Marcella Michelangeli (born 28 January 1943) is an Italian former actress and singer.

Biography

Born Marcella Gherardi in

Uscio Uscio ( lij, Aosci) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Genoa in the Italian region Liguria, located about east of Genoa Genoa ( ; it, Genova ; lij, Zêna ). is the capital of the Italian region of Liguria and the ...

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, she won several beauty contests at a young age, including Miss

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. While a student at the School of Fine Arts, she attended the drama school of the Piccolo Teatro Duse in Genoa and acted on stage with

Dario Fo Dario Luigi Angelo Fo (; 24 March 1926 – 13 October 2016) was an Italian playwright, actor, theatre director, stage designer, songwriter, political campaigner for the Italian left wing and the recipient of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Literature. I ...

. In the second half of the 1960s she moved to Rome, where she briefly had a career as a pop singer, recording several singles with the stage name Marcella. Michelangeli made her film debut in 1967, alternating art films and low profile genre works. She was also active on television, where she is probably best known for the role of

Oriana Fallaci Oriana Fallaci (; 29 June 1929 – 15 September 2006) was an Italian journalist and author. A partisan during World War II, she had a long and successful journalistic career. Fallaci became famous worldwide for her coverage of war and revolution ...

in the

Giuseppe Ferrara Giuseppe Ferrara (15 July 1932 – 25 June 2016) was an Italian film director and screenwriter.

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TV-movie ''Panagulis Vive''. After fifteen years of intense activity, she retired from showbusiness in the early 1980s. She has a son with the actor

Lou Castel Lou Castel (born Ulv Quarzell; 28 May 1943) is a Swedish actor who became known through his work in Italian films. Life and career The son of a Swedish father and an Irish mother, Castel was born Ulv Quarzell in Bogotá, Colombia, where his fa ...

Filmography

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Michelangeli, Marcella Italian film actresses Italian television actresses Italian stage actresses 1943 births People from the Province of Genoa Living people