Pier Angeli
Pier Angeli, actually Anna Maria Pierangeli, ( born June 19, 1932 in Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy, † September 10, 1971 in Beverly Hills, California ) was an Italian actress.
Life
Angeli began her acting career under her birth name in Italy and debuted in 1949 successfully Domani è troppo in the film tardi in which it came to the then still very delicate question of when young people would ' be elucidated. In 1951 she received for her second film, the drama Tomorrow is another day, the Nastro d' Argento Best Actress. In 1950 gave her the Hollywood director Fred Zinnemann, the title role of the Italian soldiers bride in the careful time image Teresa. After the end of filming she stayed in the U.S. and changed its name. Your family followed after her.
In 1954 Pier Angeli a romance with actor James Dean. In the same year she married to pressure her mother an actor with Italian roots, Vic Damone, with whom she had a son, Perry Rocco Luigi Farinola (* 1955). Her second marriage to the Italian composer Armando Trovajoli came from another child, Andrew " Popino " ( b. 1963 )
Pier Angelis acting career included roles in films like Sodom and Gomorrah (1962), The Last Battle (1965 ), or for $ 1000 per day (1966 ) on the side of Gene Kelly, Paul Newman, Fernandel, Stewart Granger, Kirk Douglas and others. For the film Teresa, she received the 1952 Golden Globe Award for Best Young Actress.
1971 died Pier Angeli during the filming of the movie Octaman - The beast from the depths involuntarily from an overdose of drugs in Beverly Hills. Her twin sister Maria Luisa was under the name Marisa Pavan also an actress.