Rosanna Schiaffino
Biography
Rosanna Schiaffino was an Italian film actress who came up through the post-neorealist cinema of the 1950s. Born in Genoa, she was encouraged by her mother toward show business, studied privately at a drama school, and won the Miss Liguria beauty contest at 14, which led to modeling work and photographs in magazines including Life. Producer Franco Cristaldi took notice and cast her opposite Marcello Mastroianni in Piece of the Sky (1959), then gave her La sfida, directed by Francesco Rosi, in which her portrayal of a Neapolitan girl inspired by a real figure made her name, and which was greeted well at the Venice Film Festival in 1958. Launched as an Italian Hedy Lamarr, she appeared in several more films before giving up acting. She died in 2009.
69years old at death
- Born Genoa
- Died Milan
- Star sign: SagittariusThe sign runs November 22 to December 21
Movie Career
- Films
- 8
- Career span
- 14 years1959 to 1973
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Big break
Franco Cristaldi, a film producer, noticed Schiaffino and cast her opposite Marcello Mastroianni in Piece of the Sky in 1959. Her second film for him, La sfida, directed by Francesco Rosi, made her name.
Big break
Schiaffino's second movie for Francesco Rosi was La sfida, and it brought her attention for a sensitive yet powerful turn as a Neapolitan girl based on the real Pupetta Maresca. At the 1958 Venice Film Festival it was well received.
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Rosanna Schiaffino shares two films with George Hamilton, 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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