Ilaria Occhini
Ilaria Occhini ( born March 28, 1934 in Florence) is an Italian actress.
Life and work
Occhini comes from a literary family: her father is the writer Barna Occhini, her maternal uncle, the writer Giovanni Papini.
Occhini was known mainly with historical films, such as Kriemhild next to Sebastian Fischer in the Nibelung adaptation Sigfrido (1957 ), as Ophir alongside Pierre Brasseur, Daniel Gélin and Mario Girotti in Carthage in Flames (1960 ) and Curtis Bernhardt's sandal film The hero of Attica ( 1961). At the same time trained theater actress was seen again on the stage from the beginning of her career in the late 1950s on.
In the 1960s it was seen almost exclusively in adventure films (including in Sergio Corbuccis The man with the golden blade), but in 1966 established itself as a partner Jacques Perrin in Vittorio De Seta's Un uomo a metà (1966 ) as a serious character actress. In the 1970s, she received especially in France demanding supporting roles: as an endorsement or she is in Serge Korbers candlelight the rejected by her step- daughter -to-be new flame whose father (Jean Rochefort ). In José Giovanni terminus scaffold she played Sophie, the faithful wife of an ex - convict (Alain Delon ). During the 1980s, she made herself scarce on the canvas. In Germany she played in 1991 in Klaus Emmerich's Pizza Colonia as Severina Serboli alongside Mario Adorf and Willy Millowitsch. The highlight of her career was formed in 2008, the main role of Gemma in the movie drama Mar nero - Black Sea by Federico Bondi, for which she received the Golden Leopard for best actress at the Locarno Film Festival. In the film, which was shown at several film festivals, it plays a prickly Italian pensioner, who befriends her Romanian maid. In men al dente ( mine vaganti ) Ferzan Ozpetek of them embodies the Nonna, the grandmother way of life in a chaotic Italian family clan. The film was shown in 2010 at numerous festivals, including at the Berlinale and the Tribeca Film Festival.
Except in movies you saw Occhini also commonly used in TV series, such as 2005 prof Adreina in Provaci ancora! .
She is married to actor and writer Raffaele La Capria; her daughter Alexandra La Capria is also an actress and screenwriter.