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