Carla Gravina
Biography
Carla Gravina (born 5 August 1941) is an Italian actress and politician. She appeared in 40 films between 1957 and 1993.
Born in Gemona, Gravina made her film debut at fifteen years old, in Alberto Lattuada's Guendalina. Very active in films and on television series, both in comedic and dramatic roles, from the late 1970s she gradually focused her activities on stage and in political activism, being a PCI deputy between 1980 and 1983.
During her career Gravina won a number of international awards, including the Best Actress Award for her performance in Alessandro Blasetti's Love and Chatter at the 1958 Locarno International Film Festival, the award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Ettore Scola's La terrazza at the 1980 Cannes Film Festival, and the award for Best Actress for Margarethe von Trotta's The Long Silence at the 1993 Montreal World Film Festival.
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Full filmography
- Big Deal on Madonna Street (1958) as Nicoletta
- Nero Wolfe (1969) as Helen Frost
- A Bullet for the General (1967) as Rosario
- Orient Express (1979) as Hélène
- The Antichrist (1974) as Ippolita Oderisi
- Scaramouche (1965) as Marietta Biancolella
- Il segno del comando (1971) as Lucia
- The Brothers Karamazov (1969) as Katerina Ivànovna
- Tony Arzenta (1973) as Sandra
- Everybody Go Home! (1960) as Silvia Modena
- The Terrace (1980) as Carla
- The Invisible Woman (1969) as Delfina
- Without Apparent Motive (1971) as Jocelyne Rocca
- The Lady of Monza (1969) as Caterina da Meda
- The Inheritor (1973) as Liza Rocquencourt
- Mother's Heart (1969) as Lorenza Garrone
- Young, Beautiful... Probably Rich (1982)
- Boomerang (1976) as Muriel
- Madame Bovary (1978) as Emma Bovary
- Guendalina (1957) as Amica di Guendalina (uncredited)
- Hail the Artist (1973) as Elisabeth Montei
- Days of Inspector Ambrosio (1988) as Tullia Bandelli
- The Seven Cervi Brothers (1968) as Verina, moglie di Aldo Cervi
- Alfredo, Alfredo (1972) as Carolina