Regina Bianchi (1 January 1921 – 5 April 2013) was an Italian stage and film actress.
Life and career
Born in
Lecce
Lecce ( ); el, label=Griko, Luppìu, script=Latn; la, Lupiae; grc, Λουπίαι, translit=Loupíai), group=pron is a historic city of 95,766 inhabitants (2015) in southern Italy. It is the capital of the province of Lecce, the province ...
as Regina D'Antigny, she was the daughter of two theater actors.
Raffaele Viviani
Raffaele Viviani (10 January 1888 in Castellammare di Stabia, Province of Naples – 22 March 1950) was an Italian author, playwright, actor and musician. Viviani belongs to the turn-of-the-century school of realism in Italian literature, a ...
and, that year, debuted in the comedy play ''Campagna napoletana'', in the leading role of Reginella.[ In 1939, she starred in the drama film ''Il ponte di vetro''; on the film set she became engaged to the director ]Goffredo Alessandrini
Goffredo Alessandrini (20 November 1904, in Cairo – 16 May 1978, in Rome) was an Italian scriptwriter and film director. He also acted, edited, and produced some films.
He practiced athletics in his youth, and won a title of Italian champion ...
, who remained her partner for over 20 years.[
After having announced her retirement in 1944, she came back in 1959 with the title role in ]Eduardo De Filippo
Eduardo De Filippo (; 24 May 1900 – 31 October 1984), also known simply as ''Eduardo'', was an Italian actor, director, screenwriter and playwright, best known for his Neapolitan works ''Filumena Marturano'' and '' Napoli Milionaria''. Consid ...
's ''Filumena Marturano
''Filumena Marturano'' (, ), sometime performed in English as ''The Best House in Naples'', is a play written in 1946 by Italian playwright, actor and poet Eduardo De Filippo. It is the basis for the 1950 Spanish language Argentine musical film ...
''.[ She won two ]Nastro d'Argento
The Nastro d'Argento, also known by its translated name Silver Ribbon, is an Italian film award awarded each year since 1946 by the Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists (Italian: ''Sindacato Nazionale Giornalisti Cinematografici Italiani ...
for Best Supporting Actress, in 1963 for Nanni Loy
Nanni Loy (born Giovanni Loi; 23 October 1925 – 21 August 1995) was an Italian film, theatre and TV director. Specifically, Nanni Loy was Sardinian, and one of several notable Sardinian film makers, including Franco Solinas.
Biography
Lo ...
's '' The Four Days of Naples'', and in 1996 for Leone Pompucci's ''Camerieri
''Camerieri'' (''Waiters'') is a 1995 Italian comedy-drama film written and directed by Leone Pompucci. The film won two Silver Ribbons, for best screenplay and best supporting actress (to Regina Bianchi).
Plot summary
In a lonely restaurant ...
'',Anna
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* Anna the Prophetess, in the Gospel of Luke
* Anna (wife of Artabasdos) (fl. 715–773)
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* Anna (Anisia) (fl. 1218 to 12 ...
, the mother of Mary
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, in Franco Zeffirelli
Gian Franco Corsi Zeffirelli (12 February 1923 – 15 June 2019), was an Italian stage and film director, producer, production designer and politician. He was one of the most significant opera and theatre directors of the post-World War II era, ...
's television miniseries ''Jesus of Nazareth
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'' in 1977.
In 1996, she was awarded Grand Officer of the Italian Republic
The Order of Merit of the Italian Republic ( it, Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana) is the senior Italian order of merit. It was established in 1951 by the second President of the Italian Republic, Luigi Einaudi.
The highest-ranking h ...
for artistic merits. She died at 92 in her home in Rome.
Filmography
References
Further reading
* Barbara Bulzomì, ''Regina Bianchi. Regina del palcoscenico'', Edizioni Universitarie Romane, 2008;
* Maricla Boggio, ''Vita di Regina. Regina Bianchi si racconta'', RAI-ERI, 2012;
External links
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Italian film actresses
1921 births
People from Lecce
Italian stage actresses
20th-century Italian actresses
Nastro d'Argento winners
2013 deaths
Grand Officers of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
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