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Anna Magnani
Born · March 7, 1908
Died · September 26, 1973 (65 years old)
Known For: Acting
Place of Birth: Rome, Italy
Bio
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". Description above from the Wikipedia article Anna Magnani, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
We Are Cinema
Self (archive footage)
9.5
2021
The Treasure of His Youth: The Photographs of Paolo Di Paolo
Self - Actress (archive footage)
7.0
2021
Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita
Self (archive footage)
7.3
2021
The Passion of Anna Magnani
Self (archive footage)
6.5
2019
Quand Jean devint Renoir
Camilla (archive footage)
10.0
2017
Luchino Visconti: Between Truth and Passion
Self (archive footage)
1.0
2016
Girlfriend in a Coma
Maddalena Cecconi (archive footage) (uncredited)
6.8
2012
The War of the Volcanoes
Self (archive footage)
5.0
2012
Vittorio D.
Self (archive footage)
6.3
2009
Anna Magnani - Recitare la verità
(archive footage)
0.0
2008
My Dad Is 100 Years Old
Pina (archive footage) (uncredited)
6.9
2006
Once Upon a Time... 'Rome, Open City'
Self (archive footage)
7.0
2006
Bellissime
(archive footage)
0.0
2004
Barbra Streisand: The Movie Album
Gioia (archive footage)
6.0
2003
Un film et son époque
Self (archive footage) · (1 episode)
10.0
2003
Rossellini Under the Volcano
Maddalena Natoli (archive footage)
0.0
1998
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
Serafina Delle Rose / Lady Torrance (archive footage)
0.0
1994
Rossellini Through His Own Eyes
Self (archive footage)
0.0
1993
Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema
Self
0.0
1985
My Name Is Anna Magnani
Self (archive footage)
8.0
1980
Roma
Anna Magnani
7.2
1972
1870
Teresa Parenti
6.4
1972
The Automobile
Anna
5.7
1971
Tre donne - 1943: Un incontro
Jolanda
0.0
1971
Tre donne - La sciantosa
Flora Torres
7.4
1971
The Secret of Santa Vittoria
Rosa
6.8
1970
Cinéma et Réalité
Self
0.0
1967
Made in Italy
Adelina (segment "5 'La Famiglia', episode 3")
6.0
1965
Josefa's Loot
Josefa
5.0
1963
Mamma Roma
Mamma Roma
7.9
1962
The Passionate Thief
Gioia 'Tortorella' Fabbricotti
6.9
1960
The Fugitive Kind
Lady Torrance
6.9
1960
Hell in the City
Egle
7.4
1959
Wild Is the Wind
Gioa
6.8
1957
The Awakening
suor Letizia
6.0
1956
Cinépanorama
Self · (1 episode)
8.0
1956
The Rose Tattoo
Serafina Delle Rose
6.9
1955
Variety carousel
6.0
1955
Anna Magnani
0.0
1953
We, the Women
Anna (segment "Anna Magnani")
6.0
1953
The Oscars
Self · (2 episodes)
6.9
1953
The Golden Coach
Camilla
7.1
1952
Red Shirts - Anita Garibaldi
Anita Garibaldi
6.0
1952
Bellissima
Maddalena Cecconi
7.8
1952
The Ways of Love
Nannina
0.0
1950
Volcano
Maddalena Natoli
5.7
1950
What's My Line?
Self · (1 episode)
6.8
1950
L'amore
The woman (segment "Una voce umana") / Nannina (segment "Il miracolo")
6.8
1948
Woman Trouble
Linda Bertoni
6.5
1948
Assunta Spina
Assunta Spina
6.8
1948
Unknown Men of San Marino
Liana, la prostituta
4.8
1948
Angelina
Angelina Bianchi
6.5
1947
Peddlin' in Society
Gioconda Perfetti
5.5
1946
The Bandit
Lidia
6.7
1946
Before Him All Rome Trembled
Ada
6.0
1946
Revenge
Adele Vicarelli
0.0
1946
Down with Misery!
Nannina Straselli
6.8
1945
Rome, Open City
Pina
8.0
1945
Quartetto pazzo
Elena
0.0
1945
Il Fiore sotto gli Occhi
Maria Comasco, l'attrice
0.0
1944
The Last Wagon
Mary Dunchetti
6.6
1943
The Peddler and the Lady
Elide
7.3
1943
La vita è bella
Virginia
8.0
1943
L'avventura di Annabella
La mondana
0.0
1943
Luck Comes from Heaven
Zizì
1.0
1942
Finalmente soli
Ninetta
0.0
1942
Teresa Venerdì
Loletta Prima
6.6
1941
La fuggitiva
Wanda Reni
4.0
1941
Una lampada alla finestra
Ivana
0.0
1940
Princess Tarakanova
Marietta, la cameriera
0.0
1938
30 Seconds of Love
Gertrude Siriani, la sorella zitella di Tullio
0.0
1936
Cavalleria
Fanny
4.7
1936
Quei due
Pierotta
6.1
1935
Full Speed
Emilia - la cameriera
5.0
1934
The Blind Woman of Sorrento
Anna, la sua amante
6.0
1934
Das Mädchen der Strasse
0.0
1928