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- Matilda Anna Ingrid Lutz was born in Milan, Italy to two former fashion models and until the age of five, grew up in the little country town of Gudo Visconti. Her American father, Elliston, became a famed fashion photographer, while her mother, Maria, went on to do PR for a fashion press office.
Blessed with movie star good looks, Matilda began working as a model at a very young age, for various fashion and beauty brands. After she graduated from high school in New York, she took an acting class in order to get over her shyness. She began attending auditions and landed a role in the Italian horror flick "Azzurrina" in 2012. She then won a role on the TV series Crossing Lines (2013), followed by a part in the Italian drama The Fifth Wheel (2013).
She also studied psychology at the Catholic University of Milan as a backup plan. "If you say you're an actor in Italy, they kind of laugh in your face - it's like it's not a job," she told Elle Canada in 2016. It wasn't until she traveled to Los Angeles in 2014 to audition for an HBO pilot that she realized she could truly make her dream come true. She dropped out of the Catholic University of Milan and was accepted into a major movie school in Los Angeles. She worked in an Italian restaurant to support herself and met Italian director Gabriele Muccino there, when he came in for dinner. Several months later, Muccino auditioned her for a movie called Summertime (2016). In the meantime, she'd also received an offer to test for the big budget horror movie Rings (2017). After two screen tests, she met the Vice President of Paramount and the executive producer before landing the lead role of Julia, a woman who finds herself the target of a terrible curse that threatens to take her life in seven days. She also got the role in Summertime (2016), which began filming right after she completed work on Rings (2017).
In 2016, Matilda starred in the pop punk band The Downtown Fiction's music video for "Hepburn Shades." She was the star of Coralie Fargeat's hit film Revenge (2017), and played in the romantic comedy The Divorce Party (2019). She is now filming the TV Mini-series Ils étaient dix (2020). In 2020, Matilda is set to play the lead role of Joanna in Martin Villeneuve's sci-fi thriller INVADERS (2021). She is represented by the Gersh Agency. - Greta Scacchi was born in Milan, Italy, to Pamela Carsaniga, an English dancer and Luca Scacchi, an Italian art dealer and painter. She grew up in Milan and Sussex, England. In 1975, her mother and second husband moved to Australia, where, after she left school, Greta worked as an Italian interpreter on a ranch. At age 18, she returned to England and trained at the Bristol Old Vic, paying her way through college by working as a model for catalogues. Played small parts as a stage actress before she made her first appearance on British television, then the young film maker Dominik Graf directed her in Das zweite Gesicht (1982). She learned German for this movie. (She also speaks fluent Italian and French.) After Heat and Dust (1983), she played parts in French, Italian and English movies and Australian television, working with the Taviani Brothers, Margareta von Trotta and Diana Kurys. She turned down Hollywood for many years but after appearing in White Mischief (1987) agreed to co-star in Presumed Innocent (1990), Shattered (1991) and The Player (1992).
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Julia Fox was born on 2 February 1990 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy. She is an actress and writer, known for Uncut Gems (2019), No Sudden Move (2021) and The Trainer. She was previously married to Peter Artemiev.- Actor
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Giovanni Brass was born on 26 March 1933 into the family of a famous artist, Italico Brass, who was his grandfather. Italico gave his grandson a nickname "Tintoretto," which Giovanni later adapted into his cinematic name, Tinto Brass.
Tinto inherited his grandfather's artistic skills, but he applied them to film instead of canvas. When he joined the Italian film industry, he worked with such famous directors as Federico Fellini (his idol) and Roberto Rossellini. In 1963 he directed his first film, Chi lavora è perduto (In capo al mondo) (1963). Afterwards, he went on to make such avante garde art films as Attraction (1969) and L'urlo (1966). He was approached in 1976 to directed a sexploitation quickie, Madam Kitty (1976), but he wisely chose to have the script rewritten, turning it into a dark, political satire. The success of "Salon Kitty" lead Penthouse magazine publisher Bob Guccione to choose Brass to helm Caligula (1979), the big-budget adaption of Gore Vidal's novel "Caligula." Tinto finished shooting the film, but when he refused to convert it into the "flesh flick" that Guccione wanted it to be by including footage of Penthouse centerfolds making out and romping, he was fired and locked out of the editing room. He later disowned the film when he saw the botched editing (the film was spliced together amateurishly from outtakes and rehearsal footage) and Guccione's hardcore sex scenes spliced in with his work. Ironically, "Caligula" remains Tinto's most famous film. After it became a huge international box-office hit, Brass was hired to shoot a spy thriller Snack Bar Budapest (1988). Afterwards, he decided that he should focus on erotica, as a way to rebel against the hypocrisy of censors, explaining that sex is a normal part of life and we should just deal with it.
With his latest films Black Angel (2002) (an update of the classic novella "Senso") and the erotic comedy Fallo (1988), Brass cemented his reputation of an undisputed master of erotica and avante-garde art films.- Actor
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Michele Morrone was born on 3 October 1990 in Melegnano, Milan, Lombardy, Italy. He is an actor, known for 365 Days (2020), Home sweet home Rebirth and Subservience. He was previously married to Rouba Saadeh.- Actor
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Alberto Frezza was born on 23 May 1989 in Milan, Lombardia, Italy. He is an actor and director, known for Station 19 (2018), Dead of Summer (2016) and Charlie's Angels (2011).- Actress
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Silvia Colloca was born on 23 July 1977 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy. She is an actress and writer, known for Van Helsing (2004), Van Helsing (2004) and Vampire Killers (2009). She has been married to Richard Roxburgh since 25 September 2004. They have three children.- Actor
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Born in Milan in 1933, Gian Maria Volontè studied in Rome at the National Dramatic Arts Academy, where he obtained his degree in 1957. He began working in theatre and television, where he was soon noticed as one of the most promising actors of his generation. After several supporting appearances in film, he reached notoriety with the character of Ramón Rojo in Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars (1964). This success was doubled in Leone's next film, For a Few Dollars More (1965). The following ten years would be the most intense of Volontè career. L'armata Brancaleone (1966) (directed by Mario Monicelli) was the most successful Italian movie of the year, We Still Kill the Old Way (1967) (directed by Elio Petri) won the Grand Prix du Scenario at the Cannes Film Festival, and Volontè won his first Nastro d'Argento (Silver Ribbon - the most prestigious acting award in Italy) in 1970 for Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970) (also directed by Petri), making him an international star. The film won the Academy Award for Best Foreign-Language Film, the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival and two Italian Golden Globes, including one for his performance. In 1972, he starred in two Italian movies as the protagonist: Petri's The Working Class Goes to Heaven (1971) and Francesco Rosi's The Mattei Affair (1972), both of which won the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival, where he also won a Special Mention. In his life, Volontè won a huge number of other prizes and honours, becoming one of the most celebrated Italian actors of the seventies, and challenging Vittorio Gassman and Marcello Mastroianni as the most popular Italian actor. He died in Greece in 1994.- Writer
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Born in his ancestral palazzo, situated in the same Milanese square as both the opera house La Scala and the Milan Cathedral, Luchino Visconti (1906 - 1976) was raised under the auspices of aristocratic privilege, theater and Catholicism. This triangulation of monuments would create an equally titanic filmmaker whose work remained stylistically sui generis through arguably the most impressive decades of 20th century filmmaking. The quietude of La Terra Trema (1948) is managed with an operatic virtuosity, and the baroque period pieces-for which he is best known today-clearly point to a noble upbringing. However, there is also a Gothic character to Visconti-embodied in the spired cathedral that overshadowed his childhood-that has remained largely unsung. The relationship between the Visconti family and Gothic architecture stretches back to the Medieval Era. In 1386, Duke Gian Galeazzo Visconti envisioned a cathedral in the heart of Milan, though it was fated to remain under construction for almost half a millennium until Napoleon ordered its completion in the 19th century. Just as his ancestor brought Northern Gothic architecture to Italy, so, in 1943, did Luchino introduce the groundbreaking cinematic genre of Italian neorealism to the peninsula. Doing away with sets, neorealist cinema was set in the raw environment of postwar Italy. In one sense anti-architectural in its desire to transcend the bonds of interior space, this same ambition is what makes the style a perfect cinematic analog to the Gothic. The Gothic is an architecture of exteriority: Throwing ceilings to the sky and opening walls onto the outside with large windows, the Gothic presents light as the manifestation of divinity within a place of worship. The mysticism of light, dating back to the pseudo-Dionysian theology of Abbot Suger of St. Denis Cathedral, translates well to the medium of light that is the cinema. In any Visconti work, lighting is intimately connected to set design: It is often seen in the gleam of curtains, the radiance of starlight or the glow of Milanese fog, where the director carries the religiosity of Gothic architecture into his realism. Visconti's religion (or should we say religions? For he was also a Marxist) adds an ethical weight, powerful and challenging, to his works. The term decadence, often associated with Visconti, only attains meaning through being in excess of contemporary mores. Neither the Catholic Church nor the Italian communists could accept Visconti's homosexuality, and a resultant displaced angst is plainly worn by his protagonists-monumental individuals who bear the full weight of their social milieus. While neorealism has come to be packaged with its own mythology-a new cinema for a liberated nation, the idea of a new "Italian" style-re-centering our historical gaze on the Gothic Visconti allows one's imagination to spread across a much larger plane of geography and time. From his cinematic apprenticeship with Jean Renoir in France-the very cradle of Gothic architecture-to his German trilogy, Visconti's style has always been one of cosmopolitan effort. This international flavor also matches the deeper etymological referent of the Gothic-the Goths, those barbarian invaders who toppled the Roman Empire. Among Visconti's formal signatures are many borrowings from foreign directors, including the particularly pronounced influence of Jean Renoir, Josef Von Sternberg and Elia Kazan. Global in scope, timeless in influence and architectural in spirit: This is the legacy of Luchino Visconti.- Actress
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Mariangela Melato was born on 19 September 1941 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy. She was an actress and writer, known for Flash Gordon (1980), Swept Away (1974) and Love & Anarchy (1973). She died on 11 January 2013 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.- Actress
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Valentina Cortese was born in Milan on New Year's Day of 1923. She made her movie debut in 1940 and played many "ingenue" parts in Italian films of that period, before making a real sensation in Caccia all'uomo (1948) and Tempesta su Parigi (1948), playing both female leads, Fantine and Cosette (the film was a competent screen adaptation of the Victor Hugo classic "Les misérables"). The international success of the British-made melodrama The Glass Mountain (1949) brought her some Hollywood offers: she was very sensual as a truck-driver's mistress in Jules Dassin's film noir Thieves' Highway (1949), and particularly effective in Robert Wise's thriller The House on Telegraph Hill (1951), in which she portrayed a woman pursued by a killer.
She then returned to Europe and worked with many great directors, like Michelangelo Antonioni, who cast her in The Girlfriends (1955), and Federico Fellini, who gave her a supporting part in his surrealist fantasy Juliet of the Spirits (1965). She had an especially robust part in Francois Truffaut's Day for Night (1973) as a fading alcoholic movie star (she was nominated for the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for this performance). She also had a stage career, working with writers and directors such as Giorgio Strehler and Franco Zeffirelli and starring in the title roles of Schiller's "Mary Stuart" and Wedekind's "Lulu".- Actor
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Fabio was born on 15 March 1959 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy. He is an actor, known for Bubble Boy (2001), Dude, Where's My Car? (2000) and Dumbbells (2014).- Eleonora Romandini was born in 1993 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy. She is an actress, known for The White Lotus (2021), Il nostro generale (2023) and I Don't Understand You (2024).
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Adriano Celentano is one of the most important singers of Italian pop music, but he's also been a creator of a comic genre in movies, with his characteristic way of walking and his facial expressions. For the most part, his films were commercially successful, in fact in the 70s and part of the 80s, he was king of the Italian box office in low budget movies. Probably, as an actor, his best film is Serafino (1968), directed by Pietro Germi. As a director he frequently casts Ornella Muti, Eleonora Giorgi and his wife Claudia Mori. He and Claudia have three children: Rosalinda Celentano Rosita Celentano and Giacomo Celentano. He also works often as a host for several Italian TV shows.- Director
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Born in Milan, Italy in 1957, Michele Soavi's parents separated when he was little and he lived with his mother who remarried a painter. Interested in his stepfather's interest in painting, Soavi began an interest in creative arts in his school. During his teenage years, he decided that the cinema was his true calling after attending several movie screenings and developing a taste for acting. After graduating from high school, Soavi took acting lessons at Fersen Studios in Milan. His first acting role was an extra in the movie Bambulè (1979) which was directed by Marco Modugno. During production, Modugno, impressed by Soavi's interest in the movies, offered him a job as an assistant director which Soavi accepted and learned more about a director's film making technique. After acting in small roles in Il giorno del Cobra (1980) and City of the Living Dead (1980), Soavi was given another chance as an assistant director by director Aristide Massaccesi (aka: Joe D'Amato). In their first film, Soavi acted in an uncredited part, and was the assistant director. Over four more films with Massaccesi, Soavi served as a bit part actor, screenwriter and personal assistant. Soavi first met writer/director Dario Argento in 1979 where the director took Soavi under his wing after learning of their same tastes with film making. Argento made Soavi the second assistant director for the movie Tenebrae (1982) with Lamberto Bava as the first assistant director.
Pleased with his work, Bava hired Soavi as his assistant director for the mystery-thriller A Blade in the Dark (1983) with Soavi in a supporting role. Afterwards, Argento brought back Soavi to work as his assistant director in Phenomena (1985) with Soavi acting in a small role.
Argento rewarded Soavi by giving him his first assignment as director of a music video "The Valley" featuring music by Bill Wyman for the movie Phenomena, plus as director for a documentary on Argento's films. Soavi worked again for Lamberto Bava as assistant director in Demons (1985) in which Soavi also appeared. Soavi, wanting to get on his own, turned to his former mentor Aristide Massaccesi to show off his work where the director offered Soavi a chance to direct his first movie, StageFright (1987). Altough a box-office flop in Italy, it was a success abroad. Despite the low budget (equivalent to under $1 million U.S. dollars), low-production values, poor editing involving the soundtrack, Soavi began to look elsewhere for work where he was hired as an assistant director and cameraman for British actor/director Terry Gilliam with The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988). With new skills, Soavi returned to Argento as a supervisor for special effects in Opera (1987) where Argento offered him to direct another film, a horror flick called The Church (1989). With his first big film project, a budget three to four times the budget of Stagefright, with Argento as the producer and filmed on location in Budapest. The international success of The Church inspired Soavi to direct another film, The Sect (1991).
Soavi worked on a number of screenplays, and directed the horror-comedy Cemetery Man (1994) which was a huge hit in the USA. Afterwards, Soavi took a break from working to spend time with his wife and family. Recently, he returned to directing with two made-for-Italian-TV dramas. Despite his absence from the entertainment world in recent years, Michele Soavi is remembered to this day as one of the many masters of Italian horror cinema as a director, screenwriter, actor, and assistant director.- Linda Caridi was born on 11 April 1988 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy. She is an actress, known for Last Night of Amore (2023), Ricordi? (2018) and The Ties (2020).
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Born in Milan, Italy, Paolo Seganti used the boxing ring as a surrogate stage, winning the Italian Amateur Championship within six months and continuing fighting and acting (theatre) on and off for 5 years. But it was his look that was immediately in demand by photographer/filmmakers such as Jean-Paul Goude, Peter Lindberg, Jean-Baptiste Mondino and Bruce Weber, fronting worldwide campaigns for Chanel, YSL, Lanvin and Calvin Klein. All of this however was a temporary diversion, and Paolo began working extensively on the New York stage, receiving critical acclaim for lead roles in, 'Equus' and the self-directed, 'Whose Life Is It Anyway?'.- Actor
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Ernesto D'Argenio was born on 19 July 1985 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy. He is an actor and director, known for How Strange to Be Named Federico (2013), Rocco Schiavone (2016) and The Confessions (2016).- Agostina Belli was born on 13 April 1947 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy. She is an actress, known for Scent of a Woman (1974), The Career of a Chambermaid (1976) and Double Murder (1977).
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Alessandro Genovesi was born on 10 January 1973 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy. He is an actor and director, known for My Big Gay Italian Wedding (2018), The Worst Week of My Life (2011) and When Mom Is Away (2019).- Writer
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Marco Ferreri was born on 11 May 1928 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy. He was a writer and director, known for Tales of Ordinary Madness (1981), L'udienza (1972) and El cochecito (1960). He was married to Jacqueline Ferreri. He died on 9 May 1997 in Paris, France.- Actress
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Adriana Asti was born on 30 April 1931 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy. She is an actress, known for The Best of Youth (2003), Caligula (1979) and Pasolini (2014).- Matilde Gioli was born on 2 September 1989 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy. She is an actress, known for Human Capital (2013), Golden Men (2019) and Runner (2024).
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Isa Miranda was one of the most significant actresses in Europe from the 1930s-'50s. Her remarkable talent expressed itself both in cinema and theater. She reached international popularity in the 1930s, especially in France, Germany and Austria, and became the only international movie star produced by the fascist cinema. In the 1950s, when her film career began declining, she played on stage in Italy, the US ("Mike McCauley", 1951), France ("Le serpent à sonettes", 1953) and England ("Orpheus Descending" by Tennessee Williams, 1959), receiving positive reviews everywhere. In the 1960s she started a TV career in England, appearing in many made-for-TV movies. She was a versatile actress, exceedingly sensible, a charming woman, and unjustly forgotten at the end of her life even by those who should have remembered her.- Actor
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Oreste Baldini is an Italian actor born on July 8, in Italy. At age 12, he landed the role of young Vito Andolini in the Oscar winning classic The Godfather Part II (1974). Andolini later on becomes Vito Corleone where he was played in adult years by Robert De Niro and Marlon Brando in Oscar winning performances. The challenging role for such a young kid where he plays only through actions and expressions without using his voice, from the early days of life in Italy living with his parents up until the tragedy that hits him and he is shipped to America to start a new life as an immigrant in the New York of early 20th Century. Sadly, of all the performs of Vito Corleone, he's the only actor who failed to receive an Oscar or any other award for the role even though it is the most remarkable child performance in The Godfather series.
Baldini's next film appearance was in the drama The Flower in His Mouth (1975), and then some appearances in many TV series as well. In Italy, he is famous for his voice roles and for dubbing many Hollywood actors on films, TV series and animations. A couple of examples are: the official Italian voice of John Cusack; Matthew Lillard's Shaggy in the Scooby-Doo franchise; George McFly (Crispin Glover) in the Back to the Future franchise; among others.- Actress
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is a retired American professional wrestler. She is best known under her ring names Madusa (shorthand for Made in the USA) or Alundra Blayze. Her early career was spent in the American Wrestling Association, where she held the AWA World Women's Championship one time. In 1988, Miceli was also the first woman to be awarded Pro Wrestling Illustrated's Rookie of the Year. The following year, she signed a contract with All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling, making her the first foreign wrestler to do so. She later joined World Championship Wrestling (WCW), where she was a member of the Dangerous Alliance, a group of wrestlers managed by Paul E. Dangerously. In 1993, she joined the rival World Wrestling Federation (WWF) under the name Alundra Blayze. In the WWF, she feuded with Bull Nakano and Bertha Faye, while holding the WWF Women's Championship a total of three times. Two years after joining the WWF, Miceli returned to WCW, showing up on an episode of Monday Nitro to throw the WWF Women's Championship belt into a trash can. For the next six years, she worked in WCW, where she feuded with Bull Nakano, Oklahoma, and became the first women to hold the WCW World Cruiserweight Championship. After training wrestlers at the WCW Power Plant, she left the company in 2001.
In addition to wrestling, Miceli competes in the world of monster trucks. She drives a truck named Madusa, which was also her ring name for much of her professional wrestling career. She won the 2004 co-championship at the Monster Jam World Finals for freestyle in the first-ever three-way tie. The following year, she was the only female competitor in the Super Bowl of Motorsports, and she won the Racing Championship in the Monster Jam World Finals.- Actress
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Lucia Bosè was born on 28 January 1931 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy. She was an actress, known for The Lady Without Camelias (1953), Death of a Cyclist (1955) and Story of a Love Affair (1950). She was married to Luis Miguel Dominguín. She died on 23 March 2020 in Segovia, Segovia, Castilla y León, Spain.- Actress
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Curvaceous, green-eyed Italian leading lady, singer and dancer of 1960s Italian comedies. Maria Grazia Buccella was a Miss Italia beauty pageant winner in 1959 and third-ranked as Miss Europe that same year. In films from 1951, she appeared in many a lightweight comedic offering, often as sensuous, alluringly coiffed and costumed soubrettes. She had notable leads in Menage all'italiana (1965), Le piacevoli notti (1966) (as Lucretia Borgia), Ti ho sposato per allegria (1967), It's Your Move (1968) (a caper comedy with Edward G. Robinson as an amateurish bank robber), Sissignore (1968) and Nerone (1977) (as Nero's wife Poppea). In addition to a small role in Vittorio De Sica's farce After the Fox (1966) she also played Robert Mitchum's love interest in Villa Rides (1968). Her other western lead was in The Wind's Fierce (1970), as the Spanish peon freedom fighter who gunslinger Terence Hill falls for. Buccella was briefly considered for the role of Dominetta Petacchi in the James Bond action film Thunderball (1965), but it went to French actress Claudine Auger instead. In 1977, Buccella appeared on the cover of the Italian edition of Playboy. However, just two years later, her screen career had all but run its course.- Maura Monti was born on 28 July 1942 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy. She is an actress, known for The Bat Woman (1968), Maria Isabel (1968) and Su excelencia (1967).
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Dino Risi became a movie director by chance. In 1940 he met Alberto Lattuada at a friend's boutique. Lattuada told him they needed an assistant director for the movie Piccolo mondo antico (1941). Risi accepted just for fun, not for work. Later, he became a psychiatrist and wrote some articles for a local newspaper in his spare time.
After the Second World War, he met a producer who financed his short films. One of these, Buio in sala (1950), was bought by Carlo Ponti. At that point, Risi decided to become a movie director. So he went to Rome and wrote the plot of Poor But Beautiful (1957) which made him famous. But the film that changed his life forever was The Easy Life (1962). At the opening night, Risi and producer Mario Cecchi Gori were waiting outside the movie theater. They were worried because no viewers had been coming to see the movie. So Risi went back home with much disappointment. However, the next day all the tickets were sold out and Risi became a star.- Composer
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Born in Milan in 1911 into a family of musicians, Nino Rota was first a student of Orefice and Pizzetti. Then, still a child, he moved to Rome where he completed his studies at the Conservatory of Santa Cecilia in 1929 with Alfredo Casella. In the meantime, he had become an 'enfant prodige', famous both as a composer and as an orchestra conductor. His first oratorio, "L'infanzia di San Giovanni Battista," was performed in Milan and Paris as early as 1923 and his lyrical comedy, "Il Principe Porcaro," was composed in 1926. From 1930 to 1932, Nino Rota lived in the USA. He won a scholarship to the Curtis Institute of Philadelphia where he attended classes in composition taught by Rosario Scalero and classes in orchestra taught by Fritz Reiner. He returned to Italy and earned a degree in literature from the University of Milan. In 1937, he began a teaching career that led to the directorship of the Bari Conservatory, a title he held from 1950 until his death in 1979. After his "childhood" compositions, Nino Rota wrote the following operas: Ariodante (Parma 1942), Torquemada (1943), Il cappello di paglia di Firenze (Palermo 1955), I due timidi (RAI 1950, London 1953), La notte di un neurastenico (Premio Italia 1959, La Scala 1960), Lo scoiattolo in gamba (Venezia 1959), Aladino e la lampada magica (Naples 1968), La visita meravigliosa (Palermo 1970), Napoli milionaria (Spoleto Festival 1977). He also wrote the following ballets: La rappresentazione di Adamo ed Eva (Perugia 1957), La Strada (La Scala 1965), Aci e Galatea (Rome 1971), Le Molière imaginaire (Paris and Brussels 1976) and Amor di poeta (Brussels 1978) for Maurice Béjart. In addition, there are countless works for orchestra that have been performed since before World War II and are still performed by orchestras in every part of the world. His work in film dates back to the early forties. His filmography includes the names of virtually all of the noted directors of his time. First among these is Federico Fellini. He wrote all of the movie scores for Fellini's films from The White Sheik (1952) in 1952 to Orchestra Rehearsal (1978) in 1978. Other directors include Renato Castellani, Luchino Visconti, Franco Zeffirelli, Mario Monicelli, Francis Ford Coppola (Oscar for best original score for The Godfather Part II (1974)), King Vidor, René Clément, Edward Dmytryk, and 'Eduardo de Filippo'. He also composed the music for many theatre productions by Visconti, Zefirelli, and de Filippo. In February of 1995, the Nino Rota Foundation was established at Fondazione Cini of Venice, Italy. Cini specializes in the works of 20th century Italian composers and includes the estate of Casella.- Director
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Marco Brambilla was born in 1960 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy. He is a director and writer, known for Heaven's Gate (2021), The Four Temperaments (2020) and Destricted (2006).- Daniela Piperno was born on 24 September 1951 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy. She is an actress, known for Ferrari (2023), We Can Do That (2008) and Diabolik (2021).
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Fabrizio Bentivoglio was born on 4 January 1957 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy. He is an actor and writer, known for Un eroe borghese (1995), Human Capital (2013) and Turné (1990). He has been married to Silvia Pippia since 19 May 2012. They have two children.- Annabella Incontrera was born on 11 June 1943 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy. She was an actress, known for Eneide (1971), The Assassination Bureau (1969) and The Ambushers (1967). She was married to Guglielmo Biraghi. She died on 19 September 2004 in Rome, Italy.
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Actor, director, producer and also a singer, in the early 70s Renato formed a memorable duo with Cochi Ponzoni ("Cochi e Renato"), when together they produced many programs for Italian television, like "Quelli della domenica", "Canzonissima" and "Il poeta e il contadino".
After this experience Pozzetto worked for many important Italian directors. He made his debut in a leading role in 1974 in Flavio Mogherini's film To Love Ophelia (1974). His trademark is surreal and grotesque comedy with his characteristic awkward expression. Maybe his most brilliant performance was in _Da Grande (1987)_ which probably inspired _Big (1987)_, a film with Tom Hanks.- Kiki Palmer was born on 11 July 1907 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy. She was an actress, known for The Wedding March (1936) and La luce del mondo (1935). She died on 11 August 1949 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.
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Giorgia Andriani was born on 20 June 1989 in Milan, Italy. She is an actress, known for Martin, Welcome to Bajrangpur and Karoline Kamakshi (2019).- Actor
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He was born in Milan in 1955. His mother, Rosa, was from Como (a city in Northern Italy), and his father, Matteo, was from Puglia (the "heel" of the Italian peninsula). He grew up in a suburbia quarter of Milan. His mother worked as a wardrobe maid at the "Derby", a well-known theater where lots of the most popular Italian comedians performed. Diego's uncle owned the place, which Diego visited since when he was a child. He was first employed as a light technician, then he began to perform as the "terruncello", the guy who lives in the North of Italy but still retains his Southerner accent. He began his career as a comedian at the end of the 70es, but he really succeeded in the 80es with blockbuster Italian comedies. His first dramatic role was in 1985 with Pupi Avati's movie "Regalo di Natale", which acknowledged him as a truly gifted actor. In 1985 he met Gabriele Salvatores, who directed him in many important movies (e.g. the Academy Award winner Mediterraneo). His filmography witnesses his versatile acting. Recently he starred in the Italian Tv serial "Il giudice Mastrangelo", where he has the role of a judge from Milan who returns to his native Puglia to solve mysteries and crimes. His entire career seems to pay tribute to his Northern and Southern origins.- Vanessa Gravina was born on 4 January 1974 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy. She is an actress, known for Colpo di fulmine (1985), La piovra (1984) and La ragazza di Cortina (1994). She has been married to Domenico Pimpinella since 2015.
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Patricia Burke was born on 23 March 1917 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy. She was an actress, known for The Trojan Brothers (1946), Wishing Well (1954) and The Lisbon Story (1946). She was married to Michael Kimpton, Duncan C. Macdonald and John Collingwood. She died on 23 November 2003 in Draguignan, Var, France.- Actress
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Sonia Bergamasco was born on 16 January 1966 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy. She is an actress, known for The Best of Youth (2003), Quo vado? (2016) and Amorfù (2003). She has been married to Fabrizio Gifuni since 2000. They have two children.- Producer
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Thomas A. Edison was born on February 11, 1847 in Milan, Ohio, USA as Thomas Alva Edison. He was a producer and director, known for silent movies such as, The Trick Cyclist (1901), The Patchwork Girl of Oz (1914) and Bicycle Trick Riding, No. 2 (1899). He also produced the first American film version of Frankenstein in 1910. That was of course, twenty years before Universal Studios introduced the monster with Boris Karloff. This paved the way for modern day horror as we now know it. Edison is however, perhaps better known as an inventor of many conveniences like the light bulb. He of course produced many other inventions like, among others, the phonograph, power stations, the carbon switch microphone, and motion picture cameras. These advancements gave him a firm place in the history of American Greatness as well as American film production.
He was married to Mina Miller and Mary Stilwell. He died on October 18, 1931 in West Orange, New Jersey, USA.- Camera and Electrical Department
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Nicola Pecorini was born on 10 August 1957 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy. He is a cinematographer and director, known for The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009), Tideland (2005) and Ra.One (2011). He is married to Caroline Goodall. They have two children.- Producer
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Lorraine De Selle was born on 13 August 1951 in Milan, Italy. She is a producer and actress, known for Cannibal Ferox (1981), Madness (1980) and A Woman in the Night (1979).- Actress
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Valentina Carnelutti began her acting career on stage as a young girl in Italy and has worked both in theatre and on film with directors such as Marco Tullio, Giordana (The Best of Youth), Theo Angelopoulos (The Dust of Time), Paolo Virzì (A Whole Life Ahead and La Pazza Gioia), Citto Maselli (Le Ombre Rosse), Angelo Orlando (Sfiorarsi) etc. She is the author of the screenplay for Sfiorarsi (Italy, 2006), she has directed the documentary Melkam Zena - Good News (Ethiopia, 2012 - produced by ActionAid), and the video clip for Italian musician Francesco Tricarico's Le conseguenze dell'Ingenuità (Italy, 2013). In 2014 she made her first film, reCuiem (awarded Best Short Film in major Italian and foreign festivals), which she produced with her own company FioreLeone. She acts, writes and works fluently in five languages (Italian, English, French, Spanish and Portuguese) having traveled and lived in different countries all her life.- Leonardo Treviglio is an Italian actor best known to cult films audiences as the leading character in Derek Jarman's Sebastiane (1976) where he plays a Roman Catholic guard who suffers on the hands of his commander and his gay subordinates due to his religious beliefs. A handsome man with striking features, Sebastiane is severely tested by the other guards who long and desire for his body but he never succumbs to their actions.
After his stardom in the film, he went on and acted in several other projects such as The Day Christ Died (1980), Malamore (1982), Desiderio (1984) for which he was nominated as Best New Actor in the Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists; Michael Cimino's The Sicilian (1987), a lead role in Intimacy (1988), the French film A Man and Two Women (1991), Bernardo Bertolucci's Stealing Beauty (1996), Julie Taymor's Titus (1999), Amatemi (2005) and the TV series R.I.S. - Delitti imperfetti (2005).
As a stage actor, he was a member of the Living Theatre from veteran actor Julian Beck in between the late 1960's and early 1970's. - Producer
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Silvio Sardi was born on 6 August 1962 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy. He is a producer and writer, known for The Marsh (2006), Downtown: A Street Tale (2004) and The World of Hope (2017). He has been married to Manuela Maria Patani since 22 December 2018. He was previously married to Sheri Borchardt.- Chiara Teresa Iezzi is an actress. She became popular after playing the role of Victoria Williams in the Alex & Co. (2015) tv series produced by Disney Channel, as well as The Broken Key (2017) with Hollywood stars such as Geraldine Chaplin and Michael Madsen and Il ragazzo della Giudecca (2016) with Giancarlo Giannini and Luigi Diberti. She was born in Milan, Italy. In her earliest years, Chiara began absorbing the acting craft by watching movies and from her first teacher at school at 14 years old. At age 17, she took up a short career in modeling and started to study at Lee Strasberg institute. Off-screen she become involved in some charity project in 2014 with Unicef for children. She recently took part in some tv series such as Ispettore Coliandro, Mare fuori, and she is in the cast of L'ultima Sfida di Antonio Silvestre, in theatres on October 2024.
- William "Will" Jordan is a veteran actor of over forty-five years of stage, screen and television experience with over 50 TV and film credits to his resume, Jordan played Major Jake Gatlin in the syndicated television series "Project UFO". Jordan, who usually appeared in roles as either authority, particularly military, police, and political figures in dramas and heavies in westerns, also portrayed the late U.S. President John F. Kennedy in the critically acclaimed 1978 NBC-TV miniseries "King". He also has made appearances in such TV shows as Mannix, The Big Valley, The Rockford Files, Knots Landing, T.J. Hooker, and Walker, Texas Ranger. A graduate of Indiana University, Will got his start in theatre in bit or supporting parts in several On and Off-Broadway productions.