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Laura Antonelli

Laura Antonelli

Actor · 1941 – 2015 · Pola, Croatia

Laura Antonelli (née Antonaz; 28 November 1941 – 22 June 2015) was an Italian film actress, who appeared in 45 films between 1964 and 1991, and she is best known for the movie Malizia. Antonelli was born Laura Antonaz in Pola, Kingdom of Italy (in Croatian, Pula), former capital of Istria. After the war, her parents fled what was then Yugoslavia, lived in Italian refugee camps and eventually settled in Naples, where her father found work as a hospital administrator. Antonelli had a childhood interest in mathematics, but as a teenager, she became proficient at gymnastics. In an interview for The New York Times, she recalled, "My parents had made me take hours of gym classes during my teens ... They felt I was ugly, clumsy, insignificant and they hoped I would at least develop some grace. I became very good, especially in rhythmical gym, which is a kind of dance." Setting aside ambitions to make a career in mathematics, she graduated as a gymnastics instructor. She moved to Rome, where she became a secondary-school gym teacher and was able to meet people in the entertainment industry, who helped her find modelling jobs. Antonelli's earliest engagements included Italian advertisements for Coca-Cola. In 1965, she made her first feature-film appearance in Le sedicenni, although her performance went uncredited. Her American debut came in 1966 in Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs. Other roles followed; her breakthrough came in 1973's Malizia. She appeared in a number of sex farces such as Till Marriage Do Us Part/Mio Dio come sono caduta in basso!. She worked in more serious films, as well, including Luchino Visconti's last film, The Innocent (1976). In Wifemistress, a romance film of 1977, she played a repressed wife experiencing a sexual awakening. Later, she appeared in Passione d'Amore (1981). From 1986 she mostly worked on Italian television series. Antonelli's final film role was in the sequel Malizia 2000 (1991), following which she retired. She won the Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists Award, Nastro d'Argento, in 1974 for Malizia. Antonelli was married to publisher Enrico Piacentini but they divorced. From 1972 to 1980, she was the companion of actor Jean-Paul Belmondo. On 27 April 1991, cocaine was found during a police raid on Antonelli's home. She was subsequently convicted of possession and dealing and sentenced to house arrest. She spent ten years appealing the conviction, which was eventually overturned. In 2006, the Italian court of appeals ruled in favor of Antonelli and ordered the Ministry of Justice to pay the actress 108,000 euros. Antonelli died on 22 June 2015, aged 73, from a heart attack. Source: Article "Laura Antonelli" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

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  • Movie7.3

    Malizia

    Malicious

    1973 · 373 votes

  • Movie4.2

    La Gabbia

    The Trap

    1985 · 15 votes

  • Movie4.8

    Rimini Rimini

    1987 · 103 votes

  • Movie6.6

    Passione d'amore

    Passion of Love

    1981 · 31 votes

  • Movie5.0

    Le spie vengono dal semifreddo

    Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs

    1966 · 64 votes

  • Movie5.0

    La Venexiana

    The Venetian Woman

    1986 · 24 votes

  • Movie5.6
  • Movie5.5

    Gran bollito

    Black Journal

    1977 · 20 votes

  • Movie5.6

    Peccato veniale

    Lovers and Other Relatives

    1974 · 30 votes

  • Movie6.9

    L'innocente

    The Innocent

    1976 · 129 votes

  • Movie6.1

    Il merlo maschio

    Secret Fantasy

    1971 · 33 votes

  • Movie4.4

    Letti selvaggi

    Tigers in Lipstick

    1979 · 14 votes

  • Movie6.5

    Les Mariés de l'an deux

    The Married Couple of the Year Two

    1971 · 99 votes

  • Movie5.0

    Mi faccio la barca

    I'm Getting a Yacht

    1980 · 20 votes

  • Movie4.7

    Le malizie di Venere

    Devil in the Flesh

    1969 · 27 votes

  • Movie6.1

    A Man Called Sledge

    1970 · 41 votes

  • Movie6.1

    Scusi, lei è favorevole o contrario?

    Pardon, Are You for or Against?

    1966 · 21 votes

  • Movie5.7

    Mio Dio, come sono caduta in basso!

    Till Marriage Do Us Part

    1974 · 37 votes

  • Movie5.7

    Sessomatto

    How Funny Can Sex Be?

    1973 · 63 votes

  • Movie5.7

    Malizia 2mila

    Malizia 2000

    1991 · 20 votes

  • Movie5.9

    Sans mobile apparent

    Without Apparent Motive

    1971 · 71 votes

  • Movie5.5

    Un detective

    Detective Belli

    1969 · 29 votes

  • Movie5.6

    Mogliamante

    Wifemistress

    1977 · 23 votes

  • Movie5.3

    Divina creatura

    The Divine Nymph

    1975 · 18 votes

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  • TV7.0

    Disperatamente Giulia

    Julia Forever

    1989 · 1 votes