Anna Magnani
Known for Acting · 80 credits
- Born
- 1908-03-07
- Died
- 1973-09-26
- Place of birth
- Rome, Italy
- 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".
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Known For
TV Shows (4)
Movies (76)
Rome, Open City
1945
as Pina
Roma
1972
as Anna Magnani
Bellissima
1952
as Maddalena Cecconi
Mamma Roma
1962
as Mamma Roma
The Secret of Santa Vittoria
1970
as Rosa
The Fugitive Kind
1960
as Lady Torrance
Red Shirts - Anita Garibaldi
1952
as Anita Garibaldi
Vittorio D.
2009
as Self (archive footage)
The Rose Tattoo
1955
as Serafina Delle Rose
We Are Cinema
2021
as Self (archive footage)
The Bandit
1946
as Lidia
Made in Italy
1965
as Adelina (segment "5 'La Famiglia', episode 3")
The Golden Coach
1952
as Camilla
L'Amore
1948
as Woman on the Phone (segment "Una voce umana") / Nannina (segment "Il miracolo")
Assunta Spina
1948
as Assunta Spina
The Awakening
1956
as suor Letizia
Teresa Venerdì
1941
as Loletta Prima
Wild Is the Wind
1957
as Gioa
Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita
2021
as Self (archive footage)
We, the Women
1953
as Anna (segment "Anna Magnani")
Peddlin' in Society
1946
as Gioconda Perfetti
The Passionate Thief
1960
as Gioia 'Tortorella' Fabbricotti
Quand Jean devint Renoir
2017
as Camilla (archive footage)
Barbra Streisand: The Movie Album
2003
as Gioia (archive footage)
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
1994
as Serafina Delle Rose / Lady Torrance (archive footage)
Variety carousel
1955
Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema
1985
as Self
Hollywood sul Tevere
2009
Down with Misery!
1945
as Nannina Straselli
Angelina
1947
as Angelina Bianchi
The Last Wagon
1943
as Mary Dunchetti
Quei due
1935
as Pierotta
Hell in the City
1959
as Egle
The Automobile
1971
as Anna
Crazy Quartet
1945
as Elena
Girlfriend in a Coma
2012
as Maddalena Cecconi (archive footage) (uncredited)
Once Upon a Time... 'Rome, Open City'
2006
as Self (archive footage)
The Treasure of His Youth: The Photographs of Paolo Di Paolo
2021
as Self - Actress (archive footage)
Luchino Visconti: Between Truth and Passion
2016
as Self (archive footage)
Rossellini Through His Own Eyes
1993
as Self (archive footage)
Tre donne - 1943: Un incontro
1971
as Jolanda
La fuggitiva
1941
as Wanda Reni
Princess Tarakanova
1938
as Marietta, la cameriera
Full Speed
1934
as Emilia - la cameriera
1870
1972
as Teresa Parenti
Volcano
1950
as Maddalena Natoli
30 Seconds of Love
1936
as Gertrude Siriani, la sorella zitella di Tullio
Josefa's Loot
1963
as Josefa
Cavalleria
1936
as Fanny
Before Him All Rome Trembled
1946
as Ada
Cinéma et Réalité
1967
as Self
My Dad Is 100 Years Old
2006
as Pina (archive footage) (uncredited)
Das Mädchen der Strasse
1928
Bellissime
2004
as (archive footage)
The Ways of Love
1950
as Nannina
Rossellini Under the Volcano
1998
as Maddalena Natoli (archive footage)
Anna Magnani - Recitare la verità
2008
as (archive footage)
The Peddler and the Lady
1943
as Elide
Finalmente soli
1942
as Ninetta
My Name Is Anna Magnani
1980
as Self (archive footage)
L'avventura di Annabella
1943
as La mondana
Revenge
1946
as Adele Vicarelli
Luck Comes from Heaven
1942
as Zizì
Tre donne - La sciantosa
1971
as Flora Torres
The War of the Volcanoes
2012
as Self (archive footage)
The Blind Woman of Sorrento
1934
as Anna, la sua amante
La vita è bella
1943
as Virginia
Rossellini, un Prométhée franciscain
1996
as Self - actress
Unknown Men of San Marino
1948
as Liana, la prostituta
Woman Trouble
1948
as Linda Bertoni
Rossellini and the City
2009
as (archive footage)
The Passion of Anna Magnani
2019
as Self (archive footage)
Anna Magnani
1953
Una lampada alla finestra
1940
as Ivana
Il fiore sotto gli occhi
1944
as Maria Comasco, l'attrice
Anna Magnani: Femmina Immortale
2008
as Self
About Anna Magnani
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 "peren… With 80 credits spanning from 1928 to 2021, Anna Magnani has appeared in 76 films and 4 TV shows.
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- Rome, Open City (1945) — as Pina
- Roma (1972) — as Anna Magnani
- Bellissima (1952) — as Maddalena Cecconi
- Mamma Roma (1962) — as Mamma Roma
- The Secret of Santa Vittoria (1970) — as Rosa
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