Cast

Anna Magnani

Acting

Cast

Anna Magnani

Known for

Acting

Born

1908-03-07

From

Rome, Italy

Died

1973-09-26

Also known as 안나 마냐니

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

Anna Magnani

Anna Magnani

Biography

Rome, Open City

Princess Tarakanova

Anna Magnani

Roma

The Bandit

The War of the Volcanoes

Mamma Roma

Bellissima

The Rose Tattoo

The Fugitive Kind

Quei due

Anna Magnani: Femmina Immortale

The Secret of Santa Vittoria

Hollywood sul Tevere

Quand Jean devint Renoir

The Golden Coach

Made in Italy

Cinéma et Réalité

The Blind Woman of Sorrento

The Passion of Anna Magnani

The Passionate Thief

Wild Is the Wind

We, the Women

Teresa Venerdì

My Dad Is 100 Years Old

Girlfriend in a Coma

Vittorio D.

Angelina

Hell in the City

Volcano

Revenge

We Are Cinema

L'Amore

Barbra Streisand: The Movie Album

My Name Is Anna Magnani

Das Mädchen der Strasse

Variety carousel

30 Seconds of Love

L'avventura di Annabella

Woman Trouble

The Awakening

Anna Magnani - Recitare la verità

Josefa's Loot

Tre donne - La sciantosa

Luchino Visconti: Between Truth and Passion

1870

Before Him All Rome Trembled

Red Shirts - Anita Garibaldi

The Last Wagon

Assunta Spina

The Peddler and the Lady

Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage

Una lampada alla finestra

Rossellini Through His Own Eyes

Down with Misery!

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

Rossellini, un Prométhée franciscain

The Automobile

Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema

Bellissime

Full Speed

Luck Comes from Heaven

La vita è bella

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

Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita

Il fiore sotto gli occhi

La fuggitiva

Peddlin' in Society

The Ways of Love

Crazy Quartet

Unknown Men of San Marino

Tre donne - 1943: Un incontro

Cavalleria

Rossellini and the City

Finalmente soli

Rossellini Under the Volcano