Giulietta Masina

Biography

Giulietta Masina (22 February 1921 – 23 March 1994) was an Italian film and stage actress. She starred in La Strada and Nights of Cabiria, both winners of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, in 1956 and 1957, respectively. Masina won the Best Actress award at the 1957 Cannes Film Festival for the later film. She was the wife and muse of the Italian film director Federico Fellini, in whom she found an artistic equal and collaborator. Owing to her intense performances of naïve characters dealing with cruel circumstances, Masina is often called the "female Chaplin". Description above from the Wikipedia article Giuletta Masina, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

La Strada

as Gelsomina

Nights of Cabiria

as Maria 'Cabiria' Ceccarelli

Paisan

as Young Woman on Palace Stairs (uncredited)

Juliet of the Spirits

as Giulietta Boldrini

The White Sheik

as Cabiria, the Prostitute

The Swindle

as Iris

Europe '51

as Passerotto

Ginger and Fred

as Amelia "Ginger" Bonetti

Variety Lights

as Melina Amour

The Oscars

as Self