
Stefania Casini
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- September 4, 1948 (age 78)
- Birthplace
- Villa di Chiavenna, Italy
Biography
After graduating in Architecture, Stefania began a career in acting and worked with Pietro Germi, Bernardo Bertolucci, Peter Greenaway and Dario Argento. She moved to New York in the late 1970s, where she acted in Andy Warhol's 'Bad'. While in New York she decided to move behind the camera, and became a director. With Francesca Marciano, she wrote and directed the film "Lontano da dove", presented at the Venice Film Festival (1983). In 1997 she wrote and directed another feature film "Un Paradiso di Bugie". Her career as director also includes the making of six feature films for the Italian television network MEDIASET. A passionate traveler, Stefania has made a great number of documentaries and reportages for RAI and MEDIASET. She focuses her attention on contemporary topics concerning women and young people. She has made many hard-hitting series including: "Islam: stories of women"; "Latin America: stories of women"; "To be 20 years old in..." (broadcast in ten European Countries 2004-2005); "So close so far :portraits in the suburbs". "Schiaffo alla mafia"(A blow to the Mafia) Between 2000-2002 , Stefania was the Artistic Director of Siena's Film Festival "Terra di Siena". In 2010 she was Managing Director of DGTV IESTV. Currently, Stefania writes and directs programs, reportages and documentaries for RAI, and for satellite channels: RAI Sat Cinema World, Gambero Rosso Channel, and Sky. She also works as a journalist, contributing to several popular women's magazines.
Known For
Filmography

You, Me & Tuscany
Movie · as Nonna Alessia

Story of a Night
Movie · as Carla

Buio come il cuore
Movie

Funeral: I Don't Want You
Movie · as Madre di Miriam

Good Vibes
Movie

Cactus
Movie

The Goldsmith
Movie · as Giovanna

DARIO ARGENTO - The Exhibit
Movie · as Self

Dafne
Movie · as Maria

Diabolik Is Me
Movie · as Bianca Rosselli

Nessuno siamo perfetti
Movie · as Self

Maicol Jecson
Movie · as Maria
Ladies of Italian Horror
Movie · as self

Pietro Germi - The Good, The Beautiful and The Bad
Movie · as Self
Operazione rosmarino
Movie · as Portinaia

Suspiria 25th Anniversary
Movie · as Self

Enchantment
TV · as Carla Ferrini · 52 eps
Donna
TV · as Annamaria · 6 eps

Maledetto il giorno che t'ho incontrato
Movie · as Clari

The Belly of an Architect
Movie · as Flavia Speckler

Polsi sottili
Movie

Lontano da dove
Movie · as Desideria

Mora
Movie · as Christina

Illa - Punto d'osservazione
Movie · as Illa

Habibi, amor mío
Movie

Illa - Punto di osservazione
TV · as Illa Spaini · 3 eps

Cocktail Molotov
Movie · as Anna-Maria

Dedicated to the Aegean Sea
Movie · as Gloria

Ammazzare il tempo
Movie · as Sara, la giornalista

The Bloodstained Shadow
Movie · as Sandra Sellani

Bye Bye Monkey
Movie · as Feminist Actress

How to Lose a Wife and Find a Lover
Movie · as Marisa - Eleonora's friend

Bad
Movie · as P.G.

Latin Male Wanted
Movie · as Anna

Suspiria
Movie · as Sara Simms

1900
Movie · as Neve

Come ti rapisco il pupo
Movie · as Rita

Luna di miele in tre
Movie · as Graziella Luraghi

I prosseneti
Movie · as Odile
Geometra Prinetti, selvaggiamente Osvaldo
Movie

Non si scrive sui muri a Milano
Movie · as Anna

The Golden Mass
Movie · as Loulou

The Big Delirium
Movie · as Sonia

The Climber
Movie · as Luciana

Blood for Dracula
Movie · as Rubinia

Emergency Squad
Movie · as Marta Hayworth
I mariti
Movie

The Cousin
Movie · as Lisa Scuderi

A Way of Being a Woman
Movie · as Francesca
Trevico-Turin: Voyage in Fiatnam
Movie

For Love One Dies
Movie · as Tea

Nessuno deve sapere
TV · as Maria Petrulli · 4 eps

A Pocketful of Chestnuts
Movie · as Carla Lotito

Sanremo Music Festival
TV · as Self - Host · 3 eps