Licia Maglietta (born 16 November 1954) is an Italian actress and stage director, known for her work with Italian director Silvio Soldini. Their collaborations include romances Bread and Tulips (2000) – for which Maglietta won multiple awards – and Agata and the Storm (2004). In 2002 she won her second Italian Golden Globe, for Mafia drama Red Moon.
Licia Maglietta | |
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 Maglietta in 2004 | |
| Born | Licia Maglietta 16 November 1954 Naples, Italy |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1985–present |
Early career edit
Born in Naples, Licia Maglietta later studied theatre, dance and architecture. In 1981 she joined avant-garde stage company "Falso Movimento" (later renamed Teatri Uniti) where she worked with director Mario Martone.[1] She also worked several times in a theatre company with actor Carlo Cecchi, and directed several stage plays.[1]
Maglietta began her screen career in the mid 1980s via a run of television roles, including playing Desdemona in a 1985 telemovie based on Shakespeare's Othello. After working with Mario Martone on 1985 short film Nella citta Barocca, she later acted in Martone's first full-length feature, Death of a Neapolitan Mathematician (1992).
Work with Silvio Soldini edit
Maglietta starred in three films for Italian writer/director Silvio Soldini. She won multiple awards for their second collaboration, Bread and Tulips. Maglietta and Soldini first worked together on the drama Le acrobate (1997). Maglietta co-stars as a divorced woman who befriends a woman from elsewhere in Italy. Le Acrobate was invited to the 1997 Cannes Film Festival, in the Directors' Fortnight section.[2]
Maglietta's breakout role was in the 2000 romance Bread and Tulips (Italian title Pane e Tulipani). She played accident-prone housewife Rosalba Barletta, who is left behind on a bus tour and finds herself in Venice, where she gets a job and finds accommodation with a mysterious but helpful maître d' (played by Bruno Ganz). The film won more than 30 awards, and Maglietta took away at least five of them, including a David di Donatello, a Nastro d'Argento, and a Ciak d'oro.[1]
Maglietta's final collaboration with Silvio Soldini was the 2004 romantic comedy Agata and the Storm (aka Agatha and the Storm and Agata e la tempesta). She again co-starred; this time she played a woman running a bookshop in the Italian port city of Genoa, who romances a younger man.
Later career edit
Since 2004 Maglietta's screen roles have mainly involved television, including Italian series In Treatment (as supervisor to the main character, a psychologist) and Una Pallottola nel Cuore (aka Bulletproof Heart).
Selected filmography edit
- Death of a Neapolitan Mathematician (1992)
- Nasty Love (1995)
- Le acrobate (1997)
- Bread and Tulips (2000)
- Red Moon (2001)
- Agata and the Storm (2004)
- Paul VI: The Pope in the Tempest (2008)
- Sisi (2009)
- In Treatment (2013)
- Una Pallottola nel Cuore (2014)
References edit
- ^ a b c Enrico Lancia, Roberto Poppi (2003). Dizionario del cinema italiano, Le Attrici. Gremese Editore, 2003. ISBN 888440214X.
- ^ "La prima volta di Moretti giurato a Cannes". La Repubblica. 6 April 1997. Retrieved 2013-07-19.