Monica Guerritore
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Monica Guerritore
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5 January 1958 Rome, Italy |
| Occupation | Actress, director |
| Years active | 1973-present |
| Partner(s) | Gabriele Lavia (1981-2001) Roberto Zaccaria (2001-) |
| Website | http://www.monicaguerritore.it/ |
Monica Guerritore (5 January 1958 in Rome, Italy) is an Italian actress of cinema, theatre and television.
After her debut at just sixteen years of age under the direction of Giorgio Strehler in The Cherry Orchard (however, she had her first small part in Vittorio De Sica's Una breve vacanza, at the early age of 13), she tied herself romantically and artistically to film and theatre director Gabriele Lavia, acting in his theatrical performances mostly strong female characters like Jocasta, Lady Macbeth and Ophelia. Miss Julie in Strindberg's drama.The couple separated in 2001, during the rehearsals of Ingmar Bergman's Scenes from a Marriage in which she played a moving Marianne .Guerritore continued her work with other directors, like Giancarlo Sepe, in Madame Bovary, Carmen and in The Lady of the Camellias.
Beside the stage career, she also works on television and film: in 1976 along Marcello Mastroianni in Signore e signori, buonanotte, in 1977 she plays the title role in first RAI colour TV play Manon Lescaut, also, significant performances were in Salvatore Samperi's Fotografando Patrizia (1985) and in Mauro Bolognini's La Venexiana (1986).
She stayed far away from television for 17 years and came back on screen RAI in 1997, with title role in Costanza, and in 1999, in Mario Caiano's L'amore oltre la vita. In 2004 she plays Ambra Leonardi in Amanti e segreti, and in 2006 Ada Sereni in Gianluigi Calderone's Exodus.
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