Talia Shire

Gender: Female
Born: 25th April 1946 (currently 66 years old)
Nationality: Italy, United States of America
TV programs: Rich Man, Poor Man, Doctors' Hospital
Movies: New York Stories, Rad, Rocky, Rocky II, Rocky III, Rocky V, The Godfather Part II, The Godfather Part III, The Godfather Saga, The Visit, Windows, The Godfather, Rocky IV, Prophecy, Blue Smoke, The Landlady, Looking for Palladin, The Dunwich Horror, Bed & Breakfast, A River Made to Drown In, I ♥ Huckabees, The Whole Shebang, Deadfall, Lured Innocence, Gas-s-s-s, For Richer, for Poorer, The Deported, Dim Sum Funeral, Kiss the Bride, The Butchers, Homo Erectus, Cold Heaven, Palmer's Pick-Up, Born Into Exile, Blood Vows: The Story of a Mafia Wife, Rocky, Chantilly Lace, Pizza with Bullets, Rocky Balboa, Christmas At Cadillac Jack's, The Return of Joe Rich

Talia Shire (born April 25, 1946) is an American actress most known for her roles as Connie Corleone in The Godfather films and Adrianna Balboa (née Pennino) in the Rocky series.

Shire was born Talia Rose Coppola in Lake Success, New York, the daughter of Italia (née Pennino) and arranger/composer Carmine Coppola. Talia is the sister of director and producer Francis Ford Coppola and academic August Coppola, the aunt of actor Nicolas Cage and director Sofia Coppola, and the niece of composer and conductor Anton Coppola. She was married to composer David Shire, with whom she had a son, Matthew Orlando Shire. She has two other sons, actors/musicians Robert Schwartzman and Jason Schwartzman, from her second marriage to the late producer Jack Schwartzman.

Shire first became famous for her role of Connie Corleone in The Godfather and its sequels. Later, she portrayed Adrianna Pennino Balboa, the girlfriend (and later wife) of Rocky Balboa in the Rocky movies. She also starred in such films as I ♥ Huckabees, Kiss the Bride and 2007's Homo Erectus.

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