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Giulia Anna "Giulietta" Masina (22 February 1921 – 23 March 1994) was an Italian film actress best known for her performances as Gelsomina in La Strada (1954) and Cabiria in Nights of Cabiria (1957), for which she won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress at the 1957 Cannes Film Festival.
Actress: Nights of Cabiria. Born in San Giorgio di Piano, Giulietta Masina spent part of her teenage years living with a widowed aunt in Rome, where she cultivated a passion for the theater and studied for a degree in Philosophy.
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Apr 23, 2024 · Giulietta Masina (born February 22, 1921, San Giorgio di Piano, near Bologna, Italy—died March 23, 1994, Rome) was an Italian motion-picture actress and the wife of Italian film director Federico Fellini. Her portrayal of waiflike innocents served as the emotional focal point for some of Fellini’s best films.
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Mar 24, 1994 · Giulietta Masina, the waiflike actress who became one of Italy's best-known movie stars, died today in a Rome hospital less than five months after the death of her husband, the director...
Born Giulia Anna Masina on February 22, 1920, in San Giorgio di Piano, Italy; died of lung cancer on March 23, 1994, in Rome; youngest of four children of Gaetano Masina (erstwhile first violinist with Milan's Teatro Scala); grew up under the tutelage of her aunt Giulia Pasqualin; married Federico Fellini (a director), in 1943; children: one son...
Feb 22, 2021 · Born 100 years ago in San Giorno di Piano, Giulietta Masina is one of the most indelible faces of Italian cinema. She started her career as a theatre and radio actress but, by the time her husband Federico Fellini made the transition from screenwriter to film director, Masina was ready to follow him on the journey to the big screen.
Mar 24, 1994 · Giulietta Masina, who played the haunting waif in "La Strada" and other leading films directed by her husband, Federico Fellini, died Wednesday. She was 73. Masina was being treated for lung...
