Maddalena Crippa (born 4 September 1957) is an Italian film, television and stage actress. She won a

David di Donatello for Best Supporting Actress The David di Donatello Award for Best Supporting Actress ( it, David di Donatello per la migliore attrice non protagonista) is a film award presented annually by the Accademia del Cinema Italiano (ACI, ''Academy of Italian Cinema'') to recognize the ...

for her role in

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nominee '' Three Brothers'' by

Francesco Rosi Francesco Rosi (; 15 November 1922 – 10 January 2015) was an Italian film director. His film ''The Mattei Affair'' won the Palme d'Or at the 1972 Cannes Film Festival. Rosi's films, especially those of the 1960s and 1970s, often appeared to ha ...

Life and career

Born in

Besana in Brianza Besana in Brianza ( lmo, Besana Brianza, lmo, label=Brianzöö dialect, Besàna Briànsa) is a town and commune in the province of Monza and Brianza, Lombardy, northern Italy. It received the honorary title of city with a presidential decree of 16 ...

, Crippa started to act at young age in an amateur dramatics with her father and brothers. At 17 years old, at exams to attend the drama school of the Piccolo Teatro in Milan, the director

Giorgio Strehler Giorgio Strehler (; ; 14 August 1921 – 25 December 1997) was an actor, Italian opera and theatre director. Biography Strehler was born in Barcola, Trieste; His father, Bruno Strehler, was a native of Trieste with family roots in Vienna and died ...

was impressed by her acting skills and gave her a role in his adaptation of

Carlo Goldoni Carlo is a given name. It is an Italian form of Charles. It can refer to: *Carlo (name) *Monte Carlo *Carlingford, New South Wales, a suburb in north-west Sydney, New South Wales, Australia *A satirical song written by Dafydd Iwan about Prince Char ...

's ''Il campiello'' (1975). From then, Crippa started a busy career in theater, working among others with

Giancarlo Cobelli Giancarlo Cobelli (12 December 1929 – 16 March 2012) was an Italian actor and stage director. He was considered one of the most important directors of Italian theatre. Early life Born in Milan, Cobelli studied acting at Giorgio Strehler's P ...

Luca Ronconi Luca Ronconi (8 March 1933 – 21 February 2015) was an Italian actor, theater director, and opera director. Biography Ronconi was born in Sousse, Tunisia. After growing up in Tunisia, where his mother was a school teacher, Ronconi graduated ...

and her husband Peter Stein. She is also active in TV-series and in films.

Miniseries

* 1976: '' La casa nova'' of

, director

Luigi Squarzina Luigi Squarzina (18 February 1922 – 8 October 2010) was an Italian theatre dramatist and director. Born in Livorno, Squarzina studied in Rome, at the Liceo Classico Tasso, where he had Vittorio Gassman as classmate. He got a degree cum laude i ...

* 1976: ''I due gemelli veneziani'' of Carlo Goldoni, director Luigi Squarzina * 1976: '' Così per gioco'', regia di

Leonardo Cortese Leonardo Cortese (24 May 1916 – 31 October 1984) was an Italian film actor and director. He appeared in more than 30 films between 1938 and 1962. He also directed eight films between 1952 and 1967. He was born and died in Rome, Italy. Sel ...

Filmography

* 1976: '' Aut aut. Cronaca di una rapina'' * 1981: '' Tre fratelli'', dir.

* 1982: '' No grazie, il caffè mi rende nervoso'', dir

Lodovico Gasparini Lodovico is an Italian masculine given name, and may refer to: * Cigoli (1559–1613), Italian painter and architect * Lodovico, Count Corti (1823–1888), Italian diplomat * Lodovico Agostini (1534–1590), Italian composer * Lodovico Altieri (180 ...

* 1985: ''

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'', dir.

Valerio Jalongo Valerio Jalongo (born 11 May 1960) is an Italian film director and screenwriter. Life and career Jalongo was born in Rome. Graduated in Philosophy, he attended the Gaumont School of Cinema, founded by producer Renzo Rossellini, and also studie ...

* 1986: ''

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'', dir.

Giorgio Molteni Giorgio may refer to: * Castel Giorgio, ''comune'' in Umbria, Italy * Giorgio (name), an Italian given name and surname * Giorgio Moroder, or Giorgio, Italian record producer ** ''Giorgio'' (album), an album by Giorgio Moroder * "Giorgio" (son ...

* 1987: '' L'attrazione'', dir.

Mario Gariazzo Mario Gariazzo (4 June 1930 – 18 March 2002) was an Italian screenwriter and film director. He wrote for 21 films between 1969 and 1992. He also directed 18 films between 1962 and 1992. He was born in Biella, Italy and died in Rome, Italy at ...

* 1990: '' Non più di uno'', dir. Roberto Pelosso * 1993: ''

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'', dir.

Sergio Sollima Sergio Sollima (17 April 1921 – 1 July 2015) was an Italian film director and Screenwriter, script writer. Biography Sollima graduated from the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in 1935. During World War II he was in the Italian Resistanc ...

* 1998: '' Giochi d'equilibrio'', dir.

Amedeo Fago Amedeo is an Italian given name meaning "lover of God", "loves God", or more correctly "for the love of God" and cognate to the Latin name Amadeus and the Spanish and Portuguese Amadeo. People with this name include: * A number of rulers and noble ...

* 1998: ''

Il commissario Rex ''Inspector Rex'' (German: ''Kommissar Rex''; Italian: ''Il commissario Rex'') is an Austrian-Italian police procedural comedy-drama television series created by Peter Hajek and Peter Moser. Originally an Austrian series aired from 1994 to 2004 on ...

'', episode ''... e tutto ricomincia'' * 1998: ''

Film A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere ...

'', dir.

Laura Belli Laura Belli (born 11 November 1947) is an Italian actress and singer. Born in Naples, Belli studied acting at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia. She made her film debut in 1969, in Eriprando Visconti's ''The Lady of Monza'', but is mainl ...

* 1999: '' Viol@'', dir.

Donatella Maiorca Donatella Maiorca (born September 13, 1957, in Messina) is an Italian film director. Career Donatella Maiorca began working as an actress and assistant director while she was a student of psychology at the Sapienza University of Rome. In 1981 sh ...

* 2000: '' Onorevoli detenuti'', dir. Giancarlo Planta * 2011: ''

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'', dir. Christian Angeli * 2016: '' Io non mi arrendo'', dir.

Enzo Monteleone Enzo Monteleone (born 13 April 1954 in Padova, Italy) is an Italian film director and screenwriter. Career Enzo Monteleone made his professional debut as a screenwriter with the screenplay of ''Hotel Colonial'', an Italian-American co-prod ...

(2016)

References

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* Italian film actresses Italian television actresses Italian stage actresses 1957 births People from the Province of Monza e Brianza Living people {{italy-actor-stub