Anna Magnani

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1908-03-07 (65 years old)

Deathday

1973-09-26

Place of Birth

Rome, Italy

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 perso...

Acting

1945

1998

Rossellini Under the Volcano

as Maddalena Natoli (archive footage)

1993

Rossellini Through His Own Eyes

as Self (archive footage)

1941

Teresa Venerdì

as Loletta Prima

1952

Bellissima

as Maddalena Cecconi

1948

L'amore

as The woman (segment "Una voce umana") / Nannina (segment "Il miracolo")

1960

The Fugitive Kind

as Lady Torrance

1965

Made in Italy

as Adelina (segment "5 'La Famiglia', episode 3")

1955

The Rose Tattoo

as Serafina Delle Rose

1962

Mamma Roma

as Mamma Roma

1953

We, the Women

as Anna (segment "Anna Magnani")

1960

The Passionate Thief

as Gioia 'Tortorella' Fabbricotti

1946

Peddlin' in Society

as Gioconda Perfetti

1952

1957

1947

Angelina

as Angelina Bianchi

1950

Volcano

as Maddalena Natoli

1948

Assunta Spina

as Assunta Spina

2012

Girlfriend in a Coma

as Maddalena Cecconi (archive footage) (uncredited)

1934

Full Speed

as Emilia - la cameriera

1963

Josefa's Loot

as Josefa

1934

The Blind Woman of Sorrento

as Anna, la sua amante

1971

1943

The Last Wagon

as Mary Dunchetti

1948

Woman Trouble

as Linda Bertoni

1956

The Awakening

as suor Letizia

1959

1936

Cavalleria

as Fanny

1944

Il Fiore sotto gli Occhi

as Maria Comasco, l'attrice

1945

Down with Misery!

as Nannina Straselli

1943

1971

2006

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

as Self (archive footage)

2008

1938

Princess Tarakanova

as Marietta, la cameriera

1972

1870

as Teresa Parenti

1952

1941

La fuggitiva

as Wanda Reni

2016

2021

2021

We Are Cinema

as Self (archive footage)

1980

My Name Is Anna Magnani

as Self (archive footage)

1943

La vita è bella

as Virginia

1935

Quei due

as Pierotta

1948

Unknown Men of San Marino

as Liana, la prostituta

1945

2009

Vittorio D.

as Self (archive footage)

1972

Roma

as Anna Magnani

2004

Bellissime

as (archive footage)

1946

Revenge

as Adele Vicarelli

1994

Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage

as Serafina Delle Rose / Lady Torrance (archive footage)

2003

Barbra Streisand: The Movie Album

as Gioia (archive footage)

2012

The War of the Volcanoes

as Self (archive footage)

2019

The Passion of Anna Magnani

as Self (archive footage)

1946

The Bandit

as Lidia

2017

Quand Jean devint Renoir

as Camilla (archive footage)

2006

My Dad Is 100 Years Old

as Pina (archive footage) (uncredited)

1936

30 Seconds of Love

as Gertrude Siriani, la sorella zitella di Tullio

1950

1942

Finalmente soli

as Ninetta

Production

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