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Anna Magnani

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Also known as Anna Maria Magnani

Italian actress (1908-1973)

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Anna Magnani (1908–1973) was an Italian actor, screenwriter, and film actor. Born in Rome, she began her professional work in 1928 and continued until 1972. She was educated at the Accademia Nazionale d'Arte Drammatica Silvio D'Amico and spoke Italian. Magnani was married to Goffredo Alessandrini and had one child. She also performed as a pianist and vocalist.

Her career included receiving the Academy Award for Best Actress, the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama, the Silver Bear for Best Actress, and the David di Donatello for Best Actress. She was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy and the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role. Magnani died in Rome of pancreatic cancer.

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Person · Open Library

Born
1908
Died
1973
Works
1

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Film & TV

Acting · Rome, Italy

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…

Known for

  • The Treasure of His Youth: The Photographs of Paolo Di Paolo — Self - Actress (archive footage)2021
  • Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita — Self (archive footage)2021
  • We Are Cinema — Self (archive footage)2021
  • The Passion of Anna Magnani — Self (archive footage)2019
  • Quand Jean devint Renoir — Camilla (archive footage)2017
  • Luchino Visconti: Between Truth and Passion — Self (archive footage)2016
  • Girlfriend in a Coma — Maddalena Cecconi (archive footage) (uncredited)2012
  • The War of the Volcanoes — Self (archive footage)2012
  • Vittorio D. — Self (archive footage)2009
  • Rossellini and the City — (archive footage)2009

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Female
Origin
Italy
Active from
1908
Active to
1973

Discography

Discogs

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
1,142
Total plays
3,267

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold

    · 2021 · cited 43,586x

  2. Development and validation of brief measures of positive and negative affect: The PANAS scales.

    · 1988 · cited 29,282x

  3. Antioxidant activity applying an improved ABTS radical cation decolorization assay

    · 1999 · cited 21,343x

  4. Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

    · 2020 · cited 15,964x

  5. Accurate structure prediction of biomolecular interactions with AlphaFold 3

    · 2024 · cited 15,246x

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Anna
Gender
female
Citizenship
Italy
Place of birth
Rome
Place of death
Rome
Spouse
Goffredo Alessandrini
Occupation
film actor
Educated at
Accademia Nazionale d'Arte Drammatica Silvio D'Amico
Languages spoken
Italian
Instrument
voice
Official website
www.archivioannamagnani.it
Image
Anna magnani.jpg
Number of children
1
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Commons category
Anna Magnani
cause of death
pancreatic cancer
date of birth
1908-03-07
date of death
1973-09-26
nominated for
Nastro d'Argento for Best Supporting Actress
manner of death
natural causes
name in native language
Anna Magnani
start of work period
1928-00-00
end of work period
1972-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview

Anna Maria Magnani ( Italian: [ˈanna maɲˈɲaːni]; 7 March 1908 – 26 September 1973) was an Italian actress. She was the first Italian woman to win an Academy Award.

Born and raised in Rome, Italy or Alexandria, 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 disabled. She was referred to as "La Lupa", the "perennial toast of Rome" and a "living she-wolf symbol" of the cinema. Time described her personality as "fiery", and drama critic Harold Clurman said her acting was "volcanic". In the realm of Italian cinema, she was "passionate, fearless, and exciting", an actress whom film historian Barry Monush calls "the volcanic earth mother of all Italian cinema." Director Roberto Rossellini called her "the greatest acting genius since Eleonora Duse". Playwright Tennessee Williams became an admirer of her acting and wrote The Rose Tattoo (1955) specifically for her to star in, a role for which she received an Academy Award for Best Actress.

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