Anna Falchi (; born Anna Kristiina Palomäki; 22 April 1972) is a Finnish-Italian actress, television presenter, and former model.
Early life
Anna Kristiina Palomäki was born in
Tampere
Tampere is a city in Finland and the regional capital of Pirkanmaa. It is located in the Finnish Lakeland. The population of Tampere is approximately , while the metropolitan area has a population of approximately . It is the most populous mu ...
, Finland, the daughter of an Italian father, Benito (Tito) Falchi, and Finnish mother Kaarina. She has a brother, Saro, and a half-brother in Sweden, Peter (by her father). In 1978, at the age of six, she moved to Italy with her family, where she started her career as a model.
Career
Falchi first appeared on television in a commercial for an Italian bank in 1992. The ad starred
Paolo Villaggio
Paolo Villaggio (; 30 December 1932 — 3 July 2017) was an Italian actor, comedian, film director, and writer. He is noted for the characters he created with paradoxical and grotesque characteristics: Professor Kranz, the ultra-timid Giandom ...
, and was directed by the celebrated
Federico Fellini
Federico Fellini (; 20 January 1920 – 31 October 1993) was an Italian film director and screenwriter. He is known for his distinctive style, which blends fantasy and baroque images with earthiness. He is recognized as one of the greatest and ...
. This helped her launch a film career, starting with ''Nel continente nero'' (''in the black Continent'') in 1993.
Falchi appeared in many films since, including the 1994 fantasy movie ''
The Dragon Ring'', the 1997 film ''La principessa e il povero'' and the 2005 comedy ''Nessun messaggio in segreteria''. She has also been a popular television personality, hosting various specials on Italian television. Falchi is lesser known in the English-speaking world. Some know her for the lead female role in the film ''
Dellamorte Dellamore'', which was released in the US as ''Cemetery Man''. In 1995, Falchi briefly explored the music industry, recording the Finnish dance single "Pium Paum (Vipula Vapula)".
In 2001, Falchi was a guest on the Italian late-night show ''Satyricon'', during which she satirized one of the appearances of
Madonna on ''Late Show with David Letterman'' during which Madonna jokingly teased Letterman for refusing to smell her panties. Falchi actually took off her red panties on stage, and the host,
Daniele Luttazzi, went all the way to smell them, which caused some scandal in Italy.
Personal life
Falchi was a Protestant but she converted to the Catholic Church.
Filmography
Film
Television
Music videos
References
External links
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1972 births
Living people
Italian female models
Finnish female models
Italian film actresses
Finnish people of Italian descent
Actresses from Tampere
Italian people of Finnish descent
20th-century Italian actresses
21st-century Italian actresses
Italian Roman Catholics
Converts to Roman Catholicism from Protestantism