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The Ways of Love

as Nannina

1950
The Passion of Anna Magnani

as Self (archive footage)

2019
Vittorio D.

as

2009
My Dad Is 100 Years Old

as Pina (archive footage) (uncredited)

2006
Roma

as Anna Magnani

1972
1870

as Teresa Parenti

1972
The Automobile

as Anna

1971
Mamma Roma

as Mamma Roma

1965
The Fugitive Kind

as Lady Torrance

1960
Wild Is the Wind

as Gioa

1957
The Rose Tattoo

as Serafina Delle Rose

1955
The Golden Coach

as Camilla

1952
Bellissima

as Maddalena Cecconi

2018
Rome, Open City

as Pina

1945
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Anna Magnani Anna Magnani

Birthday

1908-03-07

Place of Birth

Rome, Italy

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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​
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