Stefania Casini
Born: 1948-09-04 in Villa di Chiavenna, Italy
Known For: Acting
Biography
After graduating in Architecture, Stefania began a career in acting and worked with Pietro Germi, Bernardo Bertolucci, Peter Greenaway and Dario Argento. She moved to New York in the late 1970s, where she acted in Andy Warhol's 'Bad'. While in New York she decided to move behind the camera, and became a director. With Francesca Marciano, she wrote and directed the film "Lontano da dove", presented at the Venice Film Festival (1983). In 1997 she wrote and directed another feature film "Un Paradiso di Bugie". Her career as director also includes the making of six feature films for the Italian television network MEDIASET. A passionate traveler, Stefania has made a great number of documentaries and reportages for RAI and MEDIASET. She focuses her attention on contemporary topics concerning women and young people. She has made many hard-hitting series including: "Islam: stories of women"; "Latin America: stories of women"; "To be 20 years old in..." (broadcast in ten European Countries 2004-2005); "So close so far :portraits in the suburbs". "Schiaffo alla mafia"(A blow to the Mafia) Between 2000-2002 , Stefania was the Artistic Director of Siena's Film Festival "Terra di Siena". In 2010 she was Managing Director of DGTV IESTV. Currently, Stefania writes and directs programs, reportages and documentaries for RAI, and for satellite channels: RAI Sat Cinema World, Gambero Rosso Channel, and Sky. She also works as a journalist, contributing to several popular women's magazines.
Filmography
2025
- Story of a Night as Carla
2024
- Funérailles (Non ti voglio) as Madre di Miriam
- Nessuno come Ulisse ... (Director)
- Buio come il cuore
2023
- Good Vibes
- Cactus
- Pooh - Un attimo ancora ... (Writer)
2022
- The Goldsmith as Giovanna
- DARIO ARGENTO - The Exhibit as Self
2019
- Dafne as Maria
- I Am Diabolik as Bianca Rosselli
- Searching for Valentina: The World of Guido Crepax ... (Producer)
2016
- Cinque mondi ... (Producer)
2015
- Nessuno siamo perfetti as Self
- Le Acque Segrete di Palermo ... (Director)
2014
- Bota ... (Co-Writer)
- Maicol Jecson as Maria
2012
- Made in Albania ... (Producer)
2009
2006
- Un po' d'India ... (Director)
2002
- Operazione rosmarino as Portinaia
2001
- Suspiria 25th Anniversary as Self
1998
- Enchantment as Carla Ferrini
1997
- Un Paradiso di Bugie ... (Director)
1996
- Donna as Annamaria
1992
1990
- Roller Wings ... (Director)
- I cavalieri del cross ... (Director)
- Scheggia di Vento ... (Director)
- Vincere per vincere ... (Director)
- Fun Jump ... (Director)
1988
- Cuore in gola ... (Screenplay)
1987
- The Belly of an Architect as Flavia Speckler
1984
1983
- Lontano da dove as Desideria
1982
- Mora as Christina
1981
1980
- Cocktail Molotov as Anna-Maria
1979
- Ammazzare il tempo as Sara, la giornalista
- Dedicated to the Aegean Sea as Gloria
1978
- Bye Bye Monkey as Feminist Actress
- How to Lose a Wife and Find a Lover as Marisa - Eleonora's friend
- The Bloodstained Shadow as Sandra Sellani
1977
- Bad as P.G.
- Suspiria as Sara
- Latin Male Wanted as Anna
1976
- I prosseneti as Odile
- 1900 as Neve
- Geometra Prinetti, selvaggiamente Osvaldo
- Luna di miele in tre as Graziella Luraghi
- Come ti rapisco il pupo as Rita
1975
- The Climber as Luciana
- The Golden Mass as Loulou
- Non si scrive sui muri a Milano as Anna
- The Big Delirium as Sonia
1974
- Emergency Squad as Marta Hayworth
- Blood for Dracula as Rubinia
- The Cousin as Lisa Scuderi
- I mariti
1973
- Nessuno deve sapere as Maria Petrulli
- A Way of Being a Woman as Francesca
- Trevico-Torino (viaggio nel Fiat-Nam)
1972
- For Love One Dies as Tea
1970
- A Pocketful of Chestnuts as Carla Lotito
1951
- Sanremo Music Festival as Self - Host