Minnie Minoprio (born 4 July 1942) is an English actress, singer and showgirl, mainly active in Italy.

Life and career

Born Virginia Anne Minoprio in

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, Minoprio after graduating from the

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, where she studied acting and singing, debuted at 15 in a stage version of "

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". Two years later moved in Italy where she starred in the

revue A revue is a type of multi-act popular theatrical entertainment that combines music, dance, and sketches. The revue has its roots in 19th century popular entertainment and melodrama but grew into a substantial cultural presence of its own duri ...

''Io e Margherita'', alongside

Walter Chiari Walter Annicchiarico (8 March 1924 – 20 December 1991), known as Walter Chiari , was an Italian stage and screen actor, mostly in comedy roles. Biography Walter Annicchiarico was born in Verona, Italy on 8 March 1924 to a family originally ...

. At the same time she began a career as a jazz singer, recording a music album of

dixieland Dixieland jazz, also referred to as traditional jazz, hot jazz, or simply Dixieland, is a style of jazz based on the music that developed in New Orleans at the start of the 20th century. The 1917 recordings by the Original Dixieland Jass Band ( ...

and collaborating with other musicians; just with a duet with another singer,

Fred Bongusto Alfredo Antonio Carlo Buongusto (6 April 1935 – 8 November 2019), known by his stage name Fred Bongusto, was an Italian light music singer, songwriter and composer who was very popular in the 1960s and 1970s. Career history Bongusto was born ...

, she obtained in 1971 her major discographic success, the song "Quando mi dici così", which ranked 20 in the Italian hit parade. Her variegated career also includes radio, television, cinema and two novels, ''Il passaggio'' (1992) and ''Benvenuti a bordo'' (2007).

Discography

* 1969 - ''New! Dixieland Sound'' (Contape) * 1973 - ''Forse Sarà La Musica Del Mare'' (Fonit Cetra, LPX-30) * 1974 - ''Ti voglio dare... poco per volta'' (Spark, SRLP261) * 1983 - ''Minnie'' (Hollywood, HO 82702) * 1987 - ''Anni '40... le canzoni più belle'' (CGD, 20569) * 1993 - ''Good Friends'' (Rossodisera Records) * 2003 - ''Jazz'' (Hollywood) * 2005 - ''My twilight songs'' (Hollywood) * 2007 - ''S(w)inging the blues - Minnie Minoprio quartet & guests'' (Hollywood) * 2007 - ''Jason Marsalis & Minnie Minoprio'' (Hollywood) * 2009 - ''Why stop now! (Great songs from the 20th century)'' (NAR International, distr. Edel)

Partial filmography

* '' Zingara'' (1969) - Silvia Donati * '' Mio padre Monsignore'' (1971) - Lover of Don Alvaro * ''

Roma Bene ''Roma Bene'' is a 1971 Italian comedy-drama film starring Virna Lisi, Nino Manfredi, Irene Papas and Senta Berger. Plot The classic scene of the upper middle-class in Rome: a duchess, the industrial husband and the many apparently respectable ...

'' (1971) - Minnie * ''

The Funny Face of the Godfather ''L'altra faccia del padrino'' (internationally released as ''The Funny Face of the Godfather'') is a 1973 Italian parody film directed by Franco Prosperi. It is a spoof of Francis Ford Coppola's 1972 film ''The Godfather''. Plot The film partial ...

'' (1973) - Bonnie * '' Una storia ambigua'' (1986) - Contessa Anna Guerrieri * '' Forever Blues'' (2005) - Singer

References

External links

Official site
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Minoprio, Minnie Living people English stage actresses English women singers 1942 births Italian television personalities People from Ware, Hertfordshire English film actresses English expatriates in Italy Musicians from Hertfordshire Actresses from Hertfordshire