Ottavia Piccolo
Ottavia Piccolo (born October 9, 1949 in Bolzano ) is an Italian theater and film actress . In addition to a five-decade career on stage, she appeared in over 50 film and television roles. For Mauro Bolognini's feature film Metello (1970) she received the Acting Award at the Cannes International Film Festival .
Life
Theater work
Ottavia Piccolo began her theater career as a child. At the age of eleven, the director Luigi Squarzina entrusted her with the role of the deafblind Helen Keller in William Gibson's drama Der Weg ins Licht (1960/61), in which she could be seen alongside Anna Proclemer . Piccolo was then regularly entrusted with roles in the repertoire theater. In 1963 she took on a leading role in Bertolt Brecht's Die Gesichte der Simone Machard . At the age of fifteen she acted under the direction of Giorgio Strehler in the Goldoni comedy Much Noise in Chiozza (1964/65), a year later she starred in Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard . At the age of seventeen she got a role in Bernardo Divizzio's erotic comedy La Calandra (1966/67), while she was to work with Squarzina and Strehler several times in the course of her career.
In 1968/69 Piccolo appeared in Luchino Visconti's version of Egmont . In 1972/73 she successfully took on the role of Cordelia and the court jester in Strehler's production of Shakespeare's King Lear at the Teatro Piccolo in Milan, alongside Tino Carraro . Squarzina staged them five years later in Maß für Maß (1976/77) at the Teatro di Roma. She is still active as a stage actress today and followed roles in Vittorio Alfieris Myrrha (1988, director: Luca Ronconi ), Marivaux ' Surprise of Love (1989 and 1990/91), while she was at the Dei Due Mondi Festival in Spoleto in 1991 was seen in the three monologues La moglie ebrea , La parrucca and La telefonata . In the 1993/94 season she worked at the Teatro Stabile del Friuli Venezia Giulia , where she appeared in Schiller's tragedy Kabale und Liebe and in Franz Grillparzer's Medea . Her performance alongside Paolo Villaggio in Molière's The Miser at the Teatro Piccolo in Milan in 1997/98 was an audience success . Six years later, Piccolo caused a sensation at the Paris Festival Les italiens with the half-hour monologue Terra di latte e miele (Shabbat) with which she countered protested the Middle East conflict . This monologue came from the Tel Aviv- based Corriere della Sera correspondent Manuela Dviri Vitali Norsa, who had lost her son during the Israeli intervention in Lebanon .
Film career
Parallel to her work at the theater, Piccolo made her debut on Italian television in 1962 with Vittorio Cottafavi 's Dostoevsky adaptation Le Notti Bianche . In the cinema she was represented for the first time a year later with a supporting role in Luchino Visconti's The Leopard . In the award-winning drama, she starred as the daughter of an aging Italian prince (played by Burt Lancaster ). Piccolo then appeared regularly in Italian cinemas. Her first leading role was given by Pietro Germi in Serafino, the womanizer (1969). In the socially critical comedy she can be seen as the object of desire of the title hero (played by Adriano Celentano ), who, after a rich inheritance, feels the envy of greedy relatives.
Piccolo only became known to an international audience in 1970 through his renewed collaboration with Mauro Bolognini . The director, who had staged her four years earlier in Madamigella di Maupin (1966), entrusted her with the female lead in his drama Metello . The film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Vasco Pratolini takes place in Florence at the end of the 19th century and focuses on the son of an anarchist (played by Massimo Ranieri ) who tries to live up to his family life and ideals in times of political upheaval. In the same year Metello received an invitation to compete at the 23rd Cannes International Film Festival . The drama was in the favor of the critics, with which Bolognini placed himself on the side of the progressive directors of Italy. Piccolo's performance was also well received by the festival jury headed by the Guatemalan Nobel Prize for Literature, Miguel Ángel Asturias . The part of Ersilia brought the 20-year-old the actor's award of the film festival, where she faced well-known actors like Romy Schneider ( The Things of Life ), Monica Vitti ( Jealousy in Italian ) or the later Oscar- nominated American Sally Kellerman ( MASH ) was given preference.
After the success of Metello , for which she also found recognition in her home country, Piccolo worked again with Mauro Bolognini and Massimo Ranieri on the literary film adaptation of Bubu vom Montparnasse (1971). She then turned to international cinema and was awarded leading roles in French feature films, including Pierre Granier-Deferre's Simenon adaptation The Convict and the Widow (1971) with Simone Signoret and Alain Delon or Jean-Marie Périers Antoine et Sébastien (1974 ), in which she played alongside François Périer and Jacques Dutronc . Again next to Delon she was seen as an outcast noblewoman in Duccio Tessari's Zorro (1975), staged past the virtues of the coat and sword film . After playing the title role of a young prostitute in Claude Sautet's award-winning relationship drama Mado (1976) alongside Michel Piccoli and Romy Schneider, the Italian turned increasingly to the theater and appeared on Italian television from the 1980s. Ten years later, she hit the big screen with the part of Adelina in Ettore Scola's Oscar-nominated film The Family (1987). The highly praised chronicle about a Roman family between 1906 and 1986 earned it the Nastro d'Argento (Silver Ribbon) of the Sindacato Nazionale Giornalisti Cinematografici Italiani . Since then, Piccolo has appeared regularly in Italian and French film and television productions, including leading roles in the successful Italian series Chiara e gli altri (1989) and Donna (1996).
Ottavia Piccolo has been married to the journalist Claudio Rossoni since 1974. The connection resulted in a common child (* 1975). In addition to her career as an actress, she also worked as a voice actress in Italy and voiced the character of Princess Leia in George Lucas ' science fiction saga Star Wars , among others . In September 2008 she received the prestigious Premio Eleonora Duse for her life's work.
literature
In 2019 Ludovic Mabreuil's "La Cinematique des muses" will be published, in which the author portrays twenty film muses on 215 pages, including Geneviève Bujold , Mimsy Farmer , Claude Jade , Elsa Martinelli , Ottavia Piccolo, Marie-France Pisier , Edith Scob , Maria Schneider , Joanna Shimkus and Catherine Spaak . [1]
Filmography (selection)
- 1963: The Leopard ( Il Gattopardo )
- 1966: Madamigella di Maupin
- 1968: Faustina
- 1969: Serafino, the womanizer ( Serafino )
- 1969: Twelve plus one ( 12 + 1 )
- 1970: Metello
- 1971: Bubu from Montparnasse ( Bubù )
- 1971: A fishing trip for 300 million ( Un'anguilla da trecento milioni )
- 1971: Wild CATS ( Un aller simple )
- 1971: The Convict and the Widow ( La Veuve Couderc )
- 1971: Trastevere
- 1972: Uccidere in silenzio
- 1972: La Cosa buffa
- 1973: L'Histoire très bonne et très joyeuse de Colinot Trousse-Chemise
- 1974: Antoine et Sébastien
- 1975: Zorro (Zorro)
- 1976: Mado
- 1982: The Charterhouse of Parma ( La Certosa Di Parma ; TV series)
- 1986: Mino - A Boy Between the Fronts ( Mino ; TV series)
- 1987: Sposi
- 1987: Da grande
- 1987: The family ( La famiglia )
- 1989: Chiara e gli altri (TV series)
- 1990: Nel giardino delle rose
- 1991: Condominio
- 1993: Time of Wrath ( Il Lungo silenzio )
- 1995: All swindle ( Bidoni )
- 1996: Donna (TV series)
- 1996: Marciando nel buio
- 2004: Tu la conosci Claudia?
- 2009: Una sera d'ottobre (TV series)
- 2014: Una buona stagione (TV series)
Awards
Cannes International Film Festival
- 1970: Best Actress for Metello
- 1970: Special price for her representation in Metello
- 1995: Nominated for Best Supporting Actress for Alles Schwindel
Sindacato Nazionale Giornalisti Cinematografici Italiani
- 1971: Nastro d'Argento as Best Actress for Metello
- 1987: Nastro d'Argento for Best Supporting Actress for The Family
Web links
- Portrait at mymovies.it (Italian)
- Ottavia Piccolo in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Ottavia Piccolo in the German synchronous file
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b cf. Piccolo, Ottavia , p. 150. In: Mafai, Miriam: Le donne italiane: Il chi è del '900 . Milano: Rizzoli, 1993
- ↑ a b cf. Portrait at raiuno.rai.it (Italian; accessed April 7, 2009)
- ^ Franz Schäfer: Lear learns to suffer . In: Die Zeit , No. 47/1972
- ↑ cf. Italian Actress Performs Against Middle East Conflict . ANSA English Media Service, October 19, 2003
- ↑ cf. Mauro Bolognini . In: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 33/2001 of August 6, 2001
- ↑ cf. Film review in film-dienst 11/1975
- ↑ cf. Profile at mymovies.it (Italian; accessed April 6, 2009)
- ↑ cf. A Ottavia Piccolo Premio 'Eleonora Duse . ANSA General Notes in Italiano, Espectaculo, September 3, 2008
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Piccolo, Ottavia |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 9, 1949 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bolzano , Italy |