Anna Magnani

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

Known For	Acting
Most Rating	5.659
Birthday	1908-03-07
Place of Birth	Rome, Italy
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Rome, Open City

Rossellini Under the Volcano

Rossellini Through His Own Eyes

The Secret of Santa Vittoria

Cinéma et Réalité

Teresa Venerdì

Bellissima

Love

The Fugitive Kind

Made in Italy

The Rose Tattoo

Mamma Roma

We, the Women

The Passionate Thief

Peddlin' in Society

The Golden Coach

Wild Is the Wind

Angelina

Volcano

The Peddler and the Lady

Assunta Spina

Girlfriend in a Coma

Full Speed

Josefa's Loot

The Blind Woman of Sorrento

Tre donne - La sciantosa

The Last Wagon

Woman Trouble

The Awakening

Hell in the City

Cavalleria

Il Fiore sotto gli Occhi

Down with Misery!

L'avventura di Annabella

The Automobile

Tre donne - 1943: Un incontro

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

Anna Magnani - Recitare la verità

Princess Tarakanova

Una lampada alla finestra

1870

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

Das Mädchen der Strasse

Red Shirts - Anita Garibaldi

La fuggitiva

Luchino Visconti: Between Truth and Passion

Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita

We Are Cinema

Quei due

Luck Comes from Heaven

Unkown Men of San Marino

Quartetto pazzo

My Name Is Anna Magnani

La vita è bella

Variety carousel

Vittorio D.

Roma

Bellissime

Before Him All Rome Trembled

Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema

Revenge

Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage

Barbra Streisand: The Movie Album

The War of the Volcanoes

The Passion of Anna Magnani

The Bandit

Quand Jean devint Renoir

My Dad Is 100 Years Old

30 Seconds of Love

The Ways of Love

Finalmente soli

Anna Magnani