Laura antonelli biography

  • Laura Antonelli was an Italian film actress who appeared in 45 films between 1964 and 1991.
  • Laura Antonelli (née Antonaz; 28 November 1941 – 22 June 2015) was an Italian film actress who appeared in 45 films between 1964 and 1991.
  • Laura Antonelli was born on November 28, 1941 in Pola, Istria, Italy [now Pula, Istria, Croatia].

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    Pin-up star of 1970s sex-comedies


    Laura Antonelli first moved to Rome
    to be a gymnastics teacher
    The actress Laura Antonelli, whose career was at its peak while Italian cinema audiences were indulging a taste for sex-comedies during the 1970s, was born on this day in 1941 in Pula, a port city now part of Croatia but then known as Pola, capital of the Italian territory of Istria.

    A curvaceous brunette who posed for both the Italian and French editions of Playboymagazine in the early 1980s, although Antonelli was mostly remembered for appearing scantily clad opposite male stars such as Marcello Mastroianniand Michele Placido,she was a talented actress, winning a Nastro d’Argento - awarded by Italian film journalists - as best actress in Salvatore Samperi’s 1974 comedy-drama Malizia (Malice).

    She also worked on several occasions for Luchino Visconti,one of Italy’s greatest directors. Indeed, she starred in 1976 as the wife of a 19th century
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    Laura Antonelli, Italian Actress and Sex Symbol, Dies at 73

    ROME — Actress Laura Antonelli, who became an Italian sex symbol in the 1970s and worked with masters Luchino Visconti, Dino Risi, and Ettore Scola, proving her true thesping talent over a career spanning 45 movies during almost four decades, died Monday at her home in Ladispoli near Rome. She was 73.

    Antonelli died of a heart attack in modest housing provided by Ladispoli social services in 2009. Her career had taken a tragic turn in the 1990s after cocaine-related charges were pressed against her in 1991. She was cleared of the charges in 2006.

    Born Laura Antonaz in 1941, in Pola, which is now in Croatia but was then part of Italy, Laura Antonelli grew up in Italian post-World War II refugee camps before her family subsequently relocated to Naples.

    After starting out making TV commercials for soft drinks and bedsheets she landed minor roles in Italian erotic genre movies and comedies, including Mar

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    Laura Antonelli

    Italian actress (1941–2015)

    Laura Antonelli

    Antonelli in the movie Malizia (1973)

    Born

    Laura Antonaz


    (1941-11-28)28 November 1941

    Pula, Kingdom of Italy (now Croatia)

    Died22 June 2015(2015-06-22) (aged 73)

    Rome, Italy

    Occupations
    Years active1964–1991
    Known forMalizia
    L'innocente
    Passione d"Amore
    SpouseEnrico Piacentini
    Partner(s)Jean-Paul Belmondo
    (1972–1980)
    Children1

    Laura Antonelli (née Antonaz; 28 November 1941 – 22 June 2015) was an Italian film actress who appeared in 45 films between 1964 and 1991.

    Early years

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    Antonelli was born Laura Antonaz in Pola, Kingdom of Italy (in Croatian, Pula), former capital of Istria.[1] After the war, her parents fled what was then Yugoslavia, lived in Italian refugee camps and eventually settled in Naples,[2] where her father found work as a hospital administrator. Antonelli had a childhood interest in mathem