Carla Gravina
Born: 1941-08-05 in Gemona del Friuli, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Italy
Known For: Acting
Biography
Carla Gravina (born 5 August 1941) is an Italian actress and politician. She appeared in 40 films between 1957 and 1993. Born in Gemona, Gravina made her film debut at fifteen years old, in Alberto Lattuada's Guendalina. Very active in films and on television series, both in comedic and dramatic roles, from the late 1970s she gradually focused her activities on stage and in political activism, being a PCI deputy between 1980 and 1983. During her career Gravina won a number of international awards, including the Best Actress Award for her performance in Alessandro Blasetti's Love and Chatter at the 1958 Locarno International Film Festival, the award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Ettore Scola's La terrazza at the 1980 Cannes Film Festival, and the award for Best Actress for Margarethe von Trotta's The Long Silence at the 1993 Montreal World Film Festival.
Filmography
2021
- Alida Valli: In Her Own Words as Self
1998
- Come quando fuori piove as Anita
1993
- The Long Silence as Dr. Carla Aldrovandi
1988
- Days of Inspector Ambrosio as Tullia Bandelli
1986
- La Locandiera as Mirandolina
1984
1980
- The Terrace as Carla
1979
- Nella vita di Sylvia Plath as Sylvia Plath
- Orient Express as Hélène
1978
- Mother and Daughter as Mother
- Madame Bovary as Emma Bovary
1976
- Boomerang as Muriel
1974
- And Now My Love as Sarah's Italian Girlfriend
- The Antichrist as Ippolita Oderisi
- Il gioco della verità as Anna Incoronato
1973
- Tony Arzenta as Sandra
- The Inheritor as Liza Rocquencourt
- Hail the Artist as Elisabeth Montei
1972
- The Pisciotta Case as Gemma
- Alfredo, Alfredo as Carolina
1971
- Without Apparent Motive as Jocelyne Rocca
- Il segno del comando as Lucia
1969
- Sierra Maestra as Carla
- The Invisible Woman as Delfina
- Mother's Heart as Lorenza Garrone
- The Lady of Monza as Caterina da Meda
- Nero Wolfe as Helen Frost
- The Brothers Karamazov as Katerina Ivànovna
1968
- The Seven Cervi Brothers as Verina, moglie di Aldo Cervi
- The Violent Four as Anna
1967
- A Bullet for the General as Rosario
- Caravaggio as Tullia
1961
- A Day for Lionhearts as Mariuccia
- Scano Boa as Clara
1960
- Five Branded Women as Mira
- Everybody Go Home! as Silvia Modena
1959
- Esterina as Esterina
- First Love as Betty
- Policarpo, ufficiale di scrittura as Celeste
1958
- Big Deal on Madonna Street as Nicoletta
- Love and Chatter as Maria Furlani
1957
- Guendalina as Amica di Guendalina (uncredited)