Anna Proclemer, sometimes credited Anna Vivaldi (30 May 1923 – 25 April 2013), was an Italian stage, film and television actress and voice actress.
Born in
Trento
Trento ( or ; Ladin and lmo, Trent; german: Trient ; cim, Tria; , ), also anglicized as Trent, is a city on the Adige River in Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol in Italy. It is the capital of the autonomous province of Trento. In the 16th cen ...
, Proclemer was the daughter of an engineer and a housewife.
She debuted on stage in 1942, at the Rome University Theatre with the play ''Our Goddess'' directed by
Massimo Bontempelli
Massimo Bontempelli (12 May 1878 – 21 July 1960) was an Italian poet, playwright, novelist and composer. He was influential in developing and promoting the literary style known as magical realism.
Life
Massimo Bontempelli was born in Como ...
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In 1946 she married the writer
Vitaliano Brancati, with whom she had a daughter, Antonia, born 6 May 1947, and from whom she separated shortly before his death in 1954.
From 1952 to 1955 Proclemer was a member of the stage company "Compagnia Teatro d’Arte Italiano", directed by
Vittorio Gassman and
Luigi Squarzina
Luigi Squarzina (18 February 1922 – 8 October 2010) was an Italian theatre dramatist and director.
Born in Livorno, Squarzina studied in Rome, at the Liceo Classico Tasso, where he had Vittorio Gassman as classmate. He got a degree cum laude i ...
, then she was directed by
Giorgio Strehler at the
Piccolo Teatro of Milan and, starting from 1956, she worked extensively with
Giorgio Albertazzi, with whom she also had a sentimental relationship.
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Her last role was in Ferzan Özpetek's '' Magnifica presenza''; for her performance she was awarded with a special Globo d'oro in 2012.]
Filmography
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Italian film actresses
People from Trento
Italian stage actresses
Italian television actresses
Italian voice actresses
1923 births
2013 deaths
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