Monica Vitti, the Italian screen icon known for a string of 1960s classics, has died aged 90, according to reports in Italy. The news was conveyed by writer, director and politician Walter Veltroni…
Vitti was born Maria Luisa Ceciarelli in Rome in 1931. She acted in amateur productions as a teenager then trained at Rome’s National Academy of Dramatic Arts.
The actress shot to global fame following spectacular collaborations with legendary director Michelangelo Antonioni in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Vitti starred inas a detached and cool protagonist drifting into a relationship with the lover of her missing girlfriend. She went on to star inwith Alain Delon. Each film is considered a classic in its own right.
After working with Antonioni, Vitti changed focus and began making comedies, working with director Mario Monicelli on a number of films.The Pizza Triangle, The Phantom Of LibertyVitti’s first English-language film was 1966 pic Her last features were 1990 movieMa Tu Mi Vuoi Bene?Vitti won five David Di Donatello Awards for Best Actress, seven Italian Golden Globes, the Venice Film Festival Career Golden Lion Award and was BAFTA nominated.
Over her career, the heralded actress starred opposite actors including Mastroianni, Delon, Richard Harris, Terence Stamp, Michael Caine, Tony Curtis and Dirk Bogarde. In 2000, Vitti married Italian pianist and composer Roberto Russo, with whom she had been in a relationship since 1973.
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