Mariangela Melato
Mariangela Melato (born September 19, 1941 in Milan , † January 11, 2013 in Rome ) was an Italian actress . It has won five of the most important Italian film awards, the David di Donatello and the Nastro d'Argento .
Life
Mariangela Melato studied painting at the Accademia di Brera in Milan and worked as a poster and costume designer. From 1957 she worked in different functions on different stages. 1956 to 1957 she trained as an actress. She made her debut as a stage actress in 1964 in the play La monaca di Monza, directed by Luchino Visconti . She then worked with Dario Fo at the Teatro Stabile in Trieste . Later she was often seen in performances by Luca Ronconi .
Her film career only began in 1969 with minor roles. She became known in the early 1970s as the erotic and hot-blooded leading actress in Lina Wertmüller's tragic comedies . She was partner of Giancarlo Giannini several times . In the second half of the 1970s she worked under various established directors such as Claude Chabrol , Elio Petri and Luigi Comencini . After appearing in the English-language productions Flash Gordon (1980) as General Kala and Der Ausflippte Professor (1981) as the "funny siren " she turned back to the theater, including as Medea in Franz Grillparzer's Das goldene Vlies .
In 1992 she took part in Cristina Comencini's Giallo Network of the Past . In 1996 she embodied a committed lawyer specializing in the defense of women in the six-part miniseries For Love and Justice for television . In 2005 she played the female head of an Italian immigrant family in Utica , New York, in Carlo Ventura's comedy Vieni via con me . In 2008 she was in an Italian TV adaptation of Alfred Hitchcock's 1940 novel Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier in the role of the housekeeper “Mrs. Danvers ”.
Mariangela Melato 1983 was a jury member at the International Film Festival in Cannes and in 1989 at the International Film Festival of Venice .
Filmography (selection)
- 1971: Priest - You shall not live without love (Il prete sposato)
- 1971: The way of the working class to paradise (La classe operaia va in paradiso)
- 1971: The Syndicate (La polizia ringrazia)
- 1972: Violence - the fifth power in the state (La violenza: quinto potere)
- 1972: Mimi - offended in his honor (Mimì metallurgico ferito nell'onore)
- 1972: The Syndicate (La polizia ringrazia)
- 1972: Love and anarchy (Film d'amore e d'anarchia, ovvero 'stamattina all 10 in via dei Fiori nella nota casa di tolleranza ...)
- 1974: Claude Chabrol: Nada
- 1974: La poliziotta
- 1974: The Ruthless One (Par le sang des autres)
- 1974: Carried away by an unusual fate in the azure blue sea in August (Travolti da un insolito destino nell'azzurro mare d'agosto)
- 1975: Moses - Legislators (Moses the Lawgiver)
- 1976: Todo modo
- 1976: Caro Michele
- 1977: Beach Whispers (Casotto)
- 1977: The cat does not let the mouse moult (Il gatto)
- 1979: Forget Venice (Dimenticare Venezia)
- 1980: Tele Vaticano - The Eye of the Pope (Il pap'occhio)
- 1980: Flash Gordon (Flash Gordon)
- 1981: The Freaky Professor (So Fine)
- 1986: Rich and merciless (Notte d'estate con profilo greco, occhi a mandorla e odore di basilico)
- 1987: Crash into Hell (Figlio mio infinitamente caro)
- 1987: Giselle - Dancers (Dancers)
- 1989: Long Live the Dead (Mortacci)
- 1991: Marianna, teacher with passion (Una vita in gioco)
- 1993: The Network of the Past (La fine è nota)
- 1995: Love Twist (Due volte vent anni)
- 1996: For love and justice ( L'avvocato delle donne ; TV series)
- 1999: Un uomo perbene
- 2005: Vieni via con me
- 2008: Rebecca, la prima moglie (TV)
Awards
- 1972: David (special award)
- 1972: Nastro d'Argento for her role in Working Class Path to Paradise
- 1973: Nastro d'Argento for her role in Mimi - offended in his honor
- 1975: David for her role in La poliziotta
- 1977: Nastro d'Argento for her role in Caro Michele
- 1977: David for her role in Caro Michele
- 1978: David for her role in Il gatto
- 1979: Nastro d'Argento for her role in Forget Venice
- 1981: David for her role in Aiutami a sognare
- 1981: Nastro d'Argento for her role in Aiutami a sognare
- 1986: Golden Medal of the City of Rome
- 2000: Golden Plate 2000
Web links
- Official website
- Mariangela Melato in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Morta l'attrice Mariangela Melato ( La Stampa , January 11, 2013, Italian, accessed January 11, 2013)
- ↑ New York Times: Review So Fine (1981)
- ↑ Cristina Comencini's website: La fine è nota
- ↑ kabeleins.de: For love and justice
- ↑ Vieni website via con me ( Memento of the original from December 16, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Melato, Mariangela |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 19, 1941 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Milan , Italy |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 11, 2013 |
| Place of death | Rome , Italy |