Known For
Acting
Born
Mar 07, 1908
Died
Sep 26, 1973
Place of Birth
Rome, Italy
Credits
80 titles
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 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
Filmography
We Are Cinema
Self (archive footage)
The Treasure of His Youth: The Photographs of Paolo Di Paolo
Self - Actress (archive footage)
Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita
Self (archive footage)
The Passion of Anna Magnani
Self (archive footage)
Quand Jean devint Renoir
Camilla (archive footage)
Luchino Visconti: Between Truth and Passion
Self (archive footage)
Girlfriend in a Coma
Maddalena Cecconi (archive footage) (uncredited)
The War of the Volcanoes
Self (archive footage)
Vittorio D.
Self (archive footage)
Hollywood sul Tevere
Rossellini and the City
(archive footage)
Anna Magnani: Femmina Immortale
Self
Anna Magnani - Recitare la verità
(archive footage)
My Dad Is 100 Years Old
Pina (archive footage) (uncredited)
Once Upon a Time... 'Rome, Open City'
Self (archive footage)
Bellissime
(archive footage)
Barbra Streisand: The Movie Album
Gioia (archive footage)
Un film et son époque
Self (archive footage)
Rossellini Under the Volcano
Maddalena Natoli (archive footage)
Rossellini, un Prométhée franciscain
Self - actress
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
Serafina Delle Rose / Lady Torrance (archive footage)
Rossellini Through His Own Eyes
Self (archive footage)
Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema
Self
My Name Is Anna Magnani
Self (archive footage)
Roma
Anna Magnani
1870
Teresa Parenti
The Automobile
Anna
Tre donne - 1943: Un incontro
Jolanda
Tre donne - La sciantosa
Flora Torres
The Secret of Santa Vittoria
Rosa
Cinéma et Réalité
Self
Made in Italy
Adelina (segment "5 'La Famiglia', episode 3")
Josefa's Loot
Josefa
Mamma Roma
Mamma Roma
The Passionate Thief
Gioia 'Tortorella' Fabbricotti
The Fugitive Kind
Lady Torrance
Hell in the City
Egle
Wild Is the Wind
Gioa
The Awakening
suor Letizia
Cinépanorama
Self
The Rose Tattoo
Serafina Delle Rose
Variety carousel
Anna Magnani
We, the Women
Anna (segment "Anna Magnani")
The Oscars
Self
The Golden Coach
Camilla
Red Shirts - Anita Garibaldi
Anita Garibaldi
Bellissima
Maddalena Cecconi
The Ways of Love
Nannina
What's My Line?
Self