Italian actress, photojournalist, and politician (1927–2023)
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She was the face that defined mid-century European glamour on screen, then walked away from it to shoot Fidel Castro with a camera instead of a script.
Luigia "Gina" Lollobrigida became one of the highest-profile European actresses of the 1950s and 1960s, an international sex symbol dubbed "the most beautiful woman in the world." She won the Henrietta Award at the 18th Golden Globe Awards during a film career that made her a fixture of Hollywood's Golden Age. As acting roles thinned, she pivoted to photojournalism and scored an exclusive interview with Fidel Castro in the 1970s. Later she became an active supporter of Italian and Italian-American causes, receiving the National Italian American Foundation's Lifetime Achievement Award in 2008.…
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I wasn't passionate about cinema. I did it to help my family. We were displaced in Rome and needed to eat. Those were the years when actors were picked up off the street.
(About acting) I think a little training is good, but I also believe that instinct is what wins out.
There is less emotion in cinema today. There are stories that unfold in a setting of absolute futurism, and when I see them, I change the channel.
A beautiful woman, even at seventy, is a beautiful woman, damn it, and if she has talent, you have to admit it, not despise the beautiful woman.
What makes me angry is that they have always tried to take something away from women, and this continues today.
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