Olimpia Carlisi

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Olimpia Carlisi
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Carlisi at the set of Ottone (1970)
Born (1946-12-29) 29 December 1946 (age 77)
OccupationActress
Notable work The Middle of the World (1974)

Olimpia Carlisi (born 29 December 1946) is an Italian stage, film and television actress.

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Career

Carlisi was born in Campi Bisenzio, Florence, on 29 December 1946. After her debut as a stage actress, she made her film debut working with Roberto Rossellini in Atti degli apostoli (1968). She focused her career on primarily art films and stage work. [1]

She worked with Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet in Othon (1970), [1] where her work was praised by critics. [2] American director Mike Nichols cast Carlisi in the role of Luciana in his 1970 film Catch-22 , but she tended to work with European directors. [3]

Continuously active on television, Carlisi was the protagonist in 1970 of the RAI experimental drama Olimpia agli amici, directed by film critic Adriano Aprà. [1]

In 1974 she starred in Alain Tanner's The Middle of the World . Two years later she appeared in Fellini's Casanova . In 1979 she again collaborated with Straub and Huillet, in From the Clouds to the Resistance .

In 1980, she hosted an infamous edition of the Sanremo Music Festival alongside Roberto Benigni and Claudio Cecchetto. [4] In 1981 she appeared in Bernardo Bertolucci's Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man , and in Stephen Dwoskin's autofictional film Outside In, made in London for West German television.

Awards and recognition

In 1975, Carlisi won a Globo d'oro for best breakthrough actress.

In 1978, she was nominated for a BAFTA Award for most promising newcomer for her performance in Alain Tanner's The Middle of the World . [5]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Enrico Lancia, Roberto Poppi. Dizionario del cinema italiano - Le Attrici. Gremese Editore, 2003. pp. 36–37. ISBN   888440214X.
  2. "[W]ithin the range allowed by the direction, beautiful Olimpia Carlisi, as Camille, gave me a fuller appreciation of what ancient royalty should have been like than has any other actress I have seen in the movies." : From "Straub's 'Othon' Plumbs Love and Drive for Power", The New York Times , 14 September 1970
  3. Olimpia Carlisi at IMDb
  4. Eddy Anselmi (2009). Festival di Sanremo: almanacco illustrato della canzone italiana. Panini Comics. ISBN   8863462291.
  5. "Prix et nominations : BAFTA Awards / Orange British Academy Film Awards 1978". Allociné. Retrieved 29 December 2013.