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
★8.0
MOVIE1945
Rome, Open City
as Pina
★10.0
MOVIE1938
Princess Tarakanova
as Marietta, la cameriera
MOVIE1953
Anna Magnani
★7.2
MOVIE1972
Roma
as Anna Magnani
★6.4
MOVIE1946
The Bandit
as Lidia
★5.0
MOVIE2012
The War of the Volcanoes
as Self (archive footage)
★7.9
MOVIE1962
Mamma Roma
as Mamma Roma
★7.7
MOVIE1952
Bellissima
as Maddalena Cecconi
★6.9
MOVIE1955
The Rose Tattoo
as Serafina Delle Rose
★6.9
MOVIE1960
The Fugitive Kind
as Lady Torrance
★6.4
MOVIE1935
Quei due
as Pierotta
MOVIE2008
Anna Magnani: Femmina Immortale
as Self
★6.9
MOVIE1970
The Secret of Santa Vittoria
as Rosa
MOVIE2009
Hollywood sul Tevere
★10.0
MOVIE2017
Quand Jean devint Renoir
as Camilla (archive footage)
★7.1
MOVIE1952
The Golden Coach
as Camilla
★6.1
MOVIE1965
Made in Italy
as Adelina (segment "5 'La Famiglia', episode 3")
★6.5
MOVIE1967
Cinéma et Réalité
as Self
★6.7
MOVIE1934
The Blind Woman of Sorrento
as Anna, la sua amante
★6.5
MOVIE2019
The Passion of Anna Magnani
as Self (archive footage)
★6.9
MOVIE1960
The Passionate Thief
as Gioia 'Tortorella' Fabbricotti
★6.8
MOVIE1957
Wild Is the Wind
as Gioa
★6.2
MOVIE1953
We, the Women
as Anna (segment "Anna Magnani")
★6.7
MOVIE1941
Teresa Venerdì
as Loletta Prima
★7.1
MOVIE2006
My Dad Is 100 Years Old
as Pina (archive footage) (uncredited)
★6.9
MOVIE2012
Girlfriend in a Coma
as Maddalena Cecconi (archive footage) (uncredited)
★6.3
MOVIE2009
Vittorio D.
as Self (archive footage)
★6.4
MOVIE1947
Angelina
as Angelina Bianchi
★7.4
MOVIE1959
Hell in the City
as Egle
★5.9
MOVIE1950
Volcano
as Maddalena Natoli
★7.0
MOVIE1946
Revenge
as Adele Vicarelli
★9.5
MOVIE2021
We Are Cinema
as Self (archive footage)
★6.7
MOVIE1948
L'Amore
as Woman on the Phone (segment "Una voce umana") / Nannina (segment "Il miracolo")
★7.5
MOVIE2003
Barbra Streisand: The Movie Album
as Gioia (archive footage)
★8.7
MOVIE1980
My Name Is Anna Magnani
as Self (archive footage)
★8.0
MOVIE1928
Das Mädchen der Strasse
★6.8
MOVIE1955
Variety carousel
★10.0
MOVIE1936
30 Seconds of Love
as Gertrude Siriani, la sorella zitella di Tullio
★8.0
MOVIE1943
L'avventura di Annabella
as La mondana
★6.6
MOVIE1948
Woman Trouble
as Linda Bertoni
★6.9
MOVIE1956
The Awakening
as suor Letizia
MOVIE2008
Anna Magnani - Recitare la verità
as (archive footage)
★5.4
MOVIE1963
Josefa's Loot
as Josefa
★7.7
MOVIE1971
Tre donne - La sciantosa
as Flora Torres
★1.0
MOVIE2016
Luchino Visconti: Between Truth and Passion
as Self (archive footage)
★6.6
MOVIE1972
1870
as Teresa Parenti
★6.8
MOVIE1946
Before Him All Rome Trembled
as Ada
★7.5
MOVIE1952
Red Shirts - Anita Garibaldi
as Anita Garibaldi
★6.8
MOVIE1943
The Last Wagon
as Mary Dunchetti
★7.2
MOVIE1948
Assunta Spina
as Assunta Spina
★7.3
MOVIE1943
The Peddler and the Lady
as Elide
★9.0
MOVIE1994
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
as Serafina Delle Rose / Lady Torrance (archive footage)
★9.0
MOVIE1940
Una lampada alla finestra
as Ivana
★10.0
MOVIE1993
Rossellini Through His Own Eyes
as Self (archive footage)
★6.7
MOVIE1945
Down with Misery!
as Nannina Straselli
★7.0
MOVIE2006
Once Upon a Time... 'Rome, Open City'
as Self (archive footage)
MOVIE1996
Rossellini, un Prométhée franciscain
as Self - actress
★5.6
MOVIE1971
The Automobile
as Anna
★9.0
MOVIE1985
Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema
as Self
MOVIE2004
Bellissime
as (archive footage)
★5.7
MOVIE1934
Full Speed
as Emilia - la cameriera
★3.0
MOVIE1942
Luck Comes from Heaven
as Zizì
★7.7
MOVIE1943
La vita è bella
as Virginia
★7.0
MOVIE2021
The Treasure of His Youth: The Photographs of Paolo Di Paolo
as Self - Actress (archive footage)
★7.3
MOVIE2021
Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita
as Self (archive footage)
★8.0
MOVIE1944
Il fiore sotto gli occhi
as Maria Comasco, l'attrice
★6.0
MOVIE1941
La fuggitiva
as Wanda Reni
★5.7
MOVIE1946
Peddlin' in Society
as Gioconda Perfetti
MOVIE1950
The Ways of Love
as Nannina
★10.0
MOVIE1945
Crazy Quartet
as Elena
★6.2
MOVIE1948
Unknown Men of San Marino
as Liana, la prostituta
★8.5
MOVIE1971
Tre donne - 1943: Un incontro
as Jolanda
★5.4
MOVIE1936
Cavalleria
as Fanny
MOVIE2009
Rossellini and the City
as (archive footage)
★7.0
MOVIE1942
Finalmente soli
as Ninetta
MOVIE1998
Rossellini Under the Volcano
as Maddalena Natoli (archive footage)