Maria Michi
Biography
Maria Michi was an Italian actress who worked first as a law office typist and then as an usherette at the Teatro Quattro Fontane in Rome. There she was noticed, and in the 1942-1943 season she had small parts in a troupe led by Sergio Stofano and Diana Torreri. Her first big assignment came in a revue that starred Toto and Anna Magnani. Through Roberto Rossellini she won two defining roles in Italian neorealism: the two-faced fiancée of a resistance fighter in Rome, Open City (1945) and Francesca, an ordinary young woman forced into prostitution, in Paisan (1946). Her later films disappointed her, and she gave up cinema for thirteen years before returning to the theater. She came back to the screen in 1960 and for fifteen years played small parts for directors including Claude Chabrol, Bernardo Bertolucci, Peter Del Monte and Mauro Bolognini, with radio and television work as well. She retired in 1976 and died in 1980.
Movie Career
- Films
- 3
- Career span
- 27 years1945 to 1972
Every film, newest first
- 1972Last Tango in ParisIMDb rating 6.8
- 1946PaisanIMDb rating 7.6
- 1945Rome, Open CityIMDb rating 8.0
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Maria Michi shares two films with Giovanna Galletti, 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.
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