Anna Magnani

Acting · 1.3 popularity

Age

118

Movies

Born: March 7, 1908 – September 26, 1973
From: Rome, Italy
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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

Works

76 films

Rome, Open City

19458.0

Roma

19727.2

The Fugitive Kind

19606.9

The Secret of Santa Vittoria

19706.9

Mamma Roma

19627.9

The Bandit

19466.4

Bellissima

19527.7

The Rose Tattoo

19556.9

Princess Tarakanova

193810.0

Anna Magnani

1953

Wild Is the Wind

19576.8

Made in Italy

19656.1

The Passionate Thief

19606.9

The Golden Coach

19527.1

Hollywood sul Tevere

2009

We Are Cinema

20219.5

Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage

19949.0

The Passion of Anna Magnani

20196.4

Cinéma et Réalité

19676.5

Hell in the City

19597.4

Quei due

19356.4

L'Amore

19486.7

Revenge

19467.0

Quand Jean devint Renoir

201710.0

Volcano

19505.9

Teresa Venerdì

19416.7

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

20067.0

Girlfriend in a Coma

20126.9

The Awakening

19566.9

The Blind Woman of Sorrento

19346.7

Barbra Streisand: The Movie Album

20037.5

We, the Women

19536.2

Angelina

19476.4

Vittorio D.

20096.3

1870

19726.6

Luchino Visconti: Between Truth and Passion

20161.0

Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita

20217.3

Unknown Men of San Marino

19486.2

Variety carousel

19556.8

Woman Trouble

19486.7

The War of the Volcanoes

20125.0

Cavalleria

19365.4

Tre donne - La sciantosa

19717.7

Anna Magnani - Recitare la verità

2008

The Last Wagon

19436.8

Il fiore sotto gli occhi

19448.0

My Name Is Anna Magnani

19808.7

30 Seconds of Love

193610.0

Red Shirts - Anita Garibaldi

19527.5

Full Speed

19345.7

The Peddler and the Lady

19437.3

La vita è bella

19437.7

Crazy Quartet

194510.0

Before Him All Rome Trembled

19466.8

Das Mädchen der Strasse

19288.0

L'avventura di Annabella

19438.0

Tre donne - 1943: Un incontro

19718.5

Bellissime

2004

Peddlin' in Society

19465.7

The Ways of Love

1950

Anna Magnani: Femmina Immortale

2008

Down with Misery!

19456.7

Una lampada alla finestra

19409.0

Assunta Spina

19487.2

Rossellini Through His Own Eyes

199310.0

Rossellini, un Prométhée franciscain

1996

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

20217.0

La fuggitiva

19416.0

The Automobile

19715.6

My Dad Is 100 Years Old

20067.1

Finalmente soli

19427.0

Rossellini Under the Volcano

1998

Luck Comes from Heaven

19423.0

Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema

19859.0

Josefa's Loot

19635.4

Rossellini and the City

2009