Maria Michi

from Rome, Lazio, Italy

Artwork for Last Tango in ParisImage of Maria Michi

Biography

Maria Michi (14 May 1921 – 7 April 1980) was an Italian supporting actress who worked with Roberto Rossellini on his two early neorealism masterpieces: Rome, Open City and Paisà.

Michi worked first as a typist at a law firm, then as an usherette at Teatro Quattro Fontane in Rome. She was noticed and given small parts in the company of Sergio Tofano and Diana Torrieri during the 1942-1943 season. Critic Irene Bignardi called her "a woman very near the resistance and the Communist Party". In 1948, she worked with Christian-Jaque in La Chartreuse de Parme. She was married in September 1949 to Duke Augusto Torlonia, and left the world of cinema for the theater, particularly working with director Guido Salvini. The marriage was annulled in San Marino in 1956. She resumed her film career in the 1960s and 1970s, when she did 12 films, including Bernardo Bertolucci's Last Tango in Paris and Tinto Brass's Salon Kitty, her last film.

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Timeline

1976Aged 55

  • Poster for Salon Kitty

    Hilde

1975Aged 54

  • Poster for Irene, Irene

    Maria

  • Poster for Down the Ancient Stairs

    la pazza aggressiva

1973Aged 52

  • Poster for Redneck

    Princess

  • Poster for Brothers Blue

    Mama Blue

  • Poster for Le ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis

    (Unknown)

1972Aged 51

  • Poster for What Have You Done to Solange?

    Brenda's Mother (uncredited)

  • Poster for Last Tango in Paris

    Rosa's Mother

1970Aged 49

  • Poster for The Breach

    La Troisième Parque

  • Poster for Mont-Dragon

    Hortense Dubois - la femme d'Armand

1969Aged 48

  • Poster for The Lady of Monza

    Sister Bianca Homati

1961Aged 40

  • Poster for The Laws of War

    signora Macusar

1948Aged 27

  • Poster for The Charterhouse of Parma

    Marietta

1947Aged 26

  • Poster for Fatalità

    Paola

  • Poster for Shamed

    Tea

  • Poster for L'altra

    'Angelo' Morelli

1946Aged 25

  • Poster for Paisan

    Francesca

1945Aged 24

  • Poster for Rome, Open City

    Marina Mari