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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 |