Virna Lisi died
Virna Lisi, one of the most beloved actresses of Italian cinema and TV, died at the age of 78. Her son Corrado reported that the actress died in her sleep, and that only a month ago she discovered she had an illness. incurable.
In September 2013 she was widowed by her husband Franco Pesci, after 53 years of marriage. Close friends say the actress never recovered from the loss.
Virna Lisi, the stage name of Virna Pieralisi, was born in Ancona on November 8, 1936, and made her debut at the age of 14. After the first experiences in the cinema, especially in dramatic films, he takes part in some comedies, such as The eighteen year olds, by Mario Mattoli, and The bachelor, by Antonio Pietrangeli.
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Beautiful, she was hired for the Chlorodont toothpaste advertising, and there Marcello Marchesi coined the famous phrase: "With that mouth, she can say whatever she wants". "A phrase that they still repeat to me and haunts me", confessed the "actress in a recent interview with Everyday occurrence.
Virna Lisi, her career in photos
He made his television debut with the live drama Pride and Prejudice, taken from Jane Austen, in 1957, immediately starting to alternate cinema and television, as he did in the following years. Among his most important films, there are Eva, by Joseph Losey, and ladies and gentlemen, by Pietro Germi, where she wore a brown wig, a deliberately anti-Hollywood choice of the director, after Lisi's debut in American studios in the mid-1960s.
The adventure in Hollywood did not last long, and when she returned to her homeland Virna Lisi took part in a large number of films. The cicada, by Alberto Lattuada, Taste of sea by Carlo Vanzina, The boys of via Panisperna by Gianni Amelio. But one of the roles she was most proud of is Caterina de "Medici in Queen Margot, by Patrice Chéreau, where she looked ugly and aged, and almost bald for script requirements. A strong and tragic role, like an Elizabethan heroine, which earned her the best actress award at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival.
Photos from the past
On the television side, he participated in many fictional events between the 80s and 90s, such as If you knock on my door someday, And they don't want to go!, What if they then leave?, The beauty of women, Caterina and her daughters, for a full three seasons, while most recently starred in We kiss the hands and was a nun in Mother, help me.
His latest films were Go where your heart takes you And The best day of my life both by Cristina Comencini. Precisely for the director she had returned to a film set for Latin lover, which is expected to be released during 2015.
During her career she won six Silver Ribbons and two David di Donatello, as well as the Best Actress Award in Cannes, and in 1995 she was nominated Commander of the Order of Merit by the President of the Republic.
