Italian cinema is one of the three leading European cinemas, second only to France and Great Britain in terms of the number of films released per year (about 160). Italian films have won 14 Oscars for " best movie in a foreign language", which is a record figure (France is in second place with 12 winners). Italian cinema peaked in the 60-70s of the 20th century, but even now Italian cinema is very popular. The share of national cinema in Italy reaches 37%, the highest in Europe.The 2016 film "To hell with the horns" (Italian: Quo vado?) grossed 65 million euros at the box office, becoming the highest-grossing Italian film of all time.
This ranking will feature the most beautiful italian actresses 20th and 21st centuries. The list includes mostly ethnic Italians, there are also actresses of other nationalities who starred mainly in Italian cinema.
28th place. Violante Placido / Violante Placido(born May 1, 1976, Rome, Italy) is an Italian actress and singer, daughter of Italian actors Michele Placido and Simonetta Stefanelli.
27th place. Lorella de Luca / Lorella De Luca(September 17, 1940, Florence - January 9, 2014) - Italian actress. One of the most famous ingenue (the image of a naive girl) in Italian cinema.
26th place. Laura Morante / Laura Morante(born August 21, 1956, Santa Fiora, Italy) is an Italian actress and director.
25th place. Marina Berti / Marina Berti(September 29, 1924, London, England - October 29, 2002) - Italian actress, popular in the 50s and 60s. Her real name is Elena Morin Bertolini. The height of the actress is 170 cm, the parameters of the figure are 86-61-91.5.
24th place. Silvana Pampanini / Silvana Pampanini(September 25, 1925, Rome - January 6, 2016) - Italian actress, popular in the 50s, including in the USSR, where she was known for the film "A Husband for Anna Zaccheo" (1953).
23rd place. Silva Koscina / Sylva Koscina(August 22, 1933 - December 26, 1994) - Italian actress. She was born in Zagreb, Croatia to a Greek father and a Polish mother. During the Second World War, she moved to Italy, where in 1955 she began acting in films. She is best known for her roles as Princess Iola, the bride of Hercules (Steve Reeves) in The Labors of Hercules (1958) and The Labors of Hercules: Hercules and Queen Lydia (1960).
22nd place. Anna Maria Ferrero(born February 18, 1934, Rome) is an Italian actress who acted in films in the 50s and 60s. Her real name- Guerro.
21st place. Rosanna Schiaffino / Rosanna Schiaffino(November 25, 1939, Genoa, Italy - October 17, 2009) - Italian actress, popular in the 1960s. Soviet moviegoers are known mainly for the role of Countess Jeanne de Beauvais in the film "Secrets Burgundian court" (1961).
20th place. Manuela Arcuri(born January 8, 1977, Anagni, Italy) - Italian actress and fashion model. Manuela's height is 174 cm, the parameters of the figure are 94-63-96.
19th place. Simona Cavallari(born April 5, 1971, Rome) is a modern Italian actress, acting in films and TV shows.
18th place. Caterina Murino / Caterina Murino(born September 15, 1977, Cagliari, Italy) - Italian actress originally from the island of Sardinia. Gained worldwide fame after playing the role of Solange Dimitrios in the film from the Jace Bond series "Casino Royale" (2006).
17th place. Ornella Muti / Ornella Muti(born March 9, 1955, Rome) - Italian film actress. Russian audience Ornella Muti is best known for the film "The Taming of the Shrew" (1980). The real name of the actress is Francesca Romana Rivelli. Her father is Neapolitan, her mother is Russian. Ornella Muti's height is 168 cm, figure parameters 89-61-89.
16th place. Stefania Sandrelli / Stefania Sandrelli(born June 5, 1946, Viareggio, Italy) is an Italian actress who became famous at the age of 15 after the film "Italian Divorce" (1961). Figure parameters 98-67-101 (at the age of 39).
15th place. Rossana Podesta / Rossana Podestà(June 20, 1934 - December 10, 2013) - Italian actress. Rossana was born in Tripoli, Libya (an Italian colony at the time). After World War II, she moved to Rome with her parents. In film, she is best known for her role as Helen of Troy in the 1956 film of the same name.
14th place. Daniela Bianchi / Daniela Bianchi(born January 31, 1942, Rome) is an Italian model and actress, best known for the Bond film From Russia with Love (1963), where she played Tatiana Romanova. In 1960, she represented Italy at the Miss Universe pageant, where she took second place and won the Miss Photogenic category.
13th place. Giovanna Ralli / Giovanna Ralli(born January 2, 1935, Rome) - Italian film actress, popular in the 60s.
12th place. Scilla (Scilla) Gabel / Scilla Gabel(born January 4, 1938, Rimini, Italy) is an Italian film actress. Real name - Gianfranca Gabellini. Her acting career began as an understudy for Sophia Loren. The heroine of Homer's "Odyssey" Scylla, after which the actress took a pseudonym, she never played, but she played Elena Troyanskaya in the 1968 television adaptation of "The Odyssey".
11th place. Margaret Madé(born June 22, 1982, Paterno, Sicily) is an Italian actress and model. Height 177 cm, figure parameters 83-60-88.
10th place. Zeudi Araya(born February 10, 1951) is an Italian actress of Eritrean origin. Miss Eritrea 1969. Lives in Italy since 1972. In 1976, she played her most famous role - Friday in the comedy "Signor Robinson". Zeudi Araya was the last wife of the famous Italian producer Franco Cristaldi.
9th place. Edwige Fenech / Edwige Fenech(real name Sfenek / Sfenek) - Italian actress, TV presenter and film producer. She was born on December 24, 1948 in the city of Bon in Algeria, which at that time was a colony of France. Her father is Maltese and her mother is Italian from Sicily. When Edwige was ten years old, the family moved to France. In 1967 she won the Lady France beauty pageant and represented France in the Lady Europa pageant. In the same 1967, Fenech moved to Italy, where, thanks to her magnificent body, she became the star of erotic films.
8th place. Gigliola Cinquetti / Gigliola Cinquetti(born December 20, 1947, Verona, Italy) - Italian singer, actress and TV presenter. In 1964, she represented Italy at the Eurovision Song Contest, where she won with the song "Non ho l'étà" and gained international recognition. In 1974, she participated in the Eurovision Song Contest for the second time with the song "Si" and took second place, losing only to the ABBA quartet. She starred in 10 films.
7th place. Anita Ekberg / Anita Ekberg (September 29, 1931, Malmö, Sweden - January 11, 2015) is an actress best known for her roles in Federico Fellini's La Dolce Vita (1960) and Boccaccio 70 (1962). She has lived in Italy since the 1960s. In 1951, Ekberg won the Miss Sweden pageant and represented Sweden at international competition"Miss Universe 1951". Height 169 cm, figure parameters at the Miss Sweden pageant: 100-56-91.
6th place. Isabella Rossellini- Italian actress and fashion model. Born June 18, 1952 in Rome in the family of the famous Swedish actress Ingrid Bergman and Italian film director Roberto Rossellini. The height of Isabella Rossellini is 173 cm, the parameters of the figure are 90-73.5-91.5 (at the age of 42).
5th place. Pier Angeli / Pier Angeli(June 19, 1932, Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy - September 10, 1971) - Italian and American actress.
4th place. Claudia Cardinale (born April 15, 1938, La Goulette, Tunisia). In 1957, Claudia Cardinale won the title of the most beautiful Italian woman in Tunisia, the prize was a trip to the Venice Film Festival, where she was noticed by the young producer Franco Cristaldi, who later became her husband. Thanks to Cristaldi, Claudia Cardinale moved to live in Italy and began acting in Italian cinema. The growth of Claudia Cardinale is 173 cm, the parameters of the figure are 94-58.5-94; parameters of the figure at the age of 38 years 96.5-61-94.
3rd place. Gina Lollobrigida / Gina Lollobrigida(born July 4, 1927, Rome) is an Italian actress. International fame Lollobrigida brought roles in the films "Fanfan-Tulip" (1952) and "Cathedral Notre Dame of Paris"(1956). The height of Gina Lollobrigida is 165 cm, the parameters of the figure are 90-51-90 (at the age of 20 at the Miss Italy-1947 contest), 94-53-90 (at the age of 30).
2nd place. Monica Bellucci (born September 30, 1964, Citta di Castello, Italy) is an Italian actress and model. Monica Bellucci's height is 170 cm, figure parameters are 89-61-89.
1 place. Sophia Loren / Sophia Loren (b. September 20, 1934, Rome) is a famous Italian actress, winner of an honorary Oscar (1991) with the wording "for a career rich in memorable roles that gave unfading brilliance to cinema." Her real name is Shikolone. According to a poll of readers of The Daily Mail in 2006, 71-year-old at that time Sophia Loren was recognized as the most beautiful woman in the world. Sophia Loren's height is 174 cm, figure parameters are 96.5-61-96.5 (at the age of 22), 91.5-61-96 (at the age of 50).
35th place. (born December 11, 1944, Mongidoro, Italy) is an Italian musician, winner of the Sanremo Festival in 1987. Commander of the Order of Merit for the Italian Republic (2005).
34th place. Paolo Maldini / Paolo Maldini(born June 26, 1968, Milan, Italy) - the legendary Italian football player, one of the best defenders in world football in history, the long-term captain of the Italian national team and Milan. Played as center and left back. Son of soccer player Cesare Maldini. A cult football player for Milan fans. He spent his entire football career in Milan, for which he played 902 official matches. The best football player in the world in 1994 according to World Soccer.
33rd place. (March 22, 1921, Castro dei Volshi, Italy - May 28, 2004) - Italian actor, director, screenwriter, writer. In 1971, Nino Manfredi's For the Grace Received won the Best Debut nomination at the Cannes Film Festival. Nino Manfredi played over 100 roles. Most famous movie- "Operation Saint Januarius".
32nd place. (born October 21, 1947, Pontedera, Italy) is a popular Italian singer, winner of the main competition of the Sanremo Festival (1982).
31st place. Adriano Celentano / Adriano Celentano(born January 6, 1938, Milan) - Italian musician, film actor, crooner, film director, composer, public figure and TV presenter. In Italy, for his manner of moving on stage, he received the nickname "Molleggiato" (Italian. On springs). Celentano is one of the most successful and influential performers in the history of Italian music - throughout his career he has released forty-one studio albums with a total circulation of 150 million copies, and has also starred in more than forty films. It is very popular among Russian viewers thanks to the comedies The Taming of the Shrew (1980), Bluff (1976), Madly in Love (1981) and Bingo Bongo (1982).
30th place. (born February 21, 1980, Latina, Italy) is an Italian singer, composer and songwriter.
29th place. (b. November 9, 1963, Milan) - Italian singer, songwriter. Managed to win many music awards (San Remo, Festivalbar).
28th place. Roberto Loreti / Roberto Loreti(born October 22, 1947, Rome, Italy), better known in Russia as Robertino Loretti, is an Italian singer who, as a teenager (in the early 1960s), won world fame. Executor famous songs: O sole mio, Mamma, Ave Maria, Santa Lucia, Jamaica, etc.
27th place. (December 16, 1941, Cercola, Italy - January 7, 1994) - Italian actor. Most notable role in the TV series "Octopus", starring in the 5th and 6th season as Davide Licata.
26th place. (b. July 31, 1966, Porto Sant'Elpidio, Italy) - Italian actor, impersonator, TV presenter and singer.
25th place. (born August 24, 1969, Rome) is an Italian actor. Since the early 1990s, he has appeared in over 35 films and television series. In 2006, Favino received the "David di Donatello" (Italian analogue of the Oscar) for his role in the film "Crime novel". That same year, he played Christopher Columbus in the 20th Century Fox film Night at the Museum. In 2008, he played General Glozell, leader of Miraz's Telmarine forces in The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, and a year later, Inspector Ernesto Olivetti in Ron Howard's Angels & Demons.
24th place. Michele Placido / Michele Placido(born May 19, 1946, Ascoli Satriano, Italy) is an Italian actor and film director. worldwide fame received after the role of Commissioner Corrado Cattani in the television series "Octopus". The series "Octopus" was very popular in the USSR. He starred in the title role in the Soviet film "Afghan Break".
23rd place. (born March 19, 1976, Rome) - Italian football player, central defender. He was a player of such clubs as Milan, Lazio, Montreal Impact. World champion in 2006 and vice-champion of Europe in 2000 as part of the Italian national team, he also played at the 2002 World Cup and the 2004 European Championship. Champion of Italy 2000, 2004, 2011.
22nd place. (born September 27, 1976, Rome) is an Italian football player, attacking midfielder and striker. The captain of the Roma club, whose colors he has defended throughout his career, since 1992. World champion in 2006 and vice-champion of Europe in 2000 as part of the Italian national team, he also played at the 2002 World Cup and the 2004 European Championship. As part of the Italian youth team, he became the European champion in 1996.
21st place. Vittorio Emanuele Propizio / Vittorio Emanuele Propizio(born December 30, 1991, Rome) is an Italian actor.
20th place. Marco Mengoni / Marco Mengoni(born December 25, 1988, Ronciglione, Italy) is an Italian singer-songwriter. Absolute winner of the Italian version of the X Factor talent show in 2009. In 2010 he won the Best European Artist at the MTV Europe Music Awards. The winner of the Italian Music Festival in Sanremo 2013 and the representative of Italy at the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 with the song "L" essenziale.
19th place. Eros Ramazzotti / Eros Ramazzotti(born October 28, 1963, Rome) is an Italian singer and composer. One of the most popular Italian singers, known not only in the English-speaking countries of Europe, but also in Spanish-speaking countries, since he released most of his albums in Italian and Spanish. In Russian-language sources, his surname is often spelled incorrectly - Ramazzotti.
18th place. (born August 1, 1964, Rome) is an Italian film and television actor. Among recent works Capparoni - participation in the series "Mrs. Detective", as well as the main role in the series "Commissioner Rex" (seasons 11-14), where he played the role of Rex's new owner, commissioner Lorenzo Fabbri.
17th place. (born November 9, 1974, Conegliano, Veneto, Treviso) - Italian footballer, striker of the Indian club Delhi Dynamos. He spent almost his entire career at Juventus, defending the colors of this team for 19 years (1993-2012), since 2001 he was the team captain. He also played for 2 years (1991-1993) in Padova and Australian Sydney (2012-2014). In 2006 he won the World Cup in Germany with the Italian national team.
16th place. (born March 2, 1971, Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy) is an Italian actor. Graduated at 22 theater school in Bologna. At first he worked in the theater, and he played his first film role in 1992 in the film Brothers and Sisters. Stefano's participation in Michele Placido's directorial debut Journey in the Call of Love earned him the Volpi Award for Best Actor at the 2002 Venice Film Festival. Julie Gavras.
15th place. (born October 14, 1963, Siena, Italy) - Italian opera and pop singer (Lyric tenor).
14th place. (born February 6, 1986, Salerno, Italy) is an Italian actor, director and screenwriter.
9th place. Angelo Sotgiu / Angelo Sotgiu(born February 22, 1946, Trinita d'Agultu e Vignola, Sardinia, Italy) is a popular Italian singer, member of the famous Ricchi e Poveri group.
8th place. (born August 9, 1973, Piacenza, Italy) is an Italian footballer who played as a striker. Milan head coach. World champion in 2006, winner of the Champions League in 2003 and 2007, winner of the Club World Cup in 2007, in the final of which he scored 2 goals. The only player to score goals in all UEFA and FIFA competitions open to European clubs. Third scorer in the history of European competition.
6th place. (born June 5, 1982, Biella, Piedmont) is an Italian football player who plays as a striker for the Guangzhou Evergrande club on loan for Fiorentina. World Champion 2006.
5th place. Gabriel Garko(real name Dario Oliviero / Dario Gabriel Oliviero; born July 12, 1972) is an Italian actor and model.
4th place. (born September 13, 1973, Naples) - Italian footballer, central defender. At the 2006 World Cup he was the captain of the Italian team. World Champion 2006. The best player in the world in 2006. Elder brother of Paolo Cannavaro, playing for Sassuolo.
3rd place. (September 27, 1984. Rome, Italy) - Italian actor. Studied at the Department of Dentistry medical university. Started as a model, fashion model. He made his debut in the American romantic comedy "Lizzy McGuire" (Italian guy, 2005). He acted in Italian television series.
2nd place. (b. November 23, 1941, San Prospero, Italy) is an Italian actor who gained fame primarily thanks to the painting "Django" in the spaghetti western genre. In addition, in the 1970s, in many films about the police, he played the role of a prosecutor. During his career, he worked under the direction of many famous directors.
1 place. Marcello Mastroianni / Marcello Mastroianni(September 28, 1924, Fontana Liri, Italy - December 19, 1996) - Italian film and theater actor, who most often starred in Federico Fellini and Vittorio de Sica. His focused, reserved and somewhat eccentric manner acting served as an ideal backdrop for the artistic pursuits of these directors.
Marcello Mastroianni in Federico Fellini's La Dolce Vita (1960)
1. Sophia Loren,
first film in 1948, 91 film roles in total. The whole Soviet Union was in love with this woman. Incredibly beautiful and charismatic actress and also the most titled in Italian cinema. She won an Oscar for Best female role and it was the first time that the award in this category was given to a film not in English. Subsequently, she was nominated for it again and twice for the Golden Globe. She also has prizes at the Cannes, Venice and Moscow film festivals. But she has another unique achievement. She was awarded almost all the major honorary prizes for her contribution to world cinema, namely the Oscar, the Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival), the Silver Saint George (Moscow Film Festival), the Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival), as well as honorary "Cesar" (the main cinematographic award of France). Only Cannes remained, but I think she will receive an honorary prize there too. The Archbishop of Genoa once joked that although the Vatican generally does not approve of human cloning, he could make an exception for Sophia Loren.
2. Anna Magnani,
first film in 1928, 49 film roles in total. One of the greatest Italian actresses. Playwright Tennessee Williams wrote the play The Rose Tattoo for her. For the film based on this play, she received an Oscar and a Golden Globe. She also has the main prizes of the Venice and Berlin film festivals for the best female role. There is a star named after her on the Hollywood Walk of Stars.
3. Alida Valli,
the first film in 1934, a total of 116 film roles. She participated in the films of almost all the great Italian directors: Visconti, Bertolucci, Pasolini, Argento, Antonioni. At the Venice Film Festival in 1997, the actress was awarded the honorary Golden Lion for her many years of film career.
4. Francesca Bertini,
first film 1907, total 142 film roles. She became famous in silent films (more than 100 roles), but managed to appear in sound films, including the famous "Twentieth Century" by Bertolucci.
5. Gina Lollobrigida,
first film in 1946, 65 film roles in total. One of the most beautiful actresses in the world. Winner of the Golden Globe for Best Actress. She was awarded the Legion of Honor personally from the hands of Francois Mitterrand. In the 1970s, Gina's career began to decline and almost ended in 1973 with her participation in the film Deadly Sin. After that, over the following decades, she appeared in only a couple of films and accepted television offers several times. During this time, Gina turned to photojournalism and the celebrities she photographed included Paul Newman, Salvador Dali, Fidel Castro, and the German national football team. In 1973, her work was published in the magazine Italia Mia.
6. Lucia Bose,
first film in 1950, 54 film roles in total. She starred a lot at the beginning of her career and probably would have become a world famous actress, but in 1956 she married a bullfighter and devoted herself to her family and almost stopped acting. But still she managed to star in De Santis, Antonioni, Cocteau, Fellini.
7. Tina Pica,
the first film in 1916, a total of 66 film roles. This is the Italian Tatyana Pelzer. She became famous already in her old age, but still the audience managed to remember her image.
8 Claudia Cardinale,
first film in 1958, 104 film roles in total. Another great and famous italian beauty. One of the favorite actresses of Visconti, who spoke for the first time with her voice from the screen at Fellini and refused reciprocity to Alain Delon and Marlon Brando. Real star.
9. Stefania Sandrelli,
first film in 1961. 113 film roles in total. Star of Bernardo Bertolucci's cult films The Conformist and The Twentieth Century. Started her acting career beautiful girl, In the middle of her career, she played in a frank film by Tinto Brass "Key" but was able to become a very serious actress.
10 Monica Bellucci,
first film in 1990, 52 film roles in total. Although many consider it French actress She is still Italian. I will definitely not be mistaken if I say that this is the most popular Italian actress on this moment. And one of the most beautiful actresses in all of world cinema. I think it makes no sense to write a lot of words about her :)
11. Giulietta Masina (real name - Giulia Anna Masina)
The first film in 1946, a total of 31 film roles. Wife and beloved actress Federico Fellini. He also made Juliet out of modest Julia. In his films, all of Italy fell in love with her, and then the whole world. "Road", "Nights of Cabiria", "Juliet and the Spirits"
12. Silvana Mangano,
first film in 1945, 35 film roles in total. Wife famous producer Dino De Laurentiis, favorite actress of Visconti and Pasalini.
13. Monica Vitti (real name - Maria Louisa Ceciarelli),
first film in 1954, 55 film roles in total. Her roles in Antonioni's films made her famous, and the Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival brought her role in Flirt, the debut film of her future husband Roberto Russo.
14. Mariangela Melato,
first film in 1970, 60 film roles in total. one of the most popular European actresses of the 70s. The success of the actress brought the role - Lydia in the political drama of Elio Petri "The working class goes to paradise"
15. Ornella Muti (Ornella Muti, real name - Francesca Romana Rivelli),
first film in 1970, 103 film roles in total. Fantastic beauty. She is best known to domestic viewers for her roles in the comedies The Stealing of the Restless and Madly in Love, where her partner was Adriano Celentano, with whom she had an affair. She also starred in the joint Soviet-Italian film "Life is Beautiful" with Soviet director Chukhrai.
16. Asia Argento (Asia Argento),
first film in 1985, 49 film roles in total. The daughter of the famous director Dario Argento: "I always dreamed that someday I could make a film in Russia. Even my daughter Russian name- Asya. I gave her this name in honor of the Russian poetess Tsvetaeva." - the director once said in an interview. Participated in famous movie"Queen Margo" by Patrice Chereau and made a film with Marilyn Manson. Very talented actress and director, but at the same time a well-known brawler. I think she will show herself.
17. Laura Morante,
first film in 1978, 78 film roles in total. In the second half of the 1980s, she became one of the leading actresses in Italian cinema. One of the most popular and sought-after actresses of Italian cinema in the 1990s-2000s.
18. Giovanna Mezzogiorno,
first film in 1997, 31 film roles in total. Rising star Italian cinema. Daughter of actor Vittorio Mezzogiorno (David Licata's investigator from the TV series The Octopus). Fame brought her the main role in the film "Love in the Time of Cholera", where her partner was Javier Bardem. I think the real glory is still ahead of her.
19. Virna Lisi,
first film in 1953, 94 film roles in total. She is well known to the domestic audience for her leading role in the adventure film The Black Tulip, where Alain Delon was her partner. But her triumphant role was Catherine de Medici in the controversial film Queen Margot, for which she received the Palme d'Or for Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival and the Cesar Award.
20. Valeria Golino,
first film in 1984, 73 film roles in total. Most viewers will remember her for her lead role in Rain Man, and many will have noticed her in a supporting role in Frida. In 1986, she received the Venice Film Festival Award for Best Actress for Love Story.
21. Luciana Paluzzi,
first film in 1953, 74 film roles in total. The first Italian actress who became a Bond girl (the film "Thunderball"), however, not the main one.
22. Isabella Rossellini,
first film in 1976, 70 film roles in total. famous daughter, famous parents directed by Roberto Rossellini and actress Ingrid Bergman. Favorite actress of David Lynch, in whom she played her most famous role in "Blue Velvet"
23. Carla Del Poggio,
the first film in 1940, a total of 30 film roles. She made her debut in the lead role in the drama Maddalena, Zero for Conduct by Vittorio de Sica. In 1945 she married the famous film director Alberto Lattuada, in whose films she performed her most famous roles.
24. Sandra Milo,
first film in 1955, 49 film roles in total. Fame brought her roles in the films "8 and a half" and "Cinderella 80". Sandro Milo naturally has a high falsetto - this was a striking feature of her film image of a sexy blonde temptress.
25. Caterina Murino,
first film in 2000, 28 film roles in total. Rising star. Fame brought her the main role in the French comedy "The Corsican". And a few years later, she became a Bond girl in the movie "Casino Royale", although her heroine did not live to the end of the film :)
26. Marina Berti (Marina Berti, real name Elena Moreen Bertolini),
the first film in 1941, a total of 77 film roles. A very beautiful actress who became popular for her roles in the historical films "Kamo come" and "Ben Hur".
27. Milena Vukotic,
first film in 1960, 97 film roles in total. She played many roles, mostly supporting roles with famous directors, including Tarkovsky in Nostalgia, as well as Fellini, Buñuel and others.
28. Nicoletta Braschi,
first film in 1983, 18 film roles in total. Wife of director and actor Roberto Benigni. The lead role in her husband's film "Life is Beautiful" made her famous. She also starred with Jim Jarmusch and Bernardo Bertolucci.
29. Pier Angeli (real name Anna Maria Pierangeli)
first film in 1950, 33 film roles in total. A year after her debut in Italian cinema, she was invited to leading role V Hollywood movie"Theresa". For her role in this film, Pier Angeli was awarded the Golden Globe Award in the Most Promising Newcomer nomination, as well as high marks from film critics who compared her with Greta Garbo.
30. Marisa Pavan,
the first film in 1948, a total of 37 film roles. Success came to her in 1955 after her role in the film Rose Tattoo. The role of Rosa, the daughter of Anna Magnani's character, earned Marisa an Oscar nomination and a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress.
When people imagine or talk about Italy, they undoubtedly see in their imagination not only the gold of the Vatican and the canvases famous masters renaissance brushes. They also see faces. Faces of people who glorified their great country.
Famous contemporaries
Our contemporaries, most likely, remember the wide smile and inexhaustible, powerful, charismatic energy of the Italian actor Andriano Celentano or the sly, inviting gaze beautiful eyes Italian Sophia Loren, promising to reveal the secret of love.
Many have not forgotten the black and white world of Federico Fellini's films, but someone will say that Italy is, first of all, strict style Briony, in costumes from which agent 007 James Bond has been flaunting for decades. Someone will exclaim: “But what about Marconi? What would we be doing now without radio, if not for this Italian?
Celebrities who came from the depths of centuries
And someone might want to look into the deep well of the mirror of time to see, shrouded in a haze of the past, the faces of Catherine and Marie de Medici, the two greatest Florentines anointed to the kingdom in the Kingdom of France. Someone will see the flames in which, without uttering a sound, he gave his immortal soul Giordano Bruno. And someone, peering into the starry sky, hoping to see at least a falling meteor out of the corner of his eye, will remember the name of Galileo Galilei.
When we talk about the culture of Italy, about its contribution to the development of human civilization, we always, first of all, talk about celebrities in Italy, people who created history itself. Art is never faceless. Country without the greatest people nameless.
But you can go down in history not only thanks to exploits, like Julius Caesar or Mark Antony. Not only the greatest humanists, such as Marcus Aurelius, she remembers. To be a great person, you need to have talent. And it may not necessarily be a calling to be a painter or a sculptor, it is not necessarily a talent to hear music in the heavenly spheres in order to then record and reproduce its melodies on earth.
Italy - the cradle of talents
Talent is not always the possession of a beautiful voice or the ability to easily weave words into coherent story. Talent can also be expressed simply in an inexhaustible thirst for life, in love for it, for its joys.
Celebrities whose names have become household names
Talented love of life is also an art. And it was with this talent that the gentlest heartthrob, the Italian Giacomo Casanova, glorified his name in the centuries. His name has become a household name for all unfaithful lovers. 
Along with Casanova, the name of another Italian who lived in Renaissance Florence, Nicolo Machiavelli, became a household name. now the name of this diplomat and philosopher, the author of the work "The Sovereign" is a synonym for the word "sly". There is even such a thing as Machiavellianism, which means deceit.
Talent is multifaceted, it has many faces.
Another great Italian, Giuseppe Balsamo, the whole world remembers as Alexander Cagliostro. Some consider him the greatest charlatan and deceiver that history has not yet known. Others believe that he actually mastered secret knowledge and invented the elixir of immortality. And still others believe that this elixir was invented by Apollonius of Tyana, and it was he who appeared in the eighteenth century in the guise of Alexander Cagliostro. After all, if he really is immortal, what did it cost him to live for almost two thousand years?
They say that one day two respectable gentlemen decided to ask the drunk servant Cagliostro, is it true, they say, that his master is immortal. The Lord hoped that everyone famous saying about the fact that a drunkard always has only what is on his mind on his tongue, which will slightly open the veil of secrecy to them. To the question, the drunken servant replied that he did not know for sure whether his master was immortal, but over the 130 years that he served him, his master, Count Cagliostro, had not changed at all.
Talents that make people famous can be talked about incessantly. And one should, no doubt, thank the Lord for the enchanting generosity of the gifts with which he showered Italy.
- Celebrities of the XX-XXI centuries
- Celebrities of past centuries
Italy is a country with a long history. Many great Italian personalities have been included in the lists of the world famous people, in encyclopedias and dictionaries. Some of them lived in the distant past, some in the recent past, and many glorify Italy today. They are often written and talked about.
Well-known Italian brands are also a popular topic. But if we digress for a second from the purely consumer interest in everything “Made in Italy”, it becomes obvious that behind every brand or symbol national cuisine are the creators, living people. They are rarely talked about, and many readers are sometimes completely unaware of, for example, who created Pirelli tires and how he did it.
A series of materials about famous Italians will slightly complement your idea of Italy. We tried not to divide the famous natives of this fertile country into good and bad, because history and human memory have already taken care of this.
So, Caravaggio gradually becomes the first director in the world of painting. Who has created something like this before? The audience is shocked, tears and flies, and he does not even try to soften the blow. On the contrary, he provokes new religious controversy by depicting saints in modern dress, using people of dubious reputation as models. He writes frank scenes of violence, blood and dirt on his canvases ... Yes, who is he?
Today we will say - he is a revolutionary and a reformer with a brush in a ruthless hand. But then his work caused both admiration and rejection. Some praised him, others scolded him. With his indefatigable temperament, courage and recklessness, he challenged the foundations. There has been a paradigm shift.
Innocent X Pamphili, Bernini and Borromini
In 1644, the 236th pope ascended the throne. Roman Catholic Church- Innocent X (Giambattista Pamphili). The Pamphili dynasty was by no means inflamed with love for the Barberini family. This dislike also touched Bernini, the favorite of the previous pope Urban VIII. The architect was reminded of an unsuccessful experiment with the bell towers of the Cathedral of St. Peter and offered to work on the sidelines. Meanwhile, his experienced rival Borromini became chief papal architect.
Gian Lorenzo Bernini also had to experience humiliation from those architects and sculptors whom he deliberately kept out of responsible projects, taking advantage of the favorable attitude of the previous pope. In the meantime, intensive work on the interior was going on in the capital of the Baroque, and a grandiose reconstruction began.
Giovanni Agnelli and the FIAT brand
The Last Patriarchx
This man with the profile and article of the Roman emperor was called the "King of the Apennines", and he really was one - not by pedigree, but by virtue of the contribution recognized by all to the formation of present-day Italy. Now Giovanni Agnelli, the last of the "industrial geniuses", rests in the family crypt of the estate of Villar Perosa, in the vicinity of Turin.
He lived for 81 years, and this life is full of numerous victories, tragedies and is firmly connected with the world-famous Fiat car brand. The four letters that make up this name stand for "Fabbrika Italiano Automobili Torino", that is, the "Italian Automobile Factory of Turin", which was founded by his grandfather, the ancestor of the dynasty and his full namesake Giovanni Agnelli back in 1899. In the development of Italy, Fiat played approximately the same role as Ford did in America, that is, the role of a locomotive that pulled almost the entire economy for a century, which means that it somehow touched all aspects of Italian life.
Italian newspapers and news agencies - who's who in Italy
The fourth power in Italy - the main figures
In 1563, the inhabitants of the Most Serene Republic of Venice paid local currencygaxeta for primitively made news leaflets distributed around the city by brisk boys and gondoliers. The Venetians could not have known that four centuries later, two-penny leaflets would turn into newspapers, and everyone involved in the conveyor of production and dissemination of information will become real power in civilized countries.
The world has become informational, newspapers have migrated to the Internet, and newspaper information has become an expensive commodity.
We will acquaint you with the daily printed editions of Italy. In addition, we will give brief information about the main players in the Italian printing industry with reference to sources. Our goal is not a critical analysis, but helpful information about the elements of the so-called fourth power in the country.
Italian brand Bauli and its founder
Ruggero Bauli (1895, Nogara, Italy)
October 25, 1927, at 17.00 local time, 80 miles off the coast of Brazil, a radio signal was intercepted from the Italian merchant ship "Principessa Mafalda":- "Mafalda di Savoia, SOS, Mafaldadi Savoia, SOS,for help!!!"
On board the newest Italian steamer "Principess Mafalda" there were 977 passengers, mostly Italian emigrants, 287 crew members, as well as a valuable cargo - 80 kg of pure gold, with which the Italian government planned to pay Argentina for agreeing to accept emigrants. In addition to this valuable human cargo and gold ingots, the passenger compartments of the ship were filled with suitcases and trunks of seekers of a new life, striving for the shores of America. Passenger named Ruggiero Bauli at the time of the accident, he was at the stern and saw with his own eyes how the axle with the screws of the ship came off and slipped into the abyss ...
Andrea Bocelli - the magical voice of the new Italy
If God could speak, he would speak in the voice of Andrea Bocelli.
Celine Dion
My real goal is to bring a sense of joy and peace to those who listen to me. I hope I succeeded. At least I put all my strength into it.
A village boy from Tuscany, who lost his sight at the age of 12, became the best tenor in Italy at the beginning of the new century and magical voice planets forever. Blind Andrea Bocelli dared to dream of being on stage, despite the most serious illness, and the stars, those in the sky and the earth - in the face of the classics of the genre of Italian pop music and opera - actively helped him in this. And so a living legend was born.
Amerigo Vespucci and the renaming of the New World
(1454 - 1512) - one of the most controversial figures of the 15th century. Disputes around his personality and independent discoveries have been going on for centuries. However, most of all, his name is discussed, which gave the name America at the suggestion of the cartographer and bookseller Martin Walseemüller, who published the book "Cosmographiao introductio etc., insuper quatuor Americi Vespucii navigationes" in 1507.
