Silvana Mangano

Known for ActingBorn 1930-04-21Died 1989-12-16Rome, Latium, Italy

Silvana Mangano (21 April 1930 – 16 December 1989) was an Italian film actress. She was one of a generation of thespians who arose from the neorealist movement, and went on to become a major female star, regarded as a sex symbol in the 1950s and 1960s. She won the David di Donatello for Best Actress three times - for The Verona Trial (1963), The Witches (1967), and The Scientific Cardplayer (1973) – and the Nastro d'Argento for Best Actress twice. Raised in poverty during World War II, Mangano trained as a dancer and worked as a model before winning a Miss Rome beauty pageant in 1946. This led to work in films; she achieved success in Bitter Rice (1949) and went on to forge a successful career in films, working with many notable directors like Pier Paolo Pasolini, Luchino Visconti, Alberto Lattuada, and Vittorio De Sica. Her career continued well into her 50s, with supporting roles in David Lynch's Dune (1984) and Nikita Mikhalkov Dark Eyes (1987). Mangano was the wife of international film producer Dino De Laurentiis and had four children with him, including Veronica De Laurentiis and Raffaella De Laurentiis. Description above from the Wikipedia article Silvana Mangano, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.Read more

Movies & web series

We Are Cinema

The Last Judgment

Ludwig

For Love One Dies

The Earth As Seen from the Moon

The Great War

A Difficult Life

The Most Beautiful Boy in the World

Ludwig

The Verona Trial

Conversation Piece

The Scopone Game

Luchino Visconti

Bitter Rice

Death in Venice

The Gold of Naples

Anna

Outlaw Girl

Flesh Will Surrender

Theorem

The Decameron

What's My Line?

Dark Eyes

Barabbas

Scipio the African

Oedipus Rex

Men and Wolves

Ulysses

...And Suddenly It's Murder!

Tempest

Dune

The Last Judgment

Black Magic

Me, Me, Me... and the Others

My Wife

Caprice Italian Style

Pardon, Are You for or Against?

Lure of the Sila

Five Branded Women

The Witches

This Angry Age

This Wine of Love

The Flying Saucer

Mambo

Luchino Visconti: Between Truth and Passion

Proust Palimpsesto: Pastiches e Misturas

Luchino Visconti: Life as in a Novel