Anna Magnani

Personal Info

Birthday

March 7, 1908

Day of Death

1973-09-26

(65 years old)

Place of Birth

Rome, Italy

Also Known As

안나 마냐니

Anna Magnani

Biography

Anna Magnani (pronounced: mahn-YANEE; 7 March 1908 – 26 September 1973) was an Italian stage and film actress. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress, along with four other international awards, for her portrayal of a Sicilian widow in The Rose Tattoo.

Born in Rome to an Egyptian father and an Italian mother, she worked her way through Rome's Academy of Dramatic Art by singing at night clubs. During her career, her only child was stricken by polio when he was 18 months old and remained crippled. She was referred to as "La Lupa," the "perennial toast of Rome" and a "living she-wolf symbol" of the cinema.

Known For

Roma

Mamma Roma

Rome, Open City

Girlfriend in a Coma

The Secret of Santa Vittoria

The Golden Coach

The Fugitive Kind

The Rose Tattoo

Filmography

2021
We Are Cinema
as Self (archive footage)
The Treasure of His Youth: The Photographs of Paolo Di Paolo
as Self - Actress (archive footage)
Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita
as Self (archive footage)
2019
The Passion of Anna Magnani
as Self (archive footage)
2017
Quand Jean devint Renoir
as Camilla (archive footage)
2016
Luchino Visconti: Between Truth and Passion
as Self (archive footage)
2012
Girlfriend in a Coma
as Maddalena Cecconi (archive footage) (uncredited)
The War of the Volcanoes
as Self (archive footage)
2009
Vittorio D.
as Self (archive footage)
2008
Anna Magnani - Recitare la verità
as (archive footage)
2006
My Dad Is 100 Years Old
as Pina (archive footage) (uncredited)
Once Upon a Time... 'Rome, Open City'
as Self (archive footage)
2004
Bellissime
as (archive footage)
2003
Barbra Streisand: The Movie Album
as Gioia (archive footage)
1998
Rossellini Under the Volcano
as Maddalena Natoli (archive footage)
1994
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
as Serafina Delle Rose / Lady Torrance (archive footage)
1993
Rossellini Through His Own Eyes
as Self (archive footage)
1985
Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema
as Self
1980
My Name Is Anna Magnani
as Self (archive footage)
1972
Roma
as Anna Magnani
1870
as Teresa Parenti
1971
The Automobile
as Anna
Tre donne - 1943: Un incontro
as Jolanda
Tre donne - La sciantosa
as Flora Torres
1970
The Secret of Santa Vittoria
as Rosa
1967
Cinéma et Réalité
as Self
1965
Made in Italy
as Adelina (segment "5 'La Famiglia', episode 3")
1963
Josefa's Loot
as Josefa
1962
Mamma Roma
as Mamma Roma
1960
The Passionate Thief
as Gioia 'Tortorella' Fabbricotti
The Fugitive Kind
as Lady Torrance
1959
Hell in the City
as Egle
1957
Wild Is the Wind
as Gioa
1956
The Awakening
as suor Letizia
1955
The Rose Tattoo
as Serafina Delle Rose
1953
We, the Women
as Anna (segment "Anna Magnani")
1952
The Golden Coach
as Camilla
Red Shirts - Anita Garibaldi
as Anita Garibaldi
Bellissima
as Maddalena Cecconi
1950
The Ways of Love
as Nannina
Volcano
as Maddalena Natoli
1948
L'amore
as The woman (segment "Una voce umana") / Nannina (segment "Il miracolo")
Woman Trouble
as Linda Bertoni
Assunta Spina
as Assunta Spina
Unknown Men of San Marino
as Liana, la prostituta
1947
Angelina
as Angelina Bianchi
1946
Peddlin' in Society
as Gioconda Perfetti
The Bandit
as Lidia
Before Him All Rome Trembled
as Ada
Revenge
as Adele Vicarelli
1945
Down with Misery!
as Nannina Straselli
Rome, Open City
as Pina
Quartetto pazzo
as Elena
1944
Il Fiore sotto gli Occhi
as Maria Comasco, l'attrice
1943
The Last Wagon
as Mary Dunchetti
The Peddler and the Lady
as Elide
La vita è bella
as Virginia
L'avventura di Annabella
as La mondana
1942
Luck Comes from Heaven
as Zizì
Finalmente soli
as Ninetta
1941
Teresa Venerdì
as Loletta Prima
La fuggitiva
as Wanda Reni
1940
Una lampada alla finestra
as Ivana
1938
Princess Tarakanova
as Marietta, la cameriera
1936
30 Seconds of Love
as Gertrude Siriani, la sorella zitella di Tullio
Cavalleria
as Fanny
1935
Quei due
as Pierotta
1934
Full Speed
as Emilia - la cameriera
The Blind Woman of Sorrento
as Anna, la sua amante