Elisabetta Pozzi

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Elisabetta Pozzi
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Pozzi as Medea
Born (1955-02-23) 23 February 1955 (age 68)
Genoa, Italy
OccupationActress

Elisabetta Pozzi (born 23 February 1955) is an Italian stage, film and television actress. [1] [2]

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Life and career

Born in Genoa, Italy, Pozzi started to study acting during her high school years at the Teatro Stabile di Genova. [1] [3] She gave her debut on stage at the age of seventeen, playing the role of Romilda in an adaptation of Luigi Pirandello's The Late Mattia Pascal directed by Giorgio Albertazzi. [3] Pozzi soon asserted herself as one of the most requested actresses of Italian theatre, notably working with Luca Ronconi, Peter Stein, Luigi Squarzina, Nanni Loy, Giancarlo Cobelli and at the Piccolo Teatro in Milan. [3] She is also active on television and in cinema. In 1992, her role of Adriana in Carlo Verdone's Maledetto il giorno che t'ho incontrato earned her the David di Donatello Award for Best Supporting Actress. [3] [4]

In 2002 she played the title role of Hamlet in a production in the Teatro Farnese in Parma, directed by Walter Le Moli. [5]

Filmography (selected)

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References

  1. 1 2 "Pozzi, Elisabetta - Lessico del XXI Secolo" (in Italian). Enciclopedia Italiana . Retrieved 14 July 2014.
  2. "Elisabetta Pozzi". Mymovies.it (in Italian). Retrieved 27 April 2023.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Enrico Lancia, Roberto Poppi. Dizionario del cinema italiano, Le Attrici. Gremese Editore, 2003. ISBN   888440214X.
  4. Enrico Lancia. I premi del cinema. Gremese Editore, 1998. ISBN   8877422211.
  5. Video filmed by Teatro Due available on YouTube ( "Amleto con Elisabetta Pozzi".) with further information at "Parma Ritrovata".