Giulietta Masina
Giulietta Masina (actually Giulia Anna Masina ) ( born February 22, 1921 in San Giorgio di Piano, Bologna, † March 23, 1994 in Rome) was an Italian actress.
Life
The daughter of a teacher first studied in Rome art history, archeology and philosophy, and was then Dr. phil. doctorate. Already during her studies she performed with a student theater group, where he met the writer and director Federico Fellini know. In 1943 they married. Their only child together was in March 1945 to the world, but it died due to illness a month later.
After marriage Masina shifted its creative range entirely on the acting, first on stage, then increasingly in film. They understood tragic character roles as well as to embody clownish Naive.
Her achievements as an actress, she celebrated with roles in films of her husband, as Gelsomina in La Strada - The Song of the street, Nights of Cabiria, Juliet of the Spirits or alongside Marcello Mastroianni as an aging dancer modeled after Ginger Rogers' in Ginger and Fred. For her performances, she was awarded several prizes, including with the David di Donatello or the Best Actor award from Cannes. In an unusual role she was seen in a 1985 Czechoslovak- German fairy tale in which she portrayed Frau Holle. As role offers that met her claim, forthcoming, she worked primarily as a writer for television programs.
After the death of her husband, from whom she learned on the way back from visiting him in the hospital from the car radio, is a cancer, which she died just five months later worse.