Anna Magnani

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Known For:
Acting

Birthday:
March 7, 1908

Place of Birth:
Rome, Italy

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Anna Magnani

Biography

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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Known For

Filmography

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