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Something wrong?She made volcanic look like method: the Roman actress who clawed through night-club gigs to become the first Italian woman with an Oscar, and the actor Tennessee Williams wrote *The Rose Tattoo* for because no one else could carry that much raw earth and fire onscreen.
A life in dates
The AutomobileFilm, Anna1965
Made in ItalyFilm, Adelina (segment "5 'La Famiglia', episode 3")1962
Mamma RomaFilm, Mamma Roma1959David di Donatello for Best ActressAwardGrolla d'oro for Best Leading ActressAward
Hell in the CityFilm, 1959Egle1958David di Donatello for Best ActressAwardSilver Bear for Best ActressAward1957BAFTA Award for Best Foreign ActressAward1956Academy Award for Best ActressAwardGolden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture DramaAward
CinépanoramaSeries, 19561955
The Rose TattooFilm, Serafina Delle Rose1953
The OscarsSeries1952
BellissimaFilm, Maddalena Cecconi1950
What's My Line?Series1948
Assunta SpinaFilm, Assunta Spina1947Volpi Cup for Best ActressAward1946Nastro d'Argento for Best Supporting ActressAward
Before Him All Rome TrembledFilm, 1946Ada1943
The Last WagonFilm, Mary Dunchetti1936
CavalleriaFilm, Fanny1934
Full SpeedFilm, Emilia - la cameriera1908Born7 March 1908Photos 8
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Filmography 40
CVCinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita
TMThe Passion of Anna Magnani
GCGirlfriend in a Coma
TVThe War of the Volcanoes
VDVittorio D.
MOMy Dad Is 100 Years Old
RORoma
1870TAThe Automobile
TSTre donne - La sciantosa
TVThe Secret of Santa VittoriaMIMade in Italy
JLJosefa's LootMRMamma Roma
TKThe Fugitive Kind
TTThe Passionate ThiefHCHell in the City
WWWild Is the Wind
TAThe AwakeningTTThe Rose Tattoo
VCVariety carousel
WWWe, the WomenBEBellissima
TCThe Golden Coach
VUVulcano
LAL'AmoreASAssunta Spina
WTWoman Trouble
ANAngelina
TBThe Bandit
PSPeddlin' in SocietyBTBefore Him All Rome Trembled
RCRome, Open City
DMDown with Misery!
TLThe Peddler and the LadyTWThe Last Wagon
TVTeresa VenerdìCACavalleria
QDQuei dueFSFull Speed81 credits on file
Television 4
UÉUn film et son époqueCICinépanoramaTOThe OscarsWLWhat's My Line?Awards
In their orbit
Spouse: Goffredo AlessandriniAbout this person
Born in Rome (or possibly Alexandria) on 7 March 1908, Anna Magnani sang in night clubs to pay her way through the Academy of Dramatic Art, then landed her first film role in *The Blind Woman of Sorrento* (1934) after meeting director Goffredo Alessandrini. Her breakout came with Rossellini's *Rome, Open City* (1945), the film that ignited Italian neorealism and made her an international name. Through the next two decades she carved out a signature as "earthy lower-class women" - forceful, fearless, magnetic - in *L'Amore* (1948), *Bellissima* (1951), and *Mamma Roma* (1962). Tennessee Williams, transfixed, wrote *The Rose Tattoo* (1955) specifically for her; she won the Academy Award for Best Actress. Offscreen her only child had been disabled by polio at 18 months, a private weight she carried through a public life that made her, by 1950, "one of the most impressive actresses since Garbo." She died in Rome on 26 September 1973.
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