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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

Known for

Rome, Open City

Rome, Open City

Mamma Roma

Mamma Roma

Roma

Roma

Bellissima

Bellissima

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