Marcella Di Folco (7 March 1943 – 7 September 2010) was an Italian LGBT rights activist, actor, and politician. In her film appearances, played in male characters before transition, she is credited as Marcello Di Falco.

Career

In 1988, she became president of the MIT - ''Movimento Identità Transessuale'' (Transsexual Identity Movement) and in 1997 vice-president of the ''Osservatorio Nazionale sull'Identità di Genere'' (National Observatory on Gender Identity, ONIG). She was elected municipal councilor of Bologna in 1995, with the Green party. She was the first open

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to hold a political public office in the world. In 2014, at the 32nd Torino Film Festival, the film Una nobile rivoluzione (A Noble Revolution) by Simone Cangelosi, which tells her story had its premiere. In October 2019 Italian Journalist

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edited Storia di Marcella che fu Marcello (The Story of Marcella that was Marcello before) a confession of Marcella Di Folco's life she recorded before Marcella died. In 2024 her documentary biography has been included in ''Disobedience Archive'', a Marco Scotini project dealing with LGBT issues, invited by Curator

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art exhibition at

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Personal life

Di Folco had gender affirming surgery in 1987.

Filmography

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Fellini Satyricon ''Fellini Satyricon'', or simply ''Satyricon'', is a 1969 Italian film written and directed by Federico Fellini and loosely based on Petronius's work ''Satyricon'', written during the reign of Emperor Nero and set in Imperial Rome. The film is di ...

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(1969) * ''

In the Name of the Italian People ''In the Name of the Italian People'' () is a 1971 Italy, Italian comedy film, comedy-drama film directed by Dino Risi. It represents a reflection about the crisis of the Italian judiciary and the growing phenomenon of corruption. Plot Set in Ro ...

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(1971) * '' Sotto a chi tocca!'', directed by

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(1972) * ''

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(1972) * ''

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'', directed by Federico Fellini (1972) * '' Anche se volessi lavorare, che faccio?'', directed by

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(1972) * '' Decameron nº 2 - Le altre novelle del Boccaccio'', directed by

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(1972) * '' L'età di Cosimo de' Medici'', directed by

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Amarcord ''Amarcord'' () is a 1973 comedy-drama film directed by Federico Fellini, a semi-autobiographical tale about Titta, an adolescent boy growing up among an eccentric cast of characters in the village of Borgo San Giuliano (situated near the ancien ...

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Shoot First, Die Later ''Shoot First, Die Later'' () is a 1974 Italian poliziottesco noir drama film directed by Fernando Di Leo. Di Leo reprises some elements of the novel ''Rogue Cop'' by William P. McGivern. Luc Merenda later starred in two other Di Leo's film ...

'', directed by Fernando Di Leo (1974) * '' Finché c'è guerra c'è speranza'', directed by

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(1974) * , directed by Roberto Rossellini (1974) (film TV) * '' Quant'è bella la Bernarda, tutta nera, tutta calda'', directed by Lucio Dandolo (1975) * ''

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(1975) * '' Mondo candido'', directed by

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(1975) * '' Vinella e Don Pezzotta'', directed by Mino Guerrini (1976) * '' Todo modo'', directed by

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(1976) * '' Tutti possono arricchire tranne i poveri'', directed by

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(1976) * '' Un borghese piccolo piccolo'', directed by

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(1977) * '' Squadra antigangsters'', directed by

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(1979) * '' Joséphine ou la comédie des ambitions'', directed by Robert Mazoyer (1979) (miniserie TV) * '' La città delle donne'', directed by Federico Fellini (1980) * ''

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(1981)

References

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