Ornella Muti
Born: 1955-03-09 in Roma, Lazio, Italy
Known For: Acting
Biography
Ornella Muti (born March 9, 1955) is an Italian actress. She was born in Rome as Francesca Romana Rivelli, to a Neapolitan father and Estonian mother. She has an older sister, Claudia (1951). Muti modeled as a teenager and made her film debut in 1970 in La moglie più bella (aka The Most Beautiful Wife). She has primarily worked in Italian films but she made her British film debut as Princess Aura in Flash Gordon in 1980. American movies she appeared in include Oscar (1991) and Once Upon a Crime (1992). She is mostly known to the French for appearing in a TV commercial of Giovanni Panzani pasta. Muti has been married twice, to Alessio Orano (her fellow actor in the film "The Most Beautiful Wife", 1975–1981), and Federico Facchinetti (1988–1996). Muti has three children: Naike Rivelli (b. 1974), who is also a model and actress having a close resemblance to her mother, and whose father is Spanish film producer José Luis Bermúdez de Castro Acaso; a son, Andrea, and a second daughter, Carolina, both from her marriage to Facchinetti. Since 1998, Muti has been living with Stefano Piccolo, a plastic surgeon. Muti was voted "The Most Beautiful Woman in the World" in 1994 by a worldwide poll of readers of the magazine Class. In 2008, Ornella Muti introduced her own line of jewellery. She opened new shops in Paris, Milan, Rome, Riga, Moscow and Almaty. She insured her breasts for $350,000. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ornella Muti, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
2026
2023
- The Undecided Groom as Barbara
2022
- Il était une fois Champs-Élysées as Self (archive footage)
- La voglia matta di vivere as Self
- Sanremo 72. Il Festival da dove non l’avete mai visto as Self
- The Christmas Show as Grandma Rita
2020
- Quiz ohne Grenzen as Self
2018
- Magical Nights as Federica, the diva
- Mare di grano
- Wine to Love as Anna
2017
- Sirens as Ingrid
- Marco Ferreri: Dangerous But Necessary as Self
2015
- Wer weiß denn sowas? as Self
2012
- To Rome with Love as Pia Fusari
2011
- Celebrity Nude Revue: Easy 80's Volume 1 as Self (archive footage)
2010
- Deutschland gegen… – Das Duell as Self
- Celebrity Nude Revue: The Saucy 70's Volume 2 as (archive footage)
- Vittorio racconta Gassman: Una vita da mattatore as Self
- Francesco Nuti… e vengo da lontano as Self
2009
- Doc West II : Triggerman as Debra 'Tricky' Downing
2008
- Il sangue e la rosa as Baronessa Barbara Forleis
- Io non ci casco as Professoressa Lamberti
- Postcards from Rome as Ornella
- Il sangue e la rosa as Barbara Forleis
2007
- The Final Inquiry as Maria Maddalena
- L'inchiesta - Anno Domini XXXIII as Maria Maddalena
- Civico zero as Nina
- Peopling The Palaces as Marchesa
2006
- Semperopernball as Self
- French Fried Vacations 3: Friends Forever as Graziella Lespinasse
- Yo-Rhad - Un amico dallo spazio as Marianna (voice)
2005
- A Life in Suitcases: A History of Tulse Luper as Mathilde Figura
- The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 3: From Sark to the Finish as Mathilde Figura
- La bambina dalle mani sporche as Wanda Rossi
2004
- Kulturplatz as Self
- The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things as Grandmother
- The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 2: Vaux to the Sea as Mathilde Figura
- Say I Do as Francesca, la dircetora
- People : Jet Set 2 as Aphrodita
2003
- The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story as Mathilde Figura
- After Life as Cécile Rivet
- On the Run as Cécile Costes
- The Lion as Sybil Bullit
2002
- Lo zio d'America as Maria Monticelli
- An Amazing Couple as Cécile Costes
2001
- Hotel as Flamenco Spokesperson
- Favorite Son as Claudia Maccari
- Tomorrow as Stefania Zerenghi
- Last Run as Danny
- A Long Long Long Night of Love as Egle
2000
- The Unscarred as Rafaella
- Tierra del fuego as Armenia
- Jet Set as Camilla Balbeck
- Un Colpo al Cuore as Giulia Pascoli
1999
- Esther as Königin Waschti
- Dirty Linen as Bruna
1998
- Ciao Darwin as Presidente di giuria
- The Count of Monte Cristo as Mercédès Herrera
- Millionär gesucht! - Die SKL Show as Self
- Widows as Maria Sommer
- Somewhere in the City as Marta
- L'Inconnu de Strasbourg as Madeleine Wals
1997
- L'avvocato Porta as Chiara
- Just for Laughs as Maître Alice Obini
- Mordbüro as Madame Behar
1996
- Stella's Favor as Stella
1995
- Die Harald Schmidt Show as Self
- Love Deal as Tatiana
- Il Grande Fausto as Giulia Occhini
1993
- Zone interdite as Self
- The Bilingual Lover as Norma
1992
- Once Upon a Crime as Elena Morosco
- Non chiamarmi Omar as Viola
1991
- Oscar as Sofia Provolone
- Christmas Vacation '91 as Giuliana
- Especially on Sunday as Anna
- Il Conte Max as Isabella Matignon
1990
- The Voyage of Captain Fracassa as Serafina
- Tonight at Alice's as Alice
- A Season of Giants as Onoria
1989
- Wait Until Spring, Bandini as Maria
- 'o Re as Maria Sophie of Bavaria
1988
- The Sparrow's Fluttering as Silvana
- Codice privato as Anna
1987
- Sacrée Soirée as Self
- Chronicle of a Death Foretold as Angela Vicario
- live - die ZDF-talkshow as Self
- Casanova as Henriette
- My Sister and I as Silvia
1986
- Department Store as Se stessa / Luisa, commessa del reparto abbigliamento per bambini
- Stregati as Anna
1985
- Blame it on Paradise as Celeste
1984
- Swann in Love as Odette de Crécy
- The Future Is Woman as Malvina
1983
- Rich and Poor as Marta
- Bonnie and Clyde Italian Style as Rosetta Foschini
1982
- Champs-Elysées as Self
- Famous T & A as Lisa (archive footage)
- The Girl from Trieste as Nicole
1981
- Wetten, dass..? as Self
- Tales of Ordinary Madness as Cass
- Madly in Love as Principessa Cristina
- Love & Money as Catherine Stockheinz
- Nobody's Perfect as Chantal
1980
- Flash Gordon as Princess Aura
- The Taming of the Scoundrel as Lisa Silvestri
1979
- Life Is Beautiful as Maria
- Atrocious Tales of Love and Death as Lucia Navarro
1978
- Nest of Vipers as Elena Mazzarini
- First Love as Renata
- Break Up as Ussena / Sena
1977
- Death of a Corrupt Man as Valérie Agostinelli
- The New Monsters as l'autostoppista/la hostess
- The Bishop's Bedroom as Matilde
- Without Words
1976
- The Last Woman as Valérie
- Pure as a Lily as Lucia Mantuso
1975
- Les Rendez-vous du dimanche as Self
- Numéro un as Self
- Leonor as Catherine
- La joven casada as Camino
1974
- Spécial cinéma as Self
- Appassionata as Eugenia Rutelli
- Come Home and Meet My Wife as Vincenzina Rotunno Blasetti
- Una chica y un señor as Caridad
- Forbidden Passion as Maribel
1973
- The Nun and the Devil as Isabella
- The Sensual Man as Giovanna
- All Sons of the Saintest Mother as Santazza
1972
- Fiorina the Cow as Teresa - daughter of Betta
- The House of Doves as Sandra
- Experiencia prematrimonial as Sandra
1971
- Oasis of Fear as Ingrid Sjoman
- Summer Affair as Lisa
1970
- Rischiatutto
- The Most Beautiful Wife as Francesca Cimarosa
1962
1951
- Sanremo Music Festival as Self - Co-host
1948
- Bambi as Self