Marina Ripa di Meana
Marina Ripa di Meana (born Punturieri , divorced Lante Della Rovere ; born October 21, 1941 in Rome ; † January 5, 2018 there ) was an Italian television personality, fashion designer and society lady as well as a film director.
Life
Ripa di Meana grew up in a bourgeois family in the Italian capital and, when she began working as a fashion designer on the Piazza di Spagna, she was one of the most well-known figures in glamorous Roman life from the 1960s onwards. In 1964 she married the noble Alessandro Lante della Rovere (1936–1995), with whom she had a daughter, who later became the actress Lucrezia . After a highly regarded life in artistic circles and an extramarital affair with the painter Franco Angeli , she divorced; thereafter some love affairs became public until she married Carlo Ripa di Meana in 1982 . The witnesses included Alberto Moravia and Bettino Craxi .
At the end of the 1970s, Ripa di Meana had started small television appearances; Various activities for films and screen followed - as an actress (for example in 1979 for Der Superbulle hunters den Ripper next to Tomás Milián ), as a screenwriter (for the film adaptation of her autobiography I miei primi 40 anni 1987, in which she is played by Carol Alt ) and as Director of the 1992 thriller Cattive ragazze , in which Eva Grimaldi took the lead role.
After her autobiography, Ripa di Meana published eleven other books by 2010.
Filmography
- 1979: The Super Bull Chases the Ripper (Assassinio sul Tevere) (Actress, as Marina Lante Della Rovere )
- 1987: I miei primi 40 anni (screenwriter)
- 1992: Cattive ragazze (director, screenwriter)
- 2009: I Cesaroni (actress)
Bibliography (selection)
- 1984: I miei primi quarant'anni
- 2008: Roma al rogo
Web links
- Website
- Marina Ripa di Meana in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Biographical data for the Corriere della sera
Individual evidence
- ^ Roberto Poppi: I registi dal 1930 ai nostri giorni. Rome, Gremese 2002, p. 360
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ripa di Meana, Marina |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Punturieri, Maria Elide; Lante Della Rovere, Marina |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian television personality, fashion designer and lady of society as well as film director and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 21, 1941 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rome |
| DATE OF DEATH | 5th January 2018 |
| Place of death | Rome |