Maria Pia Conte (born 10 March 1944) is an Italian former actress.
Life and career
Born Maria Pia Vaccarezza in
Genoa
Genoa ( ; ; ) is a city in and the capital of the Italian region of Liguria, and the sixth-largest city in Italy. As of 2025, 563,947 people live within the city's administrative limits. While its metropolitan city has 818,651 inhabitan ...
, Italy, the daughter of a carpenter, Conte spent her youth in
Sestri Levante before moving to Genoa to study classical ballet.
After a few experiences as a child actress, she was first noted as a ''
fotoromanzi'' model, then she decided to pursue an acting career and enrolled the
Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia
The (; CSC), also referred to as the (), is an Italian national film school headquartered in Rome, with satellite educational hubs in five other Italian regions.
It was established in 1935 and aims to promote the art and technique of cinemat ...
, graduating in 1962.
Conte made her acting debut in 1961, in the
Marco Bellocchio
Marco Bellocchio (; born 9 November 1939) is an Italian film director, screenwriter, and actor.
Life and career
Born in Bobbio, near Piacenza, Marco Bellocchio had a strict Catholic upbringing – his father was a lawyer, his mother a schooltea ...
's short film ''La colpa e la pena'', then she appeared in a number of films and TV series, often in
secondary roles, being sometimes credited as Mary P. Count.
She was also occasionally active as a voice actress and a dubber.
She retired in the late 1970s.
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Filmography
References
External links
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Italian film actresses
Italian television actresses
Italian stage actresses
20th-century Italian actresses
1944 births
Actresses from Genoa
Living people
Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia alumni
Spaghetti Western actresses