Camille Saviola

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Camille Saviola (2010)

Camille Saviola (born July 16, 1950 in New York City , New York State ) is an American actress .

Life

Family and education

Saviola was born in the Bronx, New York, to Mary Saviola (nee d'Esopo) and Michael Saviola. Her parents were Italian immigrants. She grew up near Yankee Stadium . She graduated from the High School of Music and Art in New York. She then went to college , which she dropped out after a year to devote herself to acting as a profession. In the 1970s, Saviola was the front singer of a rock band , the Margo Lewis Explosion Rock Band .

theatre

Saviola began her acting career as a stage actress. Since the beginning of the 1980s, she has been active as a musical performer on various stages in New York and Canada . Her musical roles included u. a. Mama Maddalina in Nine (46th Street Theater, New York City, 1983), Diva Rita in The Road to Hollywood (Production Company, New York City, 1984), Bloody Mary in South Pacific (New York State Theater, New York City, 1987 ) and Emma Goldman in Ragtime (Ford Center for the Performing Arts, New York City, 1998). She had already interpreted the role of Emma Goldman in the world premiere of the musical Ragtime at the Ford Center for the Performing Arts in Toronto in December 1996. She appeared on Broadway in New York in the 2002/2003 season at the Ambassador Theater as Mama Morton in the revival of the musical Chicago . Her partner was Melanie Griffith as Roxie. In May 2006 she appeared at the Freud Playhouse in Los Angeles as Leader of the chorus in the musical Zorba .

Saviola also occasionally took on roles in classic theater productions. In the 2002/2003 season she played the role of Poncia in Chay Yew's production of Bernarda Alba's house at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles alongside Chita Rivera . She received the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for her portrayal and was honored in the 2003 Backstage West Garland Awards for Best Supporting Actress.

Movie and TV

After a few mini roles in the early 1980s, Saviola also took on numerous roles since the mid-1980s, mainly incisive supporting roles, in the cinema and on television . She often embodied characters of Italian, Latin American or Jewish origins. She has appeared in several Woody Allen films , including Broadway Danny Rose (1984), The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985, as Olga) and Shadows and Fog (1991/92, as landlady). Her role in Radio Days (1987), one of around 75 roles in the film, is no longer included in the final cut.

Her other movies include Last Exit Brooklyn (1989; as Ella), Born in Queens (1991; as Madame Rosa), My Christmas Wish (1991; as Sonya), The Addams Family in Crazy Tradition (1993; as Concetta), Mr. Wrong - The dream man becomes a nightmare (1996; as Consuela), Lez Be Friends (2007) and Silent But Deadly (2012, as a Jewish neighbor and gossip base Fanny).

In 1992 she had a continuous series role as Shelley Abromowitz in the American television series The Heights . From 1993 to 1996, she played Kai Opaka, the spiritual leader of the Bajorans in the US science fiction series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine , which made her better known among television audiences.

She also had guest appearances on the US television series and sitcoms Remington Steele (1985), LA Law - Star Lawyers, Tricks, Trials (1992), Friends (1994), New York Cops - NYPD Blue (1995), JAG - On behalf of Honor (2000), Amy For All Cases (2002–2005, as lawyer Molly Babitz), Emergency Room - Die Notaufnahme (2004) and Without a Trace - disappeared without a trace (2008).

She received a CableACE Award nomination in the category “Best Supporting Actress in a made-for-cable movie” for the television film Nightlife (1989). In it she played, alongside Maryam d'Abo , Rosa Mercedes, the maid of a female vampire .

Camille Saviola was spoken by various actresses in the German dubbed versions. Her voice actors included u. a. Dagmar Biener ( The Heights , Amy For All Cases ), Agi Prandhoff ( Star Trek: Deep Space Nine ) and Eva Maria Bayerwaltes and Inge Solbrig ( Amy For All Cases ).

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Commons : Camille Saviola  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Camille Saviola Biography (1950-) biography and list of roles. Filmreference.com. Retrieved February 22, 2015
  2. ↑ a b c d Camille Saviola, of Nine and Ragtime, Is Chicago's New Mama Morton June 10 in: Playbill, April 29, 2003. Retrieved February 22, 2015
  3. ↑ Madame Hortense steals `` Zorba's' thunder performance review in: The Los Angeles Times, May 5, 2006
  4. ↑ Nightlife cast, plot and background information. Racksandrazors.com. Retrieved February 22, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Saviola, Camille
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-american actress
DATE OF BIRTH July 16, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City , New York , United States