Anna Magnani
Biography
Anna Magnani was an Italian actress who studied at Rome's Academy of Dramatic Art and sang in nightclubs to pay her way, entering films in 1934 with The Blind Woman of Sorrento. International fame came with Pina in Roberto Rossellini's Rome, Open City (1945), a landmark of Italian neorealism, and she built a reputation playing poor, earthy women in Bellissima (1951), The Rose Tattoo (1955), The Fugitive Kind (1960) and Mamma Roma (1962). Tennessee Williams wrote The Rose Tattoo for her, and she won the Academy Award for Best Actress, the first Italian woman to do so, along with a BAFTA and a Golden Globe. Later credits include The Secret of Santa Vittoria (1969) and Fellini's Roma (1972), in which she played herself. She died in 1973.
65years old at death
- Born Rome
- Died Rome
- Star sign: PiscesThe sign runs February 19 to March 20
- Also credited as Anna Maria Magnani
Movie Career
- Films
- 7
- Career span
- 27 years1945 to 1972
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A role that slipped away
The play was staged on Broadway with Maureen Stapleton, since Magnani's command of English was too limited at that time for her to take the starring role.
Early training
Magnani studied for two years at Rome's Eleonora Duse Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, starting when she was 17. She sang in nightclubs and cabarets to support herself, and was dubbed "the Italian Édith Piaf".
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Worked with
Anna Magnani shares two films with Franco Citti, and one with each of the others. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
Franco Citti's page
Amalia Pellegrini's page
Anthony Quinn's page
Burt Lancaster's page
Marlon Brando's page
R.G. Armstrong's page
Awards
Twelve awards and honors from 1946 to 1959, five of them major.
| Year | Award | Film | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Academy Awards | |||
| 1956 | Best Actress | The Rose Tattoo | Won |
| Golden Globes | |||
| 1956 | Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama | The Rose Tattoo | Won |
| BAFTA | |||
| 1957 | Best Foreign Actress | The Rose Tattoo | Won |
| Berlin Film Festival | |||
| 1958 | Silver Bear for Best Actress | Wild Is the Wind | Won |
| Venice Film Festival | |||
| 1947 | Volpi Cup for Best Actress | Angelina | Won |
| Other honors | |||
| 1959 | David di Donatello for Best Actress | ...And the Wild Wild Women | Won |
| 1959 | Grolla d'oro for Best Leading Actress | ...And the Wild Wild Women | Won |
| 1958 | David di Donatello for Best Actress | Wild Is the Wind | Won |
| 1946 | Nastro d'Argento for Best Supporting Actress | Rome, Open City | Won |
| Hollywood Walk of Fame | Honored | ||
| Nastro d'Argento for Best Actress | Angelina | Won | |
| National Board of Review Award for Best Actress | Rome, Open City | Won | |
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