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Giovanna Mezzogiorno
Full Name
Giovanna Mezzogiorno
Date of Birth
November 9, 1974
Years active
1997-present
Life and Career[]
In 1998 she starred in the film Del perduto amore directed by Michele Placido, with Fabrizio Bentivoglio and Sergio Rubini (she was awarded the Nastro d'Argento, the Ciak d'Oro and Premio Pasinetti as Best Actress in a starring role) and, for the Italian National Television Network, RaiDue, in a film made-for-TV Più leggero non basta (A lighter burden to bear) in the role of a young girl with muscular dystrophy, directed by Elisabetta Lodoli with Stefano Accorsi.
In 1999, she played the role of Silvia, daughter of Enzo Tortora by whose mistaken conviction the film was inspired. The film Un uomo perbene with Michele Placido and Mariangela Melato, was directed by Maurizio Zaccaro. In that same year, she worked in Asini, directed by Antonello Grimaldi, with celebrated Italian comedian Claudio Bisio.
In 2000, she travelled between Prague and Paris for
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Giovanna Mezzogiorno
Italian actress
Giovanna Mezzogiorno (Italian pronunciation:[dʒoˈvannaˌmɛddzoˈdʒorno]; born 9 November 1974) is an Italian theatre and film actress.
Early life
Mezzogiorno was born in Rome, 9 November 1974, a daughter of actors Vittorio Mezzogiorno and Cecilia Sacchi. She grew up watching her parents on set. At first, she wanted to become a ballerina, and studied dancing for 13 years. After her father's death when she was 19, Mezzogiorno moved to Paris, where she attended the stages by Ariane Mnouchkine and worked for two years at the Peter Brook Workshop. She made her stage debut with the role of Ofelia in Qui est là, based on Shakespeare's Hamlet. The play toured various European cities. She received the Premio Coppola-Prati 1996, the jury was presided over by theatre critic Franco Quadri. One year later, she made her film debut in Il viaggio della sposa (The Bride's Journey), written by and starring Sergio Rubini. Mezzogiorno was awarded the Targa d'Argento as the New Talent in Italian Cinema, she was also given the Grolla d'o
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biography
Giovanna Mezzogiorno was born in Rome on 9 November 1974, the daughter of actors Vittorio Mezzogiorno and Cecilia Sacchi. Attracted to acting, she trained in Paris at the theater workshop of director Peter Brook at the Centre International de Créations Théâtrales. Brook directed her stage debut of the Bouffes du Nord in the 1995-96 season with the play: Qui est là, based on Shakespeare’s Hamlet, where she played Ophelia. In 1997 she made her film debut with Sergio Rubini’s The Bride’s Journey, which opened the Midnight section of the 54th Venice International Film Festival and immediately earned her the Targa d’Argento Award for “New Talents of Italian Cinema” at the Grolle d’Oro, as well as the Foreign Press Golden Globe and the Flaiano International Award as Best Female Performer. The following year, with Michele Placido’s Del perduto amore (Of Lost Love), presented out of competition in Venice, she won the Silver Ribbon, the Golden Ciak and the Pasinetti Award as Best Actress in a Leading Role. This was followed by performances in A
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