
Anna Magnani
Acting
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Acting Credits
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 crip...
Known For
Filmography

The Treasure of His Youth: The Photographs of Paolo Di Paolo
2021
as Self - Actress (archive footage)

Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita
2021
as Self (archive footage)

We Are Cinema
2021
as Self (archive footage)

The Passion of Anna Magnani
2019
as Self (archive footage)

Quand Jean devint Renoir
2017
as Camilla (archive footage)

Luchino Visconti: Between Truth and Passion
2016
as Self (archive footage)

Girlfriend in a Coma
2012
as Maddalena Cecconi (archive footage) (uncredited)

The War of the Volcanoes
2012
as Self (archive footage)

Vittorio D.
2009
as Self (archive footage)

Rossellini and the City
2009
as (archive footage)

Hollywood sul Tevere
2009

Anna Magnani - Recitare la verità
2008
as (archive footage)

Anna Magnani: Femmina Immortale
2008
as Self

Once Upon a Time... 'Rome, Open City'
2006
as Self (archive footage)

My Dad Is 100 Years Old
2006
as Pina (archive footage) (uncredited)

Bellissime
2004
as (archive footage)

Barbra Streisand: The Movie Album
2003
as Gioia (archive footage)

Un film et son époque
2003
as Self (archive footage)

Rossellini Under the Volcano
1998
as Maddalena Natoli (archive footage)
Rossellini, un Prométhée franciscain
1996
as Self - actress

Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
1994
as Serafina Delle Rose / Lady Torrance (archive footage)

Rossellini Through His Own Eyes
1993
as Self (archive footage)

Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema
1985
as Self

My Name Is Anna Magnani
1980
as Self (archive footage)

1870
1972
as Teresa Parenti

Roma
1972
as Anna Magnani

Tre donne - La sciantosa
1971
as Flora Torres

The Automobile
1971
as Anna

Tre donne - 1943: Un incontro
1971
as Jolanda

The Secret of Santa Vittoria
1970
as Rosa

Cinéma et Réalité
1967
as Self

Made in Italy
1965
as Adelina (segment "5 'La Famiglia', episode 3")

Josefa's Loot
1963
as Josefa

Mamma Roma
1962
as Mamma Roma

The Fugitive Kind
1960
as Lady Torrance

The Passionate Thief
1960
as Gioia 'Tortorella' Fabbricotti

Hell in the City
1959
as Egle

Wild Is the Wind
1957
as Gioa

The Awakening
1956
as suor Letizia

Cinépanorama
1956
as Self

The Rose Tattoo
1955
as Serafina Delle Rose

Variety carousel
1955

We, the Women
1953
as Anna (segment "Anna Magnani")
Anna Magnani
1953

The Oscars
1953
as Self

Bellissima
1952
as Maddalena Cecconi

The Golden Coach
1952
as Camilla

Red Shirts - Anita Garibaldi
1952
as Anita Garibaldi

Vulcano
1950
as Maddalena Natoli

The Ways of Love
1950
as Nannina

What's My Line?
1950
as Self

L'Amore
1948
as Woman on the Phone (segment "Una voce umana") / Nannina (segment "Il miracolo")

Assunta Spina
1948
as Assunta Spina

Woman Trouble
1948
as Linda Bertoni

Unknown Men of San Marino
1948
as Liana, la prostituta

Angelina
1947
as Angelina Bianchi

Peddlin' in Society
1946
as Gioconda Perfetti

Before Him All Rome Trembled
1946
as Ada

Revenge
1946
as Adele Vicarelli

The Bandit
1946
as Lidia

Rome, Open City
1945
as Pina

Down with Misery!
1945
as Nannina Straselli

Crazy Quartet
1945
as Elena

Il fiore sotto gli occhi
1944
as Maria Comasco, l'attrice

The Peddler and the Lady
1943
as Elide

The Last Wagon
1943
as Mary Dunchetti

L'avventura di Annabella
1943
as La mondana
La vita è bella
1943
as Virginia

Luck Comes from Heaven
1942
as Zizì

Finalmente soli
1942
as Ninetta

Teresa Venerdì
1941
as Loletta Prima

La fuggitiva
1941
as Wanda Reni
Una lampada alla finestra
1940
as Ivana

Princess Tarakanova
1938
as Marietta, la cameriera

Cavalleria
1936
as Fanny

30 Seconds of Love
1936
as Gertrude Siriani, la sorella zitella di Tullio

Quei due
1935
as Pierotta

Full Speed
1934
as Emilia - la cameriera

The Blind Woman of Sorrento
1934
as Anna, la sua amante
Das Mädchen der Strasse
1928