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Ornella Muti

Ornella Muti

Acting1955Roma, Lazio, Italy

Biography

Ornella Muti (born March 9, 1955) is an Italian actress. She was born in Rome as Francesca Romana Rivelli, to a Neapolitan father and Estonian mother. She has an older sister, Claudia (1951).

Muti modeled as a teenager and made her film debut in 1970 in La moglie più bella (aka The Most Beautiful Wife).

She has primarily worked in Italian films but she made her British film debut as Princess Aura in Flash Gordon in 1980. American movies she appeared in include Oscar (1991) and Once Upon a Crime (1992). She is mostly known to the French for appearing in a TV commercial of Giovanni Panzani pasta.

Muti has been married twice, to Alessio Orano (her fellow actor in the film "The Most Beautiful Wife", 1975–1981), and Federico Facchinetti (1988–1996).

Muti has three children: Naike Rivelli (b. 1974), who is also a model and actress having a close resemblance to her mother, and whose father is Spanish film producer José Luis Bermúdez de Castro Acaso; a son, Andrea, and a second daughter, Carolina, both from her marriage to Facchinetti.

Since 1998, Muti has been living with Stefano Piccolo, a plastic surgeon.

Muti was voted "The Most Beautiful Woman in the World" in 1994 by a worldwide poll of readers of the magazine Class.

In 2008, Ornella Muti introduced her own line of jewellery. She opened new shops in Paris, Milan, Rome, Riga, Moscow and Almaty. She insured her breasts for $350,000.

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Acting History

2023
2022
2020
Wer weiß denn sowas?
TVas Self2 eps
2018
Magical Nights
as Federica, the diva
2017
2012
To Rome with Love
as Pia Fusari
Kulturplatz
TVas Self1 eps
Semperopernball
TVas Self1 eps
2009
Doc West II : Triggerman
as Debra 'Tricky' Downing
2008
Io non ci casco
as Professoressa Lamberti
Il sangue e la rosa
as Barbara Forleis
Il sangue e la rosa
TVas Baronessa Barbara Forleis4 eps
2007
The Final Inquiry
as Maria Maddalena
L'inchiesta - Anno Domini XXXIII
TVas Maria Maddalena2 eps
2003
On the Run
as Cécile Costes
The Lion
as Sybil Bullit
After Life
as Cécile Rivet
Zone interdite
TVas Self1 eps
2002
An Amazing Couple
as Cécile Costes
Lo zio d'America
TVas Maria Monticelli12 eps
2001
Favorite Son
as Claudia Maccari
Tomorrow
as Stefania Zerenghi
Hotel
as Flamenco Spokesperson
Last Run
as Danny
2000
Un Colpo al Cuore
as Giulia Pascoli
The Unscarred
as Rafaella
Jet Set
as Camilla Balbeck
1999
Esther
as Königin Waschti
Dirty Linen
as Bruna
1998
Widows
as Maria Sommer
L'Inconnu de Strasbourg
as Madeleine Wals
Ciao Darwin
TVas Presidente di giuria1 eps
The Count of Monte Cristo
TVas Mercédès Herrera4 eps
1997
Just for Laughs
as Maître Alice Obini
Mordbüro
as Madame Behar
L'avvocato Porta
TVas Chiara8 eps
1996
Die Harald Schmidt Show
TVas Self1 eps
1995
Love Deal
as Tatiana
Il Grande Fausto
as Giulia Occhini
1994
Wetten, dass..?
TVas Self1 eps
1992
Once Upon a Crime
as Elena Morosco
1991
Oscar
as Sofia Provolone
Il Conte Max
as Isabella Matignon
1989
'o Re
as Maria Sophie of Bavaria
Sacrée Soirée
TVas Self3 eps
1987
Casanova
as Henriette
1986
Stregati
as Anna
Department Store
as Se stessa / Luisa, commessa del reparto abbigliamento per bambini
1984
Swann in Love
as Odette de Crécy
1983
1982
Famous T & A
as Lisa (archive footage)
Champs-Elysées
TVas Self1 eps
1981
Madly in Love
as Principessa Cristina
Love & Money
as Catherine Stockheinz
Bambi
TVas Self2 eps
1980
Flash Gordon
as Princess Aura
1978
Nest of Vipers
as Elena Mazzarini
Break Up
as Ussena / Sena
First Love
as Renata
Spécial cinéma
TVas Self3 eps
1977
The New Monsters
as l'autostoppista/la hostess
Death of a Corrupt Man
as Valérie Agostinelli
Numéro un
TVas Self2 eps
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
TVas Self2 eps
1976
The Last Woman
as Valérie
Pure as a Lily
as Lucia Mantuso
1975
Leonor
as Catherine
1974
Come Home and Meet My Wife
as Vincenzina Rotunno Blasetti
Appassionata
as Eugenia Rutelli
1972
Fiorina the Cow
as Teresa - daughter of Betta
1971
Oasis of Fear
as Ingrid Sjoman
1970
The Most Beautiful Wife
as Francesca Cimarosa

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Personal Info

Known For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
3/9/1955(71 years old)
Place of Birth
Roma, Lazio, Italy