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Ornella Muti
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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…
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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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ornella Muti, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Ornella Muti's Filmography
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Roma elastica
as The TV Presenter
Armony
The Undecided Groom
as Barbara
The Christmas Show
as Grandma Rita
Sanremo 72. Il Festival da dove non l’avete mai visto
as Self
La voglia matta di vivere
as Self
Ti vogliamo bene Francesco Nuti
Magical Nights
as Federica, the diva
Mare di grano
Wine to Love
as Anna
Marco Ferreri: Dangerous But Necessary
as Self
To Rome with Love
as Pia Fusari
Celebrity Nude Revue: Easy 80's Volume 1
as Self (archive footage)
Francesco Nuti… e vengo da lontano
as Self
Vittorio racconta Gassman: Una vita da mattatore
as Self
Celebrity Nude Revue: The Saucy 70's Volume 2
as (archive footage)
Doc West II : Triggerman
as Debra 'Tricky' Downing
Io non ci casco
as Professoressa Lamberti
Postcards from Rome
as Ornella
Il sangue e la rosa
as Barbara Forleis
Civico zero
as Nina
Peopling The Palaces
as Marchesa
The Final Inquiry
as Maria Maddalena
Yo-Rhad - Un amico dallo spazio
as Marianna (voice)
French Fried Vacations 3: Friends Forever
as Graziella Lespinasse
A Life in Suitcases: A History of Tulse Luper
as Mathilde Figura
The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 3: From Sark to the Finish
as Mathilde Figura
The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things
as Grandmother
The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 2: Vaux to the Sea
as Mathilde Figura
People : Jet Set 2
as Aphrodita
Say I Do
as Francesca, la dircetora
The Lion
as Sybil Bullit
The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story
as Mathilde Figura
On the Run
as Cécile Costes
After Life
as Cécile Rivet
An Amazing Couple
as Cécile Costes
Hotel
as Flamenco Spokesperson
Last Run
as Danny
Favorite Son
as Claudia Maccari
A Long Long Long Night of Love
as Egle
Tomorrow
as Stefania Zerenghi
Un Colpo al Cuore
as Giulia Pascoli
Jet Set
as Camilla Balbeck
The Unscarred
as Rafaella
Tierra del fuego
as Armenia
Esther
as Königin Waschti
Dirty Linen
as Bruna
The Stranger From Strasbourg
as Madeleine Wals
Somewhere in the City
as Marta
Widows
as Maria Sommer
Mordbüro
as Madame Behar
Just for Laughs
as Maître Alice Obini
Stella's Favor
as Stella
Love Deal
as Tatiana
The Bilingual Lover
as Norma
Non chiamarmi Omar
as Viola
Once Upon a Crime
as Elena Morosco
Christmas Vacation '91
as Giuliana
Especially on Sunday
as Anna
Il Conte Max
as Isabella Matignon
Oscar
as Sofia Provolone
No Poster
Mezzaestate
Tonight at Alice's
as Alice
A Season of Giants
as Onoria
The Voyage of Captain Fracassa
as Serafina
Wait Until Spring, Bandini
as Maria
'o Re
as Maria Sophie of Bavaria
Codice privato
as Anna
The Sparrow's Fluttering
as Silvana
My Sister and I
as Silvia
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
as Angela Vicario
Casanova
as Henriette
Stregati
as Anna
Department Store
as Se stessa / Luisa, commessa del reparto abbigliamento per bambini
Blame it on Paradise
as Celeste
The Future Is Woman
as Malvina
Swann in Love
as Odette de Crécy
Rich and Poor
as Marta
Bonnie and Clyde Italian Style
as Rosetta Foschini
The Girl from Trieste
as Nicole
Famous T & A
as Lisa (archive footage)
Madly in Love
as Principessa Cristina
Nobody's Perfect
as Chantal
Tales of Ordinary Madness
as Cass
Love & Money
as Catherine Stockheinz
The Taming of the Scoundrel
as Lisa Silvestri
Flash Gordon
as Princess Aura
Life Is Beautiful
as Maria
Atrocious Tales of Love and Death
as Lucia Navarro
First Love
as Renata
Break Up
as Ussena / Sena
Nest of Vipers
as Elena Mazzarini
The New Monsters
as l'autostoppista/la hostess
Without Words
as Her
Death of a Corrupt Man
as Valérie Agostinelli
The Bishop's Bedroom
as Matilde
The Last Woman
as Valérie
Pure as a Lily
as Lucia Mantuso
La joven casada
as Camino
Leonor
as Catherine
Come Home and Meet My Wife
as Vincenzina Rotunno Blasetti
Appassionata
as Eugenia Rutelli
Forbidden Passion
as Maribel
A Girl and an Older Man
as Caridad
The Sensual Man
as Giovanna
All Sons of the Saintest Mother
as Santazza
The Nun and the Devil
as Isabella
Experiencia prematrimonial
as Sandra
Fiorina the Cow
as Teresa - daughter of Betta
The House of Doves
as Sandra
Oasis of Fear
as Ingrid Sjoman
Summer Affair
as Lisa
The Most Beautiful Wife
as Francesca Cimarosa