Dorian Gray

Biography

Maria Luisa Mangini (2 February 1928 – 15 February 2011), better known as Dorian Gray, was an Italian actress. Gray made her stage debut in 1950. After five years she left the theater world and devoted herself to the cinema. The role she played most often in films was that of a seductive sex kitten. She played the titular "bad girl" in Totò, Peppino e la malafemmina. She also appeared in Michelangelo Antonioni's Il grido. In 1957, she took part in The Nights of Cabiria by Federico Fellini. On February 15, 2011, Gray committed suicide by gunshot at her home in Torcegno. She was 83 years old; however, some media reported her age as 75, since she claimed to have been born in 1936.

Known For

Nights of Cabiria

as Jessy

Toto, Peppino, and the Hussy

as Marisa Florian

Il Grido

as Virginia

Totò, Peppino e i fuorilegge

as Valeria

Totò Double or Nothing?

as Hélène

Love and Larceny

as Elena

...And Suddenly It's Murder!

as Eleonora Franzetti

Love on the Riviera

as Dorina

Colossus and the Amazon Queen

as Antiope

Vacations in Majorca

as Hélène