''Miss Fallaci'' is a 2024 Italian television series on

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, production by

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Television International Studios and Minerva Pictures in association with RedString. Created by Alessandra Gonnella and Diego Loreggian, directed by Luca Ribuoli, Giacomo Martelli and Alessandra Gonnella it is set to star

Miriam Leone Miriam Leone (born 14 April 1985) is an Italian actress and beauty queen. She was crowned Miss Italia 2008. Early life Born in Catania, Italy, Leone lived her youth in Acireale, the daughter of a literature teacher, Ignazio Leone, and Gabriell ...

as journalist

Oriana Fallaci Oriana Fallaci (; 29 June 1929 – 15 September 2006) was an Italian journalist and author. A member of the Italian resistance movement during World War II, she had a long and successful journalistic career. Fallaci became famous worldwide for h ...

. It has production by Santo Versace, Gianluca Curti, Diego Loreggian and Angela Salmaso. Viola Rispoli and Tom Grieves are lead writers.

Synopsis

Set in the late 1950s, this season follows the early career of Oriana Fallaci, when she was still known as "the girl from the movies" and worked as a reporter for the Italian weekly magazine ''

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into a unique opportunity, meeting extraordinary figures and painting a sharp, often raw and ironic, portrait of

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and the reality behind the glamorous façade of

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. These years were also marked by deep personal turmoil, including an intense and troubled relationship with fellow journalist Alfredo Pieroni. This relationship, full of passion but also insecurities and fears, eventually dragged Fallaci into a spiral of self-destruction. Above all, it was a period when a young woman with extraordinary determination and talent discovered her true mission: to tell the truth. And she realized that to do so, all she needed was her most powerful weapon: her voice, unique and distinctive.

Cast

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Orson Welles George Orson Welles (May 6, 1915 – October 10, 1985) was an American director, actor, writer, producer, and magician who is remembered for his innovative work in film, radio, and theatre. He is among the greatest and most influential film ...

* Maurizio Lastrico as Alfredo Pieroni * Francesca Agostini as Giovanna Corsi * Francesco Colella as Attilio Battistini * Leonardo Lidi as

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* Isabella Tabarini as Rita *

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as Albert Gordon *

Debi Mazar Debi Mazar Corcos (; born August 13, 1964) is an American actress and television personality. She began her career with supporting roles in '' Goodfellas'' (1990), '' Little Man Tate'' (1991), '' Singles'' (1992), and '' Batman Forever'' (1995), ...

Louella Parsons Louella Rose Oettinger, (August 6, 1881 – December 9, 1972) known by the pen name Louella Parsons, was an American gossip columnist and a screenwriter. At her peak, her columns were read by 20 million people in 700 newspapers worldwide. She ...

* Rosanna Gentili as Tosca Fallaci *

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as Edoardo Fallaci * Daisy Jelley as

Jayne Mansfield Jayne Mansfield (born Vera Jayne Palmer; April 19, 1933 – June 29, 1967) was an American actress, ''Playboy'' Playmate, and sex symbol of the 1950s and early 1960s. She was known for her numerous publicity stunts and open personal life. He ...

* Davide Tucci as

Frank Sinatra Francis Albert Sinatra (; December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998) was an American singer and actor. Honorific nicknames in popular music, Nicknamed the "Chairman of the Board" and "Ol' Blue Eyes", he is regarded as one of the Time 100: The Most I ...

* Philipp Christopher as

Arthur Miller Arthur Asher Miller (October 17, 1915 – February 10, 2005) was an American playwright, essayist and screenwriter in the 20th-century American theater. Among his most popular plays are '' All My Sons'' (1947), '' Death of a Salesman'' (1 ...

* Hannah Chinn as

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* Axel B. Steinmueller as

Henry Kissinger Henry Alfred Kissinger (May 27, 1923 – November 29, 2023) was an American diplomat and political scientist who served as the 56th United States secretary of state from 1973 to 1977 and the 7th National Security Advisor (United States), natio ...

* Axel Gallois as Jacques Laroux

Production

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commissioned the series made by Minerva Pictures in October 2021. In February 2023 it was revealed to be an eight-part series with Viola Rispoli as lead writer and Santo Versace, Gianluca Curti, Diego Loreggian and Angela Salmaso as producers.

Casting

Joining the cast is

who is set to feature as

Filming

Filming began on the series in Italy in 2023. Filming locations include Rome.

Broadcast

The series premiered at the

19th Rome Film Festival The 19th Rome Film Festival opened on 16 October in the Auditorium Parco della Musica, Rome with the Italian biographical drama film ''The Great Ambition'' by Andrea Segre. Earlier the pre-opening film of the festival, ''Megalopolis'', an Americ ...

on 21 October 2024, and was projected to be screened in Italy on 25 February 2025.

References

External links

* Biographical television series Cultural depictions of Italian people Cultural depictions of journalists Cultural depictions of Orson Welles Italian television series Italian-language television shows Paramount+ original programming Television shows set in Florence Television shows set in Rome {{Italy-tv-prog-stub