Mariangela Melato
Actor
- Born
- September 18, 1941 · Milan, Lombardy, Italy
- Died
- January 11, 2013 (age 71)
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Mariangela Melato (19 September 1941 – 11 January 2013) was an Italian cinema and theatre actress.
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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.
Known for
Flash Gordon
December 5, 1980
The Working Class Goes to Heaven
September 17, 1971
Swept Away
December 18, 1974
One Way or Another
April 30, 1976
The Seduction of Mimi
February 19, 1972
Love and Anarchy
February 23, 1973
Beach House
October 27, 1977
In the Pope's Eye
September 19, 1980
Between Miracles
March 19, 1971
The Cat
December 16, 1977
What's Your Sign?
October 23, 1975
Execution Squad
February 25, 1972
Acting60
- 2021We Are Cinema as Self (archive footage)
- 2010Filumena Marturano as Filumena Marturano
- 2007Le ragazze di Milano as Self
- 2005Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker as Self
- 2005Come Away with Me as Maria Grande
- 2004Love Returns as Federica Strozzi
- 2001Probably Love as Herself
- 2000La vita cambia as Viola
- 1999Un uomo perbene as Anna Tortora
- 1999Dirty Linen