biography
pronunciation:
[manyahnee]
| sex:
| female
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| lived:
| (1908–73)
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| biography:
| Actress, born in Alexandria, N Egypt. Raised in poverty, she first made her living as a nightclub singer, but married the director Goffredo Alessandrini (annulled 1950) and worked in films from 1934, achieving recognition in Rossellini's Roma città aperta (1945, Rome, Open City). She received an Oscar for her first Hollywood film The Rose Tattoo (1955), but much of her later work was for the Italian stage and television, although she appeared in Fellini's Roma (1972). She died unexpectedly following a minor operation. |
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