Carla Gravina (born 5 August 1941) is an Italian actress and politician. She received a

Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress The Best Actress Award (french: Prix d'interprétation féminine) is an award presented at the Cannes Film Festival since 1946. It is given to an actress who has delivered an outstanding performance and chosen by the jury from the films in officia ...

for her role in '' La terrazza'' (1980). Her other notable roles were in ''

Love and Chatter ''Amore e chiacchiere'', internationally released as ''Love and Chatter'', is a 1957 Italian comedy film directed by Alessandro Blasetti. It is based on a Cesare Zavattini's play with the same title. For this film Carla Gravina was awarded best ac ...

'' (1957), '' Esterina'' (1959), and '' The Long Silence'' (1993). Gravina used to be a member of the Chamber of Deputies.

Life and career

Born in

Gemona Gemona del Friuli ( la, Glemona, fur, Glemone, sl, Humin, german: Klemaun) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Udine in the Italian region Friuli Venezia Giulia, located about northwest of Trieste and about northwest of Udine. Th ...

, Gravina made her film debut at fifteen years old, in Alberto Lattuada's '' Guendalina''. Very active in films and on television series, both in comedic and dramatic roles, from the late 1970s she gradually focused her activities on stage and in political activism, being a PCI deputy between 1980 and 1983. Gravina was involved in a long-term relationship with fellow Italian actor Gian Maria Volontè with whom she had a child.

Awards

During her career Gravina won a number of international awards, including the Best Actress Award for her performance in Alessandro Blasetti's ''

'' at the 1958

Locarno International Film Festival The Locarno Film Festival is an annual film festival, held every August in Locarno, Switzerland. Founded in 1946, the festival screens films in various competitive and non-competitive sections, including feature-length narrative, documentary, ...

,Stefano Masi, Enrico Lancia. ''Stelle d'Italia. Piccole e grandi dive del cinema italiano 1945-1968''. Roma 1989. pp. 82-84. the award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Ettore Scola's '' La terrazza'' at the

1980 Cannes Film Festival The 33rd Cannes Film Festival was held between 9 and 23 May 1980. The Palme d'Or went to the '' All That Jazz'' by Bob Fosse and ''Kagemusha'' by Akira Kurosawa. The festival opened with '' Fantastica'', directed by Gilles Carle and closed with ' ...

, and the award for Best Actress for

Margarethe von Trotta Margarethe von Trotta (; born 21 February 1942) is a German film director, screenwriter, and actress. She has been referred to as a "leading force" of the New German Cinema movement.

's '' The Long Silence'' at the 1993

Montreal World Film Festival The Montreal World Film Festival (WFF; french: le Festival des Films du Monde) was one of Canada's oldest international film festivals and the only competitive film festival in North America accredited by the FIAPF (although the Toronto Interna ...

Selected filmography

* '' Love and Chatter'' (1957) * ''

Big Deal on Madonna Street ''Big Deal on Madonna Street'' ( it, I soliti ignoti; released in the UK as ''Persons Unknown'') is a 1958 Italian comedy caper film directed by Mario Monicelli and considered to be among the masterpieces of Italian cinema. Its original Italian ...

'' (1958) * ''

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'' (1959) * '' Policarpo'' (1959) * '' Esterina'' (1959) * ''

Everybody Go Home ''Everybody Go Home'' ( it, Tutti a casa) is a 1960 Italian comedy-drama film directed by Luigi Comencini. It features an international cast including the U.S. actors Martin Balsam, Alex Nicol and the Franco-Italian Serge Reggiani. Nino Manfre ...

'' (1960) * ''

Five Branded Women ''Five Branded Women'' is a 1960 Italian-American film directed by Martin Ritt (his only war film) and produced by Dino De Laurentiis. It features an international cast including Silvana Mangano, Barbara Bel Geddes, Jeanne Moreau and Vera Miles. T ...

'' (1960) * '' A Day for Lionhearts'' (1961) * '' A Bullet for the General'' (1966) * ''

Bandits in Milan ''Bandits in Milan'' ( it, Banditi a Milano; also known as ''The Violent Four'') is a 1968 Italian crime film directed by Carlo Lizzani. It was listed to compete at the 1968 Cannes Film Festival, but the festival was cancelled due to the events ...

'' (1968) * '' The Seven Cervi Brothers'' (1968) * '' Cuore di mamma'' (1969) * ''

The Lady of Monza ''The Lady of Monza'' ( it, La monaca di Monza, also known as ''The Awful Story of the Nun of Monza'' and ''The Nun of Monza'') is a 1969 Italian historical drama film directed by Eriprando Visconti. It is loosely based on the real life events of M ...

'' (1969) * '' The Invisible Woman'' (1969) * '' Il segno del comando'' (1971) * '' Without Apparent Motive'' (1971) * '' Il caso Pisciotta'' (1972) * ''

Alfredo, Alfredo ''Alfredo, Alfredo'' is a 1972 Italian award-winning comedy film co-written and directed by Pietro Germi. Plot The film, told mostly in flashback, tells the story of a timid bank clerk (Dustin Hoffman) living in Ascoli Piceno (Italian town ...

'' (1972) * '' Tony Arzenta'' (1973) * '' The Inheritor'' (1973) * '' The Antichrist'' (1974) * ''

And Now My Love ''And Now My Love'' (french: Toute une vie), (Released as 'A Whole Lifetime' in Australia) is a French-Italian film released in 1974 by Claude Lelouch, starring Marthe Keller, André Dussollier, Charles Denner, and Charles Gérard. The Americ ...

'' (1974) * ''

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'' (1976) * '' La terrazza'' (1980) * '' Days of Inspector Ambrosio'' (1988) * '' The Long Silence'' (1993)

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Gravina, Carla 1941 births Living people Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress winners People from Gemona del Friuli Italian Communist Party politicians Deputies of Legislature VIII of Italy Politicians of Friuli-Venezia Giulia Italian film actresses 20th-century Italian actresses Italian television actresses Italian stage actresses