Mariangela Melato
Born: 1941-09-18 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy
Died: 2013-01-11
Known For: Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Mariangela Melato (19 September 1941 – 11 January 2013) was an Italian cinema and theatre actress. Born in Milan, the daughter of a traffic policeman and a seamstress, Melato from a young age studied painting at the Academy of Brera, drawing posters and working as a window dresser at La Rinascente to pay for her acting lessons with Esperia Sperani. A striking, blonde actress, she began her stage career in 1960, entering the stage company of Fantasio Piccoli and debuting as an actress in the play Binario cieco.From 1963 to 1965 she worked with Dario Fo in Settimo: ruba un po' meno and La colpa è sempre del diavolo, then in 1967 she worked with Luchino Visconti in The Nun of Monza. In 1968, her final theater breakthrough with Orlando furioso by Luca Ronconi.She made her film debut in 1969 with Pupi Avati's Thomas e gli indemoniati.
Filmography
2021
- We Are Cinema as Self (archive footage)
2010
- Filumena Marturano as Filumena Marturano
2007
- Le ragazze di Milano as Self
2005
- Come Away with Me as Maria Grande
- Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker as Self
2004
- Love Returns as Federica Strozzi
2001
- Probably Love as Herself
2000
- La vita cambia as Viola
1999
- Dirty Linen as Cinzia
- Un uomo perbene as Anna Tortora
1997
- L'avvocato delle donne as Irene Salvi
1994
- Due volte vent'anni as Marianne
1993
- La fine è nota as Elena Malva
1989
- Mortacci as Jolanda
1987
- Dancers as Contessa
1986
1985
- My Dearest Son as Stefania
- Secrets Secrets as Giuliana, il giudice
1983
- Petomaniac as Catherine
1982
- My Darling, My Dearest as Armida
- Tomorrow We Dance as Mariangela
- The Good Soldier as Marta
1981
- So Fine as Lira
- Help Me Dream as Francesca
1980
- Flash Gordon as Kala
- In the Pope's Eye as unselected actress
- Il resto del Pap'occhio as Attrice non selezionata
- Lost and Found as Marta
1979
- To Forget Venice as Anna
- The Days Are Numbered as Angela
1978
- Saxofone as Fiorenza
1977
- Beach House as Giulia
- The Cat as Ofelia Pecoraro
- La Presidentessa as Yvette Jolifleur
1976
- Dear Michele as Mara Castorelli
- One Way or Another as Giacinta
- Moses the Lawgiver as Prinzessin Bithia
1975
- Les Rendez-vous du dimanche as Self
- Di che segno sei? as Marietta detta "Claquette"
- Eye of the Cat as Giulia
- The Tree of Guernica as Vandale
- C.I.A. Secret Story as Haydée Tamara Bunke Bider
- The Frenzy of Orlando as Olimpia
1974
- Policewoman as Giovanna Abbastanzi
- The Nada Gang as Veronique Cash
- Swept Away as Raffaella Pavone Lanzetti
- Il generale dorme in piedi as Lola Pigna
- Moses the Lawgiver as Prinzessin Bithia
- By the Blood of Others as Mayor's daughter
1973
- Love and Anarchy as Salomè
1972
- We'll Call Him Andrea as Maria Antonazzi
- Orestea
- The Seduction of Mimi as Fiorella Meneghini
- Execution Squad as Sandra
- The Sicilian Checkmate as Rosaria Licata
1971
- Come Together as Nurse
- Between Miracles as Maestra
- The Working Class Goes to Heaven as Lidia
- Romance as Carlotta
1970
- Let's Have a Riot as Moglie di Riccardo
- Invasion as Valentina
- Basta guardarla as Marisa
- The Married Priest as Prostitute
- Thomas as Zoe