Anna Magnani

Acting

Born 1908-03-07 Died 1973-09-26 Rome, Italy 80 credits Academy Awards 2 Golden Globe Awards 2 BAFTA Awards 2 Nastro d'Argento for Best Supporting Actress 1 David di Donatello for Best Actress 2 Sant Jordi Prize 1 Hollywood Walk of Fame 1

Awards

Won 2 Academy Awards

Academy Awards 2 won · 1 nominated

1958 Best Actress Nominated Wild Is the Wind
1956 Best Actress Won The Rose Tattoo
1956 28th Academy Awards Won

Golden Globe Awards 2 won · 2 nominated

1956 Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama Won The Rose Tattoo
— Golden Globe Awards Won
— Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama Nominated Wild Is the Wind
— Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy Nominated The Secret of Santa Vittoria

BAFTA Awards 2 won

1957 Best Foreign Actress Won The Rose Tattoo
— Best Actress in a Leading Role Won The Rose Tattoo

Nastro d'Argento for Best Supporting Actress 1 won · 1 nominated

1946 Best Supporting Actress Won Rome, Open City
— Best Supporting Actress Nominated Made in Italy

David di Donatello for Best Actress 2 won

1959 Best Actress Won ...And the Wild Wild Women
1958 Best Actress Won Wild Is the Wind

Sant Jordi Prize 1 won

— Sant Jordi Prize Won ...And the Wild Wild Women

Hollywood Walk of Fame 1 won

— Hollywood Walk of Fame Won

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Anna Magnani (pronounced: mahn-YANEE; 7 March 1908 – 26 September 1973) was an Italian stage and film actress. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress, along with four other international awards, for her portrayal of a Sicilian widow in The Rose Tattoo. Born in Rome to an Egyptian father and an Italian mother, she worked her way through Rome's Academy of Dramatic Art by singing at night clubs. During her career, her only child was stricken by polio when he was 18 months old and remained crippled. She was referred to as "La Lupa," the "perennial toast of Rome" and a "living she-wolf symbol" of the cinema. Time magazine described her personality as "fiery", and drama critic Harold Clurman said her acting was "volcanic". In the realm of Italian cinema, she was "passionate, fearless, and exciting," an actress that film historian Barry Monush calls "the volcanic earth mother of all Italian cinema." Director Roberto Rossellini called her "the greatest acting genius since Eleonora Duse. Playwright Tennessee Williams became an admirer of her acting and wrote The Rose Tattoo specifically for her to star in, a role for which she received her first Oscar in 1955. After meeting director Goffredo Alessandrini she received her first screen role in La cieca di Sorrento (The Blind Woman of Sorrento) (1934) and later achieved international fame in Rossellini's Rome, Open City (1945), considered the first significant movie to launch the Italian neorealism movement in cinema. As an actress she became recognized for her dynamic and forceful portrayals of "earthy lower-class women" in such films as The Miracle (1948), Bellissima (1951), The Rose Tattoo (1955), The Fugitive Kind (1960), with Marlon Brando and directed by Sidney Lumet, and Mamma Roma (1962). As early as 1950, Life magazine had already stated that Magnani was "one of the most impressive actresses since Garbo". Description above from the Wikipedia article Anna Magnani, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia