Pamela Villoresi

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Pamela Villoresi
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Pamela Villoresi in Radiocorriere magazine, 1975
Born
Maria Pamela Villoresi

(1957-01-01) 1 January 1957 (age 67)
Prato
OccupationActress
Years active1970s–present
Spouse
Cristiano Pogany
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(m. 1979;died 1999)​

Maria Pamela Villoresi (born 1 January 1957) is an Italian theatre, cinema and television actress. She has performed in more than 100 theatrical productions and in more than 30 films.

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Life and career

The daughter of a cloth merchant of Prato and of a German mother, Pamela Villoresi began her artistic career following the acting lessons at the Teatro Metastasio in Prato. [1] In 1975 Giorgio Strehler called her to be part of the theater company he started, Piccolo Teatro di Milano. [1] Simultaneously she achieved great success with the television drama Marco Visconti [1] and started a continuous career in cinema, in which she frequently had leading roles.

In 1975 she posed nude as cover girl for Playmen . [2] [3] In 1978 she won a Grolla d'oro for her role in Marco Bellocchio's Il gabbiano . [1] [4] From 1990 she occasionally was a stage director and a TV presenter. [1]

In 2010 she ran in the Lazio regional election, supporting the center-right candidate Renata Polverini. [5] She was not elected. [6] She considers herself Catholic, although her actual stance is more similar to pantheism. [7]

Selected filmography

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  2. ↑ "[Unknown]". Panorama (in Italian). Mondadori. 1975. p. 108.
  3. ↑ "Morta Adelina Tattilo, pioniera dell'eros pubblicò le prime riviste "hot" italiane". La Repubblica (in Italian). 2 February 2007. Retrieved 4 December 2011.
  4. ↑ "Edizioni Passate". Grolle d'oro (in Italian). Archived from the original on 5 April 2012.
  5. ↑ Righetti, Chiara (11 March 2010). "La nostra lista civica salverà Polverini". La Repubblica (in Italian). Retrieved 4 December 2011.
  6. ↑ Giovannelli, Marco (30 March 2010). "Tutti gli eletti nel Lazio: ci sono Hack e Storace. Arrivano anche i primi ricorsi". Il Messaggero (in Italian). Retrieved 4 December 2011.
  7. ↑ Giordano, Lucio (24 June 2022). "Da ragazza ho sentito la vocazione ma sono diventata suora solo sul palco". Dipiù (in Italian). No. 25. pp. 98–101. [Dio] è il tutto.
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