Greta Scacchi

Greta Scacchi [ gre ː ta ː skak i] ( born February 18, 1960 in Milan, Italy) is an Italian- Australian actress.

Life

Scacchi grew up as the daughter of an English dancer and an Italian painter bilingually. When she was four years old, her parents, after which she moved with her mother and her brothers to England, where they lived first in London and from 1966 in Haywards Heath ( West Sussex ) parted. When her mother remarried in 1975, the family moved with Scacchis stepfather to Australia; there she worked as a cowgirl and translator for Italian.

After she had taken as a child ballet and acting lessons, she returned with eighteen years to London, where she began training at the prestigious Bristol Old Vic in 1978. Then she played minor roles in various theaters and worked as a model for advertising.

Your screen debut in 1982, she had the second face, directed by Dominik Graf. In the same year following her first major role opposite Julie Christie in the heat and dust. In 1985 she finally made ​​a breakthrough with her role in Coca Cola Kid.

In 1990, Scacchi moved to Los Angeles because they wanted to make it big in Hollywood. Her first role in a Hollywood movie, she gave Alan J. Pakula in Presumed Innocent. The following are additional roles including in Wolfgang Petersen's second Hollywood film Shattered, in Robert Altman's The Player and The Serpent's Kiss.

From 1991 to 1993 she was with from the series Criminal Intent - Criminal Intent ( Law & Order: Criminal Intent ) married known Vincent D'Onofrio. From this relationship, her daughter Leila George D' Onofrio, who was born on March 20, 1992 in Australia comes from.

Comments

  • With the filming of Coca Cola Kid, she met the Split Enz singer Tim Finn know and was from 1983 to 1989 in a relationship with him.
  • Together with her ​​then-husband Vincent D'Onofrio played the lovers in the film adaptation of the book salt on our skin.
  • With her ​​cousin Carlo Mantegazza, a producer, Scacchi has a son.

Filmography (selection)

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