
Carla De Dominicis / Supermarket client / The Princess
4.2
1982
Marianna
5.7
1982
Rosa Di Maggio
4.2
1981
Stellina Ravi
0.0
1981
Clara
6.8
1981
Roberta
5.0
1980
Tonietta
6.2
1979
The Businesswoman
4.2
1979
Sandra
5.4
1977
Antonia De Angelis
5.7
1977
Giuliana Hermil
6.8
1976
Manoela Roderighi
5.5
1975
Eugenia di Maqueda
5.9
1974
Laura
5.7
1974
Simona
3.3
1974
Madame Juliette ('Signora sono le 8') / Celestina ('Due cuori e una baracca') / Enrico's Wife ('Non è mai troppo tardi') / Grazia ('Viaggio di nozze') / Tamara ('Torna piccina mia') / The Nun ('Lavoratore italiano all'estero') / Donna Mimma Maccò ('La vendetta') / Tiziana ('L'ospite')
5.8
1973
Angela
7.3
1973
Martine Dupont
5.2
1972
suor Delicata
5.7
1972
Costanza Vivaldi
6.4
1971
Juliette Vaudreuil
5.8
1971
Pauline de Géran
6.6
1971
Daria
4.2
1970
Ria
6.1
1970
Gradiva
5.2
1970
Wanda von Dunajew
5.2
1969
Franca (uncredited)
5.6
1969
Elena (uncredited)
6.0
1969
Stella
5.5
1968
Piera Conforti
6.0
1966
Rosanna
5.1
1966
0.0
1965
Guest with a Beehive Hairdo at the Artusis (uncredited)
6.6
1964