Anna Galiena

Anna Galiena is an Italian actress who started on stage before gaining an international following in European film. Born in Rome, she left her university studies at 19 to act in Ciociaria, then lived in Toronto from 1974 and moved to New York later in the decade, where her first audition won her the lead in an Off-Broadway Romeo and Juliet. She trained at Actors' Studios and worked in theater, including Nina in The Seagull and Richard III with the American Shakespeare Company. Back in Italy in 1984, she played Natasha in Three Sisters at the Teatro Stabile di Genova. Her starring role in The Hairdresser's Husband brought international attention in 1990, followed by Jamón, jamón in 1992. She made her mainstream Hollywood debut in Bill Forsyth's Being Human (1994), with Robin Williams, and has since worked widely in European cinema, with more than 50 films and many television appearances.