Ornella Muti

Personal Info

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Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1955-03-09 (70 years old)

Place of Birth

Roma, Lazio, Italy

Ornella Muti

Biography

Ornella Muti (born March 9, 1955) is an Italian actress. She was born in Rome as Francesca Romana Rivelli, to a Neapolitan father and Estonian mother. She has an older sister, Claudia (1951). Muti modeled as a teenager and made her film debut in 1970 in La moglie più bella (aka The Most Beautiful Wife). She has primarily worked in Italian films but she made her British film debut as Princess Aura in Flash Gordon in 1980. American movies she appeared in include Oscar (1991) and Once Upon a Crime (1992). She is mostly known to the French for appearing in a TV commercial of Giovanni Panzani pasta. Muti has been married twice, to Alessio Orano...

Acting

1980

Flash Gordon

as Princess Aura

1999

Esther

as Königin Waschti

1976

The Last Woman

as Valérie

1980

2004

Say I Do

as Francesca, la dircetora

1982

Famous T & A

as Lisa (archive footage)

1981

Madly in Love

as Principessa Cristina

2003

On the Run

as Cécile Costes

1991

Oscar

as Sofia Provolone

1992

Once Upon a Crime

as Elena Morosco

2006

1991

1983

2002

An Amazing Couple

as Cécile Costes

2003

After Life

as Cécile Rivet

1972

Fiorina the Cow

as Teresa - daughter of Betta

1977

1974

Come Home and Meet My Wife

as Vincenzina Rotunno Blasetti

1986

Department Store

as Se stessa / Luisa, commessa del reparto abbigliamento per bambini

1987

1977

The New Monsters

as l'autostoppista/la hostess

1981

1971

1971

Oasis of Fear

as Ingrid Sjoman

1981

Love and Money

as Catherine Stockheinz

1973

The Sensual Man

as Giovanna

2004

People - Jet set 2

as Aphrodita

1984

1978

First Love

as Renata

2012

To Rome with Love

as Pia Fusari

1977

1974

Appassionata

as Eugenia Rutelli

1978

Break Up

as Ussena / Sena

2009

Doc West II : Triggerman

as Debra 'Tricky' Downing

1990

1985

1974

1973

1997

Mordbüro

as Madame Behar

1975

Leonor

as Catherine

1972

2001

Last Run

as Danny

1970

The Most Beautiful Wife

as Francesca Cimarosa

1996

1984

Swann in Love

as Odette de Crécy

2008

Io non ci casco

as Professoressa Lamberti

1987

1988

1986

Stregati

as Anna

2001

Hotel

as Flamenco Spokesperson

2000

1989

'o Re

as regina Maria Sofia

2008

Il sangue e la rosa

as Barbara Forleis

1983

1990

1978

Nest of Vipers

as Elena Mazzarini

2000

Jet Set

as Camilla Balbeck

1999

Dirty Linen

as Bruna

1995

Love Deal

as Tatiana

1998

Widows

as Maria Sommer

2000

The Unscarred

as Rafaella

1997

Just for Laughs

as Maître Alice Obini

2000

Un Colpo al Cuore

as Giulia Pascoli

2023

1974

1987

Casanova

as Henriette

1998

L'Inconnu de Strasbourg

as Madeleine Wals

2001

Tomorrow

as Stefania Zerenghi

1976

Pure as a Lily

as Lucia Mantuso

2007

2003

The Lion

as Sybil Bullit

1991

Il Conte Max

as Isabella Matignon

1995

Il Grande Fausto

as Giulia Occhini

2007

The Final Inquiry

as Maria Maddalena

2001

Favorite Son

as Claudia Maccari

2018

Magical Nights

as Federica, the diva

2011

2005

A Life in Suitcases

as Mathilde Figura

1992

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