Anna Maria Ackermann (24 December 1932 – 15 January 2025) was an Italian actress.

Life and career

Ackermann debuted with

Eduardo De Filippo Eduardo De Filippo OMRI (; 26 May 1900 – 31 October 1984), also known simply as ''Eduardo'', was an Italian actor, director, screenwriter, and playwright, best known for his Neapolitan language, Neapolitan works ''Filumena Marturano'' and ...

, for whom she played young actress roles in numerous comedies he wrote and directed. In the 1960s, she participated in radio dramas and was a regular guest on the Sunday morning programme Spaccanapoli. On television, she took part in numerous dramas, including the detective series '' Le inchieste del commissario Maigret'' (1967), ''Sherlock Holmes: L'ultimo dei Baskerville'' (1968), ''La donna di cuori'' (1969), ''Un certo Harry Brent'' (1970), the drama ' (1970) based on the novel of the same name by Emilio De Marchi and ''La Medea di Porta Medina'' (1981). For the cinema she starred in Liliana Cavani's '' The Skin'' (1981), ''I figli... so' pezzi 'e core'' (1982) with

Mario Merola Mario Merola could refer to: *Mario Merola (singer) Mario Merola (6 April 1934 – 12 November 2006) was an Italian singer and actor, most prominently known for having rejuvenated the traditional popular Neapolitan melodrama known as the ''Music ...

, Luigi Magni's

'O Re ''O Re'' (also known as ''The King of Naples'') is a 1989 Italian historical film written and directed by Luigi Magni.Franco Montini, Piero Spila, ''Il mondo di Luigi Magni : avventure, sogni e disincanto''. Rai Eri, 2000. . For his performanc ...

(1989), with

Giancarlo Giannini Giancarlo Giannini (; born 1 August 1942) is an Italian actor and voice actor. He won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor for his performance in '' Love and Anarchy'' (1973) and received an Academy Award nomination for '' Seven Beaut ...

and

Ornella Muti Francesca Romana Rivelli (born 9 March 1955), professionally known as Ornella Muti, is an Italian actress. Among the best-known Italian actresses, in her career, she has worked across various genres, working alongside Italian directors such as ...

. For the theatre, her performance in ''Sorelle Materassi'', from the novel by

Aldo Palazzeschi Aldo Giurlani (; 2 February 1885 – 17 August 1974), known by the pen name Aldo Palazzeschi (), was an Italian novelist, poet, journalist and essayist. Biography He was born in Florence to a well-off, bourgeois family. Following his father's ...

(1988), ''Sò dieci anne'' by

Libero Bovio Libero Bovio (9 June 1883 – 26 May 1942) was a Neapolitan lyricist and dialect poet. Bovio was one of those responsible for the rejuvenation of Neapolitan dialect in plays, poetry and song at the beginning of the twentieth century. He took ...

(1999), ''Femminile napoletano'' by Arnolfo Petri, on poetic texts by Salvatore Palomba (2000), ''Le sorprese del divorzio'' (2003) and others. She had also starred in many poetry and prose

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. From 2009, she collaborated with the Narni Literature Festival, directed by Esther Basile. In 2011, she lent her voice to the play 'Birthday Party' by Angela Matassa and Giovanna Castellano, directed and performed by Arnolfo Petri and premiered at Teatro Belli in

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. In addition to her work as an actress, she devoted herself to teaching acting and diction at the Totò theatre in Naples. She taught diction and literature to Neapolitan artists, including Gennaro Silvestro,

Alessandro Siani Alessandro Siani (born Alessandro Esposito on 17 September 1975) is an Italian actor, director, screenwriter and stand-up comedian. Life and career Born in Naples, Siani formed at the Tunnel Cabaret's acting laboratory in his hometown. In 1995 ...

and Niko Depp. Ackermann died on 15 January 2025, at the age of 92.

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