Maria Michi
Birthday
1921/05/15
Day of death
1980/04/07 (58 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Roma, Lazio, Italy
Also know as
Мария Мики
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...Read more
Acting
(1945) Rome, Open City
as Marina Mari
(1972) Last Tango in Paris
as Rosa's Mother
(1970) The Breach
as La Troisième Parque
(1946) Paisan
as Francesca
(1946) Preludio d'amore
as ---
(1969) The Lady of Monza
as Sister Bianca Homati
(1961) The Laws of War
as signora Macusar
(1947) Fatalità
as Paola
(1949) L'Altra
as 'Angelo' Morelli
(1976) Salon Kitty
as Hilde
(1973) Redneck
as Princess
(1973) Brothers Blue
as Mama Blue
(1970) Mont-Dragon
as Hortense Dubois - la femme d'Armand
(1975) Irene, Irene
as Maria
(1972) What Have You Done to Solange?
as Brenda's Mother (uncredited)
(1948) The Charterhouse of Parma
as Marietta
(1975) Down the Ancient Stairs
as la pazza aggressiva
(1973) Le ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis
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