Sandra Ceccarelli

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Sandra Ceccarelli (born July 3, 1967 in Milan ) is an Italian actress .

Life

Sandra Ceccarelli was born in Milan in 1967 as the daughter of Franco Ceccarelli , guitarist of the famous Italian band Equipe 84 , and Sandra von Glasersfeld, daughter of Ernst von Glasersfeld . As a child she grew up in various Italian cities and made her debut as a film actress in 1985 as the daughter of Stefania Sandrelli in Giuseppe Bertolucci's drama Segreti segreti . After the first experience in front of the camera, Ceccarelli turned his back on acting. She attended art school and later worked as a graphic designer in advertising and in the fashion industry. In the mid-1990s, however, Ceccarelli returned to acting and attended Carlos Alsina's Method Acting course from 1995 to 1997 . In 1997 she studied under Giorgio Albertazzi and made her theater debut a year later with Tommaso Tracks, staging Jean Genet's Il funambolo (1998). In the same year she was seen again in a feature film production with the role of the rich Martina, who is hardly used to daily work, in Piergiorgio Gay's low-budget film Tre Storie . The drama, which was published internationally under the English-language title Three Stories , takes place in a drug clinic in the provinces and was echoed by Italian film critics.

After Tre Storie , for which Ceccarelli received an Honorable Mention at the Annecy Italian Film Festival , Piergiorgio Gay used her again in his feature film Guarda il cielo: Stella, Sonia, Silvia . Further film roles in Lucio Pellegrini's Tandem (2000) and Ermanno Olmi's successful historical epic The Medici Warrior (2001) and engagements for Italian television followed, before she worked with Giuseppe Piccioni on Light of My Eyes (2001). In the quiet, melancholy love story she can be seen as a single mother, Maria, whose Roman frozen food store has swallowed up all the savings and loans and is still condemned to insignificance by a large supermarket. Ceccarelli celebrated her breakthrough as a film actress with the part as a suspicious stoic who refused to live. At the premiere of Light of My Eyes at the Venice Film Festival in 2001, she received the Coppa Volpi together with film partner Luigi Lo Cascio as best actress and prevailed against such established actors as Nicole Kidman ( The Others ) and Samantha Morton ( Eden ) . The Italian daily La Stampa praised Ceccarelli for gradually growing into the role of nervous, intolerant and sensitive Maria, as did the German critics, who only saw the film in local cinemas three years later.

Ceccarelli was able to build on the success of Light of My Eyes with her next film, Cristina Comencini's Italian family story The Most Beautiful Day in My Life (2002), in which she can be seen again alongside Lo Cascio, as the middle daughter of Virna Lisi . The role of Rita, who, in contrast to the other family members, apparently leads a happy life as a wife and mother, earned her, together with Lisi and Margherita Buy, the Nastro d'Argento des Sindacato Nazionale Giornalisti Cinematografici Italiani . After La forza del passato (2002) alongside Bruno Ganz , in which she acted for the third time under the direction of Piergiorgio Gay, she collaborated again with Giuseppe Piccioni and Luigi Lo Cascio on The Life I Always Wanted (2004). In the film-within-a-film drama , Ceccarelli can be seen as a newly discovered actress plagued by self-doubt, who is unable to distinguish between role and life while filming a costume film, and who first attracts the love and then the jealousy of her well-known film partner pulls. Once again, the actress was able to convince the Italian film critics of her talent as a character actress, which earned her a nomination for the renowned David di Donatello and the European Film Prize, while the Süddeutsche Zeitung in its film review interpreted Piccioni's film as a “dissolute declaration of love” to his favorite actress. The director let Ceccarelli "be caressed by the camera and shine in all its facets - as an elegant, noble appearance, as an enigmatic female figure with girlish charm and dark, glowing eyes" .

After Das Leben, which I always wanted , the actress, who appeared without exception in dramas, was the only time so far in a film comedy, in Massimo Venier's Tu la conosci Claudia? (2004) alongside Ottavia Piccolo and Rossy de Palma , with which she was not granted any success. In 2006 Ceccarelli first appeared in international film and television productions. The Serena Lederer in Raúl Ruiz 's artist biography Klimt , alongside John Malkovich and Veronica Ferres , was followed by the part as Empress Elisabeth of Austria-Hungary in Robert Dornhelm's German television production Kronprinz Rudolfs last Liebe , for which Ceccarelli was criticized as “a veritable counter-program to Romy Schneider “ Celebrated. The role of Sisi follow by 2007 four more film productions, including 2006 Veljko Bulajićs in Florence of the Renaissance located somewhere period drama Libertas over the dubrovnischen writer Marin Držić (1508-1567).

Filmography (selection)

  • 1985: Segreti segreti
  • 1998: Three Stories (Tre storie)
  • 2000: Guarda il cielo: Stella, Sonia, Silvia
  • 2000: tandem
  • 2001: The Medici Warrior (Il mestiere delle armi)
  • 2001: Light of my eyes (Luce dei miei occhi)
  • 2002: The most beautiful day of my life (Il più bel giorno della mia vita)
  • 2002: La forza del passato
  • 2004: The life I always wanted (La vita che vorrei)
  • 2004: Tu la conosci Claudia?
  • 2006: Klimt
  • 2006: Crown Prince Rudolf's Last Love (TV movie)
  • 2006: Libertas
  • 2007: piano, solo
  • 2007: Peopling the Palaces at Venaria Reale
  • 2007: Family Game
  • 2008: I demoni di San Pietroburgo
  • 2008: Il resto della notte
  • 2009: Il richiamo
  • 2010: La llamada
  • 2011: La scatola nera (short film)
  • 2013: L'intrepido

Awards

David di Donatello

  • 2002: nominated for Best Actress for Light My Eyes
  • 2005: Nominated for Best Actress for The Life I Always Wanted

European film award

  • 2005 : Nominated for Best Actress for The Life I Always Wanted

Further

Sindacato Nazionale Giornalisti Cinematografici Italiani

  • 2002: Nastro d'Argento as Best Supporting Actress for The Most Beautiful Day of My Life

Venice International Film Festival

  • 2001: Coppa Volpi and Pasinetti Prize for Best Actress for the Light of My Eyes

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. Official website of Equipe 84 ( Memento of the original from October 7, 2007 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. (Italian) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.eq84.it
  2. ↑ cf. Biography at iann.it ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2007 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. (Italian) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.iann.it
  3. ↑ cf. Biography at repubblica.it (Italian)
  4. ↑ cf. Jähnigen, Brigitte: The man as a minstrel . In: Stuttgarter Nachrichten, December 23, 2004, Kulturmagazin, p. 15
  5. ↑ cf. Ceccarelli, si ferma al cinema il lungo viaggio della nomade . In: La Stampa, September 5, 2001, Spettacoli, p. 29
  6. ↑ cf. Klingenmaier, Thomas: Maria with the ice on her heart . In: Stuttgarter Zeitung, December 23, 2004, Culture, p. 30
  7. ↑ cf. Ortmann, Stefan: No Pretty Women . In: the daily newspaper, December 23, 2004, culture, p. 3
  8. ↑ cf. Sandra forever . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung, November 2, 2006, film page, p. 18
  9. ↑ cf. Crown Prince rock star . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung, December 28, 2006, Medien, p. 19
  10. ↑ cf. Koehler, Robert: Libertas . In: Variety , January 15, 2007 to January 21, 2007, Film Reviews, p. 38
personal data
SURNAME Ceccarelli, Sandra
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian actress
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd July 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Milan