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 Anna MagnaniBirthday: 7 March 1908 Below is a complete filmography (list of movies she's appeared in) for Anna Magnani. If you have any corrections or additions, please email us at corrections@spybee.com. We'd also be interested in any trivia or other information you have.
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Biography
Anna was born in Rome, not in Egypt, as some biographies claim, on
March 7, 1908. She was the illegitimate child of Marina Magnani and
an unknown father, often said to be from Alexandria, Egypt, but
whom Anna herself claimed was from the Calabria regi on of Italy
(although she never knew his name). Raised in poverty by her
maternal grandmother in Rome after her mother left her, she worked
her way through Rome's Academy of Dramatic Art by singing in
cabarets and nightclubs; then began touring the countryside with
small repertory companies. Although she had a small role in a
silent film in the late 1920's, she was not known as a film actress
until 1941's Teresa Venerdi, directed by Vittorio DiSica. Her
breakthrough film was Roberto Rossellini's Open City in 1945,
generally regarded as the first commercially successful Italian
"neorealist" film of the postwar years. It was the film that gained
her an international reputation. From then on, she never stopped
working in films and in television, winning an A cademy Award for
her performance in the screen version of Tennessee Williams' The
Rose Tattoo (she and Williams were close friends), and working all
of Italy's leading directors of the 1950's, '60's, and '70's. She
was famous for her earthy, passionate, woman-of-the-soil" roles.
She and Rossellini were lovers for some years after Open City,
until he began his infamous affair with Ingrid Bergman. Anna had
one child out of wedlock by Italian actor Massimo Serato, the boy
later stricken with polio and Anna dedicating her life to caring
for him. Her one marriage, to Italian director Goffredo
Alessandrini in the mid 1930's, lasted only a short while and ended
in an annulment. Her last film was Fellini's Roma, in 1972. She
died in Rome of a pancreatic tumor t he next year.
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