Anna Mazzamauro

Anna Mazzamauro

Anna Maria Mazzamauro (born December 1, 1938 in Rome ) is an Italian actress and singer , best known for her role as Signorina Silvani in the Fantozzi films . In addition to being a character and comedian, Mazzamauro has played many dramatic roles during her thirty year career.

Life

Mazzamauro began her acting career in the late sixties. She opened the small theater “Il Carlino” in the center of Rome under her own management. Elio Pandolfi , the pop duo I Vianella and Bruno Lauzi also played in this theater workshop . After a devastating fire in 1968 the theater closed and Mazzamauro switched to film. She had her first role in Pronto ... c'è una certa Giuliana per te by Massimo Franciosa . In the same year she also played in the musical Non cantare, spara together with the Quartetto Cetra .

At the beginning of the seventies Mazzamauro played a number of female roles in several cabaret pieces that portrayed characters from modern society with a good dose of intelligence and self-irony. One of these pieces was released as a long-playing record. Stage partners were Lino Banfi and Oreste Lionello .

In 1975 the first film in the successful series about the accountant Ugo Fantozzi was released , in which Mazzamauro played the seductive Signorina Silvani . With these films Mazzamauro became known to the general public.

Mazzamauro felt more at home in the theater than in film because she had gained more experience on the stage over the years. The most interesting and successful roles were in Raccontare Nannarella - a 1970 play dedicated to Anna Magnani that was revived in the 1990s, and Cyrano de Bergerac , in which Mazzamauro plays the male lead with the big nose.

On television Mazzamauro performed on Rai 2 in 1977 through the television variety Scuola serale per aspiranti italiani , after which Corrado Mantoni brought her to Rome for the live broadcast Grand Canal , which was broadcast in 1981 by the Teatro delle Vittorie . As a result of these appearances, Mazzamauro recorded a few singles with theme songs from the programs and children's songs. Under Mediaset , Mazzamauro starred in the show Grand Hotel on Canale 5 in 1985 , where she appeared alongside the best comedians of the time. For the same broadcaster, she appeared with Enrico Papi in the game show Beato tra le donne , which was an Italian version of Mann-o-Mann .

Anna Maria Mazzamauro was also active as a voice actress , where she was best known for the voice of little sister Julie in the Italian version of Look, Who Is Speaking 2 .

In 2002 Mazzamauro played in the television series Ma il portiere non c'è mai? on Canale 5 with.

Anna Maria Mazzamauro is the mother of her daughter Guendalina, who was born in 1970.

Filmography

• 1967: Pronto… c'è una certa Giuliana per te - Director: Massimo Franciosa
• 1968: Non cantare, spara - Director: Daniele D'Anza
• 1974: The clever two (Il bestione) - Director: Sergio Corbucci
• 1975: The Biggest Cattle Far and Wide (Fantozzi) - Director: Luciano Salce
• 1975: Casanova Frankenstein (Frankenstein all'italiana) - Director: Armando Crispino
• 1976: Il secondo tragico Fantozzi - Director: Luciano Salce
• 1976: Tutti possono arricchire tranne i poveri - directed by Mauro Severino
• 1976: La prima notte di nozze - Director: Corrado Prisco
• 1977: Il… Belpaese - Director: Luciano Salce
• 1977: Tre tigri contro tre tigri - Director: Stefano Vanzina , Sergio Corbucci
• 1979: Io zombo, tu zombi, lei zomba - Director: Nello Rossati
• 1980: A bank clerk in distress (Rag. Arturo De Fanti, bancario precario) - Director: Luciano Salce
• 1981: The double hero (Fracchia la belva umana) - directed by Neri Parenti
• 1983: Champagne in paradiso - Director: Aldo Grimaldi
• 1983: Fantozzi subisce ancora - Director: Neri Parenti
• 1983: Sfrattato cerca casa equo canone - Director: Pier Francesco Pingitore
• 1988: Fantozzi retires (Fantozzi va in pensione) - Director: Neri Parenti
• 1990: Fantozzi alla riscossa - Director: Neri Parenti
• 1993: Fantozzi in paradiso - directed by Neri Parenti
• 1996: Fantozzi - Il ritorno - Director: Neri Parenti
• 1999: Una furtiva lacrima - Director: Riccardo Sesani
• 1999: Fantozzi 2000 - La clonazione - Director: Domenico Saverni
• 2012: Ribelle - The Brave - directed by Mark Andrews and Brenda Chapman - voice
• 2012: Sogni… in una notte d'estate - Director: Roberto Posse

Excerpt from discography

Albums

• 1974: Anna Mazzamauro ( Dig-it , TLE 201, LP)

single

• 1974: Il bombardino / La prima volta ( Dig-it , MM 032, 7 ")
• 1977: Raffredore da fieno (La Strega Sbarabegola) / La zebra Maria ( Cinevox , 7 ")
• Le mantellate / Le mantellate (strumentale) (VideoRadio, 7 ")

Web links

Commons : Anna Mazzamauro  - Collection of Images

• Anna Mazzamauro in the Internet Movie Database (English)