Maria Cumani Quasimodo
Birthday
1908/01/07
Day of death
1995/11/22 (87 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Milan, Italy
Also know as
Maria Clementina Cumani Quasimodo
Biography
Maria Cumani Quasimodo was an Italian actress and dancer. Born Maria Cumani in Milan, she studied dance under Jia Ruskaja. In 1936, she became the companion of the poet Salvatore Quasimodo, with whom she had a son, Alessandro. In 1937, she made her professional debut as a dancer, and shortly later she specialized in "poetic dance", a personal style in which dance was combined with poetic verses. She was married to Quasimodo from 1948 to 1960. In the meanwhile, Cumani Quasimodo started a double ...Read more
Acting
(1968) Galileo
as ---
(1972) All the Colors of the Dark
as Elderly Neighbor
(1972) Pulp
as Office Manageress
(1988) Nosferatu in Venice
as Princess
(1984) She
as Moona
(1989) The House of Witchcraft
as Witch
(1969) The Laughing Woman
as Sayer's Secretary
(1974) Riot in a Women's Prison
as Ursula - the Mother Superior
(1964) Summer Frenzy
as Julia
(1967) The Subversives
as Ludovico's Mother
(1973) Heart
as La Nonna
(1971) Veruschka - Poetry of a Woman
as ---
(1974) The Two Missionaries
as Marchesa Gonzaga
(1973) The Nun and the Devil
as Lavinia
(1975) The Baby Sitter
as Princess Ruspini (uncredited)
(1974) Five Women for the Killer
as Marta
(1978) Behind Convent Walls
as ---
(1973) Beautiful, Rich, Slight Physical Defect, Seeks Soulmate
as la madre di Teresa
(1966) Pardon, Are You for or Against?
as Baronessa Cornianu
(1987) Teresa
as contessa madre
(1978) L'inquilina del piano di sopra
as ---
(1967) Play-Boy
as Baroness
(1968) I Do Not Forgive... I Kill!
as ---
(1967) Night Is Made for Stealing
as Olga
(1970) Medea
as (uncredited)