Olga Villi
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Born | Olga Villani (1922-01-20)20 January 1922 Suzzara, Mantua, Italy |
Died | 12 August 1989(1989-08-12) (aged 67) Rapallo, Italy |
Occupation | actress |
Olga Villi (20 January 1922 – 12 August 1989), was an Italian model and actress.
Life and career
Born in Suzzara, Mantua as Olga Villani, Villi began to work, only twelve years old, as a saleswoman and seamstress at the Milanese fashion house Biki.[1]
A few years later her employer hired her as a model; noted by Macario, she was hired by him in 1942 for the rivista-operetta Il grillo al castello, where she had to act, sing and dance.[1] Thanks to the success of the show Villi became one of the most quoted soubrettes of the period, working with Anna Magnani, Nino Taranto and Alberto Sordi, and in mid-1940s she also starred in several drama plays, working among others with Luchino Visconti, Alessandro Blasetti and Giorgio Strehler.[1][2]
Also active in films and on television, in 1967 Villi won a Nastro d'Argento for Best Supporting Actress thanks to her performance in Pietro Germi's The Birds, the Bees and the Italians.[3] After having announced her retirement in 1972, she came back on stage in 1984.[2]
She was married to the nobleman Raimondo Lanza di Trabia until his suicide in 1954.[1][4] Villi died after a long illness in Rapallo, where she lived for about thirty years.[2]
Selected filmography
- Macario Against Zagomar (1944)
- Christmas at Camp 119 (1948)
- Letter at Dawn (1948)
- Yvonne of the Night (1949)
- Four Red Roses (1952)
- Half a Century of Song (1952)
- Adriana Lecouvreur (1955)
- Sex Quartet (1966)
- The Birds, the Bees and the Italians (1966)
- Il fischio al naso (1967)
References
- ^ a b c d Enrico Lancia, Roberto Poppi (2003). Dizionario del cinema italiano - Le Attrici. Gremese Editore, 2003. pp. 36–37. ISBN 888440214X.
- ^ a b c "Due protagonisti dello spettacolo". La Repubblica. 15 August 1989. Retrieved 6 December 2013.
- ^ Enrico Lancia (1998). I premi del cinema. Gremese Editore, 1998. pp. 233, 249. ISBN 88-7742-221-1.
- ^ Tano Gullo (3 January 2007). "Lanza il principe irrequieto". La Repubblica. Retrieved 6 December 2013.
External links
- Olga Villi at IMDb
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- Anna Magnani (1946)
- Ave Ninchi (1947)
- Vivi Gioi (1948)
- Giulietta Masina (1949)
- Giulietta Masina (1951)
- Elisa Cegani (1954)
- Tina Pica (1955)
- Valentina Cortese (1956)
- Marisa Merlini (1957)
- Franca Marzi (1958)
- Dorian Gray (1959)
- Cristina Gaioni (1960)
- Didi Perego (1961)
- Monica Vitti (1962)
- Regina Bianchi (1963)
- Sandra Milo (1964)
- Tecla Scarano (1965)
- Sandra Milo (1966)
- Olga Villi (1967)
- Maria Grazia Buccella (1968)
- Pupella Maggio (1969)
- Not awarded (1970)
- Francesca Romana Coluzzi (1971)
- Marina Berti / Silvana Mangano (1972)
- Lea Massari (1973)
- Adriana Asti (1974)
- Giovanna Ralli (1975)
- Maria Teresa Albani (1976)
- Adriana Asti (1977)
- Virna Lisi (1978)
- Lea Massari (1979)
- Stefania Sandrelli (1980)
- Ida Di Benedetto (1981)
- Claudia Cardinale (1982)
- Virna Lisi (1983)
- Monica Scattini (1984)
- Marina Confalone (1985)
- Isa Danieli (1986)
- Ottavia Piccolo (1987)
- Elena Sofia Ricci (1988)
- Stefania Sandrelli (1989)
- Nancy Brilli (1990)
- Zoe Incrocci (1991)
- Ilaria Occhini (1992)
- Paola Quattrini (1993)
- Milena Vukotic (1994)
- Virna Lisi (1995)
- Regina Bianchi (1996)
- Lucia Poli (1997)
- Mimma De Rosalia / Maria Aliotta / Annamaria Confalone / Adele Aliotta / Francesca Di Cesare / Eleonora Teriaca / Concetta Alfano / Antonia Uzzo (1998)
- Stefania Sandrelli (1999)
- Marina Massironi (2000)
- Stefania Sandrelli (2001)
- Margherita Buy / Virna Lisi / Sandra Ceccarelli (2002)
- Monica Bellucci (2003)
- Margherita Buy (2004)
- Giovanna Mezzogiorno (2005)
- Angela Finocchiaro (2006)
- Ambra Angiolini (2007)
- Sabrina Ferilli (2008)
- Francesca Neri (2009)
- Isabella Ragonese / Elena Sofia Ricci / Lunetta Savino (2010)
- Carolina Crescentini (2011)
- Michela Cescon (2012)
- Sabrina Ferilli (2013)
- Paola Minaccioni (2014)
- Micaela Ramazzotti (2015)
- Greta Scarano (2016)
- Sabrina Ferilli / Carla Signoris (2017)
- Kasia Smutniak (2018)
- Marina Confalone (2019)
- Valeria Golino (2020)
- Sara Serraiocco (2021)
- Luisa Ranieri (2022)
- Barbora Bobuľová (2023)
- Isabella Rossellini (2024)
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