Anna Magnani
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- March 7, 1908
- Died
- September 26, 1973 (aged 65)
- Birthplace
- Rome, Italy
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". Description above from the Wikipedia article Anna Magnani, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Known For
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Filmography
The Treasure of His Youth: The Photographs of Paolo Di Paolo
Movie · as Self - Actress (archive footage)
Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
We Are Cinema
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
The Passion of Anna Magnani
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Quand Jean devint Renoir
Movie · as Camilla (archive footage)
Luchino Visconti: Between Truth and Passion
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Girlfriend in a Coma
Movie · as Maddalena Cecconi (archive footage) (uncredited)
The War of the Volcanoes
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Vittorio D.
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Rossellini and the City
Movie · as (archive footage)
Hollywood sul Tevere
Movie
Anna Magnani - Recitare la verità
Movie · as (archive footage)
Anna Magnani: Femmina Immortale
Movie · as Self
Once Upon a Time... 'Rome, Open City'
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
My Dad Is 100 Years Old
Movie · as Pina (archive footage) (uncredited)
Bellissime
Movie · as (archive footage)
Barbra Streisand: The Movie Album
Movie · as Gioia (archive footage)
Un film et son époque
TV · as Self (archive footage) · 1 ep
Rossellini Under the Volcano
Movie · as Maddalena Natoli (archive footage)
Rossellini, un Prométhée franciscain
Movie · as Self - actress
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
Movie · as Serafina Delle Rose / Lady Torrance (archive footage)
Rossellini Through His Own Eyes
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema
Movie · as Self
My Name Is Anna Magnani
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
1870
Movie · as Teresa Parenti
Roma
Movie · as Anna Magnani
Tre donne - La sciantosa
Movie · as Flora Torres
The Automobile
Movie · as Anna
Tre donne - 1943: Un incontro
Movie · as Jolanda
The Secret of Santa Vittoria
Movie · as Rosa
Cinéma et Réalité
Movie · as Self
Made in Italy
Movie · as Adelina (segment "5 'La Famiglia', episode 3")
Josefa's Loot
Movie · as Josefa
Mamma Roma
Movie · as Mamma Roma
The Fugitive Kind
Movie · as Lady Torrance
The Passionate Thief
Movie · as Gioia 'Tortorella' Fabbricotti
Hell in the City
Movie · as Egle
Wild Is the Wind
Movie · as Gioa
The Awakening
Movie · as suor Letizia
Cinépanorama
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The Rose Tattoo
Movie · as Serafina Delle Rose
Variety carousel
Movie
We, the Women
Movie · as Anna (segment "Anna Magnani")
Anna Magnani
Movie
The Oscars
TV · as Self · 2 eps
Bellissima
Movie · as Maddalena Cecconi
The Golden Coach
Movie · as Camilla
Red Shirts - Anita Garibaldi
Movie · as Anita Garibaldi
Vulcano
Movie · as Maddalena Natoli
The Ways of Love
Movie · as Nannina
What's My Line?
TV · as Self · 1 ep
L'Amore
Movie · as Woman on the Phone (segment "Una voce umana") / Nannina (segment "Il miracolo")
Assunta Spina
Movie · as Assunta Spina
Woman Trouble
Movie · as Linda Bertoni
Unknown Men of San Marino
Movie · as Liana, la prostituta
Angelina
Movie · as Angelina Bianchi
Peddlin' in Society
Movie · as Gioconda Perfetti
Before Him All Rome Trembled
Movie · as Ada
Revenge
Movie · as Adele Vicarelli
The Bandit
Movie · as Lidia
Rome, Open City
Movie · as Pina
Down with Misery!
Movie · as Nannina Straselli
Crazy Quartet
Movie · as Elena
Il fiore sotto gli occhi
Movie · as Maria Comasco, l'attrice
The Peddler and the Lady
Movie · as Elide
The Last Wagon
Movie · as Mary Dunchetti
L'avventura di Annabella
Movie · as La mondana
La vita è bella
Movie · as Virginia
Luck Comes from Heaven
Movie · as Zizì
Finalmente soli
Movie · as Ninetta
Teresa Venerdì
Movie · as Loletta Prima
La fuggitiva
Movie · as Wanda Reni
Una lampada alla finestra
Movie · as Ivana
Princess Tarakanova
Movie · as Marietta, la cameriera
Cavalleria
Movie · as Fanny
30 Seconds of Love
Movie · as Gertrude Siriani, la sorella zitella di Tullio
Quei due
Movie · as Pierotta
Full Speed
Movie · as Emilia - la cameriera
The Blind Woman of Sorrento
Movie · as Anna, la sua amante
Das Mädchen der Strasse
Movie