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.
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".
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Filmography (Movies)
We Are Cinema
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:16/12/2021
The Treasure of His Youth: The Photographs of Paolo Di Paolo
Character:Self - Actress (archive footage)
Release Date:23/10/2021
Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:16/05/2021
The Passion of Anna Magnani
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:20/05/2019
Quand Jean devint Renoir
Character:Camilla (archive footage)
Release Date:30/04/2017
Luchino Visconti: Between Truth and Passion
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:15/11/2016
Girlfriend in a Coma
Character:Maddalena Cecconi (archive footage) (uncredited)
Release Date:26/11/2012
The War of the Volcanoes
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:02/09/2012
Vittorio D.
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:17/09/2009
Rossellini and the City
Character:(archive footage)
Release Date:01/01/2009
Anna Magnani - Recitare la verità
Character:(archive footage)
Release Date:07/03/2008
My Dad Is 100 Years Old
Character:Pina (archive footage) (uncredited)
Release Date:06/12/2006
Once Upon a Time... 'Rome, Open City'
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:27/05/2006
Bellissime
Character:(archive footage)
Release Date:08/01/2004
Barbra Streisand: The Movie Album
Character:Gioia (archive footage)
Release Date:14/10/2003
Rossellini Under the Volcano
Character:Maddalena Natoli (archive footage)
Release Date:01/01/1998
Rossellini, un Prométhée franciscain
Character:Self - actress
Release Date:18/06/1996
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
Character:Serafina Delle Rose / Lady Torrance (archive footage)
Release Date:19/12/1994
Rossellini Through His Own Eyes
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:01/05/1993
Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema
Character:Self
Release Date:01/01/1985
My Name Is Anna Magnani
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:30/09/1980
Roma
Character:Anna Magnani
Release Date:16/03/1972
1870
Character:Teresa Parenti
Release Date:07/01/1972
The Automobile
Character:Anna
Release Date:10/10/1971
Tre donne - 1943: Un incontro
Character:Jolanda
Release Date:03/10/1971
Tre donne - La sciantosa
Character:Flora Torres
Release Date:26/09/1971
The Secret of Santa Vittoria
Character:Rosa
Release Date:02/01/1970
Cinéma et Réalité
Character:Self
Release Date:01/01/1967
Made in Italy
Character:Adelina (segment "5 'La Famiglia', episode 3")
Release Date:22/12/1965
Josefa's Loot
Character:Josefa
Release Date:22/08/1963
Mamma Roma
Character:Mamma Roma
Release Date:22/09/1962
The Passionate Thief
Character:Gioia 'Tortorella' Fabbricotti
Release Date:21/10/1960
The Fugitive Kind
Character:Lady Torrance
Release Date:14/04/1960
Hell in the City
Character:Egle
Release Date:29/01/1959
Wild Is the Wind
Character:Gioa
Release Date:11/12/1957
The Awakening
Character:suor Letizia
Release Date:17/10/1956
The Rose Tattoo
Character:Serafina Delle Rose
Release Date:12/12/1955
Variety carousel
Character:
Release Date:08/02/1955
Anna Magnani
Character:
Release Date:31/10/1953
We, the Women
Character:Anna (segment "Anna Magnani")
Release Date:27/10/1953
The Golden Coach
Character:Camilla
Release Date:05/12/1952
Red Shirts - Anita Garibaldi
Character:Anita Garibaldi
Release Date:15/08/1952
Bellissima
Character:Maddalena Cecconi
Release Date:04/01/1952
The Ways of Love
Character:Nannina
Release Date:13/12/1950
Volcano
Character:Maddalena Natoli
Release Date:02/02/1950
L'amore
Character:Woman on the Phone (segment "Una voce umana") / Nannina (segment "Il miracolo")
Release Date:02/11/1948
Woman Trouble
Character:Linda Bertoni
Release Date:17/10/1948
Assunta Spina
Character:Assunta Spina
Release Date:10/03/1948
Unknown Men of San Marino
Character:Liana, la prostituta
Release Date:16/01/1948
Angelina
Character:Angelina Bianchi
Release Date:12/11/1947
Peddlin' in Society
Character:Gioconda Perfetti
Release Date:21/12/1946
The Bandit
Character:Lidia
Release Date:05/10/1946
Before Him All Rome Trembled
Character:Ada
Release Date:02/10/1946
Revenge
Character:Adele Vicarelli
Release Date:21/04/1946
Down with Misery!
Character:Nannina Straselli
Release Date:27/12/1945
Rome, Open City
Character:Pina
Release Date:08/10/1945
Quartetto pazzo
Character:Elena
Release Date:22/08/1945
Il fiore sotto gli occhi
Character:Maria Comasco, l'attrice
Release Date:28/11/1944
The Last Wagon
Character:Mary Dunchetti
Release Date:01/12/1943
The Peddler and the Lady
Character:Elide
Release Date:24/06/1943
La vita è bella
Character:Virginia
Release Date:26/05/1943
L'avventura di Annabella
Character:La mondana
Release Date:31/03/1943
Luck Comes from Heaven
Character:Zizì
Release Date:26/03/1942
Finalmente soli
Character:Ninetta
Release Date:17/03/1942
Teresa Venerdì
Character:Loletta Prima
Release Date:24/11/1941
La fuggitiva
Character:Wanda Reni
Release Date:02/11/1941
Una lampada alla finestra
Character:Ivana
Release Date:10/02/1940
Princess Tarakanova
Character:Marietta, la cameriera
Release Date:23/03/1938
30 Seconds of Love
Character:Gertrude Siriani, la sorella zitella di Tullio
Release Date:24/10/1936
Cavalleria
Character:Fanny
Release Date:23/10/1936
Quei due
Character:Pierotta
Release Date:01/01/1935
Full Speed
Character:Emilia - la cameriera
Release Date:31/12/1934
The Blind Woman of Sorrento
Character:Anna, la sua amante
Release Date:30/04/1934
Das Mädchen der Strasse
Character:
Release Date:02/02/1928
Television Appearances
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