Naike Rivelli (born 10 October 1974) is an Italian actress and singer.
Biography
Rivelli is the eldest daughter of actress
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 many years, she believed Spanish film producer José Luis Bermúdez de Castro was her father; following a
DNA
Deoxyribonucleic acid (; DNA) is a polymer composed of two polynucleotide chains that coil around each other to form a double helix. The polymer carries genetic instructions for the development, functioning, growth and reproduction of al ...
test requested by him, the two found they were not related, and her mother later declared that she did not know the identity of Naike's father.
In 1996, Rivelli gave birth to her son, the result of a brief relationship. In 2002, Rivelli married the German actor
Manou Lubowski; the marriage lasted nine months and, after the separation, they divorced in 2008. Regarding her
sexual orientation
Sexual orientation is an enduring personal pattern of romantic attraction or sexual attraction (or a combination of these) to persons of the opposite sex or gender, the same sex or gender, or to both sexes or more than one gender. Patterns ar ...
, at the beginning of the year 2010, she revealed her
bisexuality
Bisexuality is romantic attraction, sexual attraction, or Human sexual activity, sexual behavior toward both males and females. It may also be defined as the attraction to more than one gender, to people of both the same and different gender, ...
.
Selected filmography
* ''
The Count of Monte Cristo
''The Count of Monte Cristo'' () is an adventure novel by the French writer Alexandre Dumas. It was serialised from 1844 to 1846, and published in book form in 1846. It is one of his most popular works, along with ''The Three Musketeers'' (184 ...
'' (1998, TV miniseries), as young Mercédès Igualada
* ''
The Unscarred'' (2000), as young Rafaella
* ''
South Kensington
South Kensington is a district at the West End of Central London in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. Historically it settled on part of the scattered Middlesex village of Brompton. Its name was supplanted with the advent of the ra ...
'' (2001), as Ilaria
* ' (2002, TV film), as Sharon
* ''
Open Graves'' (2009), as Elena
References
External links
*
Naike Rivelli's web page
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1974 births
Living people
Actresses from Munich
Italian bisexual women
Italian bisexual actors
Italian bisexual musicians
Italian LGBTQ models
Italian LGBTQ singers
Italian female models
Italian film actresses
Italian people of Estonian descent
Italian people of Baltic German descent
Italian people of Russian descent
Italian television actresses
People of Baltic German descent
Baltic-German people
Bisexual women singers
Bisexual women models
Bisexual actresses
20th-century Italian actresses
21st-century Italian actresses
20th-century Italian women singers
21st-century Italian women singers
20th-century Italian LGBTQ people
21st-century Italian LGBTQ people