Giuliana De Sio

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Giuliana De Sio
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Born (1957-04-02) 2 April 1957 (age 68)
Salerno, Italy
OccupationActress
Years active1976–present

Giuliana De Sio (born 2 April 1957) is an Italian actress, the younger sister of pop-folk singer Teresa De Sio. She won two David di Donatello for Best Actress and a Nastro d'Argento for Best Actress.

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Biography and career

Giuliana De Sio was born in Salerno and grew up in Cava de' Tirreni, where her family is originally from. [1] She is the daughter of lawyer and essayist Alfonso De Sio and the younger sister of the singer-songwriter Teresa De Sio. [1] De Sio's first public appearance was when she was five years old in a show at Teatro Verdi in Salerno. [1] She moved to Terrasini when she was eighteen to live in a hippy commune. [2] [3] Relocated to Rome, she started a relationship with Alessandro Haber, who encouraged her to take up acting. [4] Her first main role was in 1977 RAI TV film Una donna . [1] [4]

De Sio had her breakout in 1983, when she starred in Massimo Troisi's Scusate il ritardo and alongside Francesco Nuti in Maurizio Ponzi's The Pool Hustlers , that got her a David di Donatello for Best Actress and a Nastro d'Argento for Best Actress. [1] [4] [5] She won a second David di Donatello for Carlo Lizzani's The Wicked . [6]

She is an atheist [7] but admires Pope Francis and Saint Januarius. [8]

In March 2020, she was reported to have tested positive for COVID-19, [9] [10] [11] but recovered after a few days. [12]

Filmography

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Giuliana De Sio

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Bojano, Gabriele (2 April 2024). "Giuliana De Sio, il compleanno dell'attrice che fu al fianco di Massimo Troisi in«Scusate il ritardo»". Corriere della Sera (in Italian). Retrieved 29 May 2025.
  2. ↑ "La vita in diretta, Giuliana De Sio tra baci da set e comuni hippy - LaPresse". Lapresse.it (in Italian). 26 November 2015. Retrieved 29 May 2025.
  3. ↑ Ferrante, Valeria (8 March 2014). "Gli hippy di Terrasini in un film di Cuccia". la Repubblica (in Italian). Retrieved 29 May 2025.
  4. 1 2 3 Lancia, Enrico; Poppi, Roberto (2003). Le attrici: dal 1930 ai giorni nostri (in Italian). Gremese Editore. pp. 110–1. ISBN   978-88-8440-214-1.
  5. ↑ "De Sio in scena: "Uno spettacolo a scatole cinesi"". La Nazione (in Italian). 24 March 2024. Retrieved 29 May 2025.
  6. ↑ Canino, Francesco (3 September 2023). "Giuliana De Sio si sfoga: "Mi hanno calunniato in maniera non meno grave di come è successo a Mia Martini. Una diceria che mi ha fatto male"". Il Fatto Quotidiano (in Italian). Retrieved 29 May 2025.
  7. ↑ "Giuliana De Sio si confessa a 'Verissimo' e ricorda la madre da poco scomparsa", Blastingnews, 4 February 2017 (in Italian).
  8. ↑ Giordano, Lucio (8 October 2021). "A otto anni persi la fede in Dio ma ora la vorrei tanto ritrovare". Dipiù (in Italian). No. 40. pp. 98–101.
  9. ↑ "Contagiata Giuliana De Sio". la Repubblica (in Italian). 14 March 2020. Retrieved 14 March 2020.
  10. ↑ "Giuliana De Sio contagiata: "Solitudine feroce e dolore: è la prova più dura della mia vita"". L'HuffPost (in Italian). 14 March 2020. Retrieved 14 March 2020.
  11. ↑ "Coronavirus, Giuliana De Sio contagiata: "Paura e dolore"". Adnkronos (in Italian). Retrieved 14 March 2020.
  12. ↑ "Giuliana De Sio guarita, era positiva al coronavirus: "Sono affaticata, devo superarla mentalmente"". fanpage.it (in Italian). 20 March 2020. Retrieved 2 April 2020.
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