Laura Antonelli

Laura Antonelli

  • Birthday: 1941-11-28
  • Deathday: 2015-06-22
  • Place of birth: Pola, Croatia
  • Also know as: Laura Antonaz

Biography

Laura Antonelli (née Antonaz; 28 November 1941 – 22 June 2015) was an Italian film actress, who appeared in 45 films between 1964 and 1991, and she is best known for the movie Malizia. Antonelli was born Laura Antonaz in Pola, Kingdom of Italy (in Croatian, Pula), former capital of Istria. After the war, her parents fled what was then Yugoslavia, lived in Italian refugee camps and eventually settled in Naples, where her father found work as a hospital administrator. Antonelli had a childhood interest in mathematics, but as a teenager, she became proficient at gymnastics. In an interview for The New York Times, she recalled, "My parents had made me take hours of gym classes during my teens ... They felt I was ugly, clumsy, insignificant and they hoped I would at least develop some grace. I became very good, especially in rhythmical gym, which is a kind of dance." Setting aside ambitions to make a career in mathematics, she graduated as a gymnastics instructor. She moved to Rome, where she became a secondary-school gym teacher and was able to meet people in the entertainment industry, who helped her find modelling jobs. Antonelli's earliest engagements included Italian advertisements for Coca-Cola. In 1965, she made her first feature-film appearance in Le sedicenni, although her performance went uncredited. Her American debut came in 1966 in Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs. Other roles followed; her breakthrough came in 1973's Malizia. She appeared in a number of sex farces such as Till Marriage Do Us Part/Mio Dio come sono caduta in basso!. She worked in more serious films, as well, including Luchino Visconti's last film, The Innocent (1976). In Wifemistress, a romance film of 1977, she played a repressed wife experiencing a sexual awakening. Later, she appeared in Passione d'Amore (1981). From 1986 she mostly worked on Italian television series. Antonelli's final film role was in the sequel Malizia 2000 (1991), following which she retired. She won the Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists Award, Nastro d'Argento, in 1974 for Malizia. Antonelli was married to publisher Enrico Piacentini but they divorced. From 1972 to 1980, she was the companion of actor Jean-Paul Belmondo. On 27 April 1991, cocaine was found during a police raid on Antonelli's home. She was subsequently convicted of possession and dealing and sentenced to house arrest. She spent ten years appealing the conviction, which was eventually overturned. In 2006, the Italian court of appeals ruled in favor of Antonelli and ordered the Ministry of Justice to pay the actress 108,000 euros. Antonelli died on 22 June 2015, aged 73, from a heart attack. Source: Article "Laura Antonelli" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Filmography

Malicious

1973

As Angela

The Divine Nymph

1975

As Manoela Roderighi

Viuuulentemente mia

1982

As Anna Tassotti Maloni

The Venetian Woman

1986

As Angela

Till Marriage Do Us Part

1974

As Eugenia di Maqueda

The Trap

1985

As Marie Colbert

Venus in Furs

1969

As Wanda von Dunajew

I'm Getting a Yacht

1980

As Roberta

How Funny Can Sex Be?

1973

As Madame Juliette ('Signora sono le 8') / Celestina ('Due cuori e una baracca') / Enrico's Wife ('Non è mai troppo tardi') / Grazia ('Viaggio di nozze') / Tamara ('Torna piccina mia') / The Nun ('Lavoratore italiano all'estero') / Donna Mimma Maccò ('La vendetta') / Tiziana ('L'ospite')

Simona

1974

As Simona

Malizia 2000

1991

As Angela

Chaste and Pure

1981

As Rosa Di Maggio

Gradiva

1970

As Gradiva

The Innocent

1976

As Giuliana Hermil

Wifemistress

1977

As Antonia De Angelis

Bali

1970

As Daria

Tigers in Lipstick

1979

As The Businesswoman

Secret Fantasy

1971

As Costanza Vivaldi

Hypochondriac

1979

As Tonietta

The Miser

1990

As Frosina

Slices of Life

1985

As Monica Belli, la star

Holy Cow

1982

As Marianna

Sesso e volentieri

1982

As Carla De Dominicis / Supermarket client / The Princess

The Sexual Revolution

1968

As Stella

Il turno

1981

As Stellina Ravi

Le sedicenni

1965

As

The Married Couple of the Year Two

1971

As Pauline de Géran

The Eroticist

1972

As suor Delicata

Scoundrel in White

1972

As Martine Dupont

Passion of Love

1981

As Clara

Rimini Rimini

1987

As Noce Bove

Stuff for the Rich

1987

As Mapi Petruzzell (2° episodio)

Black Journal

1977

As Sandra

Without Apparent Motive

1971

As Juliette Vaudreuil

The Archangel

1969

As Elena (uncredited)

Detective Belli

1969

As Franca (uncredited)

Department Store

1986

As Helèna Anzellotti, moglie del capo del personale

The Magnificent Cuckold

1964

As Guest with a Beehive Hairdo at the Artusis (uncredited)

Pardon, Are You for or Against?

1966

As Piera Conforti

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