Monica Vitti
Italian actress (1931–2022)
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- Maria Luisa Ceciarelli (3 November 1931 – 2 February 2022), known professionally as Monica Vitti , was an Italian actress who starred in several award-winning films directed by Michelangelo Antonioni during the 1960s.
- On her death, Italian culture minister Dario Franceschini called her "the Queen of Italian cinema".
- Early life Born Maria Luisa Ceciarelli in Rome on 3 November 1931 to Adele Vittiglia, from Bologna, and Angelo Ceciarelli.
- Vitti acted in amateur productions as a teenager, then trained as an actress at Rome's National Academy of Dramatic Arts (graduating in 1953) and at Pittman's College, where she played a teen in a charity performance of Dario Niccodemi's La nemica .
- Film career Early roles Vitti's first film role was an uncredited bit part in Edoardo Anton's Laugh!
Maria Luisa Ceciarelli (3 November 1931 – 2 February 2022), known professionally as Monica Vitti, was an Italian actress who starred in several award-winning films directed by Michelangelo Antonioni during the 1960s. She appeared with Marcello Mastroianni, Alain Delon, Richard Harris, Terence Stamp, and Dirk Bogarde. On her death, Italian culture minister Dario Franceschini called her "the Queen of Italian cinema".
Vitti won five David di Donatello Awards for Best Actress, seven Italian Golden Globes for Best Actress, the Career Golden Globe, and the Venice Film Festival Career Golden Lion Award.
Early life
Born Maria Luisa Ceciarelli in Rome on 3 November 1931 to Adele Vittiglia, from Bologna, and Angelo Ceciarelli. She took her stage name from her mother's maiden name. Vitti acted in amateur productions as a teenager, then trained as an actress at Rome's National Academy of Dramatic Arts (graduating in 1953) and at Pittman's College, where she played a teen in a charity performance of Dario Niccodemi's La nemica. She toured Germany with an Italian acting troupe, and her first stage appearance in Rome was for a production of Niccolò Machiavelli's La Mandragola.
Film career
Early roles
Vitti's first film role was an uncredited bit part in Edoardo Anton's Laugh! Laugh! Laugh! (1954). She was in Adriana Lecouvreur (1955), the TV series L'alfiere (1956) and the TV movies Questi ragazzi (1956) and Il tunnel (1958). She did an episode of the television series Mont-Oriol (1958) and dubbed Rossana Rory's voice in Big Deal on Madonna Street (1958).
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