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". Description above from the Wikipedia article Anna Magnani, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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Movies (46)
We Are Cinema
as Self (archive footage)
2021
The Treasure of His Youth: The Photographs of Paolo Di Paolo
as Self - Actress (archive footage)
2021
Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita
as Self (archive footage)
2021
The Passion of Anna Magnani
as Self (archive footage)
2019
Quand Jean devint Renoir
as Camilla (archive footage)
2017
Luchino Visconti: Between Truth and Passion
as Self (archive footage)
2016
Girlfriend in a Coma
as Maddalena Cecconi (archive footage) (uncredited)
2012
The War of the Volcanoes
as Self (archive footage)
2012
Vittorio D.
as Self (archive footage)
2009
Rossellini and the City
as (archive footage)
2009
Anna Magnani - Recitare la verità
as (archive footage)
2008
My Dad Is 100 Years Old
as Pina (archive footage) (uncredited)
2006
Once Upon a Time... 'Rome, Open City'
as Self (archive footage)
2006
Bellissime
as (archive footage)
2004
Barbra Streisand: The Movie Album
as Gioia (archive footage)
2003
Rossellini Under the Volcano
as Maddalena Natoli (archive footage)
1998
Rossellini, un Prométhée franciscain
as Self - actress
1996
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
as Serafina Delle Rose / Lady Torrance (archive footage)
1994
Rossellini Through His Own Eyes
as Self (archive footage)
1993
Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema
as Self
1985
My Name Is Anna Magnani
as Self (archive footage)
1980
Roma
as Anna Magnani
1972
1870
as Teresa Parenti
1972
The Automobile
as Anna
1971
Tre donne - 1943: Un incontro
as Jolanda
1971
Tre donne - La sciantosa
as Flora Torres
1971
The Secret of Santa Vittoria
as Rosa
1970
Cinéma et Réalité
as Self
1967
Made in Italy
as Adelina (segment "5 'La Famiglia', episode 3")
1965
Josefa's Loot
as Josefa
1963
Mamma Roma
as Mamma Roma
1962
The Passionate Thief
as Gioia 'Tortorella' Fabbricotti
1960
The Fugitive Kind
as Lady Torrance
1960
Hell in the City
as Egle
1959
Wild Is the Wind
as Gioa
1957
The Awakening
as suor Letizia
1956
The Rose Tattoo
as Serafina Delle Rose
1955
Variety carousel
1955
Anna Magnani
1953
We, the Women
as Anna (segment "Anna Magnani")
1953
The Golden Coach
as Camilla
1952
Red Shirts - Anita Garibaldi
as Anita Garibaldi
1952
Bellissima
as Maddalena Cecconi
1952
The Ways of Love
as Nannina
1950
Volcano
as Maddalena Natoli
1950
L'amore
as Woman on the Phone (segment "Una voce umana") / Nannina (segment "Il miracolo")
1948
