Virna Lisi
Gender: Female
Born: 8th November 1936 (currently 75 years old)
Nationality: Italy
Movies: Signore & Signori, The Statue, Le bambole, The Best Day of My Life, Beyond Good and Evil, La Reine Margot, How to Murder Your Wife, The Secret of Santa Vittoria, Not with My Wife, You Don't!, Una Vergine per il Principe, Roma Bene, The 25th Hour, Assault on a Queen, The Girl and the General, The Man, the Woman and the Money, Eva, Arabella, La Donna del Giorno, I ragazzi di via Panisperna, 5 marines per 100 ragazze, La cicala, Lo scapolo, E Napoli canta, La corda d'acciaio, Ernesto, Bluebeard, Time for Loving, Follow Your Heart, Merry Christmas... Happy New Year, , Miss Right, Night Flight from Moscow, Anyone Can Play, Duel of the Titans, La Tulipe noire, Balzac: A Life of Passion, Casanova 70, Boogie Woogie
Virna Lisi (born 8 November 1936 in Ancona) is a Cannes and César award-winning Italian film actress. She was born in Ancona, Marche, as Virna Lisa Pieralisi.
Virna Lisi began her film career in her teens. She was discovered by two Neapolitan producers (Antonio Ferrigno and Ettore Pesce) in Paris. Her debut was in La corda d'acciaio (The line of steel, 1953). Initially, she did musical films, like in E Napoli canta (Napoli sings, 1953) and the successful Questa è la vita (1954, with the popular Totò). Nonetheless, soon Virna Lisi became a figure whose beauty was more valued than her talent, like in Le diciottenni and Lo scapolo films of 1955. Still, she incarnated demanding roles, particularly in La Donna del Giorno (1956), Eva (1962), and the Italian-made spectacle Romolo e Remo (1961).
In the late 1950s, Lisi did theater at Piccolo Teatro di Milano, in I giacobini by Federico Zardi, under the direction of Giorgio Strehler. During the 1960s, Virna Lisi did comedies and, also, she participated in dramatic television productions which were of the most viewed in Italy. Also in television Lisi was the figure who promoted a toothpaste brand, with a slogan which would become a
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