MONICA VITTI ,ITALIAN ACTRESS BORN 1931 NOVEMBER 3
MONICA VITTI ,ITALIAN ACTRESS BORN 1931 NOVEMBER 3 Monica Vitti (born 3 November 1931[citation needed]) is an Italian actress best known for her starring roles in films directed by Michelangelo Antonioni during the early 1960s.[1] After working with Antonioni, Vitti changed focus and began making comedies, working with director Mario Monicelli on many films. She has appeared opposite Marcello Mastroianni, Richard Harris, Terence Stamp, Michael Caine and Dirk Bogarde. Vitti won five David di Donatello Awards for Best Actress, seven Italian Golden Globes for Best Actress, the Career Golden Globe, and the Venice Film Festival Career Golden Lion Award.[2] Early life[edit source] Born Maria Luisa Ceciarelli in Rome, she acted in amateur productions as a teenager, then trained as an actor at Rome's National Academy of Dramatic Arts (graduating in 1953) and at Pittman's College, where she played a teen in a charity performance of Dario Niccodemi's La nemica. Sh...