Actor
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 crip ...

Known For
Acting
2021 -- We Are Cinema | Self (archive footage)
2021 -- The Treasure of His Youth: The Photographs of Paolo Di Paolo | Self - Actress (archive footage)
2021 -- Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita | Self (archive footage)
2019 -- The Passion of Anna Magnani | Self (archive footage)
2017 -- Quand Jean devint Renoir | Camilla (archive footage)
2016 -- Luchino Visconti: Between Truth and Passion | Self (archive footage)
2012 -- Girlfriend in a Coma | Maddalena Cecconi (archive footage) (uncredited)
2012 -- The War of the Volcanoes | Self (archive footage)
2009 -- Vittorio D. | Self (archive footage)
2008 -- Anna Magnani - Recitare la verità | (archive footage)
2006 -- My Dad Is 100 Years Old | Pina (archive footage) (uncredited)
2006 -- Once Upon a Time... 'Rome, Open City' | Self (archive footage)
2004 -- Bellissime | (archive footage)
2003 -- Barbra Streisand: The Movie Album | Gioia (archive footage)
1998 -- Rossellini Under the Volcano | Maddalena Natoli (archive footage)
1994 -- Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage | Serafina Delle Rose / Lady Torrance (archive footage)
1993 -- Rossellini Through His Own Eyes | Self (archive footage)
1985 -- Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema | Self
1980 -- My Name Is Anna Magnani | Self (archive footage)
1972 -- Roma | Anna Magnani
1972 -- 1870 | Teresa Parenti
1971 -- The Automobile | Anna
1971 -- Tre donne - 1943: Un incontro | Jolanda
1971 -- Tre donne - La sciantosa | Flora Torres
1970 -- The Secret of Santa Vittoria | Rosa
1967 -- Cinéma et Réalité | Self
1965 -- Made in Italy | Adelina (segment "5 'La Famiglia', episode 3")
1963 -- Josefa's Loot | Josefa
1962 -- Mamma Roma | Mamma Roma
1960 -- The Passionate Thief | Gioia 'Tortorella' Fabbricotti
1960 -- The Fugitive Kind | Lady Torrance
1959 -- Hell in the City | Egle
1957 -- Wild Is the Wind | Gioa
1956 -- The Awakening | suor Letizia
1955 -- The Rose Tattoo | Serafina Delle Rose
1955 -- Variety carousel |
1953 -- Anna Magnani |
1953 -- We, the Women | Anna (segment "Anna Magnani")
1952 -- The Golden Coach | Camilla
1952 -- Red Shirts - Anita Garibaldi | Anita Garibaldi
1952 -- Bellissima | Maddalena Cecconi
1950 -- The Ways of Love | Nannina
1950 -- Volcano | Maddalena Natoli
1948 -- Love | The woman (segment "Una voce umana") / Nannina (segment "Il miracolo")
1948 -- Woman Trouble | Linda Bertoni
1948 -- Assunta Spina | Assunta Spina
1948 -- Unknown Men of San Marino | Liana, la prostituta
1947 -- Angelina | Angelina Bianchi
1946 -- Peddlin' in Society | Gioconda Perfetti
1946 -- The Bandit | Lidia
1946 -- Before Him All Rome Trembled | Ada
1946 -- Revenge | Adele Vicarelli
1945 -- Down with Misery! | Nannina Straselli
1945 -- Rome, Open City | Pina
1945 -- Quartetto pazzo | Elena
1944 -- Il Fiore sotto gli Occhi | Maria Comasco, l'attrice
1943 -- The Last Wagon | Mary Dunchetti
1943 -- The Peddler and the Lady | Elide
1943 -- La vita è bella | Virginia
1943 -- L'avventura di Annabella | La mondana
1942 -- Luck Comes from Heaven | Zizì
1942 -- Finalmente soli | Ninetta
1941 -- Teresa Venerdì | Loletta Prima
1941 -- La fuggitiva | Wanda Reni
1940 -- Una lampada alla finestra | Ivana
1938 -- Princess Tarakanova | Marietta, la cameriera
1936 -- 30 Seconds of Love | Gertrude Siriani, la sorella zitella di Tullio
1936 -- Cavalleria | Fanny
1935 -- Quei due | Pierotta
1934 -- Full Speed | Emilia - la cameriera
1934 -- The Blind Woman of Sorrento | Anna, la sua amante
1928 -- Das Mädchen der Strasse |
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