Italian Goddess Pantheon
by MichelleYeohFan | created - 08 Mar 2014 | updated - 3 months ago | Public
1. Pier Angeli
Actress | Battle of the Bulge
Anna Maria Pierangeli was born June 19, 1932, in Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy. Anna and her twin sister, Marisa Pavan, both had their eyes on becoming film stars, since that was one of the big Italian pastimes. Anna adopted her surname and split it in half, and it was as Pier Angeli that she would ...
2. Gina Lollobrigida
Actress | Notre-Dame de Paris
Gina Lollobrigida was born on July 4, 1927 in Subiaco, Italy. Destined to be called "The Most Beautiful Woman in the World", Gina possibly had St. Brigid as part of her surname. She was the daughter of a furniture manufacturer, and grew up in the pictorial mountain village. The young Gina did some ...
3. Maria Grazia Cucinotta
Actress | The World Is Not Enough
Maria Grazia Cucinotta (born 27 July 1968) is an Italian actress who has featured in many films and television series since 1990. She has also worked as a producer, screenwriter and model. Cucinotta was born in Messina, Province of Messina, Sicily, Italy. She is well known in Italy as a movie and ...
4. Luciana Paluzzi
Actress | Thunderball
Luciana Paluzzi's an Italian actress, best known for playing SPECTRE assassin ,Fiona Volpe, in the fourth James Bond film, Thunderball.
In the film, Thunderball she had auditioned for the part of the lead Bond girl, Dominetta "Domino" Petacchi, but producers cast Claudine Auger, changing the Domino ...
5. Claudia Cardinale
Actress | C'era una volta il West
Like many other female Italian film stars, Claudia Cardinale's entry into the business was by way of a beauty pageant. She was 17 years old and studying at the Centro Sperimentale in Rome when she entered a beauty contest, which resulted in her getting a succession of small film roles. Her earthy ...
6. Lucia Bosè
Actress | La signora senza camelie
Lucia Bosè was born on January 28, 1931 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy. She was an actress, known for The Lady Without Camelias (1953), Death of a Cyclist (1955) and Story of a Love Affair (1950). She was married to Luis Miguel Dominguín. She died on March 23, 2020 in Segovia, Segovia, Castilla y León, ...
7. Sabrina Siani
Actress | Il trono di fuoco
Sexy and shapely blonde Sabrina Siani was born Sabrina Seggiani in 1963 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. Siani first started acting in films as a teenager in 1979. Sabrina was frequently cast in either cannibal exploitation fare or sword and sorcery fantasy adventures. Among the notable cult cinema directors...
8. Laura Antonelli
Actress | Passione d'amore
Laura Antonelli was born on November 28, 1941 in Pola, Istria, Italy [now Pula, Istria, Croatia]. She was an actress, known for Passion of Love (1981), Malicious (1973) and The Innocent (1976). She was married to Enrico Piacentini. She died on June 22, 2015 in Ladispoli, Rome, Lazio, Italy.
9. Mirella D'Angelo
Actress | Caligola
Mirella D'Angelo was born on August 16, 1956 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. She is an actress, known for Caligula (1979), Hercules (1983) and Tenebrae (1982).
10. Giulietta Masina
Actress | Le notti di Cabiria
Born in San Giorgio di Piano, Giulietta Masina spent part of her teenage years living with a widowed aunt in Rome, where she cultivated a passion for the theater and studied for a degree in Philosophy. She began her career on the radio with the program "Terzoglio" (1942), about the adventures of ...
11. Monica Vitti
Actress | L'avventura
Monica Vitti was born on November 3, 1931 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. She was an actress and writer, known for L'Avventura (1960), Red Desert (1964) and L'Eclisse (1962). She was married to Roberto Russo. She died on February 2, 2022 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.
12. Carla Del Poggio
Actress | Senza pietà
At 15, while she was studying foreign languages and modern dance, she started attending the Italian school for performing arts, Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia of Rome. The director Vittorio De Sica chose her for her debut role in "Maddalena, zero in condotta". At 19, she met her future ...
13. Maria Grazia Buccella
Actress | Ti ho sposato per allegria
Curvaceous, green-eyed Italian leading lady, singer and dancer of 1960s Italian comedies. Maria Grazia Buccella was a Miss Italia beauty pageant winner in 1959 and third-ranked as Miss Europe that same year. In films from 1951, she appeared in many a lightweight comedic offering, often as sensuous,...
14. Rosanna Schiaffino
Actress | La mandragola
Rosanna Schiaffino was born on November 25, 1939 in Genoa, Liguria, Italy. She was an actress, known for La mandragola (1965), The Miracle of the Wolves (1961) and Romulus and the Sabines (1961). She was married to Giorgio Enrico Falck and Alfredo Bini. She died on October 17, 2009 in Milan, ...
15. Marisa Pavan
Actress | The Rose Tattoo
Maria Luisa Pierangeli and her twin sister Anna Maria were born in Sardinia, Italy. They were fraternal twins with different personalities as well. Anna Maria was dreamy and innocent; Maria Luisa was independent and studious. They moved to Rome in the late 1940s. In 1948 their lives changed when ...
16. Sophia Loren
Actress | La ciociara
Sophia Loren was born as Sofia Scicolone at the Clinica Regina Margherita in Rome on September 20, 1934. Her father Riccardo was married to another woman and refused to marry her mother Romilda Villani, despite the fact that she was the mother of his two children (Sophia and her younger sister ...
17. Ornella Muti
Actress | Flash Gordon
Ornella Muti was born on March 9, 1955 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. She is an actress, known for Flash Gordon (1980), Oscar (1991) and The Most Beautiful Wife (1970). She was previously married to Federico Fachinetti and Alessio Orano.
18. Monica Bellucci
Actress | Malèna
Monica Anna Maria Bellucci was born on September 30, 1964 in the Italian village of Città di Castello, Umbria, the only child of Brunella Briganti and Pasquale Bellucci. She originally pursued a career in the legal profession. While attending the University of Perugia, she modeled on the side to ...
19. Asia Argento
Actress | Land of the Dead
Asia Argento was born in Rome, Italy, into a family of actors and filmmakers, both occupations which she has herself pursued. She made her debut when she was only nine years old in Sergio Citti's Sogni e bisogni (1985). In 1988 she had the leading role in Cristina Comencini's first film, Zoo (1988)...
20. Virna Lisi
Actress | La reine Margot
Stunning Italian actress Virna Lisi, a brief but lovely Hollywood import in the 1960's, was merely one of a plethora of European movie beauties who proved over the course of their long careers, that they were capable of more than just visual performances.
Born Virna Lisa Pieralisi on November 8, ...
21. Serena Grandi
Actress | La grande bellezza
Serena Grandi was born on March 23, 1958 in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. She is an actress, known for The Great Beauty (2013), Miranda (1985) and Donne sottotetto (Centro storico) (1992). She was previously married to Beppe Ercole.
22. Silvana Mangano
Actress | Dune
Silvana Mangano was born on April 21, 1930 in Rome, Italy and was raised in poverty during World War II. She trained as a dancer for seven years and supported herself as a model. In 1946, at age 16, she won the Miss Rome beauty pageant and through this, she obtained role in a Maria Della Costa film...
23. Pia Giancaro
Actress | Boccaccio
Pia Giancaro was born on March 12, 1950 in Palermo, Sicily, Italy. She is an actress, known for Boccaccio (1972), Tosca e altre due (2003) and Evil Eye (1975). She was previously married to Sforza Marescotti Ruspoli di Cerveteri.
24. Maria Teresa Toffano
Actress | La notte che Evelyn uscì dalla tomba
Maria Teresa Toffano is known for The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave (1971) and Revenge of the Dead (1983).
25. Marina Malfatti
Actress | Tutti i colori del buio
Marina Malfatti was born on April 25, 1933 in Florence, Tuscany, Italy. She was an actress, known for They're Coming to Get You! (1972), Il prato macchiato di rosso (1973) and Sherlock Holmes (1968). She was married to Umberto La Rocca. She died on June 8, 2016 in Rome, Italy.
26. Silvia Monti
Actress | Lady Caroline Lamb
Silvia Monti was born on January 23, 1946 in Bassano del Grappa, Veneto, Italy. She is an actress, known for Lady Caroline Lamb (1972), Blackie the Pirate (1971) and The Fifth Cord (1971). She has been married to Carlo de Benedetti since July 10, 1997. She was previously married to Luigi Donà dalle...
27. Erika Blanc
Actress | Cuore sacro
Erika Blanc was born on July 23, 1942 in Brescia, Lombardy, Italy. She is an actress, known for Sacred Heart (2005), Espionage in Lisbon (1965) and A Man for Emmanuelle (1969). She was previously married to Bruno Gaburro.
28. Giovanna Ralli
Actress | C'eravamo tanto amati
Giovanna Ralli was born on January 2, 1935 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. She is an actress and writer, known for We All Loved Each Other So Much (1974), The Mercenary (1968) and A Prostitute Serving the Public and in Compliance with the Laws of the State (1971). She was previously married to Ettore Boschi.
29. Jenny Tamburi
Actress | Sette note in nero
Well known in the Italian erotic films through a career that spanned in the 70's and 80's, her career was also filled with such diverse roles both on films and on stage. To remember the famous successful musical Comedy "Aggiungi un posto a tavola" (Add a Seat at the Table) where she played "...
30. Marcella Albani
Actress | La città dell'amore
Forgotten today, Marcella Albani was an idol of the European cinema in the final years of the 1920s, making dozens of films in five different countries (Italy, Germany, Austria, France and Czechoslovakia). After sound came, her popularity declined and she turned to writing. One of her novels "La ...
31. Marina Berti
Actress | Quo Vadis
Elena Maureen Bertolini, known as Marina Berti, was an English-born Italian film actress. Her first screen appearance was in the Anna Magnani film, La fuggitiva (1941). She appeared mainly in small roles and in the occasional leading role in nearly 100 films, both Italian and American. She appeared...
32. Annabella Incontrera
Actress | Eneide
Annabella Incontrera was born on June 11, 1943 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy. She was an actress, known for Eneide (1971), The Assassination Bureau (1969) and The Ambushers (1967). She was married to Guglielmo Biraghi. She died on September 19, 2004 in Rome, Italy.
33. Angela Covello
Actress | I Leopardi di Churchill
Angela Covello was born on July 9, 1953 in Roma, Italy. She is an actress, known for Churchill's Leopards (1970), Decameron n° 3 - Le più belle donne del Boccaccio (1972) and Torso (1973).
34. Coralina Cataldi-Tassoni
Actress | Lady M 5.1
Coralina Cataldi-Tassoni, a native New Yorker, is an award-winning actress and multimedia artist with a devoted international fan following.
Born into a family of Opera professionals, she began performing in her father's Opera company at the tender age of three. As a young child, she moved to Rome, ...
35. Femi Benussi
Actress | Poppea... una prostituta al servizio dell'impero
Femi Benussi was born on March 4, 1945 in Rovigno, Istria, Italy [now Rovinj, Istria, Croatia]. She is an actress, known for Poppea... una prostituta al servizio dell'impero (1972), Bloody Pit of Horror (1965) and La commessa (1975).
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