Pamela Villoresi | |
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![]() Pamela Villoresi in Radiocorriere magazine, 1975 | |
Born | Maria Pamela Villoresi 1 January 1957 |
Occupation | Actress |
Years active | 1970s–present |
Spouse | Cristiano Pogany (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.
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]
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