Anna Maria Ferrero

Anna Maria Ferrero was an Italian actress who appeared in international films during the 1950s and early 1960s. Born in Rome, she took her stage surname in tribute to the conductor Willy Ferrero and entered movies as a teenager with a second female lead in Il cielo è rosso (1950). Directors such as Michelangelo Antonioni, Mario Monicelli and Dino Risi photographed her, and she drew attention for The Forbidden Christ (1951), The Life and Music of Giuseppe Verdi (1953), and Chronicle of Poor Lovers (1954). She joined Vittorio Gassman's theater company for several seasons, playing Ophelia in Hamlet and Desdemona in Othello, and appeared with him in Kean: Genius or Scoundrel (1957). Her later credits included The Hunchback of Rome (1960) and Gold of Rome (1961), and she was part of the cast of King Vidor's War and Peace (1956). Her final film was Countersex (1964).