Sabrina Ferilli
Sabrina Ferilli (born 28 June 1964 in Rome, Italy) is an Italian theater and movie actress. Listed among the best Italian actress, she has won five Nastro d'Argento (including a special award in 2016 for civil engagement for her performance in Me, Myself and Her), a Globo d'oro, six Ciak d'oros and received four nominations for David di Donatello. In 2013, she was the protagonist of the Oscar-winning film La grande bellezza directed by Paolo Sorrentino.
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Awards | Nastro dArgento Best Actress 1995 La bella vita Best Supporting Actress 2008 Your Whole Life Ahead of You 2013 The Great Beauty 2017 Murder Italian Style |
Early and personal life
Ferilli was born in Rome on 28 June 1964. Her father was also from Rome and a spokesman for the Italian Communist Party in the state of Lazio and her mother, who grew up in Fiano Romano, was a housewife and native of Caserta. She attended the Liceo Clasico Orazio ("Orazio classical high school") in Rome. After having unsuccessfully attempted to enter the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome, she began her career as a film actress in secondary parts, acting in Sweets from a Stranger by Franco Ferrini, and small roles in second-tier films at the end of 1980s.
Ferilli was married to Italian lawyer Andrea Perone from 2003 to 2005. Since 2011, she has been married to manager Flavio Cattaneo. She is a fan of AS Roma.
Acting career
In 1990 Alessandro D'Alatri cast her in a small role for the movie Red American. In 1993 she appeared in the comedy Anche i commercialisti hanno un'anima' alongside Enrico Montesano and Renato Pozzetto, Il giudice ragazzino with Giulio Scarpati and in Marco Ferreri's Diario di un vizio. The following year she had a breakthrough role in The Beautiful Life by Paolo Virzì, which won her the Silver Ribbon for Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress. During the following years he has been involved in the movie Ricky Tognazzi and continues to appear in good comedies, such as Ferie d'agosto always of Virzì and Return to Home Gori of Alessandro Benvenuti. He conducted Sanremo Festival 1996 along with Pippo Baudo and Valeria Mazza. Two years later, he has been co-starred in the dramatic film You Laughter and the comedy Francesco Nuti.
She later also worked in theater in some productions of Garinei and Giovannini comedies, including Rugantino and Let's Try More and made appearances in some television comedies. In 2000, she modeled for a Max calendar, which has sold over 1 million copies.[1] On 24 June 2001, to celebrate the scudetto for A.S. Roma, she performed a dance at Circus Maximus in front of hundreds of thousands of fans. She had a lead role in the controversial 2003 film The Water ... the Fire by Luciano Emmer which debuted at the Venice Film Festival.
She later participated in several Italian Christmas comedies known as "cinepanettoni": Christmas in Love, Christmas in New York, Christmas in Beverly Hills and Christmas Holiday to Cortina. She defended her work in less serious films by saying, "How do you call them? Cinepanettoni? Well, then I'm happy to be associated with it because I love panettons, turrus and pandora."[2]
In 2008, she appeared in Virzì's Your Whole Life Ahead of You, once again winning the Silver Ribbon. In 2013, she was chosen as a judge in the twelfth edition of Friends of Maria De Filippi and also appeared in the subsequent season. In the same year, she starred in Eros Puglielli' TV series We Kiss Our Hands – Palermo New York 1958 on Canale 5, and was chosen as the opening presenter of the Roma Film Festival.[3] Her 2013 performance as one of the protagonists in The Great Beauty by Paolo Sorrentino helped the film to win the Oscar for Best Foreign Film Best Foreign Film on March 2, 2014.[4] In December 2014, she debuted on the new Agon Channel with the talk show Contratto with Luca Zanforlin.[5] On 11 April 2015, she appeared in the fourteenth edition of "Amici di Maria De Filippi" with Francesco Renga and Loredana Bertè.
In 2015, she starred with Margherita Buy in Io e lei by Maria Sole Tognazzi, a lesbian retelling of Edouard Molinaro's Il vizietto. The actress said she was very happy to have participated in a movie like this: "In a bigoted country like ours "Me and Her" can be important because it is a story that is not scary, to divide. I like to call it a homosexual story because the point of strength of this relationship is not gender, but feelings."[6] She was awarded a Golden Ciak at Best Actress for the film and was nominated for the David of Donatello for Best Actress Starring David of Donatello and Silver Ribbon for Best Actress Starring.
Beginning 2 April 2016, she was again in the jury of the 15th edition of "Amici di Maria De Filippi" with Anna Oxa and Loredana Bertè.
Filmography
Title | Year | Role | Director | Notes |
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Sweets from a Stranger | 1987 | Prostitute | Franco Ferrini | Cameo appearance |
The Rogues | 1988 | Young woman | Mario Monicelli | Cameo appearance |
The Sparrow's Fluttering | The Stars Woman | Gianfranco Mingozzi | ||
Il volpone | Rosalba Marignano | Maurizio Ponzi | ||
Rimini Rimini - Un anno dopo | Bar woman | Bruno Corbucci | Cameo appearance | |
Night Club | 1989 | Erina | Sergio Corbucci | |
Red American | 1991 | Zaira | Alessandro D'Alatri | |
Vietato ai minori | 1992 | Barbara | Maurizio Ponzi | |
Diary of a Maniac | 1993 | Luigia | Marco Ferreri | |
Donne in un giorno di festa | Sabrina | Salvatore Maira | ||
Law of Courage | 1994 | Angela Guarnera | Alessandro Di Robilant | |
Anche i commercialisti hanno un'anima | Sonia | Maurizio Ponzi | ||
La bella vita | Mirella | Paolo Virzì | ||
Strangled Lives | 1996 | Miriam | Ricky Tognazzi | |
August Vacation | Marisa | Paolo Virzì | ||
Return to Home Gori | Sandra | Alessandro Benvenuti | ||
You Laugh | 1998 | Nora | Paolo and Vittorio Taviani | |
Mr. Fifteen Balls | Sissi | Francesco Nuti | ||
I fobici | 1999 | Brunette woman | Giancarlo Scarchilli | |
Le giraffe | 2000 | Roberta Tiberi | Claudio Bonivento | |
A routa libera | Nurse Silvia | Vincenzo Salemme | ||
L'acqua... il fuoco | 2003 | Stefania/ Elena/ Stella | Luciano Emmer | |
Christmas in Love | 2004 | Lisa Pinzoni | Neri Parenti | |
Really SSSupercool: Chapter Two | 2006 | Nunzia | Carlo Vanzina | |
Cars | Sally Carrera (voice) | John Lasseter | Italian dub; voice role | |
Natale a New York | Barbara Ricacci | Neri Parenti | ||
Your Whole Life Ahead of You | 2008 | Daniela | Paolo Virzì | |
I mostri oggi | 2009 | Sabrina/ Mother/ Alice/ Wife/ Stefania | Enrico Oldoini | Anthology film |
Natale a Beverly Hills | Cristina | Neri Parenti | ||
Vacanze di Natale a Cortina | 2011 | Elena Covelli | Neri Parenti | |
Cars 2 | Sally Carrera (voice) | John Lasseter, Brad Lewis | Italian dub; voice role | |
The Great Beauty | 2013 | Ramona | Paolo Sorrentino | Academy Awards Best International Feature Film |
Me, Myself and Her | 2015 | Marina Baldi | Maria Sole Tognazzi | |
Ballerina | 2016 | Régine Le Haut (voice) | Eric Summer | Italian dub; voice role |
Forever Young | Angela | Fausto Brizzi | ||
Omicidio all'italiana | 2017 | Donatella Spruzzone | Maccio Capatonda | |
The Place | Angela | Paolo Genovese | ||
Super vacanze di Natale | Various roles | Paolo Ruffini | Anthology film | |
Cars 3 | Sally Carrera (voice) | Brian Fee | Italian dub; voice role | |
Ricchi di fantasia | 2018 | Sabrina | Francesco Micchichè | |
Onward | 2020 | Laurel Lightfoot (voice) | Dan Scanlon | Italian dub; voice role |
Title | Year | Role | Notes |
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I ragazzi della 3ª C | 1988 | Classmate | Episode: "A Carnevale ogni scherzo vale" |
The Ogre | 1989 | Anna | Television film directed by Lamberto Bava |
Valentina | Edna, the Witch | Episode: "Rembrant e le Streghe" | |
Una storia italiana | 1992 | Matilde | Miniseries; 2 episodes |
Un commissario a Roma | 1993 | Patrizia Spinosi | Episode: "Specchio d'acqua" |
Sanremo Music Festival | 1996 | Herself/Host | Annual music festival |
Il padre di mia figlia | 1997 | Lisa | Television film directed by Livia Gianpalmo |
Leo & Beo | 1998 | Laura | Miniseries; 2 episodes |
Donna sotto le stelle | 1998–1999 | Herself/Host | Season 9 |
Commesse | 1999–2002 | Marta De Santis | Main role; 12 episodes |
Le ali della vita | 2000–2001 | Rosanna Ranzi | Main role; 4 episodes |
Almost America | 2001 | Antonia | Television film directed by Andrea Frazzi |
Rivoglio i miei figli | 2004 | Sonia | Miniseries; 2 episodes |
Al di la delle frontiere | Angela Ghiglino | Miniseries; 2 episodes | |
Lives of the Saints | Cristina Innocente | Miniseries; 2 episodes | |
Dalida | 2005 | Dalida | Television film directed by Joyce Bunuel |
Due imbroglioni e... mezzo | 2007 | Gina | Television film directed by Franco Amurri |
Scherzi a parte | Herself/Guest | ||
Anna e i cinque | 2008–2011 | Anna Modigliani | Main role; 12 episodes |
Due imbroglioni e... mezzo | 2010 | Gina | Main role; 4 episodes |
Caldo criminale | Anna Tardelli | Television film directed by Eros Puglielli | |
Né con te né senza di te | 2012 | Francesca Sipicciani | Miniseries; 2 episodes |
Baciamo le mani - Palermo New York 1958 | 2013 | Gabriella Vitaliano/ Ida Di Giulio | Main role; 8 episodes |
Amici di Maria De Filippi | 2013–2016; 2020 | Herself/Judge | Seasons 12–15 (judge); season 19 (guest) |
Contratto | 2014-2015 | Herself/Host | 10 episodes |
Rimbocchiamoci le maniche | 2016 | Angela Tusco | Main role; 8 episodes |
Houseparty | 2016 | Herself/Co-host | |
Facciamo che io ero | 2017 | Herself/Guest | |
Storie del genere | 2018 | Herself/Host | 9 episodes |
Tú sí que vales | 2019–present | Herself/Judge | 9 episodes |
L'amore strappato | 2019 | Rosa Macaluso | Miniseries; 3 episodes |
References
- "2000 Sabrina Ferilli". Max. Retrieved 20 December 2012.
- "Fifty thousand days – Sabrina Ferilli". evening courier. Retrieved 29 September 2015.
- Sabrina Ferilli "the godfather" of Roma Filmfest Archived 11 November 2013 at the Wayback Machine Unita.it
- Tiziano Peccia, "Criticism and Criticism to the Great Beauty", O Olho da História, issue 22 (April 2016)
- "Agon Channel ricco di star nostrane da Sabrina Ferilli a Marco Materazzi". Tgcom24.
- ""Io e lei", Ferilli e Buy coppia "omosentimentale". Sabrina: "Se non ci pensa il governo, ci pensino i cittadini"". La Repubblica. 29 September 2015. Retrieved 29 September 2015.
Mi piace chiamarla una storia omosentimentale perché il punto di forza di questo rapporto non è il sesso ma i sentimenti".
– Title in English: ""Me and Her," Ferilli and Buy as a "homosexual" couple. Sabrina: "If you do not think about the government, think about the people""
External links
- Official website (in Italian and English)
- Sabrina Ferilli at IMDb