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person_profile-Anna Magnani

Anna Magnani Died at age: 65

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Anna Magnani

Date of Birth:

Mar 07, 1908

Country of birth:

Italy

Died:

Sep 26, 1973

Biography of

Anna Magnani

    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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Anna Magnani

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Filmography of

Anna Magnani

Found 60 Movies in total

We Are Cinema

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2021

The Treasure of His Youth: The Photographs of Paolo Di Paolo

Self - Actress (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2021

Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2021

The Passion of Anna Magnani

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2019

Quand Jean devint Renoir

Camilla (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2017

Luchino Visconti: Between Truth and Passion

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2016

The War of the Volcanoes

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2012

Vittorio D.

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2009

Once Upon a Time... 'Rome, Open City'

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2006

Bellissime

(archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2004

Rossellini Under the Volcano

Maddalena Natoli (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1998

Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage

Serafina Delle Rose / Lady Torrance (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1994

Rossellini Through His Own Eyes

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1993

... 1985

My Name Is Anna Magnani

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1980

Roma

Anna Magnani ( Actor )

... 1972

1870

Teresa Parenti ( Actor )

... 1972

The Automobile

Anna ( Actor )

... 1971

... 1971

Tre donne - La sciantosa

Flora Torres ( Actor )

... 1971

... 1970

Cinéma et Réalité

Self ( Actor )

... 1967

Made in Italy

Adelina (segment "5 'La Famiglia', episode 3") ( Actor )

... 1965

Josefa's Loot

Josefa ( Actor )

... 1963

Mamma Roma

Mamma Roma ( Actor )

... 1962

The Passionate Thief

Gioia 'Tortorella' Fabbricotti ( Actor )

... 1960

The Fugitive Kind

Lady Torrance ( Actor )

... 1960

Hell in the City

Egle ( Actor )

... 1959

Wild Is the Wind

Gioa ( Actor )

... 1957

The Awakening

suor Letizia ( Actor )

... 1956

The Rose Tattoo

Serafina Delle Rose ( Actor )

... 1955

We, the Women

Anna (segment "Anna Magnani") ( Actor )

... 1953

The Golden Coach

Camilla ( Actor )

... 1952

Red Shirts - Anita Garibaldi

Anita Garibaldi ( Actor )

Screenplay

... 1952

Bellissima

Maddalena Cecconi ( Actor )

... 1952

Volcano

Maddalena Natoli ( Actor )

... 1950

Love

The woman (segment "Una voce umana") / Nannina (segment "Il miracolo") ( Actor )

... 1948

Woman Trouble

Linda Bertoni ( Actor )

... 1948

Assunta Spina

Assunta Spina ( Actor )

... 1948

Unknown Men of San Marino

Liana, la prostituta ( Actor )

... 1948

Angelina

Angelina Bianchi ( Actor )

... 1947

Peddlin' in Society

Gioconda Perfetti ( Actor )

... 1946

The Bandit

Lidia ( Actor )

... 1946

... 1946

Revenge

Adele Vicarelli ( Actor )

... 1946

Down with Misery!

Nannina Straselli ( Actor )

... 1945

Rome, Open City

Pina ( Actor )

... 1945

Quartetto pazzo

Elena ( Actor )

... 1945

The Last Wagon

Mary Dunchetti ( Actor )

... 1943

... 1943

La vita è bella

Virginia ( Actor )

... 1943

Luck Comes from Heaven

Zizì ( Actor )

... 1942

Teresa Venerdì

Maddalena/Loletta ( Actor )

... 1941

La fuggitiva

Wanda Reni ( Actor )

... 1941

Princess Tarakanova

Marietta, la cameriera ( Actor )

... 1938

30 Seconds of Love

Gertrude Siriani, la sorella zitella di Tullio ( Actor )

... 1936

Cavalleria

Fanny ( Actor )

... 1936

Quei due

Pierotta ( Actor )

... 1935

Full Speed

Emilia - la cameriera ( Actor )

... 1934

... 1928