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Anna Magnani‌

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Female

Birthday

calendar1908-03-07

Popularity

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Anna Magnani

Rome, Italy

Anna Magnani

Rome, Italy

Gender

Female

Birthday

calendar1908-03-07

Popularity

star3.4

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​

Movie Credits

Rome, Open City

Rome, Open City‌
star8.0
calendar 1945

Rossellini Under the Volcano

Rossellini Under the Volcano‌
star0.0
calendar 1998

Rossellini Through His Own Eyes

Rossellini Through His Own Eyes‌
star0.0
calendar 1993

The Secret of Santa Vittoria

The Secret of Santa Vittoria‌
star6.8
calendar 1970

Cinéma et Réalité

Cinéma et Réalité‌
star0.0
calendar 1967

Teresa Venerdì

Teresa Venerdì‌
star6.6
calendar 1941

Bellissima

Bellissima‌
star7.8
calendar 1952

Love

Love‌
star6.8
calendar 1948

The Fugitive Kind

The Fugitive Kind‌
star6.9
calendar 1960

Made in Italy

Made in Italy‌
star6.0
calendar 1965

The Rose Tattoo

The Rose Tattoo‌
star6.9
calendar 1955

Mamma Roma

Mamma Roma‌
star7.9
calendar 1962

We, the Women

We, the Women‌
star5.9
calendar 1953

The Passionate Thief

The Passionate Thief‌
star6.9
calendar 1960

Peddlin' in Society

Peddlin' in Society‌
star5.5
calendar 1946

The Golden Coach

The Golden Coach‌
star7.2
calendar 1952

Wild Is the Wind

Wild Is the Wind‌
star6.8
calendar 1957

Angelina

Angelina‌
star6.5
calendar 1947

Volcano

Volcano‌
star5.7
calendar 1950

The Peddler and the Lady

The Peddler and the Lady‌
star7.3
calendar 1943

Assunta Spina

Assunta Spina‌
star6.8
calendar 1948

Girlfriend in a Coma

Girlfriend in a Coma‌
star6.8
calendar 2012

Full Speed

Full Speed‌
star5.0
calendar 1934

Josefa's Loot

Josefa's Loot‌
star4.9
calendar 1963

The Blind Woman of Sorrento

The Blind Woman of Sorrento‌
star6.0
calendar 1934

Tre donne - La sciantosa

Tre donne - La sciantosa‌
star7.3
calendar 1971

The Last Wagon

The Last Wagon‌
star6.6
calendar 1943

Woman Trouble

Woman Trouble‌
star6.5
calendar 1948

The Awakening

The Awakening‌
star6.0
calendar 1956

Hell in the City

Hell in the City‌
star7.4
calendar 1959

Cavalleria

Cavalleria‌
star4.7
calendar 1936

Il Fiore sotto gli Occhi

Il Fiore sotto gli Occhi‌
star0.0
calendar 1944

Down with Misery!

Down with Misery!‌
star6.8
calendar 1945

L'avventura di Annabella

L'avventura di Annabella‌
star0.0
calendar 1943

The Automobile

The Automobile‌
star5.7
calendar 1971

Tre donne - 1943: Un incontro

Tre donne - 1943: Un incontro‌
star0.0
calendar 1971

Once Upon a Time... 'Rome, Open City'

Once Upon a Time... 'Rome, Open City'‌
star7.0
calendar 2006

Anna Magnani - Recitare la verità

Anna Magnani - Recitare la verità‌
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calendar 2008

Princess Tarakanova

Princess Tarakanova‌
star0.0
calendar 1938

Una lampada alla finestra

Una lampada alla finestra‌
star0.0
calendar 1940

1870

1870‌
star6.4
calendar 1972

The Treasure of His Youth: The Photographs of Paolo Di Paolo

The Treasure of His Youth: The Photographs of Paolo Di Paolo‌
star7.0
calendar 2021

Das Mädchen der Strasse

Das Mädchen der Strasse‌
star0.0
calendar 1928

Red Shirts - Anita Garibaldi

Red Shirts - Anita Garibaldi‌
star6.0
calendar 1952

La fuggitiva

La fuggitiva‌
star4.0
calendar 1941

Luchino Visconti: Between Truth and Passion

Luchino Visconti: Between Truth and Passion‌
star1.0
calendar 2016

Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita

Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita‌
star7.0
calendar 2021

We Are Cinema

We Are Cinema‌
star9.5
calendar 2021

Unkown Men of San Marino

Unkown Men of San Marino‌
star4.8
calendar 1948

Quei due

Quei due‌
star6.8
calendar 1935

La vita è bella

La vita è bella‌
star8.0
calendar 1943

Luck Comes from Heaven

Luck Comes from Heaven‌
star1.0
calendar 1942

Quartetto pazzo

Quartetto pazzo‌
star0.0
calendar 1945

My Name Is Anna Magnani

My Name Is Anna Magnani‌
star8.0
calendar 1980

Variety carousel

Variety carousel‌
star6.0
calendar 1955

Vittorio D.

Vittorio D.‌
star6.3
calendar 2009

Roma

Roma‌
star7.3
calendar 1972

Bellissime

Bellissime‌
star0.0
calendar 2004

Before Him All Rome Trembled

Before Him All Rome Trembled‌
star6.0
calendar 1946

Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema

Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema‌
star0.0
calendar 1985

Revenge

Revenge‌
star0.0
calendar 1946

Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage

Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage‌
star0.0
calendar 1994

Barbra Streisand: The Movie Album

Barbra Streisand: The Movie Album‌
star6.0
calendar 2003

The War of the Volcanoes

The War of the Volcanoes‌
star5.0
calendar 2012

The Passion of Anna Magnani

The Passion of Anna Magnani‌
star7.2
calendar 2019

The Bandit

The Bandit‌
star6.7
calendar 1946

Quand Jean devint Renoir

Quand Jean devint Renoir‌
star10.0
calendar 2017

My Dad Is 100 Years Old

My Dad Is 100 Years Old‌
star6.9
calendar 2006

30 Seconds of Love

30 Seconds of Love‌
star0.0
calendar 1936

The Ways of Love

The Ways of Love‌
star0.0
calendar 1950

Finalmente soli

Finalmente soli‌
star0.0
calendar 1942

Tv Credits

Un film et son époque

Un film et son époque‌
star10.0
calendar 2003

The Oscars

The Oscars‌
star7.0
calendar 1953

The Ed Sullivan Show

The Ed Sullivan Show‌
star6.5
calendar 1948

Cinépanorama

Cinépanorama‌
star8.0
calendar 1956

What's My Line?

What's My Line?‌
star6.6
calendar 1950