10.0
10.0
Quand Jean devint Renoir
2017
as Camilla (archive footage)
Anna Magnani
Acting
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CommunityBiographyvia wikipedia
Anna Maria Magnani (Italian: [ˈanna maɲˈɲaːni]; 7 March 1908 – 26 September 1973) was an Academy Award-winning Italian actress. She was known for her explosive acting and earthy, realistic portrayals of characters. Born in either Rome or Alexandria and raised in Rome, 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 disabled. She was referred to as "La Lupa", the "perennial toast of Rome" and a "living she-wolf symbol" of the cinema. Time 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 whom 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 (1955) specifically for her to star in, a role for which she received an Academy Award for Best Actress, becoming the first Italian – and first non-native English speaking woman – to win an Oscar. After meeting director Goffredo Alessandrini, she received her first screen role in The Blind Woman of Sorrento (La cieca di Sorrento, 1934) and later achieved international attention in Rossellini's Rome, Open City (1945), which is seen as launching 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 L'Amore (1948), Bellissima (1951), The Rose Tattoo (1955), The Fugitive Kind (1960) and Mamma Roma (1962). As early as 1950, Life had already stated that Magnani was "one of the most impressive actresses since Garbo".
Filmography (70 movies)
8.0
8.0
Rome, Open City
1945
as Pina
8.0
8.0
La vita è bella
1943
as Virginia
8.0
8.0
My Name Is Anna Magnani
1980
as Self (archive footage)
7.9
7.9
Mamma Roma
1962
as Mamma Roma
7.8
7.8
Bellissima
1952
as Maddalena Cecconi
7.4
7.4
Tre donne - La sciantosa
1971
as Flora Torres
7.3
7.3
Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita
2021
as Self (archive footage)
7.3
7.3
Hell in the City
1959
as Egle
7.3
7.3
The Peddler and the Lady
1943
as Elide
7.2
7.2
Roma
1972
as Anna Magnani
7.1
7.1
The Golden Coach
1952
as Camilla
7.0
7.0
Tre donne - 1943: Un incontro
1971
as Jolanda
7.0
7.0
Once Upon a Time... 'Rome, Open City'
2006
as Self (archive footage)
7.0
7.0
My Dad Is 100 Years Old
2006
as Pina (archive footage) (uncredited)
6.9
6.9
The Secret of Santa Vittoria
1970
as Rosa
6.9
6.9
The Passionate Thief
1960
as Gioia 'Tortorella' Fabbricotti
6.9
6.9
Girlfriend in a Coma
2012
as Maddalena Cecconi (archive footage) (uncredited)
6.8
6.8
The Rose Tattoo
1955
as Serafina Delle Rose
6.8
6.8
The Fugitive Kind
1960
as Lady Torrance
6.8
6.8
L'amore
1948
as The woman (segment "Una voce umana") / Nannina (segment "Il miracolo")
6.8
6.8
Assunta Spina
1948
as Assunta Spina
6.7
6.7
Down with Misery!
1945
as Nannina Straselli
6.6
6.6
Teresa Venerdì
1941
as Loletta Prima
6.6
6.6
The Last Wagon
1943
as Mary Dunchetti
6.6
6.6
Wild Is the Wind
1957
as Gioa
6.5
6.5
The Passion of Anna Magnani
2019
as Self (archive footage)
6.5
6.5
Woman Trouble
1948
as Linda Bertoni
6.4
6.4
The Bandit
1946
as Lidia
6.3
6.3
Vittorio D.
2009
as Self (archive footage)
6.3
6.3
The Awakening
1956
as suor Letizia
6.2
6.2
Angelina
1947
as Angelina Bianchi
6.2
6.2
1870
1972
as Teresa Parenti
6.1
6.1
Quei due
1935
as Pierotta
6.0
6.0
Variety carousel
1955
6.0
6.0
Red Shirts - Anita Garibaldi
1952
Screenplay
6.0
6.0
The Blind Woman of Sorrento
1934
as Anna, la sua amante
6.0
6.0
Barbra Streisand: The Movie Album
2003
as Gioia (archive footage)
6.0
6.0
Before Him All Rome Trembled
1946
as Ada
6.0
6.0
We, the Women
1953
as Anna (segment "Anna Magnani")
5.7
5.7
Volcano
1950
as Maddalena Natoli
5.5
5.5
Peddlin' in Society
1946
as Gioconda Perfetti
5.2
5.2
The Automobile
1971
as Anna
5.0
5.0
Josefa's Loot
1963
as Josefa
5.0
5.0
The War of the Volcanoes
2012
as Self (archive footage)
5.0
5.0
Full Speed
1934
as Emilia - la cameriera
4.8
4.8
Unknown Men of San Marino
1948
as Liana, la prostituta
4.7
4.7
Cavalleria
1936
as Fanny
4.0
4.0
La fuggitiva
1941
as Wanda Reni
1.0
1.0
Luck Comes from Heaven
1942
as Zizì
1.0
1.0
Luchino Visconti: Between Truth and Passion
2016
as Self (archive footage)
Bellissime
2004
as (archive footage)
Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema
1985
as Self
Revenge
1946
as Adele Vicarelli
Rossellini Through His Own Eyes
1993
as Self (archive footage)
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
1994
as Serafina Delle Rose / Lady Torrance (archive footage)
30 Seconds of Love
1936
as Gertrude Siriani, la sorella zitella di Tullio
The Ways of Love
1950
as Nannina
Finalmente soli
1942
as Ninetta
Il fiore sotto gli occhi
1944
as Maria Comasco, l'attrice
L'avventura di Annabella
1943
as La mondana
Una lampada alla finestra
1940
as Ivana
Anna Magnani - Recitare la verità
2008
as (archive footage)
Anna Magnani
1953
Rossellini, un Prométhée franciscain
1996
as Self - actress
Rossellini and the City
2009
as (archive footage)
Quartetto pazzo
1945
as Elena
Rossellini Under the Volcano
1998
as Maddalena Natoli (archive footage)
Princess Tarakanova
1938
as Marietta, la cameriera
Das Mädchen der Strasse
1928
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